At 05:56 pm 18/05/2005 -0400, Steven wrote:
> Well, Jed, I sympathize with much of what you say. > I'm also not against a more sensible approach to using > nuclear power either. > > But "stunting children's imagination"? I don't think so. > > I will only reiterate that constructing thousands > of mile-high solar towers all over the U.S. should > not be compared to that of viewing thousands of > McDonald restaurants. Also, it seems likely to me > that Solar Towers could end up freeing a considerable > amount of real estate that otherwise would have been > tied up in concrete and other ugly man-made structures. > > The more savvy within Vortex-l may suspect > that this debate has as much to do about > working out our different perspectives on > cultural aesthetics as it has to do over > whether the underlying technologically is > feasible in the first place. You've got it in one, Steve. 8-) One man's Hindoo cow in Calcutta is another man's Hollywood cow in California. Frank Grimer
