Rajesh, Thanks for your reply and for the links to those very interesting articles. I’ve skim-read them, but I won’t have time to look at them closely and respond until next week.
Perhaps I’ll ask Tom A. to weigh in also. Clearly we’re facing a very complicated situation. jrs > On Aug 3, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Rajesh Mehar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > I appreciate the synthesis of multiple ideas into one talk, but this talk > too glosses over a topic that's been bugging me recently. The idea that > shifting all our energy needs to 'renewables' is going to be a net positive. > > I would like everyone's thoughts on these two links below, and the idea > that without net energy consumption reduction (through de-industrialization > and reduction of automation, probably Luddite ideas in a group such as > Silk) there is no long term benefit from switching to so-called-renewables. > > How Sustainable is Solar Power? > http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/04/how-sustainable-is-pv-solar-power.html#more > > SOLAR DEVICES INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE > http://sunweber.blogspot.in/2015/04/solar-devices-industrial-infrastructure.html > > Really looking forward to this discussion. > >> >>
