Posted by admin | Posted in Green Energy | Posted on 31-08-2009

Can a viable alternative power source truly be found?
So far we have not found an actual alternative power source other than what has already been discovered (hydro-electricity, nuclear power, fossil fuels, solar power etc.). The new sources of power are all power vectors (resultant from indirect use of one kind of power already in use. Is there some kind of power supply that we haven’t found yet that will carry us into the future? Gravitational wave energy? Nucleonic resonance?
We already have viable power sources. Solar power, wind power, wave power, so on and so forth. They’re more than capable of providing all the energy we need and then some.
The real trick is storage.
That’s the biggest advantage that hydrocarbons have – you can put ‘em in a bottle and take them with you.
Storing electrical energy generated with solar power, or some such, as hydrogen through using electrolysis would work perfectly.
Some will say, “gee, if it’s so easy, why haven’t we already done it?”
the reason: social and economic inertia. There’s a lot of money, time, and effort already put in to a hydrocarbon-based infrastructure. That leaves a lot of people invested in it in no hurry to change anything. It’ll happen, but it will take a long time.
As for your suggestions…
Gravitational radiation is out of the question. It simply cannot carry enough energy to be of any use. Gravitational waves are so weak that we’ve yet to even detect them in experimental conditions.
Nucleonic resonance? I googled that, and it seems that it’s a real term. However, i’d be very wary if you read anything about “alternative energy” that uses those kinds of phrases. It’s probably nonsense and pseudoscience.
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