Evaporation-Harvested Energy Could Meet 70% of the United States’ Power Needs
“Researchers investigating the potential for evaporation to be used as a source of renewable energy have found that the United States’ reservoirs and lakes could produce 325 gigawatts of power. That’s equivalent to almost 70 percent of the energy that the country currently generates.
“We have the technology to harness energy from wind, water, and the Sun, but evaporation is just as powerful,” senior author Ozgur Sahin, a biophysicist at Columbia University, stated in a press release. “We can now put a number on its potential.”…”
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Yes, and harnessing cockroaches and putting them on a treadmill could provide 100% of the power requirements of the U.S., but at what cost per kwh? No government funds should be spent on this incredibly bad idea unless a working model that produces electricity at the same price as the U.S. average (without a subsidy or tax credit) is constructed.
I don’t know if that’s good but I think its bad oh no