From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 23:31:17 MDT
Spike66:
<<To state that wind power cannot replace hydrocarbon
burning is simply absurd. We really can do it all with
renewables: wind, water and sun. Sure it would require
a lot of costly infrastructure, but that is the beauty
of capitalism: it gets things done. Right now, so much
of our capital is idle, doing nothing but bidding up
the prices of each other's homes to absurd levels, such
as those seen in the Sillyclone Valley. Let's cut that
nonsense and build something!>>
We can't drive automobiles on wind and solar power as yet. This is despite
the TV jourmalism of the local variety; who spout on about solar cars, for the
last 35 years. Let the engineers produce, as an example, a methanol powered
vehicle, that has gotten its methanol from wind powered generators, via the
splitting of water, and the combination of a carbon source. Let us have a
scientific estimate on how many windmills will be needed to replace oil wells, analyze
the cost of production; and see if there is any profit at all!
Alternatively, use beamed down power from Gigantic solar power sats, to split
water into Hydrogen and oxygen; then add a carbon source and...you get the
idea. There may actually be a dark horse energy miracle, if Craig Ventner is
able to create a bacterium that likes to make plentiful amounts of hydrogen,
without ruining the ecology of the oceans; should such a biug escape into the
Pacific.
Alternatively, there are some prodigious petroleum and natural gas sources
that apparently have been ignored because of the massive volume and clever
marketing of OPEC oil. Yet, that take political will to go after, and it looks like
the current generation of pols, are fresh out of political will; them
ignoramuses, corrupt, or both.
Or have I missed your reasoning on this account? We have lots of technical
demonstration devices; yet none that I have heard of are anywhere near
affordable
Mitch
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