Future

Where Are We Headed?

Archive for March 2007

Future of Fusion

It is my belief that the next major source of energy for Earth’s population will be terrestrial fusion energy. I believe that the type of reactor that will become a mainstream source of energy initially will be the spherical tokamak. A spherical tokamak is a tokamak with a very short aspect ratio. That is to… (read more)

I Wish I Had All The Answers

I wish I had all the answers to the worlds problems but I don’t. There are some things I know we’ve got to do if we are going to survive on this planet let alone thrive and find happiness and meaning in our lives. Some of the things we must do, we must forgive each… (read more)

Energy Planet – Renewable Energy Directory

Someone sent e-mail mentioning Energy Planet’s Renewable Energy Directory and I thought it was worth a mention here. It’s got a listing of a quite a few suppliers of things like solar panels, storage batteries, wind and tide energy, pretty comprehensive actually.

Healthy Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, and Streams

The health of natural bodies of water and the entire planets ecosystem is threatened by excessive nutrients entering the oceans and other natural bodies of water. In this article, I discuss one of the sources of those nutrients, fertilizer runoff. In future posts, I will discuss other sources, human and animal wastes, and industrial sources…. (read more)