On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:34:15 -0400, you wrote: >I'm not that old Hakan, but I still hear it echoing. >Energy will never get that cheap unless there is an abundance like you >say, and then only if their is competition. (both)
The abundance could I think only take place in a world or national or local economy where demand was sensitive to price and became more modest. One could go through a period of such cheapness, although I think eventually demand, seeing that price is so cheap, might rise to bring it up. You could argue that the first one hundred years or more of the electric power industry has had the price of electricity reflect in some ways an under-pricing because in some cases payment for negative externalities has been put off to others, or put off to the future. Another thought that keeps occurring to me is that providing energy, or any other sustainable resource, to a given population would be easier if the population were not growing by leaps and bounds. I think some progress has been made in birth control technologies and practices over the last few decades, but I hope that more progress is made, giving parents better control of if and when to choose to have children. This is in part an economic decision (for some). Ultimately, if population on the globe were to grow with no end in sight then it's not possible, in my view, to define any sustainable solutions to provide basic needs to that population. > >Hakan Falk wrote: > >>Hi Martin, >> >>I did not think that you were that old, but yes in the beginning of the 1960's >>and for nuclear power. >> >>Hakan >> >>At 10:53 PM 9/21/2003, you wrote: >> >> >>>I'm sorry for being nostalgic, but haven't we heard about electricity >>>being "too cheap to meter"? >>> >>> >>>robert luis rabello wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> > > >-- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> ReplayTV: Control live television Special Sale: 50% off ReplayTV CNet Ranked #1 over Tivo! http://us.click.yahoo.com/aUMW7B/A6qGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
