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Scootaloo

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2. Doing it mechanically would consume more energy than it would produce

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Mon Aug 11, 2014, 11:48 PM

Aug 2014

wave energy is basically just third-hand solar power (sun makes wind, wind makes waves) and so we're not spending our own reserves to "harvest" it.

Really, for true, the sun gives us vastly more energy than we will ever be able to imagine using.

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Physicists make 'tractor beam' in water [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2014 OP

This sounds like it could be used to produce energy brush Aug 2014 #1

Doing it mechanically would consume more energy than it would produce Scootaloo Aug 2014 #2

Good thought brush Aug 2014 #3

part of me doesn't mind Scootaloo Aug 2014 #4

I don't think it will take two hundred years, to be frank theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #5

I don't get your first sentence brush Aug 2014 #6

History has already and continues to prove the point. There's no profit in limitless free energy. NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #7

Wouldn't the profit come from green energy though? brush Aug 2014 #8

Yes, it could and would and will. The book "Climate Capitalism" makes a case for it. NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #9

I can see it being used to capture an oil spill sooner than energy. Vincardog Aug 2014 #10