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Electricity... made from Dirt!!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1110734:MV8yMDY1NTkxXzM0NzU0ODE5XzlBQUExMEMz] [quote:Burt Gummer:MV8yMDY1NTkxXzM0NzU0NTc4X0IzMkYxNDgw] [quote:Quagmire:MV8yMDY1NTkxXzM0NzU0NTY4X0FBMzQyNUMx] GLP: solving the world's problems one impractical method at a time. [/quote] :lmao: :applause: :cheers: [/quote] Not precisely Burt Gummer and Quagmire, but I agree that there's a lot of oddball ideas to try to solve this issue. :Smiley: Here's one of the world's most reputable science magazines, Scientific American that's illustrating that 1/4 of the world has no electricity. It's simply not an option for them to just run miles and miles of cable and create more electric plants as they don't have the money to purchase coal. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=electricity-gap-developing-countries-energy-wood-charcoal In many of these nations, while they have some trees and might use wood-gas generators (the charcoal emits a fume that is combustible and hence can power a generator), this would chop down their forests and harm the soil in the end by creating massive erosion. Regardless, they could hope for luxuries like light after 6 pm unless people attempt to figure out methods of creating electricity cheaply. What's your solution? Truthfully, any science that creates a useful battery ends up helping the entire world. Rechargeables use heavy metals, and hence it gets into the groundwater (lead, cadmium, mercury, etc.) Nickel is a heavy metal, but it's not used up in the process of a nickel/iron battery using an electrolyte. Therefore the creation of a better battery is eminently useful since it lessens the waste stream, doesn't poison well water or back to rivers, is cheaper in the long run, and probably facilitates wind and solar power. WHat part of this is oddball? [/quote]
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Check out this article.. sweet!!
Is it not time for one of these ideas to come true... oh the money we would save...
Remember if you dont have dreams you have nothing..Yes I will continue to dream...
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