fimbulwinter
07-20-2005, 06:00 AM
Will be creating renewable, ultra-low-cost energy systems to power the entire earth's population. This will come after two great accomplishments, one economic, one scientific:
1. the development of a method of hydrogen storage that is commercially viable. the development of large scale carbon nanotube (fullerine derivatives which "adsorb" H2) synthesis regemins will likely be the answer to this. we know how to synthesize (from electrical energy and water) and burn hydrogen quite well enough, this is the final step to a titanic global economic shift.
2. the planning, funding and implementation of world-scale, offshore wind farms. in the next decade or so, there will be available offshore turbines capable of 10MW. this, in and of itself, is a huge triumph. the ability to bring governments and private investors together to create a grid of hundreds of thousands of these primarily across the atlantic and pacific gulfstreams, mainland asia and norh america will be by far the greatest construction and financing project ever attempted.
fim
1. the development of a method of hydrogen storage that is commercially viable. the development of large scale carbon nanotube (fullerine derivatives which "adsorb" H2) synthesis regemins will likely be the answer to this. we know how to synthesize (from electrical energy and water) and burn hydrogen quite well enough, this is the final step to a titanic global economic shift.
2. the planning, funding and implementation of world-scale, offshore wind farms. in the next decade or so, there will be available offshore turbines capable of 10MW. this, in and of itself, is a huge triumph. the ability to bring governments and private investors together to create a grid of hundreds of thousands of these primarily across the atlantic and pacific gulfstreams, mainland asia and norh america will be by far the greatest construction and financing project ever attempted.
fim