Re: Hawaii to be national renewable energy example?
- From: "Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:40:01 -0000
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Maren at google wrote:
On Feb 7, 11:10 am, "Alvin E. Toda" <a...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think tht a lot will also depend on how we switch
to electric cars and hybrid technology and other AC
systems. Also the need to distill fresh water from
the ocean might greatly increase usage of electrical
power. If all these things are so, then it may be
that the figure might be a lot closer to 95%.
The need to distill water from the ocean may not need
any electrical power as going directly through solar
heat is a lot more efficient. Producing whatever we
use to do this (unless it's large leaves, which I
think is entirely possible but probably severely
frowned upon by the DOH), take into consideration
what the devices used take to produce.
What wrong with large leaves? We may use a
biotechnological process to recycle water. Point is
that cost will be the determining factor. Some
alternatives may require a lot of energy-- some not.
Electric cars, unless solar powered, and the power
panels produced by solar energy are an oil products
sink. We already know that it takes more energy to
produce ethanol than we get out of it. It's time to
seriously think out of the box here if we want to get
anywhere with this.
If the energy is free, then the cost is minimal. For
example, the solar energy to produce ethanol plants may
be an energy sink but the cost may still be less than
pumping the oil with it's infrastructure costs (which
the govt may pay for, but is still a cost nonetheless
to all of us) and shipping oil here and refining it.
Thinking out of the box wont help if there is no one to
finance the money for development. We have a lot of
good ideas but no money to develop them. That is the
reason why we start to consider these ideas when oil
gets up to $100 vs $25 a barrell. We are somewhat of a
self-indulgent people with little foresight, and do not
consider it bad that car manufacturers etc, would try
to block funding for this type of development. The
self-indulgent part comes from being happy in our
ignorance.
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