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• A comment on Conversation: Why can we not have cheap electricity?

  Aug 8 2012: This is sad! :-(

• A reply on Conversation: We want to build a unique, a non-profit school in Tajikistan for children from middle and poor class families.

  Aug 8 2012: Sounds like a good idea to me!
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  A comment on Conversation: How to build our future without destroying the Earth ?

  Aug 8 2012: You need to understand that everything in the universe is connected, we will develop, but life as we know it will change. This is true just now and it will always be true.

• A comment on Conversation: What will be the best renewable source of energy in 2050?

  Aug 8 2012: Water! HYDROGEN! OXYGEN!

• A reply on Conversation: Why can we not have cheap electricity?

  Aug 8 2012: OK but what if?

• A reply on Conversation: Why can we not have cheap electricity?

  Aug 8 2012: But what if we could turn our electrical appliances into living things. Would that not be better than electricity.

• A reply on Conversation: Why can we not have cheap electricity?

  Aug 8 2012: But what if I didn't like butter or bread could I have honey?

• A reply on Conversation: Why can we not have cheap electricity?

  Aug 8 2012: That was a really good answer, but why? Electric decomposition of water is not efficient at the moment, but what if we carried out a little bit more time in finding a more efficient way to separate the oxygen and hydrogen. Why is hydrogen not a good storage medium?

• A reply on Conversation: Why can we not have cheap electricity?

  Aug 8 2012: But don't you think it could be cheaper and more available?

• A reply on Conversation: Why can we not have cheap electricity?

  Aug 8 2012: I think you are correct there seems to be a policy that governments seem to follow and they are not willing to look at better ideas.