On 27 February 2014 12:08, <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, Liz, not to be a "nattering nabob of negativism," but its too > diffuse. It's not like hydroelectric, we can gather up at one 'choke point' > and then draw in to spin turbines, Its spread all over the surface of the > Earth (the target zone). Therefore, engineers are so up o on getting PV > cells efficiencies up. Then there's the great need for a power source to > run 7 x 24 and this has been a problem. On the other hand Freeman Dyson > estimated that the Sun produces in 1 second the same amount of ergs that > human beings produce in one year. It turned out to be 33 trillion times > what we use. But I have given up on solar and fusion, because *it either > works now or it doesn't. *Color me too impatient. > > Do you mean you think this is "the proverbial it" - if we don't have an alternative power source up and running *right now*, we're stuffed?
You may be right, of course, but I think we should keep trying. -- 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.
