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This Device Could Provide a Third of America's Power

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Re: This Device Could Provide a Third of America's Power

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...could provide a third of America's present power requirements.

U.S. energy demand has actually fairly steady. It was slightly lower in 2014 vs 2008. http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=us&v=81

A wide range of things have been getting more energy efficient TV, lighting, computers, heating cooling, insulation, etc.

Re: This Device Could Provide a Third of America's Power

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post #5

...could provide a third of America's present power requirements.

U.S. energy demand has actually fairly steady. It was slightly lower in 2014 vs 2008. http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=us&v=81 A wide range of things have been getting more energy efficient TV, lighting, computers, heating cooling, insulation, etc.

It's good things are getting efficient up to a point however those kind of savings are unsustainable and in the longterm our energy use will continue to grow exponentially, including for environmental management. Thus it doesn't make sense to research power sources that aren't potentially 100s of times greater than our current usage.

Re: This Device Could Provide a Third of America's Power

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"When it comes to low cost renewable energy, one of the great success stories has been wind power" -- what a jokester. Wind turbines are ridiculously primitive at this stage in terms of efficiency (the operating window is actually fairly small, you have to turn them off in high winds or they melt their gears and shit) and cost effectiveness (there is no entry level turbine that provides any reasonable amount of energy). Basically they're only prevalent where you get tax breaks for installing them for a reason.

So this is another piezoelectric project I guess. Some european country made a piezoelectric section of road that purportedly powers a whole village during rush hour. Of course that road, build from a _very rare and expensive material_ is just some european country's science fair project. Powering a village of whatever is literally nothing except bragging rights.

Reflective solar death rays are the only renewable capable of producing reasonable amounts of energy at this point to even consider putting it into production.

All these "renewables" are basically just distractions funded by the oil cartels. We have an energy source that's cheaper than coal, more reliable, _safer_ for humans and better for the environment than fossils. It's called nuclear, and it's killed less people than hydroelectric -- possibly less than wind and solar, but I don't know that. For the petro-dollar to reign king, people need to be tricked into thinking that anything cheaper than oil is dangerous, and anything safer than oil is expensive (inefficient).

Ironically the only companies breaking this perception, newer low cost electric vehicles, are well known to actually ravage the environment way harder than a petro-car.

Re: This Device Could Provide a Third of America's Power

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Are they saying it could provide a third of America's power (I'm guessing current electricity consumption) from America's coastal waters, or from the whole of the world's oceans?

During the video they said 1/3 of America's energy requirements from America's coasts.
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