The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50901   Message #773402
Posted By: GUEST,Boab
29-Aug-02 - 02:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hopeful Signs of A Future
Subject: RE: BS: Hopeful Signs of A Future
Not a damn' thing wrong with that Amos! The ever present danger is, however, that the usual blanket will be thrown over the implications of this research [ more than likely at the behest of the fossil fuel tycoons---again], or the chimera of wind-power will be further encouraged. The last thing that ANY of the oil-coal and nuke brigade want is for a viable clean and cheap alternative energy source to be brought to the fore. It has been my personal contention all through the powere-generation debate of recent years that the great publicity given to wind power has been deliberately at the expense of technologies which would REALLY diminish the importance of the dirty power generators. I believe strongly that the answer to the problem of alternative power source lies in the Oceans of the world. Air is constantly moving across the surface of the Earth. So too, just as constantly, is water. Which would give you the biggest jolt--a caress from anything from a mild breeze to a gale force wind, or an encounter with a current of water--either from a well-aimed fire hose or a fast-flowing tidal bore?