Mike Carrell wrote:
When your are promoting a technology that may lead to covering square miles of land in our thirst for energy, it is well take a look at the environmental consequences of doing so. *Not* doing so got us where we are.
Plus, I believe there is plenty of private and state land where these projects can be built in the meanwhile. The technology will not be held back because Federal land cannot be used for a few years.
Note that most federal land (especially parkland) is closed to wind turbines. This has not held back the rapid deployment of wind turbine energy, which is now increasing at a rate approximately equal to one US nuclear fission reactor per year (~3,000 MW nameplate; 1,400 MW nameplate first quarter 2008).
Meanwhile watch Blacklight Power over the next few years. Utility-scale reactors are on their ajenda. Hydrogen from water.
If that happens, all bets are off, including cold fusion. Why they plan to make hydrogen I do not know. Why not just react the stuff in a fuel cell and make electricity. There is no form of energy more flexible & useful than electricity. It is the highest of high grade energy. That is why would love to see one of these magnetic motor/generator things work.
- Jed
