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Jim Plante
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
By the time China and India get their infrastructure built up to a significant degree, I think we'll be looking at a 500-mile range electric car. See AltairNano.com for some info on their recent Lithium-Ion battery improvements using nanotechnology. More such improvements will follow.

I want to see someone invent a "battery" that runs on nuclear "waste."
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Steve Owen
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Maybe we'll go green... but, I don't see many of the features I studied being used in new housing construction today. There is someplace that does some interesting stuff, though:

http://gizmodo.com/5022163/danish-isle-runs-completely-on-renewable-energy-is-greenest-guinea-pig-ever

So, maybe we'll all have a wind generator in the backyard someday. Or, maybe we'll just make some new oil.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/07/super-cells-fiv.html
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3) Make oil without the inconvenient "millions of years" thing

In more proof that the line between being retarded or a genius is often whether people tell you to shut up before you try something, a geneticist and a biologist asked "Why don't we just make more petrol?" Before anybody could explain that you'd need a Delorean with an extremely large trunk, and that people would get annoyed when you started stealing animals just to dump them in a hole the cretaceous period, George Church and Chris Somerville of San Carlos-based firm LS9 engineered a form of E. Coli which produces hydrocarbon chains with promising petrol potential.

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Steve Owen
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here's some more info for you, Greg. (If you get bored at looking at this stuff, let me know and I'll quite posting it.)

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/see-through-sol.html

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If there's one thing most people know about solar cells, it's that they are too expensive.


I didn't actually know that. But, that would explain why the market won't buy them without government tax incentives.

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1856/

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While the factory employs only 50 workers, according to Ausra’s output rate, they figure they’re creating about 1,400 green collar construction jobs for building solar plants – a much needed job boost in a much needed industry.


It probably won't solve the unemployment problem or the energy problem... but, every little bit helps.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pretty much like the other article, but maybe a bit more detail.

http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/07/11/new-cost-effective-solar-energy-devices-from-mit/
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