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the Chevy Volt (and other "plug-in" cars)
ViolentDove:
Man, if I could study radiation-eating parasitic fungi capable of controlling host behaviour, I'd be able to die a happy man*.
--- Quote from: nobo on 12 Aug 2008, 20:01 ---When it comes to the desert, thats an ecosystem all to itself.and most deserts are pretty remote, and transporting that energy over large distances isn't very efficient.
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This is true!
You'd be displacing the habitat of these guys, for example:
Awwww.
*This would either be because a) I'm a nerdy scientist with an interest in mycology, or b) the fungus has woven its thought controlling hyphae throughout my brain. Who knows!
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: nobo on 12 Aug 2008, 20:01 ---There is no real way to store energy. Even capacitors and flywheels are terribly inefficient.
When it comes to the desert, thats an ecosystem all to itself.and most deserts are pretty remote, and transporting that energy over large distances isn't very efficient.
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It had less to do with capacitors and more to do with hydrogen and oxygen made from the photovoltaic cells...I can't remember the details (Here is a page describing the process).
I didn't mean full on, in the desert, either, I meant on the edge of it, going perhaps no more than a half mile in. As far as being economically efficient, I've got nothing to counter. We could bring back the giant Tesla Coil, perhaps...:P
Ozymandias:
I'm wondering where you got the idea that ecosystems have definable borders where there is no actual ecosystem.
Dimmukane:
I mean that you find a town that can be reasonably called on the border of a desert (within a few miles drive from where the dry place starts) and build it somewhere in between the two. I'm not saying the ecosystems have borders, I meant the geographical edge. There would probably be the location that would least impact the ecosystems in question.
Guys, please get off my back about this. I wasn't all that serious about it in the first place.
RedLion:
--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 12 Aug 2008, 21:28 ---
--- Quote from: nobo on 12 Aug 2008, 20:01 ---There is no real way to store energy. Even capacitors and flywheels are terribly inefficient.
When it comes to the desert, thats an ecosystem all to itself.and most deserts are pretty remote, and transporting that energy over large distances isn't very efficient.
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It had less to do with capacitors and more to do with hydrogen and oxygen made from the photovoltaic cells...I can't remember the details (Here is a page describing the process).
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Yeah, I've heard the same thing--there's been some startling advances in solar technology just in the last few months. A guy figured out how to make windows out of solar material, so that light passes through it but the energy is absorbed by the window or some shit. I have no idea how it works. And then like Dimmukane said, it recently came out that someone's worked out storing solar energy. It has something to do with photosynthesis in plants. Again, I have no grasp of the basic scientific principles behind it. But I think people don't look at solar hard enough. They tend to write it off as not feasible on a grand scale. And maybe it's not. But I think there's real potential there with this new technology and as more is developed.
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