Future Energy Alternatives

[FromCityToRural]

Solar on every new house and building. Warehouses especially could add a lot of power to the grid and houses could cut their grid consumption by quite a bit. This would only work if an economy of scale brought solar cell prices down, though.

I wish the wind gained more critical mass and had fewer politicians messing with it. California had a huge wind farm shut down because it killed some birds or something once.

I'd like to see more nuke plants as well. No pollution, efficient and getting even more so, and it seems to me if we really wanted to, we could shoot the waste into the sun or something...

What about converting already-existing dams to hydro power if they don't already have it?

No pun intended, but tidal power seems all washed up...haven't they tried this before and it wasn't very practical?

[suburban george3]

No pun intended, but tidal power seems all washed up...haven't they tried this before and it wasn't very practical?

[JDC]

Speaking of alternative energy...

from The Boston Globe

The goal: Reduce the country's reliance on foreign oil by 20 percent in the next decade.

[Recchia]

I have a great idea for a future energy alternative, USE LESS ENERGY!

[Captain Worley]

Sure, but the population is growing as well. This will cause overall consumption to keep rising.

I kinda like the idea of water turbines driven by the Gulf Stream, but I'm not sure how feasiblw that woould be. I think some offshore oil technology could be applied.

[Captain Worley]

I heard on the news yesterday that the Germans are sending a probe to the moon later this year to examine the feasibility of mining for Helium-3. He-3 will be used in the future as a fuel for fusion reactors.

Read more about He-3:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_3

[tkd720man]

I heard on the news yesterday that the Germans are sending a probe to the moon later this year to examine the feasibility of mining for Helium-3. He-3 will be used in the future as a fuel for fusion reactors.

Read more about He-3:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_3