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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 05:34:56 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Solar energy hasn't been cost effective in the past, and is just
starting to become an alternative now.
If enough advances are made to its efficiency and reliability
(longivity) in the next few years, it could become
an attractive option. Same for electric cars, etc. Technology
marches forward, just sometimes slower than we'd like.

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Exactly right, and it is a huge mistake to bad mouth and discourage
those improvement efforts.

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I think serious additional research should be applied to resurrecting
the ultra-genius, Nikola Tesla's idea of capturing and storing the
electrical energy contained in lightning strikes. The average
lighting bolt contains about 10-15 gigawatts of electrical energy.
The average thunderstorm discharges enough energy to power the entire
USA for about 20 minutes. At any one time there are over 2,000
thunderstorms occurring worldwide.

That's a lot of free power if it could be harnessed.

I agree. If people acted like they act now towards new technology, Tesla
wouldn't have had a chance! They would have just said that the only
electricity they knew about was lightening and that is dangerous.