A friend of mine directed me to this site recently. Personal wind power (no jokes please).One is apparently installed at the Stony Brook Southampton Campus. It would be interesting to see how effective it is.
How about we put these right down the spine of the LIE? On existing water towers and smoke stacks? On light poles? On all compatible public property? How effective would it be?
Add that to the SunEdison concept and other "complete solarization" ideas and the Plasma Converter projects we spoke about earlier and where does that get us?
What if all the garbage/solid waste companies and municipalities on Long Island got together and built one Plasma Converter in Nassau and one in Suffolk? How much energy would it create? How many landfills could be reclaimed? How much less gas would be used? What about (you fill in the question) ...
How about energy from the ocean ? How about an earth battery ?
How many cost effective megawatts can we really generate from alternative sources if we put our minds to it? When you give the public accurate data about the cost benefit analysis and impact on the environment, then they can make rational choices about aesthetics and other issues.
The point is, unless you ask "out of the box" questions, maybe even seemingly "crazy," creative questions and then do the analysis, you never really know what is possible.
What is known is that we will have to make major changes to the way we create and consume energy on Long Island if we are to have energy that is remotely affordable.
Alternative energy, another good candidate for our "One Long Island" metadata analysis concept.
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