Jed, maybe I feel differently about some issues that others. I honestly, strongly dislike the appearance of the large wind turbines and also find the solar plants to be using far too much land and currently as unattractive as the wind farms.
Perhaps one day it will be possible to use much of the area of home roofs for solar cell collection, and it may even become possible to make these look attractive in some way. If our energy needs can be met without breaking the bank, then I would love to see it happen. As we all know, one day fossil fuels will become depleted and then we are going to be in trouble unless another solution exists. My hopes are currently being placed upon Rossi and LENR, but remain skeptical. It reminds me of the torture achieved by a thousand small cuts as we push him forward. His F9 key is causing me a major headache! I wish I felt as confident as you that the problems can be solved in a reasonable manner without LENR or some similar miracle. And, let's hope that a method arises that allows us to extract the government from complete control of our energy in the future. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Dec 2, 2015 4:53 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Story on climate crisis would need some comments David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: The peril is that countries such as the USA will throttle their economies by making energy too expensive. That's hardly likely! It is getting cheaper by the day. The cost of wind and solar energy will soon be less than fossil fuel. Especially when you take into account the 20,000 people year who die from coal smoke, and the millions of people who are sickened by other air pollution. Even if global warming is not real, the present-day total cost of fossil fuel energy probably make it more expensive than alternatives such as wind and solar, when you included hidden costs such as pollution, wars fought over oil, massive subsidies for oil and coal, and so on. You really should not worry about things like that. - Jed
