Novel invention could mean cheaper source of energy from solar power

Science in Africa ^ | 3/1/06 | Mikey_1962

[festus]

Well Bully for them. If this worked it'd be a great thing.

But I'll not bet the farm just yet.

[festus]

I still think the most promise lies in concentraing the light and heat from the sun .... and chasing ants !!!

[Tunehead54]

Reference bump. I do know people in AZ that are completely off the grid and yet have AC, lights, PC and H2O pumps ... maybe we're all getting closer? If my bill is under $300/month I'm surprised and happy. I'm only happy about 3 months a year! ;-)

[chaosagent]

Bookmarked

[mississippi red-neck]

You have hit on the reason we havn't had energy independent homes or an energy independent country. We should have had solar homes fifty years ago.

It's not Arab's we need to be free from but the power of the big oil companies and their monopoly of the energy market.

Do you not think that a country when challenged in the early sixties to go from struggling to put a grapefruit sized object in orbit around the planet to men on the moon in seven years could not developed solar energy which was showing great promise back then into a viable cheap inexhaustible form of energy by now?

We won't have any source of plentiful renewable energy until something is done about them and the strangle hold they have on our elected officials and the world's energy market since the early 20 century, unless it is a new source controlled by them.

[ll_t]

True true-

I also think that when energy becomes so massively available that it can't be controlled we'll see a major class leveling in society. The cost of production will effectively drop by the amount that was being spent on energy, which will cascade through the economy. Who knows - with the effect on the economy, maybe it will be possible to raise a family on a full-time job again.