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brush

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3. Good thought

Mon Aug 11, 2014, 11:59 PM

Aug 2014

Just using the natural undulation of the waves without the manipulation of this technology would be cheaper — it doesn't make economic sense to spend more energy than what can be produced.

I agree with you on solar (I live in Nevada now and am constantly amazed that this state with all of it's daily, blazing sun, and little-known but regular high winds, plus geothermal in some areas, is not the green energy capital of the US.

All the doers and shakers here want to do is concentrate on casinos and keep the education system dumbed down enough to produce people that can run table games or valet park at the casinos.

Energy is just going to waste out here.

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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