On 1 March 2014 04:59, <[email protected]> wrote: > It does. You cannot fake electricity. You cannot fake electric current. If > you are depending on solar power for 20% of your electricity supply, and > the rest for coal, because coal is reliable on a 7 x 24 basis, you can only > rely on solar for a slim fraction of electricity. You haven't solved the > problem in a technical manner, all one is doing is employing solar for a > fraction of total electricity consumption, to make ones self "feel" better. > This is not engineering, it is ideology- a faith movement to make one > "feel" better, without providing clean power to power one's civilization. > How long must we wait for miracle power sources, if the shadow of Climate > Change is overwhelming us all? It is politics and not health, and not > engineering that is driving this issue, right? >
I don't see what you're saying here. Indeed, you appear to be contradicting yourself. If solar provides 20% of your power, it provides 20% of your power. There is nothing faith based about that, assuming it's a fact (e.g. about 70% of New Zealand's power is provided by hydro, on average - that's not faith, or a miracle, or a conspiracy, it's just a fact). If solar can provide X% of your power, on average, then that means only 100-X% has to rely on fossil fuels. Hence you can reduce your fossil fuel usage by that amount, and provide that much more of a distance between civilisation and any future effects of pollution, climate change, and resource depletion. Sorry, what don't you understand here? -- 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.
