Quote: Originally Posted by Cody Dawg How much power can a wind farm REALLY generate? Between a couple of MW and a gazillion MW, depending on how much land you have and how…

Quote: Originally Posted by Albert Pujols hydrogen is the future. Did you mean Methane?

Yeah. Port St. Lucie is 30 minutes north of us. Big plant there.

Solar + wind + hydro = win (I favor the new-fangled hydro plants that use wave action or tide action, not damming up rivers) Quote: Myth 1: Solar electricity cannot serve any s…

Supply all of the US with what?

Quote: Originally Posted by Cody Dawg Supply all of the US with what? I even made bold the pertinent part. 800 gigawatts of power.

Ah! Sorry, I'm doing several things on the computer at the same time. That's really amazing. The only reason I think the US isn't doing that is because they want to stay depende…

Quote: Originally Posted by budster101 Did you mean Methane? No, I meant hydrogen. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...drogen_pr.html

Quote: Originally Posted by AKcrab That's only an area 10 x 10 miles. Keyword: ONLY. I don't think the worlds manufacturing capacity right now would suffice to make this…

Yeah, you're correct. Current manufacturing can't nearly meet the needs, and it would take $500-600 billion in investments to bring the plants up to speed. (I think all that info…

Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 Checked some prices. $ 181 for a 24" x 37" x .5" Electrical Output: 17v DC @ 2000mA, 30 Watts http://www.siliconsolar.com/overcast...lar_p…

Quote: Originally Posted by budster101 So, it will appropriate as there will be a ding-a-ling driving it. Will you ride your new "car" on the road or the sidewalk? I'll g…

Quote: Originally Posted by Cody Dawg Ah! Sorry, I'm doing several things on the computer at the same time. That's really amazing. The only reason I think the US isn't doing …

The most interesting part about this scenario would be the newly revisited alternative fuels market which would be called upon in such a crisis. But of course the price of fuel (o…

While I don't believe everything on this site: http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net It has a lot of interesting factual based information about our dependance on oil. Many people …

Not making the switch in time is what the article is about, actually.

Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 Keyword: ONLY. I don't think the worlds manufacturing capacity right now would suffice to make this happen anytime soon. And at what price…

you should hear my mom talkin' about the dreaded doom scenario Moore described in one of his books(I think stupid white men). She's concerned about the money she has to pay for gas…

Quote: Originally Posted by Lancer409 another problem being how the government would go about charging for something many consumers consider "free" since sunlight costs the go…

Yeah, we need to make the change. Someday our descendants are going to look back at this period of time and it will be referred to as the "Oil Age," just as there was the Ice Age,…

American dependence on cheap bituminous coal for power generation in the northeast / Ohio valley is adversely impacting the air quality and thus the respiratory health of central C…

Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 Keyword: ONLY. So for 100 sq miles, you'd need 452,082,162, that's cost $ 81,826,871,351. $ 81 BILLION ! Just for the panels. Not included …

I think the things that are often forgotten in this scenario are thing like plastics and fertilizer. Most of the food we eat is fertilized with by-products of oil. If fertiziler be…

It probably also causes multiple sclerosis (oil and coal heating.) When I first went to see my neurologist many years ago about the symptoms I was having (which are/were consisten…

Generating hydrogen requires electricity, folks. And the problem with wind and solar energy is that there is no effective way to *store* electricity in copious amounts. Solar ene…