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it's a bird? it's a plane? nope, it's a flying electric generator!

31 January, 2006 09:40

Holly flying electric generators! [bb]

What a fantastic idea. Just "1% of the jetstream's wind power could supply all US electrical demand". Combine this with the power of electrical storms and solar energy, this idea might be a solution to many of the world's energy problems.

So, how do we get this off the ground? This article describes three research projects with proposed designs for just this mission.

Sky Windpower, for example, has a peak capacity of 70-90% of time. Take this, and combine it with a 1.4 cent kilowatt hour expense (that would be the cheapest power source on earth), generating 2.81 megawatts, you walk away with a radical new way of powering the country.

One of the problems, however, is it IS radical. I find it funny how corporations and the US government can pour billions of dollars into projects that enable cleaner burning coal, and low emissions. I just don't think it will be easy for this proposition to be funded with the current office and its policies. Oil makes the world go around, and some think it will be an economical issue, rather than a global environment issue that kills us.

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Main Entry: spew
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spIwan; akin to Old High German spIwan to spit, Latin spuere, Greek ptyein intransitive verb
1 : VOMIT
2 : to come forth in a flood or gush
3 : to ooze out as if under pressure : EXUDE transitive verb
1 : VOMIT
2 : to send or cast forth with vigor or violence or in great quantity -- often used with out - spew-er noun
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