[XCSSA] Any Formal Presentations This Monday Night? Solar/Renewable Energy?

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> uclear) come from the sun anyway...
>
> Wind = sun.. heat.. air..
> Hyrdo = sun, water, evaporation, rain, rivers
> Oil/Coal = sun, plan life/bio matter & animals+death+time
> Ethyl Alcohol = sun, corn, sugar, bacteria, alcohol

Yes.  One fact: 50-100 times more of the sun's energy goes into  
making wind than into photosynthesis.  Most of that wind energy,  
however, is at higher altitudes.

A few people think that oil comes from geologic processes, not former  
life.  However, that's so far out it's mostly considered a "crank" view.


>
> Tidal = uhh.. well.. that's the moon & orbital energy..
> (which begs the question.. could harnessing TOO much tidal energy  
> actually
> accelerate the orbital decay of the moon?  That could be bad really  
> for the
> great great great grandkids.. do the math on THAT Charles and get  
> back to
> me.. ;)

Yes, but not to worry.  We'd have a long way to go before it made a  
significant difference.  And it would have to change a lot before  
doing anything really bad.  BTW, there's already a lot of this  
"deceleration" going on,  more than we could practically do, and the  
deceleration is a predictable linear process.

Charles