Steam is not the fuel. It is a medium for energy transfer. "Steam engines" use a fuel like coal, oil, or uranium.

typical.
we have all this polution and global warming going on and you yap about details.




Listen to me, and listen to me very fucking carefully.

That press release is bullshit.

"an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water" does not exist. Extracting hydrogen from water consumes energy. It does not generate it.

what are you a rocketscientist?
with naysayers like you we could just aswell go back to using slavelabour.








Are you just doing this to get a rise out of me? Because it's working.

ewwww!!!

typical.
we have all this polution and global warming going on and you yap about details.




what are you a rocketscientist?
with naysayers like you we could just aswell go back to using slavelabour.








ewwww!!!
That's not how you spell Hizzowned.

These are pretty cool for grid use...

http://www.stirlingenergy.com/technology/suncatcher.asp

I thinks its pretty sweet to see a stirling engine used. Great application for this...

Every electrical power plant I've been to uses water to drive turbines (steam or water..head driven). I've never been to a wind farm, but they are popping up in the western part of my state.

I think it'd be pretty cool if developers started making housing editions electrically "zero net usage" by implemeting solar, wind, in conjunction with high efficiency construction methods and materials. The downside is that the home-owner would pay for this all upfront. You'd add about $20,000 to the price tag of the house. I don't see this ever happening without tax incentives or regulation.

Until these components are manufactured in enough numbers to have economy of scale, they'll continue to be expensive.

Wasn't there a town in Germany that recently mandated that every house be partially solar-powered? I don't think that went over very well...

The downside is that the home-owner would pay for this all upfront. You'd add about $20,000 to the price tag of the house. I don't see this ever happening without tax incentives or regulation.


Over here you get a taxbreak if you install a solar boiler which uses the sun to keep your house heated and stuff.

you do realise that only for americans oil is cheap right?
gasprices in the usa are ridiculously cheap in comparison with europe.

Dontcha just love socialism?

Dontcha just love socialism?

the living standards over here are much better then in the usa.

this thread is now about americans hating socialism.

the living standards over here are much better then in the usa.

And eunuchs arent tempted/distracted by sex...

this thread is now about americans hating socialism.

And the juxtaposition of us electing the pres we did?

But back on topic...JNP has the right answer. If you bank on greed as a motivating factor for change, you will win.

And the juxtaposition of us electing the pres we did?Maybe he won't be as bad as some people thought:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081208/pl_politico/16292;_ylt=AsM6n7NYJF3RSMTdig7W8fUazJV4
That he has already drawn the ire of the hard-core libs elevates him somewhat in my eyes, even though I voted for the other guy.

He just better keep his mitts out of my gun safe.

the living standards over here are much better then in the usa.

Could it be that the US providing the lion's share of the defense budget for the entire free world leaves your government with a little something extra left over for 'living standards'?

Pay your own damn bills, then we can compare apple to apples.

Could it be that the US providing the lion's share of the defense budget for the entire free world...

Well, why the **** don't the taxpaying American voters make it STOP?

Or do they LIKE their money being wasted?

OTOH, don't worry about it: just give China and India a few more decades.

Well, why the **** don't the taxpaying American voters make it STOP?

Or do they LIKE their money being wasted?

OTOH, don't worry about it: just give China and India a few more decades.

Said tax dollars are buying said decades.

Said tax dollars are buying said decades.

Since the result is the same, the point (from the POV of the American taxpayer) would be...?

Since the result is the same, the point (from the POV of the American taxpayer) would be...?

If you buy time, you have time. In this case, you have time for China to screw things up somehow.