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{Nature_and_Environment.96.1}: {redleader} Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:40:56 CDT (23 lines)
{name removed by chiles Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:52:52 CST}
I'm starting this topic to discuss renewable energy technologies, that might be a little bit different from what we generally think of. I'm going to mention two right here. 1. The new geothermal Power Tubes invented by Doyle Brewington. They use a water free magnetic technology that can by burying a device that it about 185 meters deep, 4 meters in diameter, and 10 meters above ground in a plant that takes up only half an acre can be a 10MW power plant, that will not require underground water, and will not deplete heat, steam and pressure like conventional geothermal plants. Also they can be used in a DRASTICALLY wider variety of sites. 2. Blue water. This technology runs river water through a membrane and mixes it with sea water. The membrane can be used to generate electricity by water molecules passing through (the opposite of reverse osmosis). This could be done by diverting a portion of some river than run into the seen (it would probably harm the fish less than a conventional damm and could be turned off during salmon season). Some engineers that the Netherlands alone could have 35,000 MW of capacity. Any other concepts?
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