alt.energy.renewable

"News" wrote in message news:ftjevk$9q4$1@aioe.org...
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> "Don Kelly" wrote in message
> news:UgaLj.167126$pM4.27600@pd7urf1no...
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>>> Again....the energy to run the machine is "free". Get it? Nah, keep
>>> looking in the till and admiring your dollar bills.
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>> It's free only in the sense that the energy in coal in the ground is
>> "free" It's there for effort of getting it.
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> Nonsense! The water (energy) naturally flows into the dam. No effort in
> obtaining the energy. The energy is free.
>

The energy in the water is 'free' for the taking. Problem is, most folks
want energy in a different form such as electricity. The conversion of your
'free energy' into something more usable is not 'free'.

Like Don said, the energy in coal, oil or wood is 'free'. But unless you
want to burn it where you found it and the only form of energy you want is
heat, the transportation and conversion is not 'free'.

Sunshine is 'free', yet the cost of using sunshine to power your laptop, or
even heat your home with it is not 'free'.

Just because the source of energy is 'free', doesn't mean it is at all
practical.

Get it?
(probably not, people have been trying to explain it to you for days and all
you see is 'free energy')

daestrom