Though, I have to give the energy companies credit, they did build the infrastructure that powers our ability to read and respond to this post in the first place. I’d rather have the ills of fossil fuel (this is coming from an urban asthmatic) and the hope of moving forward into a future where we collect the energy from the sun to power our gadgets than living in a cave with typhoid fever and my only way to get a snack is running down an angry mammoth with a sharpened stick.

I think we’re getting cleaner over time, not dirtier. We’re not dropping DDT all over the place and I haven’t heard of any rivers spontaneously catching on fire in my lifetime. (like the Chicago River fires I’ve read about)

Everything is OK. I think we got this handled. It’s only 2011. :)

Obviously, one should integrate CPV cells with this magnetic-effect device and get a ~55% efficient device since – in these devices – concentration is already provided.

Obviously, one should integrate CPV cells with this magnetic-effect device and get a ~55% efficient device since – in these devices – concentration is already provided.

In the last 40 years I have read about countless breakthroughs that never materialized and are never heard about again. Sorry to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but 40 years of getting my hopes up that mankind will finally break free from the evil corporate tyranny of big oil, is getting impossible to ignore.

Ever since the first Earth Day 41 years ago and the beginnings of the Environmental movement, I have been hearing about these scientific breakthroughs and yet here were are in the year 2011 still using predominantly oil.

Someone should be accountable for all these lost ideas. They have been documented and should be followed-up with rigorous scientific testing. If they really don’t pan out feasibly, then fine, we will move on. However, too many of these breakthroughs have just been swept under the rug and have not thoroughly been proven viable or impractical.

ENOUGH ALREADY!

In the last 40 years I have read about countless breakthroughs that never materialized and are never heard about again. Sorry to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but 40 years of getting my hopes up that mankind will finally break free from the evil corporate tyranny of big oil, is getting impossible to ignore.

Ever since the first Earth Day 41 years ago and the beginnings of the Environmental movement, I have been hearing about these scientific breakthroughs and yet here were are in the year 2011 still using predominantly oil.

Someone should be accountable for all these lost ideas. They have been documented and should be followed-up with rigorous scientific testing. If they really don’t pan out feasibly, then fine, we will move on. However, too many of these breakthroughs have just been swept under the rug and have not thoroughly been proven viable or impractical.

ENOUGH ALREADY!