like i said, the anonymity of the web is awesome. i am certainly way too intertwined and dependent on the social benefits of polite liberal new york society to ever speak my mind to anyone but my old school southern friends. the first rule of my new york social circuit is to never tell the truth about anything.
Never tell the truth about anything. Are you running for office? I would love to see your debates on capital hill
Population growth is an issue unto itself, but it must be remembered that most of it is happening in the third world where infant mortality is high, life-spans short, polluting industries low, and energy requirements low. Most of the pollution comes from the developed countries where populations are reasonable. Even if we get our pollution under control, it will not stop the population explosion in the third world. The only solution to population control is birth control. Else, nature tends to control overpopulation with famine, disease, and war. There is no solution to the energy problem until a scientific breakthrough is made in electrical generation. Gravity and magnetic engines need to be pursued as well as zero-point energy solutions, but it may take another century to get there. Meanwhile coal burning and deforestation pollutes the planet with carbon dioxide. We don't need to worry about oil in the big picture. Peak Oil is real and we are running out fast. The part of the curve provided by oil-burning will decline as the oil declines. But coal will be a problem for 2 or 3 more centuries if not addressed. Oxygen-producing, carbon absorbing trees and plants must be retained and regrown. Sure they are. Wind electricity goes directly into the grid and is used instantly, not sure why storage would be an issue. Wind farms offer a lot, but the Republicans offered billions of dollars to subsidize the well-establish and extremely profitable oil industry while cutting subsidies to wind power producers. As a result wind turbine plants that could be operating in the US are now located in the Netherlands or in Denmark which subsidies the growing industry and they are now producing 24% of their power from wind. All of the jobs producing those turbines could have been in the US, several had been planned before the subsidies were dropped. If the US waits until the oil is gone before getting serious about wind, we will not be a player in it anymore. We should move the oil subsidies to wind power and future technologies. I'm not a big fan of solar, i think it can only work in desert country. But when I find a company on NASDAQ seriously pursuing gravity and magnetic power generation research . . . I'm going to buy a load of their stock.
A renewable energy source that's overlooked is river power. The Mississippi river is always moving. There is no reason that the flow of the river shouldn't be used to turn turbins. If the problem of energy transport can be solved the benifits would be enormous. A very large part of electrical power is lost during transmission. Super conductors that are used today must be very cold to work. This makes it impossible to use in a pratical way. If we could invent a resistance free super conductor that isn't limited by temperature then we could make solar pannel fields miles square in our deserts and transport that energy across the country. The Mississippi river's never ending flow of water should be used to make power. It's more reliable than wind and solar for our area.
The issue here is efficiency. We have a river turbine in place near Old River but . . . it doesn't deliver a whole lot of power. The current is steady but not strong enough to spin a turbine at the speeds needed for efficient, large-scale power production. It takes gravity to do that which is why dams are required for large power plants. But there is research being conducted to improve efficiency. Still I don't think it will be the answer that we need. This is being worked on by many researchers, but cost is a barrier. The most promising super-conducting alternatives to copper and aluminum are very expensive. I have a solution to pollution free energy generation. Reds Flywheel is a simple perpetual motion machine attached to a generator to produce clean energy. It's a flywheel with a weight at the top that causes it to rotate to the bottom, at which point the weight is teleported back to the top where it drops again inducing rotation at extremely high speeds and torque. I'm just waiting for someone to invent a teleporter . . .
Working on it.. I'm gonna need a bunch of good beer, a few supermodels, a roll of duct tape, a claw hammer, some high-carbon wire, and go ahead and wire $2,000,000.00 to me for the initial startup phases of R&D. Oh, and I think I should tell you that my design for a teleporter requires a flywheel-type perpetual motion machine to generate the power. Tell ya what, just send the money and the supermodels and I think I can get by with that and begin work. :thumb:
Seems like the river's mass would produce enough pressure so that the turbine could be geared to produce the rpm's needed
