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13 Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
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Great Great list. Happy TT.
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Living in Arizona, I really wish solar power was more affordable. We have so much SUN!!!
Great post .. i learnt something new! Thank you!
Very interesting. I think you’ll see more and more of this. Unfortunately to put in solar panels, for an example, the cost is horrendous.
Hopefully as this way of life blossoms, it will become more affordable to people from all walks of life can do their part.
Happy T13!
I know, we live in the desert and are renovating a house and it’s not worth it for us to put in solar panels – they would take 35 years to pay off. Fossil fuels are heavily subsidised because they don’t have to pay for the cleanup and all their development was done long ago. Until that changes alternative sources aren’t going to be competetive.
Love alternative energies, just wish govts would stop dragging their heels!
Fab post, it’s amazing the amount of possibilities out there 🙂
Recent trials in Portland, Victoria with new power wave technology looks good!
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An interesting article. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Lg_kvLaAM&feature=player_embedded#
Thanks for the great post 🙂
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Interesting post. We use a lot of hydro power in New Zealand. We also have a few wind farms and use geothermal power.
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Great list – I’m forwarding this to my husband – he’s always reading up on alternatives – thank you!
One day we’ll be there….
Have a great Thursday!
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people around here have a problem with windmill farms, but I find them fascinating!
What an excellent post and I can only pray that “we the people” are more aggressive about demanding alternatives because we’re in so much trouble with the ozone as it is. Thank you for this 🙂
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Geothermal is also used in housing. By burying piping about three feet beneath the surface, air can be moved and the house will cool and heat accordingly. This technology has been used locally in a high school to good effect and in a few houses. It is, however, rather expensive to install.
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It does look like we will need to think on a two tier system, a large central power supply and a local Microgeneration plant, such as solar cells, solar heating/cooling, solar hot water, and maybe a windmill or microhydro if your lucky. The main problem is the regulation of the electricity, and storing it for later.
For the large scale power Fusion is probably the best we cold hope for, the next big progect is the ITER http://www.iter.org/ it follows on from the JET http://www.jet.efda.org/ and the experiments done at JET really do show that the IETR should work.
Put it this way, the IETR will cost about 15 Billion Euros..ok thats a lot, but Australia is about to spend about $27 Billion on the NBN, that’s actually almost the same.
Do we have our priorities in the right order ?
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