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Old 10-18-2005, 10:07 AM
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Article lists ten different energy sources - current and future. Lists pros and cons. I'd love to see commercial use of #10 - antimatter.

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Old 10-18-2005, 12:23 PM
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Article lists ten different energy sources - current and future. Lists pros and cons. I'd love to see commercial use of #10 - antimatter.
An idea I had (although the ACLU would never allow it to happen) would be to use prison inmates for energy generation. Consider this: During the day, prison inmates don't do much other than watching TV, eating, and killing/raping each other. If you constructed an array of Stairmaster-like devices, you could make these career criminals run on these machines for 6-8 hours per day.

They could be offered time-off of high energy generation (instead of time-off for good behavior).

I was thinking, too, that prison inmates could be forced to sleep in little tubes which could capture excess body heat and convert it to electricity.

I wonder how much power could be generated by using a class of people who are otherwise useless?

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I love the idea of prisoners for energy. Almost like that movie "matrix".

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"power chain gang?"

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Old 10-18-2005, 12:48 PM
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This is bringing back to me the oar room scene in Ben Hur. Trying to imagine it with an announcment Ceasar is on board and wants to water ski!

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This would work really well in the US with such a huge percent of the population in prison.
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