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, <spudboy...@aol.com> 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 <meeke...@verizon.net> > To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> > 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, spudboy...@aol.com 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 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. > -- 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.
