The power requirements of our future are staggering. We will not keep up with the old ways.
With that said, I am pro-coal, pro-oil, pro-NG, etc. In fact I wish we would stop fucking around with solar and wind and get serious about NG and Geothermal.
Simplifying, that is a semi-underground greenhouse (the Native American word for it is "Wallipini") which faces the sun, uses thermal mass, etc., and duct work underground below the frost line, with a push fan and a pull fan. Like the push and pull fans on a tower PC.
Not to make it sound like I am diminishing this man's work. Quite the contrary, I am super impressed with him and what he has achieved here.
We need to revisit nuclear power in a big way.
Gen IV Reactors, and perhaps especially Thorium reactors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
The power requirements of our future are staggering. We will not keep up with the old ways.
With that said, I am pro-coal, pro-oil, pro-NG, etc. In fact I wish we would stop fucking around with solar and wind and get serious about NG and Geothermal.
I love the idea of geo-thermal. I haven't studied it enough to know any drawbacks or ramifications though.
Btw, how about growing citrus in Nebraska? With no HVAC?
Yup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk
Simplifying, that is a semi-underground greenhouse (the Native American word for it is "Wallipini") which faces the sun, uses thermal mass, etc., and duct work underground below the frost line, with a push fan and a pull fan. Like the push and pull fans on a tower PC.
Not to make it sound like I am diminishing this man's work. Quite the contrary, I am super impressed with him and what he has achieved here.