Research & Innovation vs. Inconvenient Truths

The previous post brought you links to emerging fuel-cell technologies. If your energy readings are running low, here's a spring tonic:
SOLAR BREAKTHROUGH
Canadian-born entrepreneur and Silicon-valley investment partners launch (24-hour) steam-generated power in the Mojave desert.

SOLAR POWER AT HALF THE COST
Technology Review magazine informs readers of new roof-top solar panels that concentrate sunlight.

BIOMIMICRY LEADS TO BETTER TURBINE BLADES
The Toronto Star features a story about doubling the energy of wind turbines in light winds. It involves an American researcher, a Canadian entrepreneur and UWO Engineering's wind tunnel.
International patents are being applied for in areas of propellers, compressors, pumps, fans, etc.
British Columbia pushes hydro power without dams using penstocks to divert a portion of river flow to down-hill generating stations. Sweeney says, given better turbine blades, engineers can develop in-line turbines that can be hung in fast flowing streams and rivers, eliminating not only dams but penstocks and generating stations.

BREAKTHROUGH APPLICATION OF AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY.
Honda's CHP (combined heat-power) is a basement unit that uses 90 percent of a fuel's energy by simultaneous generation of heat and electricity. It is used in Japan and Europe and is coming soon to North America. Be free of the grid, order one today!

US CONGRESS FAVOURS COAL-to-LIQUID (CTL) TECHNOLOGY
In the drive for "energy independence" commercialization of this technology will require the same kind of subsidies as corn ethanol and biofuels.

NUCLEAR FUSION -the HOLY GRAIL
Sandia National Laboratories has built and tested a prototype system making power generation by fusion practical within decades.

FOWL FARMERS GENERATE ON-SITE POWER
Scatologicaly speaking, by gassifying chicken poop, innovative farmers become independent of electricity grid.
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BATTERY STAND-BY PROLONGS LIFE OF BLACKOUT PRONE SUBSTATIONS
West Virginia utilizes Japanese technology eo manage grid overload.

MIT and SHARP MAKE SEPARATE ADVANCES IN FUEL CELLS
MIT boosts output of direct methanol fuel cells by about 50%. Sharp's new technology facilitates fuel cells that have same volume but longer life spans than current lithium-ion batteries.
NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE
As "Peak Oil" arrives, 4th generation nuclear plants enter the planning stage.