> Or we could stop wondering so much about what kind of absurd affect our > current energy usage will have on the earth and just work more on reducing > the short term negatives, such as oil and coal burners, and removing that > incredibly negative perspective on nuclear power generation.
Hear, hear! Happy "energized" New Year to all!!! Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bevan Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Open Topic Forum'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 6:13 PM Subject: RE: [OT] ongoing environmental thread *was* lead free > > > >Satellite solar power should have no effect on planetary kinematics. It > should also, > >properly implemented, not change the earth's heat budget. Yes, like all > energy usage, it > >will add heat to the environment, but it is not this heat which is really > the problem > >today, and that contribution could be balanced rather easily. The serious > problem is the > >change in the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning, which then causes > changes in heat > >retention by the earth, thus leading quite likely to global change. > Satellite solar > >power could contribute, in the construction phase, to atmospheric change, > from massive > >booster exhaust gases; however, the bulk of the construction in the L-5 > conception was > >to take place from lunar materials. The engineering was worked out over > twenty years > >ago; the obstacle was not practical, nor was it economics, really, but > politics. > > Ahh, but there's a problem... For energy is equivalent to mass, e=mc^2. > And hence if you're injecting energy from a satellite onto the earth surface > via electron movement or any other such method, then you will change the > kinematics of the system. Perhaps we should just invent a method whereby we > don't use any energy at all, like a super efficient light bulb... I mean hey > you can get plans off the internet for perpetual motion, and machines that > somehow generate energy from splitting and recombining water, surely with > enough looking we'd find something for extreme energy efficiency. > > Or we could stop wondering so much about what kind of absurd affect our > current energy usage will have on the earth and just work more on reducing > the short term negatives, such as oil and coal burners, and removing that > incredibly negative perspective on nuclear power generation. > > > > Bevan > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the OT discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/ot_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the OT discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/ot_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
