The quicker the smokers collapse and clean grids and clean distributed power
sources are established, the better the world will be. Smoking energy has had
its fling in civilization and now its time to move on. Let it compete on an
equal footing with other energy sources. Coal and oil and gas all have their
financial perks and have had for a long time.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: James Bowery
To: vortex-l
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:NY Times: "Sun and Wind Alter Global Landscape, Leaving
Utilities Behind"
In our fusion legislation, endorsed by Bussard, there was provision, Sec.
903.a.6 to support fusion researchers for 5 years at their current levels of
compensation, with no obligation on their part.
If the stakes are high enough you can easily afford that kind of disruption
of rent seekers.
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/science/earth/sun-and-wind-alter-german-landscape-leaving-utilities-behind.html
Some quotes:
HELIGOLAND, Germany — Of all the developed nations, few have pushed harder
than Germany to find a solution to global warming. And towering symbols of that
drive are appearing in the middle of the North Sea.
They are wind turbines, standing as far as 60 miles from the mainland,
stretching as high as 60-story buildings and costing up to $30 million apiece.
. . .
Germans will soon be getting 30 percent of their power from renewable
energy sources. Many smaller countries are beating that, but Germany is by far
the largest industrial power to reach that level in the modern era. It is more
than twice the percentage in the United States. . . .
Electric utility executives all over the world are watching nervously as
technologies they once dismissed as irrelevant begin to threaten their
long-established business plans. Fights are erupting across the United States
over the future rules for renewable power. Many poor countries, once intent on
building coal-fired power plants to bring electricity to their people, are
discussing whether they might leapfrog the fossil age and build clean grids
from the outset.
A reckoning is at hand, and nowhere is that clearer than in Germany. Even
as the country sets records nearly every month for renewable power production,
the changes have devastated its utility companies, whose profits from power
generation have collapsed. . . .
