To: TobagoJack who wrote (39262 ) 10/7/2003 2:20:38 PM From: Seeker of Truth Read Replies (3) | Respond to In the next few years, economies of energy will play a big role. For example, getting work done in a low wage country rather than in a high wage country, will save energy because the person with the low wage consumes far less energy. We can expect in due course, the collapse of suburbia as everybody heads for the cities where relatively economic public transportation exists as well as the remaining jobs. Less commuting means far less energy expended. In cold climates apartment houses are way more energy efficient than separate houses, a surface/volume matter. The advance of technology saves energy also. Also everywhere that industrialization happens the birth rate declines to under the replacement amount. Some calculations show that solar energy in its myriad forms, e.g. palm oil, water power, etc. should suffice for our planet with a population of one billion. I personally am much taken by using the galvanic effect of ocean thermal differences. In tropical waters there is a big temperature difference between surface water and water from the deeps. If we have a contact of different metals an electric current flows. The bigger the temperature difference, the more electricity. There is a real plant generating real electricity in the waters somewhere off Hawaii. It works and produces more energy than it costs.
