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To All:

Wind and solar energy -- another interesting engineering topic.

Wind and solar energy are typical renewable energy representatives having a huge potentail in providing emissions free energy.

It is well known that directly used wind and solar have difficuly satifying the needs of the baseload power generation.

Applying the big picture approach, I would not try to picth one technology versus the other. I would rather have a mix of technologies meeting the overall energy demand.

Therefore, in some scenarios, presently the nuclear power could be used to generate hydrogen for the purpose of fuel cell technology -- which is fine, but we need to be looking what the options will be 20, 30 and 40+ years down the road and how to make it commercially viable.

It would be good to have wireless computer industry power demand and needs help push both fuel cell technology and hydrogen towards commercialization -- using wind and solar PV energy to generate hydrogen needed by fuel cell applications operating with no grid connection (initially, nuclear power could be used to speed up the production and generation of hydrogen for such applications).

For the prupose of the discussion, I would like to point out that recent studies and obervations do indicate that global warming is taking place, indicating that the use of fossil fuels is chaning the atmospheric temperature -- inceasing by 1 to 2 degrees K or F.

Without the push and help from wireless computer industry, it is very difficult to provide the capital needed for power generation being either nuclear or some kind of a mix involving renewables.

Actually, we end up pitching one technology versus the other what just complicates the initial problem of meeting the energy demand.

In the end, yes the renewable energy, when coupled with other technologies, is capable of meeting the baseload power generation demand.

So I would like to find out what you think about the wind and solar energy and its proposed role and significance in the meeting the demand for additional power generation ...

Thanks,

Gordan