Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:
Hi Ed,
...
Yes Steven, I agree this is what we need. However, how can this
approach be brought about?
If I knew the answer to that question!
As for me, it often feels as if all I personally can do is continue to paint
better visions of the future -
Hi Ed.
You write:
I suspect that when a person loses his pension, his job, and his house,
and food costs rise out of sight because of high energy costs, he will
be so pissed that gay rights, abortion, and other religious issues will
become much less important.
And you would be entirely wrong.
From: Jed Rothwell
...
All the handwringing in the newspapers about the energy crisis is
misguided. The New York Times claim that energy independence is an
unattainable goal is ignorant nonsense. We could attain it in 20 years
using conventional technology. If we had started 20 years ago,
Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:
From: Jed Rothwell
...
All the handwringing in the newspapers about the energy crisis is
misguided. The New York Times claim that energy independence is an
unattainable goal is ignorant nonsense. We could attain it in 20 years
using conventional technology.
Hi Ed,
...
Yes Steven, I agree this is what we need. However, how can this
approach be brought about?
If I knew the answer to that question!
As for me, it often feels as if all I personally can do is continue to paint
better visions of the future - directions we can take if we chose to.
I wrote:
Perhaps a sensible plan would be to use a mixture of solar towers, wind
turbines, next-generation nuclear plants, and gas-fired plants. . . . It
would be awfully nice if the embodied energy in photovoltaic devices could
be reduced, and the price per KW fell.
And as many experts have
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