Myself and Yurt have clashed enough in the past believe me but we get along ok these days for the most part. He seems to have a pathological hatred of watching videos, now if it was porn that's a different story.!! watched the video so when are you going to start growing sugar cane in Cape Cod? It is also nice to see you demonstrating some of the good that BP does.
We don't have much farmland, arable or non arable on Cape Cod, nor do we suffer from the devastating poverty the video proposes to amend. There is a great deal of wasteland overall in the US though, as well as areas of great poverty.
Even though sugarcane is a C4 plant, it would not be an ideal candidate for this scheme, unlike corn, because the whole plant is usable for either food or energy. That is why Brazil's alcohol
economy is successful and our attempt to replicate it is a flop.
Using this scheme here, in the corn producing states could ameliate the present false economy of using food for fuel by producing food, fuel and soil amendment from the same crop, in addition to providing jobs refining.
By the way, here on the Cape, we have this;
http://www.capewind.org/index.php
as well as this;
www.osti.gov/.../Developmentofthehelicalreactionhydraulicturbine..
in the works, as well as this along with a great many others already installed,
http://massclimateaction.wordpress....nes-at-mass-military-reservation-on-cape-cod/
Also, not a day goes by without seeing a new photovoltaic installation, often large commercial sizes.
Furthermore, I personaly have found 8 sites around Cape Cod with sufficent current flow and depth that could power underwater turbines other than the Cape Cod Canal, when such technology becomes feasible. At present a viable site requires at least 20 meters depth as well as a current flow of 6 nautical miles per hour, at least for the industrial scale units being developed in your country and of course, great efforts are being made to harness weaker currents as well;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/en...rents-can-power-the-world-say-scientists.html