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How We'll Power The U.S. In 2035

Posted April 28, 2011 8:17 AM

From Fast Company:

The current energy landscape is rife with contradictions: Gas prices are shooting up, renewables are being implemented at a seemingly rapid pace, natural gas is being simultaneously demonized and hailed as an energy savior, and electric cars are finally starting to roll off production lines. Fortunately, your tax dollars fund a government agency devoted to making sense of energy. The U.S. Energy Information Administration explains the gritty details of our energy future in its Annual Energy Outlook 2011, which has tracked our projected energy use all the way to 2035.

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04/29/2011 8:59 AM

Electricity and I.C Engines are greatest marvels of human inventions.

However the I.C engines and heat based power are dominating in the present scenario.

The long range solution for the globe[ Not only U.S] is the convenient adaption to electricity based prime movers.

Here again the bottle neck is ample electricity at cheapest price.

Just look at the new web: www.sustechinitiatives.com, there seems to be the answer.

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04/29/2011 2:28 PM

That site doesn't really say anything meaningful from what I saw. It's a bunch of daydreaming from what I can tell.

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05/01/2011 2:32 PM

Agreed. Not very consistent nor well edited, either.

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04/29/2011 10:01 AM

Yep, all we'll need are overhead cables and put pantographs on the top of our autombiles and we can use electric vehicles.

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