Re: How to use offshore coal reserves ?

analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Alex Terrell wrote:
> > Coal is so cheap we can't even keep mines open in Britain. let alone
> > make new ones under the seabed. There's more than enough accessible
> > coal to create a catastrophic level of global warming, without having
> > to revert to sea bed coal.
>
> The answer to all non-transportation energy needs is already at hand
>
> (1) Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector arrays to create steam from solar
> energy to drive a generator (most likely photovoltaic is a dead-end
> alley).
>
> (2) Ground level onshore and off shore wind-farms and if feasible
> tethered flying wind turbines that operate at high altitudes
>
> (3) use fossil fuels to back up the intermittent sun/wind sources until
> economical energy storage technologies become feasible.
>
> It is deadly to the future of humankind to be still thinking of burning
> things on a large scale for energy.

Hmm ... hmm .. I think I'll burn the Eiffel Tower for energy.
Then the Moon.

Oops. Fri'f'ly sorry about that.


--- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html --
boron: how individual mobility gains nuclear cachet
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