From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: generating electricity
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:17:58 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: <ronkean at juno.com>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Fw: generating electricity

>
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> http://www.iop.org/news/632
>
> "...Research published today by the Institute of Physics journal,
> Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering reveals a new method of
> generating electric power by harnessing the natural electrokinetic
> properties of a liquid such as ordinary tap water when it is pumped
> through tiny microchannels. The research team from the University of
> Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, have created a new source of clean
> non-polluting electric power with a variety of possible uses, ranging
> from powering small electronic devices to contributing to a national
> power grid..."

One detail seems to be missing:  the *cost* of this form of
power-generation.

--Ted White