Magenn Power

I stumbled upon this company called Magenn Power Inc. today.
They've developed a new type of wind turbine which floats in the sky using helium, and transmits power down a tether to the system. They're releasing the home version of this turbine in 2006 (Aprox. $9,999 USD) for a 4 kW generator. This solves basically every problem I can think of with Wind Power, and they look like they've put a lot of consideration into many problems that hadn't occurred to me (for example, the system is made from radar reflective material).

Let's hope for all our sakes this takes off and we can all reduce our dependance on fossil fuels and nuclear (even though I like nuclear) to a certain degree. When I was in first year, one of the things I had to do was write a big ass report on the current state of the power grid, doing statistical analysis of generation capacity. My findings were essentially that the grid was never designed to be a market system and to handle shunting of power all over the place. I think that it's important as a society to really get on board with technology like this, and providing economic incentive (like turning this into a source of personal profit by selling extra power back to the grid) to consumers is an important part of getting the masses to buy into this type
of thing. I know a lot of people who are dismally worried about the state of the world, but let me tell you, there's a lot you can do if you go out and do something
about it.

I think the world will be a very different place in 10 years.