On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:12 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> Desalinization works commercially, or does it? > What you need to make a desalination plant successful is exactly the same thing you need to cure world poverty in general, lots and lots of cheap energy. As Bill Gates said: "If you gave me only one wish for the next 50 years,I can pick who is president, I can pick a vaccine... or I can pick that a energy technology that works at half the cost with no CO2 emissions I would pick the energy technology". That is the one with the greatest impact." So anybody who really wants to stop global warming needs to know that you're NEVER going to convince the developing world, that is to say the majority of the world, to switch over to a new energy technology UNLESS it is cheaper than anything we have today. Right now the cheapest energy technology is coal and it is also the dirtiest; I think that LFTR's have the potential to generate energy at a cost that is less than what coal can, I don't think solar has a snowball's chance in hell of doing so because of its fundamental nature, it's just too dilute and unreliable. John K Clark -- 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.
