News Flash: New Concepts in Renewable Energy Need To Offer Improvements Over What We Have Today
Part of my career involves looking at new ideas in clean energy, which enables (forces?) me to look at some really wild stuff that couldn’t possibly work. The inventor of this concept in wind energy called the other day to explain how effective his invention will be. What he apparently doesn’t understand is that the energy extracted from wind is proportional to the swept area, and that this device will cost hundreds of times more per square meter than our current technology.
Like so many others, he wants to raise investment capital to build a prototype. Won’t happen.
Water is known to constitute nearly 70% of the human body. It is also vital for the survival of other living organisms and various ecosystems. Besides water quantity problems such as drought and water shortages across different parts of the world, there have been global issues regarding water quality.
Caption: This is one of the many reasons that our civilization’s gluttonous consumption of red meat is one of the most clearly unsustainable aspects of our culture. 
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The ancient Greek philosopher Thales (pictured here), predated Socrates by over two hundred years, and is remembered today principally for his belief that the entire universe is composed of water in one form or another. In other words, he believed that air is some sort of rarefied water, and that rocks are densified water. 2600 years later, we now know that Thales was wrong, but the point remains that he was the very first person (we know of) to take a stab at the ultimate building blocks of the world around us. His work required vision and courage, and an intense appetite to explore a bold new idea. 
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