“Each one of these farms will specialize in something. One might be tomatoes, one might be peppers, I’m sure several of them would grow all sorts of greens.”

The power of localized generation is enormous. The reason is simple: Heat doesn’t travel well.

will get what they want, but in the process they will catalyze a global economic reformation on a scale never seen, changing our lives, changing their lives, changing the earth.

The use of electrolysis and water in making ammonia all but stopped with the advent of cheap and bountiful natural gas in the 1930s. That’s because it takes far less energy to simply strip the hydrogen out of natural gas (CH4) than to split water molecules.

There are more than twice as many garbage trucks, 179,000, in the United States as there are urban transit buses. These refuse-hauling monsters get an average of 2.8 miles per gallon. 7 Garbage trucks move at an average speed of 10 mph, an incredibly inefficient pace for a combustion engine, but one that’s necessary because of the garbage truck’s

Leverage the abundant wind power in Northwest Iowa and Southwest Minnesota to use electrolysis to make ammonia from water and nitrogen.

Fuller and others see a movement to grow produce through the winter in so-called hothouses—greenhouses that can be easily assembled and temperature managed so that produce growing in the Upper Midwest and Northeast can persevere all year

As a result, these companies spent only $11 billion on exploration in 2007, while spending $58 billion on share buybacks, five times what they spent on exploration.

The amount spent on our rail systems during that time is sidewalk change, less than 5% of the road total.