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To: one_less who wrote (6)	9/5/2006 1:00:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 10087

Hydro and wind (esp. hydro) are often big mass power generators not small local community power solutions. You can build a single wind mill or a small water wheel in a local stream, but most hydro-power comes from large rivers that have been damned, and if that changes in the future it would only change from having large power plants using tidal forces or something like that. Windmills are perhaps a likely source for small scale generation, but they will be very unlikely to be a really significant percentage of our electricity generation, esp. if you focus on the small scale (rather than huge fields of towering windmills). Biofuel would probably be processed in large scale plants. Fuel cells require fuel that has to come from somewhere and probably won't come from the community. Fuel cells are more like a battery than they are a power plant. I suppose you could buy the cell loaded with chemicals and recharge it from solar cells or windmills or whatever, but I still think most people are likely to rely on the main power grid for the foreseeable future.

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