Posted on 09/21/2007 5:55:06 AM PDT by Uncledave
This is ready for the dumpster.
Microwave energy is too dangerous to have ‘floating’ around.
It takes more energy to create a photo-voltaic cell than it will produce over it's entire service life. Again, there is a place for the technology...on satellites where weight is critical.
Do a search for "insolation". You will find maps of available solar energy over the surface of the continental U.S. There are few locations that offer sufficient sunlight energy to make the technology a viable alternative. There is one company that created a solar array to make hydrogen. It is half the size of a football field. It can make enough hydrogen each week to supply a single car for travel on a single day. That's not a solution to the kind of energy demands we have in the U.S.
The same questions came up during deregulation attempts in the 90s.
This miracle bulb, if ever produced, would cause deregulation to make even more sense so the more efficient producers could pick up the slack for any utilities that failed (and they should). No more gauranteed profits. Stupid investors should know better than to think any government mandated profit is either moral or sustainable.
Thank you
Oh great! Now we can cook our brains for light!.............
Now I understand why they're called DIMocrats
Not saying I agree but it is the reason for the regulation.
It’s a complicated mess. The best, workable solution might just be to convert all the stranded costs into t-bills and let deregulation take it’s course.
Or concoct a basket of the major currencies and assign it a value based on the varying strengths of those currencies on a daily basis. Give this basket of currencies a name such as International Currency Value Fund (ICVF) and let the market work its magic daily as it now does on individual currencies.
What??? What does that have to do with energy dereg?
LOL, absolutely nothing. I thought I was posting to a thread on the sinking dollar.
Sorry.
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