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Letter: Letter

Published 27 January 2001

From Robin van Spaandonk

Seed is clearly rooted in the past century. There are now so many alternative
energy sources that it’s impossible to list them all. However, here are a few
general directions worth looking at:

  • increased efficiency
  • Blue Energy Canada’s Davis tidal turbine
  • thermal and photovoltaic cells, which are now much closer to being
    commercially competitive
  • geothermal power, particularly with hot-rock technology.

Some unconventional but interesting possibilities also exist, such as:

  • low-energy nuclear reactions, now far more firmly established than the
    existence of quarks
  • superchemistry (hydrino theory)
  • a myriad of schemes designed to tap zero-point energy or
    time-dimension-based power sources.

This last category is true fringe science, yet the most intriguing of all the
possibilities.

Melbourne, Victoria

Issue no. 2275 published 27 January 2001

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