Nuclear energy

[gipper66]

My house is powered by solar panels. On good days some energy is sold back to the power company. Carbon offsets seem to be a scam. Our local commuter car is electric. the central california coast is not ready for wind power. What other sources of power are feasable except nuclear energy. I'm at a lost to expend effort supporting other sources that are realistic. Help please.

[sam sarrha]

1. clinton had a Nationalized solar project using the parabolic mirrored vacuum tube collectors

it is a very simple system, 3 or 4 farms 10 miles square across the SW could supply about 70% of daytime power, and nite time power for those who could pump water up 80 feet in closed lakes and run 90% pelton systems for municipal lighting etc

W canceled it his 3rd day in office and apparently sold the system to someone who is sitting on it,

[Massacure]

3. Except there is no way to transport that power to the northeast.

Electricity is difficult to transmit more than a few hundred miles.

[primative1]

4. Lol .. sold it to someone who is sitting on it ...

Thats it in a nutshell.
The technologies that we KNOW about are either only partially effective or they attempt to defy the laws of physics.
However it can be of no doubt that real alternatives already exist and are being quashed.
Its been over 10 years since UT put out hydrogen fuel cell busses that ran off air and water ... but they somehow vanished ... hmmm.
I have no doubt that there are thousands of modern day Einsteins out there right now that have GOOD ideas that are being quashed because they don't fit into someones pork doling schemes.
So we deplete the soil to make ethanol to replace oil that is in abundance.
Someday we will may all starve as a consequence but in the meantime we can be soothed by the knowledge that BushCo has earmarked billions into hydrogen research which has already been proven to work as a STORAGE MEDIUM and not as an energy source.
Sorry I cant offer additional energy production ideas, but if I had one I would likely just be silenced.

[MadHound]

2. Well, according to the DOE, we've enough harvestable wind energy in three states

Kansas, North Dakota and Texas, to supply all of our electrical needs, including growth factor, through the year 2030. Biodiesel, derived from an algae feedstock, could power our vehicles.

We have the solutions, it is now simply a matter of implementing them.