Dan Minette wrote:
>
> Wind just needs one, effective storage. The lack of it is why
> wind power cannot be counted on as part of peak demand.
> It only made sense when natural gas was expensive.
>
Here in Brazil, Wind is used as part of the electric grid (there is a
country-wide electric grid, on
>> Wind just needs one, effective storage. The lack of it is why
>> wind power cannot be counted on as part of peak demand.
>> It only made sense when natural gas was expensive.
>>
> Here in Brazil, Wind is used as part of the electric grid (there is a
> country-wide electric grid, only some parts
>Here in Brazil, Wind is used as part of the electric grid (there is a
country-wide electric grid, only >some parts of the Rain Forest are outside
it). It helps save "water" and not consume natural gas when >the wind blows.
So, Wind is _not_ one black swam away, it can be used complementary to oth
On 11/29/2012 6:38 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
They used the low price tactic to drive out virtually all
other rare earth suppliers a bit over a decade ago, and are now in a
position where the startup costs are high for other countries, and any
country with pollution regulations would have a hard ti
On 11/30/2012 8:49 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
So, they were fired up when the windmills were down due to low
wind. Now, with cheap natural gas, the building of windmills has slown down
to a virtual halt.
Well, cheap currently. It is just one carbon tax away from being
expensive. And to my mind the o
On 11/29/2012 9:16 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
They convinced Uganda that using fertilizer and insecticides was bad.
That's why the crop yield is so low. Little grows and the insects get most
of it. The US, on the other hand, uses insecticides in cycles so it's hard
for the insects to develop immu
> I'm reading John Varley's Slow Apocalypse. The premise is
> that all un-processed petroleum is destroyed by an act of
> bio-terrorism. In the middle of it right now, but so far
> it's scaring the spit out of me.
> john
why?
> You have a Zambian daughter, Dan?
> Two. The eldest, Neli, came
> In fact, the other major sin of the Greens (in addition to being against
> nuclear power)
That's their political agenda. When the CDU announced that the nuclear
power plants in Germany will be shut down, the greens were not
alltogether sure if they really wanted that... ;-)
> is the opposition
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
> > I'm reading John Varley's Slow Apocalypse. The premise is
> > that all un-processed petroleum is destroyed by an act of
> > bio-terrorism. In the middle of it right now, but so far
> > it's scaring the spit out of me.
> > john
>
> why?
> > In fact, the other major sin of the Greens (in addition
> to being against nuclear power)
> That's their political agenda. When the CDU announced that
> the nuclear
> power plants in Germany will be shut down, the greens were
> not altogether sure if they really wanted that... ;-)
> > is the
>> So, they were fired up when the windmills were down due to low
>> wind. Now, with cheap natural gas, the building of windmills has slown down
>> to a virtual halt.
> Well, cheap currently. It is just one carbon tax away from being
> expensive. And to my mind the only question is when that tax
>> >How were the European Greens responsible for keeping
>> Uganda poor, by
>> turning them away from nuclear?
>> Two ways:
>> 1) They have extremely strict and unreasonable standards for
>> imported food.
>> For example, its virtually impossible for US food products
>> to be sold there.
Unrea
In a message dated 11/29/2012 6:47:33 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
net_democr...@yahoo.com writes:
> The measure of a civilization could be said to be
> its consumption of energy and how it uses resources.
> Conspicuous v. sustainable...
> Jon
> > From: medieva...@aol.com
> Twas in
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