Or shall we just continue to foul the planet while dreaming of wind and solar replacing fossil fuels?
We Swedes invented the solar airplane. We are not always best known for our brain power ("Watch out for those &*^% clouds, Ollie"). Solar power can be the motive force for predator drones if we want to kill people but you won't get many passengers on a solar-powered flight anymore than on a kite that depends on wind.
You need biomass to do the job. Pond scum does just fine even now.
Come with me to the real world of clean energy if you dare - or you can just continue dreaming of intermittent fluff while the planet dies.
SYRACUSE - Summerhill Biomass Systems, Inc. is sitting on a powder keg.
The company has filed patents to protect its micro-powdered, biomass fuel technology, designed to replace the nation's obsession with liquid fuels. Summerhill relies on wood chips, corn stalks, and other waste or other cultivated plant material to produce a fine powder that is injected under pressure and ignited to generate energy...
I can tell you for a fact that there is lots of energy demonstrated by the explosible (not explodable) powder.
A young engineer, a son of the inventor, hopes to build an engine - maybe even a racing engine to compete with a steam engine being built to set a new land steam record in Utah.
I frankly don't rate the chances very high of accomplishing such a task.
An asthmatic lady, who could not stand being close to a wood stove without the usual reactions, stood comfortably by a large "blow torch" during the demo. Still there has to be residue I think to foul the engine. We will see.
But how about this?
Reclaiming the Earth's Energy
Environmentally Friendly Clean Burn is the world's leading manufacturer of used-oil furnaces, used-oil boilers, and used-oil recycling centers that generate FREE HEAT from motor oils and petroleum based fluids commonly used in all types of internal combustion engines.
That used motor oil doesn't just go away. Know where we can get some oil raising hell with the planet?
And if we use our heads and stop burning fossil fuels, there will be no shortage of used stuff. Never has been. Landfill operators may suffer but them's the breaks.
We simply cannot go back to a time when humans supply all their own power nor will horses and other beasts do.
But we can go forward if we just will.
Best, Terry