2014-03-20 14:34 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>: > Please remember, solar, to remediate, must replace all nat gas, all > coal, all uranium, all petro that all cities and cars. >
No it doesn't have to... it's not because it can't currently replace everything that it can't replace part of it... and it does thanks you're not the one who decide things. Quentin > There are wonderful looking projects that have been proposed for 50 years, > that for technical reasons, cannot achieve much, other than getting cheers > from admirers in the media. I love it too, but it must do the rugged, > robust, work, of replacement of the dirty-to be any good at all. It cannot > simply be artist work on paper and splashed to the tech heads. My point: > propaganda doesn't feed empty stomachs. > > If that solar farm described in SciAm had been realised it would have been > carried out by a democratically elected government, not a dictatorship > > -----Original Message----- > From: LizR <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Mar 19, 2014 6:10 pm > Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating > > On 20 March 2014 07:10, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here's an article that informs me, if nobody else, how complicated the >> climate thing is. >> >> http://phys.org/news/2014-03-goldilocks-principle-hypothesis-earth-habitability.html >> >> Beyond that I agree with John on his estimate of cutting the standard of >> living down, to fit the ideal "environmental foot print." Improving the >> standard of living with better energy technology will sustain the billions >> and flourish the ecosystem-if done right. Technology is the answer, sans, >> government rule of the public. Dictatorships, even well-meaning ones, are >> horrible. Use Mao's approach to agricultural production during the Great >> Leap Forward from 1958-62, as a prime example. >> >> If that solar farm described in SciAm had been realised it would have > been carried out by a democratically elected government, not a > dictatorship. Part of the point of having a government is to provide things > that no individual or profit-based organisation would wish to do, such as > building motorways, communications networks, hospitals, schools, power > plants, rail networks, and other infrastructure. This would apply to some > clean power schemes that are too large for a private investor, which > applies to (some) tidal, wind, hydro, solar, nuclear etc. I can't imagine > many private companies would have been building nuclear power plants off > their own bat in the 1950s. > > So we need government to do stuff above the level that private enterprise > can manage. Dictatorship is simply government done wrong. > > -- > 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/d/optout. > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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/d/optout.
