[exDemMom]

The goal is to eventually use actual sunlight rather than the artificial light produced at the Juelich experiment, which cost nearly $5 million to build and requires as much electricity in four hours as a four-person household would use in a year.

Yeah, that looks like a winning recipe for generating electricity. Not.

Even if they could use mirrors or prisms to focus sunlight onto a small area, I think it would cause all kinds of problems for the local ecology. Birds would be confused by the shiny surfaces, with what could be lethal results as they either crash into the array or fly into extremely hot air pockets.

I prefer schemes such as the attempt to use algae to collect sunlight. I don't think giant pools of algae would be nearly as bad for the environment as some of the other "green energy" schemes have turned out to be.

[grey_whiskers]

I prefer schemes such as the attempt to use algae to collect sunlight. I don't think giant pools of algae would be nearly as bad for the environment as some of the other "green energy" schemes have turned out to be.

I think you're being WAY too generous to Congress.