California

Kablooie

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60. Some things are being done.

Tue May 22, 2012, 06:54 PM

May 2012

Not as fast as we'd like but there are increasing efforts to extract energy from our resources.

Some of the slowness is probably politics but also it takes a long time to build power plants on the scale needed to supply communities. There are several projects that are being constructed right now but none are online yet.

Also many of the technologies aren't ready for industrial use yet. They have to be pretty efficient and robust before communities can start to rely on them and many are still in the experimental phase.

There are several ideas for getting energy from the ocean and tests are being done right now but none have yet proven to be the reliable, efficient system we really need.

Unfortunately science is a very time consuming process and turning science into functioning technology can take even longer.

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