Alternative Energy

Having to do a 25 page paper on oil companies going green in my honors microeconomics class, I was surfing the web when I came upon this odd article on the web. Here is the link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20729466 . For a while now, I thought researchers were beating their brains out trying to find better ways of extracting coal or working with ethanol. But in fact science's best friend, the nappy haired (Bill Nye) researcher in his garage, is thinking outside the box. For example, Louis Michaud, a retired petrochemical engineer, built a high tech swimming pool in his garage. Instead of creating splashes, this swimming pool creates twisters the size of the garage. Michaud's plan is to build one of these pools the size of a sports arena. It will most likely be built around a nuclear plant because the heat emitted from the plant will be used to create tornadoes 9 miles high. How freaky is that? Michaud believes the energy created by the tornadoes should equal the energy output of the nuclear plant. Now that's thinking outside the box.

Companies these days are looking for scientists/researches that are out of norm. Here's another example. Two MIT architecture students have developed a way to harness energy from people stepping on stairs. Or another idea is using kites to sail large 400 feet ships. I'm talking about the huge ocean liners. They are using a kite that is about 13,000 square feet. Now that's harnessing wind power. It's like going back to ancient times and using the nature as our way to harness energy. There infinite ways to harness energy and companies are looking out in the world for garage inventors with big idea. Benjamin Franklin once said that it's not who invented electricity who got rich, the one who invented the meter got rich. It's quite the same for energy. It's out there; we just need to find ways to utilize the nature for benefit. My father said to me and I personally agree," Life is going to get much harder for you. The air is bad. The economy is going to hell, along with the earth’s atmosphere. People are working to death. Watch out because I won’t be here for long.” Its time my generation took the initiative.