As interesting as this stuff is, has anyone done studies of this stuff to see if it's actually a net benefit for the environment? Meaning the cost of manufacturing, disposing, maintaining, etc.
It just seems to me that having 100,000 little wind turbines stuck up around the city would be far less efficient than having 100 huge ones.
Same with solar, though really a roof is just wasted space once solar cells reach a good efficiency they should pay a home builder to install solar cells on their roof and maintain them. But rather than a bunch of solar cells, have a huge solar generator (the ones that focus sunlight to heat water).
So rather than having 10,000 generators that are only 50% efficient, have 100 generators that are 80% efficient (or whatever the #'s are).
Hm... I wonder if you could organize that for a small community. Get a few thousand people together, invest in a big wind generator, and use that to offset home consumption.
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