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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (2450)	6/27/2000 8:13:00 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 33421

Windmills are also a very cheap source of energy, especially if you live in an area where there are constant trade winds... a series of small windmills right on the roof of your house can supply you and your family with all the electricity you'll ever need... the only problem is that the local power company will lose revenue from you and the rest of the community, and they won't like that... I suspect this is why we don't yet have meaningful alternative energy sources, the power companies also seem to have political power... try putting a few small windmills on the roof of your house and watch the police show up to cite you for a violation of a municipal ordinance...<g> go figure... if we truly want to develop alternate sources of energy, we'll need to remove the fox from the hen house..... GZ

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (2450)	6/27/2000 11:47:00 AM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

Tazio, this is a great post, many of us see these Macro trends and we need to go with the flow, so to speak with them. That is a nifty site and I have bookmarked it and will be spending more time there. DOE national lab found that if China and India double the proportion of people living in cities they will increase per capita energy consumption by 45% -- even if industrialization and per capita income remain the same. (3) Royal Dutch/Shell Group predicts that renewables may make up one third of the supply of new electricity within three decades (by 2026). Predicting energy futures is chancy but the following points lend credibility to this forecast: (3)