Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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1.) yep, we truly are a country sucking on the tired old titties of mama oil. but screw paving the earth. screw covering natural beauty with cosmetics. keep em coming ill keep knockin em down (not plastic though, it is reusable, useful, and andy warhol's favorite material).
2.)Think of the possible uses for this technology. Go ahead, go wild. dont hold back. Just imagine: all those skyscrapers in our cities looking exactly the same but with one minor(but oh so major) operation. The stories and stories of glistening windows we all know so well: covered with tinted transparent solar paint. That's a lot of surface area and a lot of sunlight. 2, 3, 4 or more birds with one stone. Or how about on all car windows. And thats just one.
3.) Sure solar power couldn't power the world alone, but that's why it needs companions. eath, wind, water, fire, heart! with our powers combined... catch my drift. Antartica is full of intense wind yearround and pure sunlight for half a year straight! fields of solar panels and windmills could capture sunlight that would otherwise be doing no more then melting this useful but underused continent. Lets take advantage of it while we still have it. In 2012 an intense solar max will be at its peak, and it begins this fall. know what that sounds like to me? no not the end of the world or the mayan prophecy coming true. yes a lot of fucking sunlight that we could use. So, all around the world hundreds of differnt types of energy capturing mechanisms working together for the power of everyone is the way of the future. Every footstep, ever draft of wind created by traffic, all the city noise, and even lost heat energy recaptured and thrown back to the grid. Most of this technology has already been invented just not applied. And though we have already been doing this for decades just on a much smaller scale (admittedly not as much as we should be) that brings me to my next point.
4.)It should not be and is not about plugging the world through one abundant and powerful source. That's setting us up for disaster and is about as useful as a monarchy: sucks for anyone living in it as all their fate are hanging from the fate of one. Is this not the lesson we have learned from the "Oil Days"? Plus every time we discover a new type of abundant energy that is more powerful than the last, wether thats oil, nuclear, whatever tesla discovered and threw away, or just straight up free energy... we also are discovering a new, more powerful bomb. and god knows we need no more of those. think about if we had just free energy that was more than 100 percent efficient, that means some waco out there will same "darn thatll make a damn good bomb." If a bomb had more than 100% effiency, then in theory that means it would feed off itself and eventually engulf this entire place we cherish so much and so on into infinite. We need many types of natural energies captured more efficiently. The future of energy is a sandwich(mmmm yum) of deep fried independence and self-sufficiency secured by buns of local/ national/ international power grid just in case.
5.)We need to convince people to move away from grid-dependence and toward independence. Self powered residence (more modern earthships anyone) and industry (such as these zero emissions factories). This is what it is about: Indepence from the cradle of the grid but still have a good one for backup. That way we have less dependence on our government. For the medieval's it was control through religious persecution, for us it is power persecution. So how do we achieve this? Unfortunately through democratic processes and cheesy trends like the ol' "Green" slogan and well... people like hippies who arent out to fuck this place up(just themselves), and through social leaders and heroes. So instead of passing this off as a way for the imperial government to take advantage and enforce a new world order (which it is, but this is where self-sufficiency comes in. they couldnt do that if we didnt need them so much), embrace it as it is a good way to get the word out! nobody listens to intellectuals anymore or reads, so its the only way!
DOWN WITH THE OILIGARCHY!!!