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For millennia, humans have made use of the wind to power their boats and ships and for centuries, to power grinding mills and other machinery. During the industrial revolution of the 19th and 20th Centuries, this cleanest and most abundant source of energy was mostly supplanted by other sources of energy, mainly fossil fuels. In the last half of the 20th and early part of the 21st centuries, because we see that fossil fuels will not last forever, and despoil the air and water we need to surviv… Continue

It is important to be conservative in estimating how long it will take to transform our energy paradigm and energy economy to self-renewing nonpolluting, hazard-free technologies. It is also important to remember that, when Americans put our minds to it, amazing accomplishments are possible. We converted from a peace-time industry to one that put out enough tanks, airplanes, trucks and warships to win WW II, in literally MONTHS. In the 1960's, when the scientists said it couldn't be done, we sen… Continue