Comments on: World's First Osmotic Power Plant Opens http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rick http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-7863 Rick Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:59 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-7863 Unfortunately, uranium is a fossil fuel and there really is only so much to go around. Increasing the number of nuclear reactors may help the electrical grid out in the intermediate term, but it's a stop-gap measure, at best. It also creates a security nightmare in these post-9/11 days. I think we need to look to microbial power sources. Algae and bacterial consumption of waste byproducts, mixed with solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, and possibly osmotic components where they make sense. Above all else, we need to decentralize the grid and have many small power generation nodes. Since the old grid is aging, now would be a good time to look into grid decentralization. However, one should never underestimate the political power of the current powers that be whom have a tremendous financial interest in keeping the power coming from just a few places. In other words, don't expect much. Unfortunately, uranium is a fossil fuel and there really is only so much to go around. Increasing the number of nuclear reactors may help the electrical grid out in the intermediate term, but it’s a stop-gap measure, at best. It also creates a security nightmare in these post-9/11 days.

I think we need to look to microbial power sources. Algae and bacterial consumption of waste byproducts, mixed with solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, and possibly osmotic components where they make sense.

Above all else, we need to decentralize the grid and have many small power generation nodes. Since the old grid is aging, now would be a good time to look into grid decentralization. However, one should never underestimate the political power of the current powers that be whom have a tremendous financial interest in keeping the power coming from just a few places. In other words, don’t expect much.

]]> By: Rick http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-25176 Rick Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-25176 Unfortunately, uranium is a fossil fuel and there really is only so much to go around. Increasing the number of nuclear reactors may help the electrical grid out in the intermediate term, but it's a stop-gap measure, at best. It also creates a security nightmare in these post-9/11 days. I think we need to look to microbial power sources. Algae and bacterial consumption of waste byproducts, mixed with solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, and possibly osmotic components where they make sense. Above all else, we need to decentralize the grid and have many small power generation nodes. Since the old grid is aging, now would be a good time to look into grid decentralization. However, one should never underestimate the political power of the current powers that be whom have a tremendous financial interest in keeping the power coming from just a few places. In other words, don't expect much. Unfortunately, uranium is a fossil fuel and there really is only so much to go around. Increasing the number of nuclear reactors may help the electrical grid out in the intermediate term, but it’s a stop-gap measure, at best. It also creates a security nightmare in these post-9/11 days.

I think we need to look to microbial power sources. Algae and bacterial consumption of waste byproducts, mixed with solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, and possibly osmotic components where they make sense.

Above all else, we need to decentralize the grid and have many small power generation nodes. Since the old grid is aging, now would be a good time to look into grid decentralization. However, one should never underestimate the political power of the current powers that be whom have a tremendous financial interest in keeping the power coming from just a few places. In other words, don’t expect much.

]]> By: Rick http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-25177 Rick Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-25177 Unfortunately, uranium is a fossil fuel and there really is only so much to go around. Increasing the number of nuclear reactors may help the electrical grid out in the intermediate term, but it's a stop-gap measure, at best. It also creates a security nightmare in these post-9/11 days. I think we need to look to microbial power sources. Algae and bacterial consumption of waste byproducts, mixed with solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, and possibly osmotic components where they make sense. Above all else, we need to decentralize the grid and have many small power generation nodes. Since the old grid is aging, now would be a good time to look into grid decentralization. However, one should never underestimate the political power of the current powers that be whom have a tremendous financial interest in keeping the power coming from just a few places. In other words, don't expect much. Unfortunately, uranium is a fossil fuel and there really is only so much to go around. Increasing the number of nuclear reactors may help the electrical grid out in the intermediate term, but it’s a stop-gap measure, at best. It also creates a security nightmare in these post-9/11 days.

I think we need to look to microbial power sources. Algae and bacterial consumption of waste byproducts, mixed with solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, and possibly osmotic components where they make sense.

Above all else, we need to decentralize the grid and have many small power generation nodes. Since the old grid is aging, now would be a good time to look into grid decentralization. However, one should never underestimate the political power of the current powers that be whom have a tremendous financial interest in keeping the power coming from just a few places. In other words, don’t expect much.

]]> By: VGS http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-7862 VGS Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:55:37 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-7862 How do the salmon get in and out of the sea? How do the salmon get in and out of the sea?

]]> By: VGS http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-25174 VGS Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:55:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-25174 How do the salmon get in and out of the sea? How do the salmon get in and out of the sea?

]]> By: VGS http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-25175 VGS Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:55:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-25175 How do the salmon get in and out of the sea? How do the salmon get in and out of the sea?

]]> By: Uncle B http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-7861 Uncle B Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:58:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-7861 Good news! Power for the new modest survivalists! Next, super-insulations to make small quantities of power more practical. Upon the extermination of the Great Hulking American Neanderthal, spawn of two hundred years of force-feeding by corporatism,capitalists, at the end of the "Cheap Oil Era" a new race will appear! Slight of body and sustainability minded, they will use all new methods for a basic, closer to the earth, sustainable survival and re-build America as an environmentally friendly sustainable garden! They will use, and develop this new phenomenon to its fullest, because it is clean energy technology. Perhaps we have the technology here to power the desalinators we will soon need for survival, gardens and drinking water sourced from the sea itself. Good news! Power for the new modest survivalists! Next, super-insulations to make small quantities of power more practical. Upon the extermination of the Great Hulking American Neanderthal, spawn of two hundred years of force-feeding by corporatism,capitalists, at the end of the “Cheap Oil Era” a new race will appear! Slight of body and sustainability minded, they will use all new methods for a basic, closer to the earth, sustainable survival and re-build America as an environmentally friendly sustainable garden! They will use, and develop this new phenomenon to its fullest, because it is clean energy technology. Perhaps we have the technology here to power the desalinators we will soon need for survival, gardens and drinking water sourced from the sea itself.

]]> By: Uncle B http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-25173 Uncle B Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:58:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-25173 Good news! Power for the new modest survivalists! Next, super-insulations to make small quantities of power more practical. Upon the extermination of the Great Hulking American Neanderthal, spawn of two hundred years of force-feeding by corporatism,capitalists, at the end of the "Cheap Oil Era" a new race will appear! Slight of body and sustainability minded, they will use all new methods for a basic, closer to the earth, sustainable survival and re-build America as an environmentally friendly sustainable garden! They will use, and develop this new phenomenon to its fullest, because it is clean energy technology. Perhaps we have the technology here to power the desalinators we will soon need for survival, gardens and drinking water sourced from the sea itself. Good news! Power for the new modest survivalists! Next, super-insulations to make small quantities of power more practical. Upon the extermination of the Great Hulking American Neanderthal, spawn of two hundred years of force-feeding by corporatism,capitalists, at the end of the “Cheap Oil Era” a new race will appear! Slight of body and sustainability minded, they will use all new methods for a basic, closer to the earth, sustainable survival and re-build America as an environmentally friendly sustainable garden! They will use, and develop this new phenomenon to its fullest, because it is clean energy technology. Perhaps we have the technology here to power the desalinators we will soon need for survival, gardens and drinking water sourced from the sea itself.

]]> By: eric http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-7860 eric Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:25:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-7860 As for the India comment, this enery generation process uses clean water as an INPUT, not an output. The same company also makes pumps for desalination, which is what you are referring to. As for the India comment, this enery generation process uses clean water as an INPUT, not an output. The same company also makes pumps for desalination, which is what you are referring to.

]]> By: eric http://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/24/worlds-first-osmotic-power-plant-opens/#comment-25171 eric Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:25:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4034#comment-25171 As for the India comment, this enery generation process uses clean water as an INPUT, not an output. The same company also makes pumps for desalination, which is what you are referring to. As for the India comment, this enery generation process uses clean water as an INPUT, not an output. The same company also makes pumps for desalination, which is what you are referring to.

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