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I like Jesse Ventura, but faux news is still terrible.I just look up the facts man, faux news, cnn whatever they are all equally biased. Faux is just a little more racist.
With rooftop reflectors, a solar thermal station could be built in the middle of an existing town.Not the best or cheapest of solutions, but it could be done. Space isn't really an issue in the best places to put solar stations anyway.Also red tape is what it is, a cost of doing business. Oil companies pay for it too. If you're going to compare the costs of doing something then you have to include all the fees or subsidies that will be included. Just as you also have to consider the environmental footprint from water usage, contamination, or gas exhaust. Which incidentaly is what the fees are meant to account for in the first place.
Some spectrum is absorbed by the atmosphere that we don't like, such as a good deal of the UV range, but that energy is redistributed in the lower end of the spectrum like the visible. This newly distributed energy can be better absorbed by solar panels.I don't believe the sun gives off a great deal of energy in the microwave band, but if you've got evidence I'd like to see it. The earthbound antenna for the microwaves would be tuned to a very specific band of microwave, so just bouncing all microwaves down wouldn't do much good.
steeeeveApr 14, 2008
Actually that is part of it. Salt water becomes steam, steam drives the turbine and cools down to be freshwater.
Closed AccountApr 15, 2008
Help save humanity? How about all you digger losers get out and actually do something productive to save the environment. What a bunch of morons.
exroninApr 15, 2008
I like Jesse Ventura, but faux news is still terrible.I just look up the facts man, faux news, cnn whatever they are all equally biased. Faux is just a little more racist.
corvidaeApr 15, 2008
With rooftop reflectors, a solar thermal station could be built in the middle of an existing town.Not the best or cheapest of solutions, but it could be done. Space isn't really an issue in the best places to put solar stations anyway.Also red tape is what it is, a cost of doing business. Oil companies pay for it too. If you're going to compare the costs of doing something then you have to include all the fees or subsidies that will be included. Just as you also have to consider the environmental footprint from water usage, contamination, or gas exhaust. Which incidentaly is what the fees are meant to account for in the first place.
stratochief66Apr 15, 2008
Some spectrum is absorbed by the atmosphere that we don't like, such as a good deal of the UV range, but that energy is redistributed in the lower end of the spectrum like the visible. This newly distributed energy can be better absorbed by solar panels.I don't believe the sun gives off a great deal of energy in the microwave band, but if you've got evidence I'd like to see it. The earthbound antenna for the microwaves would be tuned to a very specific band of microwave, so just bouncing all microwaves down wouldn't do much good.
stratochief66Apr 16, 2008
Some of us like to wait until a technology is commercially available and in quantity before turning over our test papers and filing out of the room.
avaugha4Apr 16, 2008
Argument from old evidence is no argument at all.
atmenterprisesApr 25, 2008
Oil for food was one of them.