I hope we can devote some time to that effort next fall. But I am looking forward to your future posts here. One of the most important topics we can be discussing (IMHO, OK maybe not so H).

Keep up the good work.

George

Just look at all the wind map blue from south central Alaska out through the Aleutians. Scaling may not make it obvious but that region is somewhere between 1200-1600 miles long (compared to the Oregon/California blue area that looks to be less than 300 miles long). So if we are looking for the true magic bullet it will be learning how to efficiently and safely transport big time juice long distance without wires, that has to be a least a century farther out than slow fusion. I'm not counting on this policy giving us that kind of time. Seems we may need a lot of fission to manage the 80% reduction in greenhouse emissions by 2050, not to mention a whole new consumption paradigm.

But the Aleutians, near endless black sand beaches, volcanic landscapes-a few degrees global warming and they could be more pleasant than the Hawaiian Islands. Darn, warming could change the wind currents, for a second the future looked so bright.