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 Stories About: consumerism AND energy efficiency AND hydrogen AND renewable energy AND Seattle
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Extracting useful energy from a fusion reaction
Small is beautiful. |
biodiversivist |
01 Feb 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here is a fun article from The Green Wombat retelling the 'solar-to-hydrogen' car story for the millionth time. I read stories like this in Popular Mechanics decades ago. The article talks about using solar panels to store sunlight as hydrogen to burn in internal-combustion-powered cars. Australia has a lot of sunlight and summers can be hot. It would be far more efficient to use that sunlight to power swamp coolers to air-condition homes than to throw 90% of that sol ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, energy efficiency, hydrogen, renewable energy, Seattle (all these topics) |
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