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Originally Posted by SleepWarz
water, wind and solar power could sustain the planet. But everyone is too freakin cheap and would rather waste their money on garbage like liquor.
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Have you actually seen a major wind or solar power installation? This always pops out, but unless you've actually seen one you have no idea what a blight they are on the natural landscape. Acre upon acre of strut towers soaring into the sky or focusing panels and a huge phallic tower.
If by water you mean hydroelectric? Kills the salmon, dams are going away-not being put in. If by water you mean tidal? possibilities exist, expect outrage from anyone having to live near it.
If by water you mean fuel cells, it takes as much power to provide the hydrogen as you get out of the system. A fuel cell is nothing more than an open battery which produces electricity by consuming a reactant. All of the reactants take energy to produce, including Hydrogen. Although Hydrogen produces clean electricity- you have to either use electricity to get your hydrogen -OR- you use a fuel processor, which is much more efficient but it uses fossil fuels and produces Carbon Dioxide as a gas.
Here are the absolute facts as of 2009:
Nuclear, Natural Gas, and Hydroelectric are the 3 cheapest most efficient ways to get electricity. All 3 are now starting to be considered evil. So what's left is expensive and inefficient. IMHO wind power is pollution too, it's the ruination of thousands of acres of land to power hundreds of acres of city.
Saying that there is enough energy in Water, Solar, and Wind is meaningless without a plan to get it. There is enough ambient energy caused by the constant motion of molecules to power everything too, but I can't get to it so it doesn't matter. So hey, you could just let people like me do your research for you or you could do some research yourself and come back with something better than telling us we waste our money on alchohol.