Cape Wind Farm Approved.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman

DITTO!


We need REAL POWER and A LOT OF IT! windfarms are a toy.

every flat roof in America put solar, even at its current cost and efficiency we could be largely rid of foreign resources for electrical power.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by striperman36

every flat roof in America put solar, even at its current cost and efficiency we could be largely rid of foreign resources for electrical power.

every train car and semi has a flat roof that is going unused for solar too

the problem as i see it is: our manufacturing method to make an automobile body .............right now......
we punch press metal then ad cusion ,insulation and plastic.

car bodies need to be semi transparent so the solar cells can be sandwiched in between -> so they should filter light like prescription sunglasses do (as well as change color) and create their own energy (power) when parked in the sun.

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by striperman36

every flat roof in America put solar, even at its current cost and efficiency we could be largely rid of foreign resources for electrical power.

It is not just the production of eco-energy but the storage of produced electrons to match consumer demand.

I have a solar PV array but the electricity either gets used or wasted as the cost for the batteries were about 2X of the PV array. We need R&D into cheap energy storage technologies, i.e. batteries.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

It is not just the production of eco-energy but the storage of produced electrons to match consumer demand.
. We need R&D into cheap energy storage technologies, i.e. batteries.

totally good point....Buzz, battery technology is DISMAL but slowly improving
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since the base of the wind turbines attracts fish to the "structure"
anyway.........

it should be a dual duty enterprise and additional thought needs to
go into it making it even more inhabitable for marine life just like an artificial reef.
maybe they could be ringed with daisy chains of tires perhaps
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20 years ago in Wired magazine they talked about a two element wire mesh that would calcify
if a small amount of electric current were
run thru it...and effectively mineralize (my word) seawater into an artificial coral that is super strong.

This technology combined with geodesics is the most incredible idea ....for Ocean Farming
that got buried into oblivion.
that i have ever come across.