| Not long ago, I was able to hear a Nobel Prize winner | | | | could take over and solve that problem. He later |
| in chemistry Dr. Walter Kohn speak about the future | | | | answered questions from the audience about ways |
| of alternative energy. He believes that our future | | | | to store the energy generated from solar during the |
| rests in solar energy and wind generation. In fact, he | | | | day underground by creating pressure and allowing |
| showed a brilliant and motivational power point | | | | that pressure to escape and run turbines during the |
| presentation during his speech. I say brilliant because | | | | evening. |
| it was one heck of a PR piece and a good deal of | | | | Therefore, it was his contention that we could go to |
| promoting the wind and solar energy sectors. | | | | solar and wind energy, and not need coal-fired plants |
| Obviously, Dr. Walter Kohn was recruited by the | | | | in the future. His future thus, was one without using |
| global warming crowd and alternative energy | | | | fossil fuels. And to promote this potential eventuality |
| research industry to put forth his vision of a cleaner | | | | of this Utopian energy Society and civilization he |
| tomorrow and utopian society with all the energy | | | | noted the exponential growth of both solar and wind |
| we'd ever need for free | | | | over the last good many years during his PowerPoint |
| He admitted that it there is no such thing as free | | | | presentations and graphs. However, just because you |
| energy, and you still have to build the solar farms, | | | | can put exponential growth charts up on a large |
| and wind generating farms to collect this energy, but | | | | viewer, doesn't mean that you can predict such a |
| it was free for the taking once the generation | | | | future. |
| platforms were built. He admitted that wind was | | | | In fact, isn't that what got us into trouble with |
| temperamental, in that it doesn't blow all the time, | | | | mortgage-backed securities, runaway real estate |
| and that "The Sun Notoriously Doesn't Shine at | | | | bubbles, and the financial global fiasco which ensued? |
| Nighttime," which of course got a huge round of | | | | All this seem quite fitting because I believe global |
| laughter and applause from the crowd. And you | | | | warming is a bunch of hot air, and a bunch of |
| know what he's right! And still if one thinks through | | | | blowhards generating a lot of wind, and looking |
| this a little extra, one might come to the conclusion | | | | through rose-colored sunglasses at solar farms. The |
| that if solar energy doesn't work at night then it only | | | | reality is wind generation is inefficient and unreliable, |
| works half the time. | | | | and solar is inefficient to start with, not even |
| Dr. Walter Kohn suggested that the wind blows more | | | | considering it doesn't generate any energy at night. |
| at night than during the day, and people don't use as | | | | Perhaps, we all ought to consider this. |
| much energy during the nighttime, so the wind power | | | | |