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Posted By altnrg 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyLatest federal projections reveal that our passion isn’t cooling for large air-conditioned homes and electric gadgets.
US households have increased their electricity use by 23% over the past decade, and consumption will grow another 20% by 2030, according Annual Energy Outlook 2009, released March 31 by the Energy Information Administration.
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calitennflo7 months, 2 weeks ago
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And the passion for avoiding correct methods to tranfer energy are still avoided.Fluid power is an example that conveys energy at a better rate than the use of high voltage tension lines. Not only is it safer, it does not radiate the same electromagnetic flux into our bodies.
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I submitted the idea to the mayor in 2005 here in Long Beach, and the mayor wanted me to follow more formal lines to completion. I turned her down due to the present non civil or human rights violations taking place here then , and still today.
Fact is, secondary steam in Nuclear plants can provide more comfort to the public(cooking foods), in addition to turning steam turbines. And the generators can be turned by just rotating the field within the generator using a processor, and the steam turbine removed. Absolutely no friction loss (in comparison to today's method) switching the field in this manner.
Transferthen should with overhead lines removed... the energy transfered by pumping water from point a to b...then turned into a low voltage, say 12 volts...ac...for our homes.
Sad thing...the US government goes looses their hearing when the subject is brought up.
On and on the US pursues waste. And the return? they blame us...and make us cut back on what is considered normal. -
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FrankHummel7 months, 2 weeks ago
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That in itself if not a BAD thing.
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Energy is like a CURRENCY, in that it is exchangeable for many other things!
For example, if we had MUCH MORE ENERGY available at economically favorable prices, we could actually launch whole industries that could be tremendously beneficial but which are currently prohibitively expensive to implement. Probably the prime example would be the production of much of the FOOD for human consumption by means of HYDROPONICS and AQUACULTURE --- if one could but afford to run the GROW LIGHTS and MACHINERY. It could be produced in GROWING CENTERS located NEAR to the cities where it is consumed, under CONTROLLED conditions that could be much more readily kept free of PESTS and DISEASE-CAUSING ORGANISMS if it were not subjected to the vagaries of NATURE and put at risk by the whole process of TRANSPORTING the finished product clear across the country from California.
We have, and have LONG had the basic TECHNOLOGY! (Remember all those exhibits you have been seeing ever since you were a kid
whenever you visited Disney World??) We know HOW to do it --- we just can't AFFORD to apply what is known until we can supply enough ENERGY sufficiently cheaply.
And THAT sort of thing is the reason why we need to get OFF of our "fossil-fuels"-based energy diet. What we REALLY need is THERMONUCLEAR! (And that IS indeed coming --- the ITER is now UNDER CONSTRUCTION, at Cadarache, in FRANCE. Why not HERE, do you suppose?? Or even MORE to the point, how come what I am saying here comes across to probably the VAST preponderance of most of those who may be reading these words as sounding like some kind of "pie in the sky" Utopian rhetoric?
I guess no one ever bothers to Google "I.T.E.R".
Well, TRY that, folks. You might LEARN something!
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