• The Environment

    10 Audacious Ideas to Save the Planet

    By Posted on 8.1.2008 27 Comments

    Making a dent in the climate crisis is going to take more than solar panels and recycled toilet paper. Scientists are finding ever more creative ways (pig pee! DIY tornadoes! mini nuclear reactors!) to clean up the Earth

    7.29.2008 at 04:53pm - Comment by jt2254

    waves lift thousand ton shipes in water like playthings.....ever thought about converting that lifting energy into high pressure air and convey that via high pressure air hoses miles back to any aircompressor station on land to utilize pnuematic energy power like air motors for electricity.......desalinization plants........sewage processing......large building energy needs..........municipal energy needs.........all readily consistently and cheap/clean available to anyone or any city worldwide. ..........what we know in our minds to be possible is not what is possible if we open our minds to the possible! jt



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