I strongly believe that instead of trying to make even bigger machines to produce electricity, we should be aiming to reduce the power consumption of the present and future devices by a margin of 9/10ths...
Just as the CFLs did for the regular pre-historic light bulbs...
Manufacturers aimed to reduce the cost of their devices by allowing less power saving focus to new features ratio.
I would gladly pay 3 times more for an a/c unit that saves me 3/4 of the electrical bill it needs to consume. I'm sure many would gladly save money long term even when it means having to shell out more upfront.
This just happens to be the same road we got taken by the automobile industry and the electrical cars. In the end, we can see that without a combustion engine they had very little to see in spare parts down the road. Pretty much their golden egg goose.
I believe that we own the technology nowadays to produce devices that can replace each and every in use today, which could be powered by a solar panel fitted home. The reason it becomes clear they won't market or produce them is very simply: No profits as before...
Just think that we can send people to live and work in a pile of metal in space called "the international space station". There you don't have wind to produce electricity with wind towers, no air to turn on the electric generator or something that can be said to look power producing other than your plain old "Solar Panels"...
Wind towers would be great if and only if, our power needs were met and surpassed by them any given time.
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