More Energy Discussion

Energy Discussion

This is a novel idea advocated by those wacky Euros. You'll have to read through the discussion, but essentially they're using excess power from wind farms to store water in Norwegian reservoirs. Then, when they need power, they drain the water from the reservoirs and get the hydroelectric power. Can't get much cleaner than that (other than the whole building dams thing).

The Economist has been doing a lot of articles on energy lately. I think we're going to see a lot of new nuclear plants built in the next 10 or 20 years. If we could only get Keanu Reeves to tell us how he mastered cold fusion in the movie Chain Reaction.....