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 slim fraction of electricity. You haven't solved the > problem in a technical manner, all one is doing is employing solar for a > fraction of total electricity consumption, to make ones self "feel" better. > This is not engineering, it is ideology- a faith movement to make one > "feel" better, without providing clean power to power one's civilization. > How long must we wait for miracle power sources, if the shadow of Climate > Change is overwhelming us all? It is politics and not health, and not > engineering that is driving this issue, right? >
I don't see what you're saying here. Indeed, you appear to be contradicting yourself. If solar provides 20% of your power, it provides 20% of your power. There is nothing faith based about that, assuming it's a fact (e.g. about 70% of New Zealand's power is provided by hydro, on average - that's not faith, or a miracle, or a conspiracy, it's just a fact). If solar can provide X% of your power, on average, then that means only 100-X% has to rely on fossil fuels. Hence you can reduce your fossil fuel usage by that amount, and provide that much more of a distance between civilisation and any future effects of pollution, climate change, and resource depletion. Sorry, what don't you understand here? -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
