The Failures Of Alternative Energy

It was a bad sign when T Boone Pickens gave up, at least partially, on building a mammoth wind farm in Texas. The process was not only going to be expensive; the ability to get the energy from the windmills to large population centers would be complicated by flaws in the electric grid. Wind energy may end up being local for years. Those who want to take advantage of the

The latest alternative energy industry that wants to try to draw to an inside straight is the algae biofuels business. Their processes for creating oil that can be used for cars and truck fall into two categories. The first is to grow algae in open ocean water. Algae-eating fish consume the food, process it in their digestive systems, and are killed and harvested for the fuel by-products. The industry calls the process