This is why we should get people who want to be green
To run like hamsters in a wheel and generate electricity that way.
( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:43, archived)

Indeed
Also,building one of those massive wind turbines uses massive amounts of energy, what with them being made from tonnes of steel and all that
( Hankster, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:45, archived)

Which is why we need people hamsters

( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:45, archived)

totaly

( Hankster, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:46, archived)

The idea is that you leave it running for more than a few minutes.

( Newington, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:48, archived)

Don't most energy generating things require expenditure of energy to build?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 18:51, archived)

and of course they generate more during their lifetime than they take to build,
otherwise it wouldn't be worth doing at all.
Except for solar power, which is useful for calculators and caravans and satellites and stuff.

When solar cell factories can themselves be solar powered, that will make them more interesting.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 Aug 2008, 19:04, archived)