At first glance my first blog posting might be deemed impractical or even illogical by realists, if any can be called that. But could it be that in our zeal to build upon the technologies of the past and move past their inherent limitations and difficulties, we need to go back and do a thorough historical analysis of energy combustion and storage technologies from the past? I find it more impractical and illogical to even approach a subject as poorly understood as bio-fusion, when most people even refuse to discuss using industrial hemp to replace coal-fired power - or to at least consider cogeneration with hemp. Wood might be tried as in Springfield, Missouri, or switch grass in the prairie states, but it an age of domineering global marketplace dynamics which seem to threaten to choke innovation in general and invention in particular, how do we truly arrive at a real "smart grid" ? Innovation, like the green movement, has become more marketing hype than reality for most of us in the real work-a-day world.

Good science & appropriate technology education is lacking in many parts of the developed world. In a way this a good thing, because the very nations with the simplicity of culture to design permaculture systems capable of delivering enough useable biomass product to industry and a smart grid infrastructure, are far removed from the western and developing nations in many regards. How can we develop a clean tech fuel cell, when there is more emphasis on the actual hardware and software, than on the capitalization of biomass production for the great masses of workers first? If middle class workers can't even stay in their homes, and the poor often can't own homes in rural districts, how then can an average urbanized industrialized economy produce enough biomass to fuel utilities, much less more specialized fuel cell applications? Education is not easily attainable for those whose main worry is eating enough or eating well enough for good mental function. Forget designing power cell batteries or arrays in space in such cultures as the current global culture. The essential problem at this point is spiritual in nature, the failure of a true spiritual culture. But what if we - as the human race - are missing the point of using energy at all? Are we looking to use basic energy sources in entirely wrong ways to attain the power, efficiency, and pollution-free aspects we all say we desire? If so, why is this? Could it be that in taking leave of God as our Creator being, we have in making ourselves minature gods of science & technology, we unknowingly become advocates of a limited partnership? What end product is a limited or restricted partnership likely to produce except destruction? Two world wars ought to be a warning to humanity of this reality.

Harnessing the cleanest most efficient power of the Sun, an object long worshipped by early humanity, will not be easy. It is possible via solar wind power, but I admit here that such technology and the science behind it does seems too esoteric as to be difficult to be taken serious by most of the readers of Energy Central or other alt blogs. So why bother? Dare to dream, humanity, dare to dream at times. Dreaming is a psychic relief valve. Thomas Edison failed some 1000+ times before he realized that tungsten was the thing to make the light bulb work. Sure people laughed at him. Yet he never gave up hope. If hope derived from dreaming is difficult for the practical business executive, the politician, the military person, or the scientist bent on improving existing technology, why not begin with a far more basic question: Why were you born? You may ask what this spiritual question has to do with harnessing the power of the sun? In might answer the problem of all technology. What will it eventually be used for - for peace or destruction?