The “@Home” supplement to the September 29th, 2007 Seattle Post Intelligencer contained this article
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/athome/333242_backuppower29.html
about setting up a solar-fed battery system as a backup to municipal power in the event an emergency — like the windstorms that deprive thousands of Seattle-area homes of power for several days last year.
Doesn’t this also make sense in the U.S. [...]

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Ocean tides flowing in and out on a coastline can be converted into power using turbines just as windmills turn air currents into power and hyrdro-electric dams turn river flows into power.
The Puget Sound (Seattle) area has been undergoing a bit of a land rush when it comes to tidal power, with various entities and [...]

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These puppies have incredible potential — both for efficiently powering engines, like car / truck / train / boat / plane motors, etc., which tend to rely on relatively inefficient and high-in-pollutants power sources, AND for storing micro-power from personal-scale solar, wind, motion-driven-backpacks (something for another post), or other power collection technology — check it [...]

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Where will future power come from?

The cost of energy is rising, and by cost I’m referring to both money and human suffering.

Demand for energy is skyrocketing, as billions of consumer race towards U.S.-inspired levels of personal consumption.

The damage to the planet’s ecology from power generation may, within your lifetime and mine, bring about a [...]

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