Comment 52678

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted December 05, 2010 at 22:38:50

As for lightbulbs, I suspect LEDs will replace them whenever somebody works out how to cheaply and easily spiral them into a bulb. LEDs are a lot more along the line of old-school bulbs (pretty much just plastic/leads/filaments), but still use very little power.

As for co-generation, it's not really my area of expertise. The US government has been pretty constantly cutting spending on renewables since the 1980s, despite their fanfare. I have a friend who's looked into it, though, and it seems like there's a fair bit of potential in Canada to get a 20-year-guaranteed price contract, and get a good number of the start-up fees covered. Combine that with some sort of non-conventional gas supply (bioreactor, compost biogas, woodgas etc) and it's a licence to print money.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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