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Title: Dan Nocera from MIT on water to energy
Post by: luv2luvlong on March 03, 2011, 10:03:55 AM

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/dan-nocera-the-futureis-really-not-that-bad.html (http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/alternative-energy/dan-nocera-the-futureis-really-not-that-bad.html)

Title: Re: Dan Nocera from MIT on water to energy
Post by: gimlet on March 03, 2011, 08:50:24 PM

Well - I think the required catalysts that he needs are more expensive then he anticipates. Most of these chemists find a really good catalyst but fail to figure how to recycle them once they are used. Still he has some really good points about small energy plants. We have been using the "economy of scale" theory to build most anything as the bigger the cheaper (through put to the 0.6 power - So really big is great but the problems also get very large).

I enjoyed watching it - thanks for posting.

PS - I like his other solution also - cut the number of people in the world by educating women.

Title: Re: Dan Nocera from MIT on water to energy
Post by: luv2luvlong on March 04, 2011, 06:34:07 AM

I thought you'ld like that.

And I totally agree on the education thing, but not just for women. I have always thought that if you really want to solve all the probs of the world you have to educate everyone to the N'th degree. It's to bad though there are people in charge that don't want that.

Title: Re: Dan Nocera from MIT on water to energy
Post by: Endless Night on March 04, 2011, 10:41:17 AM

Interestingly on the news a moment ago they were taking about 192k of new jobs last month and one person cut in and said well thats really no that great as the US needs 150k of new jobs every month just to cover population increase.