Comments on: World's First Osmotic Power Plant Opens

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:59 +0000

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

Rick — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:00 +0000

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:00 +0000

By: VGS

VGS — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:55:37 +0000

How do the salmon get in and out of the sea?

By: VGS

VGS — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:55:00 +0000

How do the salmon get in and out of the sea?

By: VGS

VGS — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:55:00 +0000

How do the salmon get in and out of the sea?

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:58:16 +0000

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

Uncle B — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:58:00 +0000

By: eric

eric — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:25:11 +0000

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

eric — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:25:00 +0000

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

eric — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:25:00 +0000

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

eric — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:23:19 +0000

…they are using water as it’s about to dump into the ocean anyhow, so no water is being “wasted”.

By: eric

eric — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:23:00 +0000

…they are using water as it’s about to dump into the ocean anyhow, so no water is being “wasted”.

By: shiva

shiva — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:24:30 +0000

I live in India where most people do not have access to clean drinking water.

The company should open Osmotic Power Plants in India.

By: shiva

shiva — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:24:00 +0000

I live in India where most people do not have access to clean drinking water.

The company should open Osmotic Power Plants in India.

By: shiva

shiva — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:24:00 +0000

I live in India where most people do not have access to clean drinking water.

The company should open Osmotic Power Plants in India.

By: Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:51:14 +0000

It is very easy to forget that Norway is one of the largest producers of oil and natural gas in the world and earns a great deal of money by selling carbon fuels to other parts of the world. At least one 48 inch natural gas pipeline goes from Norway to Europe and there are others as well. It is true that 90 percent of the electricity of Norway is hydroelectric but this does not include all of the energy used in Norway. Norway did not even keep its electric car company TH!NK in operation. ..HG..

By: Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:51:00 +0000

By: Oia

Oia — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:15:48 +0000

LS:

Now remember Norway already runs on more than 90% hydropower, so if the parts were already made in Norway they are carbon neutral.

By: Oia

Oia — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:15:00 +0000

LS:

Now remember Norway already runs on more than 90% hydropower, so if the parts were already made in Norway they are carbon neutral.