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Originally Posted by nohmi2
..................and why doesn't the US have the will to develop it?
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When I was at university, back around 1989, I was in an environmental science class. For my paper, I wrote about all possible forms of generating electricity. Solar, wind, underground/surface temperature difference, deep underwater/surface temp diff, microwaves from space. And some others I have forgotten.
Only oil, coal, and nuclear electricity generation was viable. Most of the rest was barely in alpha test. Some was in beta test.
I have several books on making my own wind generation equipment. Hard to scale up past one house.
Yes, I know about the huge windmills put up by various companies and the US government. They disrupt bird migrations, and they interfere with each other by creating air vortices. While many areas have wind, it isn't consistent.
The making of the batteries to store it, are highly toxic in their making. So with solar cells.
Electric cars ? Where is the massive megawatts of eletricity to recharge them overnight goig to come from ? At present, coal or nuclear.
While I think nuclear generation of electricity is going to happen, the US power companies tend to put them on top of fault zones and earth quake areas.
As for plants being turn into oil, they chose corn. bad idea. There are plants that have a better oil to cost of growing ratio. And never mess up your food stocks by using it for other things. Yes, I know peanuts are different, but I don't believe corn has as many possible uses as peanuts.
I think a scientific breakthrough, the type that cannot be predicted, will have to show up to save humans.