Thread: [Traveller_TNE] More Alternative Energy Sources

1. Biodiesel! Cause we gotta great big, EPA compliant convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big green fueled convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our alternative energy convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this soybean burning truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

I couldn't help it:)

http://www.biodiesel.org/resources/faqs/default.shtm

2. Bio Jet fuels

http://www.energybulletin.net/23098.html

3. Green Guck in the Pool Generation 2:

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/pdfs/iic3_ghirardi.pdf

4. A windmill with a different direction:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/1288371.html

5. Here come the "corntainers":

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/2003/10/corntainer.html
http://www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID=946

6. The Microbial Worker

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/mole00/mole00042.htm
http://www.reactivereports.com/44/44_3.html

7. Metal production denuding the forests? How about ceramics:

http://www.ceramics.com/

8. Run-of-river and Tidal Barrage Hydroelectric:

http://www.i-volv.co.uk/hydroelectric_explained.html

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On 19 May 2007 at 16:51, Peter Gray wrote:

> 8. Run-of-river and Tidal Barrage Hydroelectric:
>
> http://www.i- volv.co.uk/hydroelectric_explained.html

Check Scientific American going back a ways. Maybe as much as 20
years. There was an article about the ecological effects of tidal
power. Even *one* "large" tidal power station has the potential to
change tide patterns for hundreds of miles which will change the
coastal ecosystems as well as affect things like harbors silting up
or not.

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com

--- wrote:
>
> Check Scientific American going back a ways. Maybe as much as 20
> years. There was an article about the ecological effects of tidal
> power. Even *one* "large" tidal power station has the potential to
> change tide patterns for hundreds of miles which will change the
> coastal ecosystems as well as affect things like harbors silting up
> or not.
>

That's why I think the newer designs are basically lightweight, freefloating buoys anchored away
from the coastline. I've seen designs that are basically a shutter vane system that takes energy
from the wave crest and trough, rather than the entire tidal surge.

The key to making alternative energy successful is accepting the fact that one will have to get by
on the generation of less power than through more traditional means. Widespread acceptance of
energy miser electrical appliances and the use of lightweight materials in transportation
technology probably are more critical than the power generation method itself.

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