Milestones and Trends in Renewable Energy 295
Sterling D. Allan writes "Some reflections and projections: The year 2005 saw large wind power installments come into a price range where they are now competitive with traditional grid prices. 2006 could see several solar designs do the same. Cold fusion was boosted with two, concurrent and independent sonofusion breakthroughs, though the stigma in the name is still deeply seated. 2006 could see floating wind turbines arrive on the commercial scene -- floating in the water like oil rigs, or floating high in the air, courtesy of helium. 2006 will see at least three companies offering after-market kits for adding Brown's gas (H and O from electrolysis, common ducted) to the air intake of vehicles for enhanced mileage and performance. Many other fuel economizing systems are slated to mature in the marketplace. Climate change evidence will continue to mount. It will yet be years before we harness lightning, but stable tornado systems prototypes that tap waste heat from power plants could arrive this coming year. Will 2006 be the year that clean energy becomes more the vogue than cool computer gadgets?"
Climate Change (Score:4, Funny)
Yes. In fact, depending on where you are today, it's colder or warmer, wetter or dryer, brighter or darker, calmer or stormier than normal. Some places are even foggy. It's all evidence of climate change.
What else could it be? Can we afford to wait to find out?
Stop commerce now. Before the weather gets any less precisely normal.
Re:no mention of bio-diesel (Score:3, Funny)
Not this year (Score:5, Funny)
No, no, no!
2006 will be the year that Linux takes over the desktop, 2007 will be the year that Duke Nukem Forever is released and 2008 will be the year that clean energy comes into vogue!
Also, I think somewhere in there they discover the cure to the common cold, but that part of my crystal ball is still a bit fuzzy (probably due to that cheap antenna from Walmart).
Wind Farms (Score:5, Funny)
Beats me why so many people seem to keen to build wind farms [bwea.com].
Surely, there is too much wind in the world already (witness recent events) and farming more of the damn stuff seems like utter lunacy to me.
Anyhow, couldn't we just import some foreign wind from some windy place?
Re:Did anyone read the article? (Score:4, Funny)
Plus, Katie on the Today show said pseudoscience is the new pop-psychology. And pop-psych made me feel so good about myself, you're not going to make me miss out on this new thing.
Chillax. It's all good.