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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (86)	5/17/2005 11:49:25 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 24231

Climate and weather sure do have plenty to do with whether a thing will work in one place and not in another. Up here... in the frozen north, solar will probably only ever be a seasonal alternative. I suppose it might be possible to glean some power in winter, but the days are kind of short. Wind is a definitely possibility, and I've seen some pretty neat very small-scale hydro power stuff -- as in ridiculously small, so also a possibility in some cases. Wood is popular up around where I am, and pretty much renewable and sustainable, but I do worry about the air pollution from it. I do think that viable ideas will come along, but people have to feel motivated and also not discouraged by those who will criticize. It would help to do more brainstorming... as was done during the last oil crisis (a friend up here worked for a government dept. that brought together a group of engineers to work on energy for agricultural applications and they came up with some pretty kewl stuff back then... but most of the projects got canned with the oil price dropped and the supply was supposedly good again). Well, it's been cool and sort of cloudy and crappy here for weeks now. This coming weekend is the traditional "planting weekend" for vegetable gardens up here. I dunno if I'm gonna bite. May wait another week for things to warm up a bit more. Got tons of containers of plants sitting out on my sunny back porch == sort of outgrowing their containers, but maybe they're better off staying indoors for a few more days. ~croc