On 2 March 2014 08:50, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > Spudboy and Liz: > I wanted to ask 'why the closed mind FOR solar?' >
If you know of a greater source of energy in our neighbourhood, let me know. > Still a closed mind to assign the rest to coal (fossil). All that with > Liz's example of NZ (hydro). No Windfarms? no Geotherm? > NZ also uses wind and geothermal energy but it isn't a large pecentage so I didn't think it would cut much ice (so to speak) with spudboy. I'm in favour of all forms of renewable energy, and in favour of non-renewables that don't cause massive environmental damage like bumping up atmospheric CO2 by 50% (e.g. nuclear is fine if it doesn't cause problems like Fukushima - there are far safer reactor designs around than the majority of those currently deployed, I'm told) > In our capitalistic ways profit is the biggest driving force. No gov't > "bribe" can override it. > Hm. So the UK nuclear industry wasn't driven by govt bribes? > Today the fossils are supported (polluting allowances, tax-structures, > mining support, help for distribution grids, etc. and no definite > More govt bribes??? > adequate treatise for the cost of solar. > (Especially on a 7/24 basis). > My idea is to use solar where possible, as well as all the other sustainable sources, and fossils / nuclear where they are needed to take up the slack. Which is what is already happening, though not enough as yet to help our children avoid the effects of our splurging of the Earth's resources. > One side-remark: I failed to realize in descriptions of hybrid-vehicles > the amount of OIL etc. necessary to produce the electricity for battery > recharging plotted against the saving in gasoline-based fuel...Could we > 'read' beyond our nose? > > This is why I'd like to see more research into extracting CO2 from the air and preferably turning it back into petrol. As is apparently being looked into. -- 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.
