It appears that most public information is of one camp or the other. The Spectator article is a classic example of spin and misinformation.
Lest anyone wish to now place me firmly in the other camp let me go on record as stating it is my considered opinion that the CFC ban was political and made lots of bucks for duPont (Bronfman) and Imperial Chemical. It also killed lots of 3rd worlders who could not afford to replace equipment instead of much less expensive repairs and thus lost refrigeration facilities for vaccine and other products let alone foodstuffs. HOWEVER!!! The ban on CFC products was proper and prudent. If you have doubt -- and you have an alternative-- you should employ the alternative. The lost facilities in the 3rd world should have been part of the cost of changeover. Not nice to take money from the poor and then declare their investment obsolete. Likewise, in the absence of definitive CO2 proof, why should we take the risk? We should be concentrating on solar thermal, wind, tidal, wave and what have you. Especially we should be concentrating on distributed generation. Cogeneration can double efficiency of installations yet we act as though we are unaware of it. Biodiesel cogeneration is a natural for a farm. Nukes are a big money maker for some few people. Even if benign--and they are far from it-- they are socially inferior because they are part of the centralised paradigm of big business. As for the nuke data it is too good. I think they claim 600 reactor years of operation and not one fatality. In the real world someone would have slipped on a wet spot in the hall or stepped on a dropped pencil and cracked their skull by now. Statistics that seem too good to be true usually are. Kirk -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Witmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 6:37 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] FWIW: Spectator (UK) Article "Prepare for the Big Chill" Cover story from The Spectator: Prepare for the big chill "A new ice age is due now, says Andrew Kenny, but you won't hear it from the Greens, who like to play on Western guilt about consumerism to make us believe in global warming" http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002 -06-22&id=1977 It seems like too long an article to reasonably request point-by-point interaction, but I'd like to hear people's opinions on 1) what are the article's weakest points, and 2) if any, what are the article's redeeming or strongest points (in other words, do you feel the author has any valid points?) -- Chris Witmer Tokyo Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.371 / Virus Database: 206 - Release Date: 6/13/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.371 / Virus Database: 206 - Release Date: 6/13/2002 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
