Originally Posted by ibis

Solar, hydro, and wind power have been around for hundreds of years. Nothing electronic about those. Plus, in their current form, thier increadibly inneficent. If you're into then for enviormental reasons, I applaud you - I wish more people would be concerned about that. I do though, think the enviorment would be better off if you took your solar cell money and gave it to a decent lobbying organization.

Thank you. I was half expecting those to go unnoticed.

Along the same lines... I would put a vote for the generator/alternator (the devices that take mechanical energy and transform it into "electricty". With out these, the transistor and the integrated circuit would be useless.

[que "the sun is the greatest"...]