Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, re global warming Global warming slows down Antarctica’s coldest currents, poses huge threathttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zmescience/~3/w9XOKUpInB0/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=email Oceanographers believe that Antarctica‘s oceanic waters, which are turning from briny to fresh in

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-05 Thread John Mikes
LizR wrote 3-2-14: *(JM:* *Those people of goodwill who want to 'set' the problem by today's knowledge/means are doing a disservice to all.* ) *Well if us people of goodwill don't look at the problem using today's knowledge/means (and maybe try to envisage tomorrow's) who is going to do *

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-05 Thread LizR
On 6 March 2014 12:42, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: LizR wrote 3-2-14: *(JM:* *Those people of goodwill who want to 'set' the problem by today's knowledge/means are doing a disservice to all.* ) *Well if us people of goodwill don't look at the problem using today's knowledge/means

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread spudboy100
Ghibbs, I really do take it seriously, but I have also become aware that (from a behavioral anthropological view) even climate scientists can get corrupted, can follow their peers in to group think, just like anyone else. So, I say, even though its their expertise (indeed!) they may not be

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread spudboy100
Hmm. Show me how I disinformed? Oh! By disagreeing. Ah! But what are the facts? What is the behavior of pols and billionaires? Where's the panic over inundating waters? No crash programs? I guess its easy to be lied to, if one is bought off by ideology in the first place. The cause and effect

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:50 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to ask 'why the closed mind FOR solar? I have nothing against solar and I'm in favor of anything that works, but there is a reason it hasn't taken over by now and its not because of a sinister secret ruling cabal

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:13 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, here is some scientific evidence, in case you're interested. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus [image: Inline images 1] If that chart is supposed to be scary it isn't, it shows a .74 degree Celsius

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2014 11:20 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:14 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: The solar example of a town in Germany On

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 05:33, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Hmm. Show me how I disinformed? Oh! By disagreeing. Ah! But what are the facts? What is the behavior of pols and billionaires? Where's the panic over inundating waters? No crash programs? I guess its easy to be lied to, if one is bought off by

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 05:24, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: If GW is now upon us, despite weeks and weeks or artic storms here in the continental US and Canada, Oh, we had a cold winter so global warming's a myth! Please be serious. I assume you know enough about climate science to realise that arctic

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 07:53, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:13 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, here is some scientific evidence, in case you're interested. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus [image: Inline images 1] If that chart is

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:31:28PM -0500, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:50 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to ask 'why the closed mind FOR solar? I have nothing against solar and I'm in favor of anything that works, but there is a reason it hasn't taken

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread spudboy100
Its not just the weather outside, its worldwide, its not matching the models I have looked at (courtesy IPCC and NASA) and they fall down. Inaccurate. Word games are played by your side, demonstrating that its been the 2nd hottest year on record, squeal! But, why not go for clean energy? Do we

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread John Mikes
Dear Russell, please allow me to address your contribution after so much of emotionally impaired and poorly adjusted hoopla in this discussion. Let me join your considerate way - if I am capable of - and speak about SOME details only. I spent a lifetime in environmentally 'infected'

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement comes to mind. It's seen as a silent, gradual but finalizing invasion of Europe/US sovereignty by large corporate interests, according to Le Monde as example. Harmonization of for example environmental and health standards entail the imposition of the lowest,

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 11:45, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: I also just wanted to focus on when the climate whammy will happen, and we can do about? That's the $64 trillion question, indeed. I'm happy to focus on that, rather than speculating about which left- or right-wing conspiracy is currently

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 12:42, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Its not just the weather outside, its worldwide, its not matching the models I have looked at (courtesy IPCC and NASA) and they fall down. Inaccurate. Word games are played by your side, demonstrating that its been the 2nd hottest year on

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 13:06, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Russell, please allow me to address your contribution after so much of emotionally impaired and poorly adjusted hoopla in this discussion. Let me join your considerate way - if I am capable of - and speak about SOME details

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 13:51, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.comwrote: Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement comes to mind. It's seen as a silent, gradual but finalizing invasion of Europe/US sovereignty by large corporate interests, according to Le Monde as example. Harmonization of for

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread spudboy100
Well to the idea about clathrates, is that if we cannot develop solar or fusion, we'll have to use gas hydrate to survive and burn it, rather than release it. I do keep informed and we do need to know what is occurring. What does this say about our arguments?

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Platonist Guitar Cowboy Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 4:51 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement comes to

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 14:58, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Well to the idea about clathrates, is that if we cannot develop solar or fusion, we'll have to use gas hydrate to survive and burn it, rather than release it. I do keep informed and we do need to know what is occurring. Yes, mining offshore

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread LizR
On 3 March 2014 15:33, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: You are so right about the race to the bottom. The race so good for short term profit; so foolish for long term preservation. With leadership like this, one could ask: who needs enemies. Ain't that the truth. Of course

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 7:39 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany On 3 March 2014 15:33, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread meekerdb
On 3/2/2014 8:20 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR *Sent:* Sunday, March 02, 2014 7:39 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: The solar example of a town in Germany On 3 March

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-02 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 8:26 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany On 3/2/2014 8:20 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From:

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.comwrote: It produces 4X the energy it needs just from the solar PV on the roofs of its buildings Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish with such dilute sources of energy. I include the link because the pictures are

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread John Mikes
Spudboy and Liz: I wanted to ask 'why the closed mind FOR solar?' when I detected the original title about Germany going for it. Still a closed mind to assign the rest to coal (fossil). All that with Liz's example of NZ (hydro). No Windfarms? no Geotherm? In our capitalistic ways profit is the

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
On 2 March 2014 08:50, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com 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

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread spudboy100
John, because those in power say that Global Warming is imminent, and the solution is to switch to wind and solar, and shut off the dirty electrical sources. The problem is these sources cannot yet do it. But the progressives demand this anyway. It should not rationally matter what energy

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
On 2 March 2014 12:26, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: John, because those in power say that Global Warming is imminent, and the solution is to switch to wind and solar, and shut off the dirty electrical sources. The problem is these sources cannot yet do it. But the progressives demand this

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread spudboy100
You need to power all civilization, once the leaders shut down all the dirty power. What can we replace it with. What do we have we have ready to go. The leaders all global Warming, so what can we do? They say its imminent. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To:

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2014 3:31 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 March 2014 12:26, spudboy...@aol.com mailto:spudboy...@aol.com wrote: John, because those in power say that Global Warming is imminent, and the solution is to switch to wind and solar, and shut off the dirty electrical sources. The problem is

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John, because those in power say that Global Warming is imminent, and the solution is to switch to wind and solar, and shut off the dirty electrical sources. The problem is these sources

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 3:38 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany You need to power all civilization, once the

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 10:30 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Chris de Morsella

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
On 2 March 2014 14:01, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *spudboy...@aol.com *Sent:* Saturday, March 01, 2014 3:38 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: The

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 6:14 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany On 2 March 2014 14:01, Chris de Morsella

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread spudboy100
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Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

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Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
On 2 March 2014 16:05, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Yes Liz, I take the threat seriously, but am puzzled by the behavior of politicians, in anticipation of the historic calamity. The actions, even by true believers in AGW, does not compute. Secondly, why is North American, and European CO2,

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:36:24 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: On 2 March 2014 16:05, spudb...@aol.com javascript: wrote: Yes Liz, I take the threat seriously, but am puzzled by the behavior of politicians, in anticipation of the historic calamity. The actions, even by true believers in AGW, does

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Should I correct my statements to make them ideologically acceptable to progressive minds, everywhere? Will I get a cookie if I do? No, you won't get a cookie, but not making an ass of

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:05:55 AM UTC, spudb...@aol.com wrote: Yes Liz, I take the threat seriously, but am puzzled by the behavior of politicians, in anticipation of the historic calamity. The actions, even by true believers in AGW, does not compute. Secondly, why is North American,

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
On 2 March 2014 18:19, ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:05:55 AM UTC, spudb...@aol.com wrote: Yes Liz, I take the threat seriously, but am puzzled by the behavior of politicians, in anticipation of the historic calamity. The actions, even by true believers in AGW, does

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2014 10:12 PM, LizR wrote: On 2 March 2014 18:19, ghib...@gmail.com mailto:ghib...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:05:55 AM UTC, spudb...@aol.com mailto:spudb...@aol.com wrote: Yes Liz, I take the threat seriously, but am puzzled by the behavior of

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
On 2 March 2014 19:35, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Robert Heinlein, with whom he shared a house for a while, made a bar bet with him that he couldn't create a religion after Hubbard had remarked that was the way to get *really* rich. Ah, thank you, I have to rely on 30 year old

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
Speaking of which, Heinlein would have loved this: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140302.html On 2 March 2014 19:45, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 19:35, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Robert Heinlein, with whom he shared a house for a while, made a bar bet with him

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Speaking of which, Heinlein would have loved this: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140302.html I grok that One of the best words ever invented* - IMO -thank you Heinlein. Chris

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread meekerdb
I have a friend who's daughter was leaving home in California to attend a university on the east coast. On her last day, she and her daughter took a walk on the beach to talk and enjoy the sunset together. It was a beautiful display of reds and yellows. Daughter: I'm going to miss this.

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread meekerdb
On 3/1/2014 10:59 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR Speaking of which, Heinlein would have loved this: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140302.html I grok that One of the best words ever invented*

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
On 2 March 2014 20:02, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I have a friend who's daughter was leaving home in California to attend a university on the east coast. On her last day, she and her daughter took a walk on the beach to talk and enjoy the sunset together. It was a beautiful

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:14 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany On 3/1/2014 10:59 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-03-01 Thread LizR
On 2 March 2014 20:13, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/1/2014 10:59 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [ mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR Speaking of which, Heinlein would have

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-02-28 Thread spudboy100
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

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-02-28 Thread LizR
On 1 March 2014 04:59, spudboy...@aol.com 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

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-02-28 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR On 1 March 2014 04:59, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: It does. You cannot fake electricity. You cannot fake electric current. If you are depending on solar power for 20% of your electricity

RE: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-02-27 Thread Chris de Morsella
It produces 4X the energy it needs just from the solar PV on the roofs of its buildings.. Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish with such dilute sources of energy. I include the link because the pictures are pretty cool, and illustrate what a solar city could look like.

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-02-27 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: spudboy...@aol.com spudboy...@aol.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:01 AM Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany Can you do the same with London in the UK?  Yes Can you produce 4 times more

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-02-27 Thread spudboy100
Chris, if this is all true and available today, or very, soon, Japan, which experienced the core meltdown at Fukushima, has not pursued a crash program of PV farms.?all over to replace nuclear. I read energy stuff all the time, as you must, and have seen a PV farm at sea, proposal. But I don't

Re: The solar example of a town in Germany

2014-02-27 Thread LizR
Why does it matter if London can produce 4x the energy it uses? This is why we have national grids (which would be helped even more by being linked up across national borders...oh hang on they already are, aren't they?) This is why there are people in power stations keeping an eye on the load and