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Reactor could produce fuel from sunlight

The contest between new energy sources for liquid fuels is important, but overshadows the greater need to reduce, rather to continually add to our liquid fuel use. There are two very clear reasons. Most people think of fuel use as the traceable amount, and that's a grave error. What is traceable is generally less than 1/5 the true total, even when tracing by the most careful analytical efforts. Most energy uses that businesses rely on are untraceable, nominally 80% higher when estimating whole system energy use rather than just traceable energy use. http://www.synapse9.com/pub/SEA_EROIwind.pdf The same then applies to the physical impacts of the environmental pressures of energy use! Our problem is not just needing clean energy. CO2 *pollution* is only beginning to have noticeable effects. The destabilizing effects on the environment we already see are from our current energy *uses* that growing the economy and its largely hidden "dark energy" uses would only continually escalate by ever larger steps. http://www.synapse9.com/design/dollarshadow.htm

23 Jan 2011

1:27 pm