To be honest with you, I don't think we are 'up against it' from a AGW point of view. This is why the professionals of climate change are sounding panicked because the climate is not behaving as they have always claimed. We should always do research in the hopes of giving us options. We may not ever achieve solar, or fusion, as a primary source. I am a bit more confident about deep geothermal using co2 as a working fluid. Please remember, the Green-Reds and the Billionaires want a shut-down of the 'dirty' right now! Look at Germany's reaction to Fukushima, 3 years ago.* They hate shale gas, and make up reasons why its harmful to human health, so there is no practical alternative, none! That's what promotes my statement of "works or not."
*They ended up firing up old coal plants to replace the shutdown u235 plants, and pumped megatons of US coal into Germany's air as a result. -----Original Message----- From: LizR <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Feb 26, 2014 6:52 pm Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating 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. -- 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.
