thomas malloy wrote: >Over the past year we have discussed a number of areas which might >provide an unlimited source of pollution free energy. Among them are the >writings of Hal Puthoff, last week I posted a review of his paper on >EVO's . . .
These are worthy ideas, but speculative and unproven. Even cold fusion is unproven as to practicality. We do have an energy crisis, and we will until one of these approaches is actually commercialized. >I'm a big fan of making the deserts >bloom by piping sea water in and brine out, and powering the whole thing >with solar and the bio evolved power. IMHO, this would also provide an >unlimted source of rare metals too. If you mean that large amounts of rare metals can be extracted from the brine, you are wrong, I am sorry to say. Most precious metals such as Au, Pd and Pt are available in such trace amounts that even a megaproject to irrigate 3.9 million square kilometers would yield only negligable amounts. See my book, Chapter 8, especially Table 8.2 and the refs listed therein. > If nothing else, we have fossil fuel >reserves enough to last for 1000 years. The use of fossil fuels constitutes an energy crisis, as I pointed out in chapter 4. Even if they do not cause global warming (which I think they do), they are far too expensive, dangerous, inconvenient and they cannot generate anywhere enough energy to do all that needs to be done here on earth, or elsewhere in the solar system. - Jed
