Its only a pipe dream if it doesn't work. Its all lies and exaggeration if a technology if it does not. For decades, people all over the world have worked on energy systems to replace the "dirty" sources that we have trouble with, regarding air and water contamination. Many progressive billionaires and their kept politicians have promoted solar, but it cannot yet power a single city on Earth. I am not saying this is impossible, but the means of affordably making and storing electricity, is not enough to power, say, even one quarter of Auckland, for example. There are always articles on technical improvements, and I totally support all R&D, but if we cannot supply large cities with electricity on a 7 x 24 x 365 basis, and until solar can, its a crock. The problem is the progressives world wide, as an ideology, want solar to be the source-whether it supplies power of not. This, is a totalitarian quality, and as such, is civilizational threatening.
One thing, possibly worth considering, are reactors based on Canadian Slowpoke reactors, used for basic research. They supply small amounts of kilowatts, so we'd need lots of them, and what the money cost would be is unknown by ignorant me. I do know that these are fail safe in operation. I don't know if they can be used as a target for terrorists, teenagers, criminals, etc. What I have seen is that they could be buried in steel reinforced concrete, and made inaccessible. Would this make it all too expensive? Possibly. If solar can't and uranium or thorium should not be for safety issues, then where else can we turn? Certainly shale gas, and possibly methane hydrates, which exist in amounts, should we dare go after it, would be enough energy to supply our species for 2000-10000 years. There is the methane release issue involved with this. My sense of things is that it is not AGW we should fear, or it's dishonest, descendent, Climate Change, but our true enemies, pollution, and energy starvation. Think, the 80's Road Warrior scenario. Easier to watch then to live, I reckon. -----Original Message----- From: LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Feb 25, 2014 4:23 pm Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating The great thing about using an energy grid is you can plug in new components (i.e. different types of generators - nuclear etc) and everything continues to work the same way downstream. This is why I'm keen on the idea of extracting CO2 from the air and making petrol, if possible. No change is required to the energy infrastructure, as there would be with say hydrogen or electric cars, but it's carbon neutral. We'd get a closed cycle in which the atmosphere was just a temporary reservoir for the materials needed to make the fuel. Presumably we'd eventually be able to extract CO2 at a rate that even reduced the amount of GHGs in the air. All a pipe dream no doubt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
