when oil runs out, the loudest argue adopting renewable energy
is a horrifying prospect - it%26#039;s inadequate etc.
But if we turn our attention to:
What will solar energy / collectors and storage devices
be like in the year 3000...
maybe we%26#039;d move the debate,
and our reality, on
cos, once identified ~
we could produce now...
What do you think?
I%26#039;ve made a start, putting down my design ideas.
Please take a look:
http://www.the-alternative.org.uk
See: Chapter 6: Energy / Solar
http://www.nanosolar.com/ jcms
Example: I%26#039;m an avid collector of books. One type of book I enjoy collecting are old cookbooks. One of my cookbooks is from 1910. I was reading through it a few months ago, when it suddenly stuck me...there were no temperatures given, or even very many times. It didn%26#039;t say, %26quot;Put the cake in at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.%26quot; The book says things like %26quot;place in a medium warm oven, until a straw can be pulled cleanly from the center of the cake.%26quot;
In 1910 of course everyone was cooking on wood, or coal fired cook stoves. There was NO electricty for cooking with.
Things advanced....technology improved. The exact same thing will happen with wind, solar, and tidal alternative energies. Perhaps they are not that efficient now, nor that cost effective. But if we do not invest in them, they NEVER will impove.
The altenative is we wait, until oil is a huge crisis, or the population has grown so much, that the current wind, solar, and tidal energies are cost effective. However if we start investing in them right now, we humans will be leaps and bounds ahead.
~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years