Interesting things from treehugger.com

[unixronin]

Found by cymrullewes, Treehugger posts teasers on:

• Multipurpose broad-spectrum OLED panels -- It's a window!  It's a light panel!  It's a HD TV!  The article -- or the USC researcher quoted in the article -- tosses around a claim of "100 percent efficiency out of a single, broad spectrum light source."  I'll believe THAT when I see it.
• "Zero footprint energy" in Ontario -- or, lease-to-own your own ground-source heating/cooling plant.  US power utilities would probably hate it enough to buy a Congressman or six to pass a law making it illegal.

Comments

[smandal.livejournal.com]

The costs you cite are largely independent of the amount of electricity being produced by a nuclear plant. In fossil plants, fuel accounts for a clear majority of all operating costs.

If the US had grown up with nuclear instead of fossil, we might see a different, flat-rate pricing model. Or, since distribution networks are tied to neighborhoods like water and sewage, handled entirely at community level.