Finally my dream job, commercializing two things I’m passionate about, Wind Energy and Kiteboarding.
Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy.
As the parafoil pulls the boat, seawater would be forced through the turbine, which generates electricity. The 800 megawatts of electricity produced would separate seawater into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis, and the hydrogen would then be stored on-board the ships.
I sure hope that 720,000 meter foil is water relaunchable!!!
Read the full story at Wired Science.
This clean and elegantly designed page from Wire&Twine offers you 50 great tips to help save the planet by living more more greenly on a daily basis. The list covers the whole gamut of simple daily habits from #2 turning off your computers at night to #11 printing double-sided (my personal pet peeve) to #17 showering with your partner (another personal fave). I’m sure you are already practicing some or many of these behaviors, but I guarantee you that 120 seconds on this page will give you at least 2 – 3 new green habits, which you can begin practicing this week.
We will prolong the livability of our planet only by mass adoption of basic behavior modifications that have small impacts individually, but massive benefit collectively. Which of these do you commit to adopting, starting today?!?!