Hydro IS solar. How do you think the water gets up those hills and into the lakes?!
Governments having subsidised and otherwise helped out fossil fuels and nuclear for years, I believe, a level playing field would be to subsidise solar to the same extent they've been subsidised so far. On 26 February 2014 16:18, <[email protected]> wrote: > Point taken. But I know that the progressive billionaires do advocate > switching off our current dirty, in exchange for promises of clean. > Promises, only, that is. Hydroelectric, isn't really solar, its gravity, so > we can call it gravity power. We should never subsidize nuclear, fossil > fuels, or solar, because they should stand or fall on their own. Its not > the politics of it, its the physics of it. Right now people are not using > solar as a primary source of electricity because they cannot, even though a > majority would love to have it. It doesn't provide enough and it cannot do > 7 x 24. Nuclear has proven a disaster, the way its conceived, hence my > urging to switch to Canadian Slowpoke reactors. But lets face it, it will > likely never happen. Shale gas has become the default power as a result of > no other alternatives. What do you suggest and how much time do we have to > replace the dirty and old, since, I take you support AGW? So, what do we do? > -----Original Message----- > From: meekerdb <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Feb 25, 2014 7:29 pm > Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating > > On 2/25/2014 4:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > 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. > > > Let's review that: Since solar power (doesn't that include hydroelectric?) > can't provide 24/7/365 power to a major city - it's worthless and we should > just keep subsidizing the fossil fuel industry (including using the > military as necessary) while they endanger the future of civilization; > because actually trying to provide sustainable energy is an evil plot by > unnamed progressive billionaires. > > It is to laugh...or cry. > > Brent > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
