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- TomB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15here's the official site with more info and some design-models:
http://www.polarfoundation.org/index.php?s=3&rs=home&uid=73&lg=en
and while i'm here, this is belgium ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium - toby34a, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Actually, for Captain Planet to show up, we'd need solar (fire), wind (duh), hydroelectric (water), geothermal (earth), and... ummm... burning valentines turning a turbine (heart)?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I'm sure George WMD Bush will find some excuse to bomb it so he can raise oil prices even higher.
"The terr'ists want us to fall into the trap of using renewable energy to weaken our moral fiber. Oil is the blood of Jesus, given to us as a gift from God himself! Renewable energy is the unholy work of evil doers! Where is Belgium anyway? Isn't that in France?" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It will use both solar and wind energy, fire and wind. All we need now are hydroelectric and nuclear plants for captain planet to show up.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10because of who runs our country. take the two top men in the administration, bush and cheney. where did they get their money? oil companies! not to mention that oil companies contribute lots of money to other politicians in order to protect their interests.
plus who needs a renewable source of energy when we can just invaded other countries and take theirs! - Narrator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Australian's have been running wind turbine's at their base for quite some time now. That, and you can see what their power systems are doing in realtime:
http://www.aad.gov.au/apps/operations/electrical.asp - Solidcell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Because apparently Belgium is on top of that.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4[quote]Just out of curiosity, how do people think solar panels are made? Do people really think that it takes no energy to construct solar panels?[/quote]
How much energy does it take to make microchips? That doesn't seem to have stopped anyone.
This whole oil business is a farce. Get over it already. They've been screwing us for a hundred years. Henry Ford wanted cars to run on biodiesel and ethanol. Instead, Texas found the Black Death and spread its use across the world, leading us to near-apocalypse today. - lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I have this crazy conspiracy theory that denver is powered off of my exercise bike alone, so that if I stop there will be mayhem.
- pcool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm from Belgium and I did not know about ths one.
I read in the comments that Belguim doesn't have an oil-dependent economy.... Errr... we are as oil dependant as we can be. Goverment plans to remove all nuclear energy by 2015 and we only get 5% of our energy out of renewable sources (biogas and wind turbines mostly). - SePP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It was on the VRT news yesterday...
- andrewhamann, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just out of curiosity, how do people think solar panels are made? Do people really think that it takes no energy to construct solar panels?
I remember reading some figure that said it would take 20 years of constant use from a solar panel for it to produce enough energy to cover for the energy that was used to make it.
However, utilizing wind energy, I feel, is a much better path. Windmills have been used for centuries efficiently, and seeing as Anarctica is the windiest continent on Earth, where better to set up these wind stations. - DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nuclear Reactors - preferably Thorium - FTW.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68045,00.html - Azertyqsdf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Belgium relies heavily on the availability of oil, of course. What was probably meant by the comments is that Belgium uses mostly nuclear energy for the production of its electricity (some 57%, only second to France with 77%)
There are 7 nuclear reactors in Belgium, 4 in Doel and 3 in Tihange, totalling 5,8GWe and producing 45 TWh every year.
The phasing out of nuclear energy should *start* in 2015 with the shutdown of Doel 1-2 and Tihange 1, followed by Doel 2-3 and Tihange 3 in 2025, but it's generally suggested that this plan in unrealistic since there is simply no real alternative, and will need to be changed. - DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Reminds me of the ABC report "Stupid in America" where they went and visited the students in Belgium who put us to shame.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Honestly...why do something yourself if other people (or countries) are willing to do it for you? Hehe..."
because america is responsible for about 5 times the pollution of china. thats why. your also the one's making all the money at the expense of emiting pollution... perhaps that money would be better spent finding out how the ***** to clean up your act.. (this isn't a dig at americans, just this one and his government) - Mist0r_Wiggles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If only you can use ICE as fuel...
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2 You can, sort of, with a Stirling engine.
- NNWizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is no 'Belgium' : see http://zapatopi.net/belgium/
- jarbro, on 07/23/2009, -7/+8perhaps they will use belgian beer.... mmmm beer.
- gnomeuser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Lemme guess.. it's penguin powered?
- emichbe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ha, Belgium in the digg headlines!
- Barrie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I prefer Flemish over Dutch actually. Dutch is from the Netherlands. The northern part of Belgium speaks Flemish, which is essentially the same as Dutch but the accents are different, and some words are used more in Flemish than Dutch and the other way around.
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good project.
Genereally, nuclear fusion is the way to go. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Belguim doesn't have an oil-dependent economy, so they've got nothing to lose. The US on the otherhand...
- SnOwie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Finaly Belgium has been digged :D
No some posts about our eID card and the new kid@card and we will conquer Digg :) - mDonaldson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The hunt for renewable energy has been spurred by rising costs of conventional power sources. Interest will flounder when people realize renewable energy sources will cost more, but interest will return when the power problem reaches crisis level (ie there's very little left). Alternative energy is really expensive to produce at this juncture. It would require a wholesale social change. These sorts of revolutions must take place bottom up, it wouldn't work if created by the government.
- mildlycrazy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They just want us to think that it's a renewable energy base... In actuality, it is a new Dutch military installation for their upcoming quest for global domination.
Remember what Nigel Powers said "There are two things I cannot stand: People who are intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch!" - paullyjunge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hopefully it doesn't melt first... I know I know...
- altexa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes actually...and blue mars, and green mars - well worth the read
- randomvictim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1They are already surrounded by water, why don't they try that HHO gas method that was developed. They could use solar power to make even more energetic HHO gas from the water they are surrounded by to power things like their plane and their snowmocars, and the exaust would just be more water.
- wangcong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i like it
- copernic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Has anybody actually read "Red Mars?"
- jbn999, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0If you really want to play the 'need energy to get energy' card then your wind power is no ace in the hole either. How do you think they make the carbon fiber blades? Do those autoclaves pressurize themselves? Do they heat up using some magical force? How much energy goes into those semi trucks that haul each blade from some random composites shop to wherever they are going? The cranes to put them up? Maybe the boats if they are out at sea? What about constructing the dry docks for the massive ones out in the Netherlands?
Wind energy and solar energy are the lesser of a bunch of evils... lets just go with what we have. - Pookatooka, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I read something about a house in Oklahoma that outputs as much energy as it uses.---I think America is going to let other countries do the work and spend the money on research, THEN begin using the technology.
Honestly...why do something yourself if other people (or countries) are willing to do it for you? Hehe... - mightymouse, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Because we're the one's eating those waffles for breakfast, not them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1*prepares for another "the ozone is erroding" report from the base*....or some other rediculous drivel.
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