I hope the “big picture” was covered before this project was started… what are the total water resources available? What impact does removing these large quantities of water during the dry season have on neighboring eco systems, villages, etc. Can this water removal be supported on an ongoing, longterm, sustainable basis?

I hope the “big picture” was covered before this project was started… what are the total water resources available? What impact does removing these large quantities of water during the dry season have on neighboring eco systems, villages, etc. Can this water removal be supported on an ongoing, longterm, sustainable basis?

we can say ‘rural Pennsylvania’, ‘rural America’ even helps but ‘rural North America?” i didn’t think so.

I’m glad the video at least has a title or i would have no idea where this place is to do more research

we can say ‘rural Pennsylvania’, ‘rural America’ even helps but ‘rural North America?” i didn’t think so.

I’m glad the video at least has a title or i would have no idea where this place is to do more research

These are are not something that you can readily buy but something that a science educated handy person can build in any country with readily available materials and some internet searching.

It doesn’t even matter that the thermal efficiency is very low <<5% as the device can be made big enough by experimentation.

Once upon a time this might be called Yankee ingenuity.

search “Hubert Stierhof solar stirling engine” for one such design.

These are are not something that you can readily buy but something that a science educated handy person can build in any country with readily available materials and some internet searching.

It doesn’t even matter that the thermal efficiency is very low <<5% as the device can be made big enough by experimentation.

Once upon a time this might be called Yankee ingenuity.

search “Hubert Stierhof solar stirling engine” for one such design.

The developing world really needs to lobby the rich countries to go back to using nuclear power and stop wasting fossil fuels so they can have a turn at the oil spigot. Gee Nigeria, Sudan even has a little of it.

There is a crazy theory that I don’t really believe myself that if the developed countries went entirely nuclear that there would be so much energy left over that all of humanity could live as well as the US does since there would then be enough energy to go around, lots and lots. It says so right in chap 19 of “Sustainable Energy — without the hot air” by David Mackay which even the people of rural Benin can afford, it costs only 0 XOF.

Here is the crazy math, there is about 1 ton of uranium in the ocean for every single person on this earth with population of 10 Billion (it is set in the far future, like 20 years). Given a few fast breeder reactors (1 per million people at $2K/head) every person could live like an American for 1000 years.

It gets even funnier, if ITER or another fusion project ever works, there is 1000s of tons of deuterium and lithium in the oceans for every single person of 10 billion (maybe 50 years in the future) that we could live like in Bel Air Mac Mansions, every single person for about 1 million years. Of course it wouldn’t be easy getting there, nothing ever is.

Can you believe what some educated people believe. Of course its preposterous. Solar PV and Wind will do for now, atleast that is what Green peace keeps telling me although David MacKay thinks this might not work, chaps 4,6,10. What does he know that Green peace doesn’t?

The developing world really needs to lobby the rich countries to go back to using nuclear power and stop wasting fossil fuels so they can have a turn at the oil spigot. Gee Nigeria, Sudan even has a little of it.

There is a crazy theory that I don’t really believe myself that if the developed countries went entirely nuclear that there would be so much energy left over that all of humanity could live as well as the US does since there would then be enough energy to go around, lots and lots. It says so right in chap 19 of “Sustainable Energy — without the hot air” by David Mackay which even the people of rural Benin can afford, it costs only 0 XOF.

Here is the crazy math, there is about 1 ton of uranium in the ocean for every single person on this earth with population of 10 Billion (it is set in the far future, like 20 years). Given a few fast breeder reactors (1 per million people at $2K/head) every person could live like an American for 1000 years.

It gets even funnier, if ITER or another fusion project ever works, there is 1000s of tons of deuterium and lithium in the oceans for every single person of 10 billion (maybe 50 years in the future) that we could live like in Bel Air Mac Mansions, every single person for about 1 million years. Of course it wouldn’t be easy getting there, nothing ever is.

Can you believe what some educated people believe. Of course its preposterous. Solar PV and Wind will do for now, atleast that is what Green peace keeps telling me although David MacKay thinks this might not work, chaps 4,6,10. What does he know that Green peace doesn’t?