Thought you'd be particularly interested in this David. Had a middle of the night/early morning job and heard almost two hours of a well spoken and knowledgeable sounding fella by the name of Sir Charles Sholts III, on George Noory's radio show. Unfortunately a subscription need be purchased to listen to the podcast, but I think I'm going to just to study that program. The subject matter ranged all across the spectrum including Orbital Power Generation/Transmission, nano solar paints, compressed air, flywheel storage(which I'd never heard of, AND sounds promising), wave generation, the Aussie salt storage experiments(sadly only good for large scale operations) and more. His underlying emphasis home by home energy independence, solar in his opinion being by far the least utilized and most promising, etc.

I expect you'd enjoy his breadth and concision, I sure did. He's no mere cheerleader. Some links for y'all.

the program mp3: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2008/01/22.html

I think he's involved with this org, R & D oriented I think: √ freewillpower.org

http://www.xenotechresearch.com/cgi/wp/index.php

a community he was impressed with and may have some connection to: http://www.worldsnest.com/

a company he was impressed with: http://www.nanosolar.com/

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