-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Fink [mailto:rev...@ptd.net] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:32 PM To: 'g...@resist.ca' Subject: RE: [Vo]:Not what Algore wanted to hear
Again, the losses involved with transmitting power halfway around the world are overwhelming. Only Tesla or a sci fi writer can do it. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: grok [mailto:g...@resist.ca] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:18 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Not what Algore wanted to hear -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > If you want a reliable and continuous supply of power, solar and wind > will not give you that unless you can figure out how to store the > generated power cost effectively. > > Harry Same deal as regards to ekonomies of skale, as I alluded to -- and most certainly with such an important projekt as getting Humanity weened off karbon fuels. For that matter, all these resources should be taken away from the present building of a military police state, and ploughed into exactly this program. And Buckminster Fuller realized one part of this goal decades ago: that part of the storage/efficiency problem was obviated by the fact that a World-wide energy grid would be making use of off-peak generation on one side of the Planet to direct it to the other side of the Planet -- where it happened to be needed at just that time. And a World-wide infrastrukture projekt like that is reason enuff for Socialism. ;> Of course, the reality of cold-fusion-in-a-can would change that dynamik considerably. ;P - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn1vpQACgkQXo3EtEYbt3H69wCgiNuR101cIIrHypn1PCiO6nDX OZEAoIiaMeLrl2hsRVv4KLV9icsenPc0 =+Ca+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
