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As the smoke cleared, mix...@bigpond.com <mix...@bigpond.com> mounted the barricade and roared out: > >Which is exactly why there are immediate gains for a world-wide energy > >grid: there are no 'off-peak' hours, there. It's always 'High Noon' > >_somewhere_ on the planet. > > While this is true, don't forget that about 70% of the surface area is > water. That makes collecting solar energy there more difficult > (particularly as one has to take severe storms into account). Who's talking about the oceans for solar (or the nighttime side of the Sun for that matter)? Any World energy grid would connect thru the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska, and between Southeast Asia into Indonesia and New Guinea and Australia, etc. Real issues, for me, would revolve around changing the ecology/climate of e.g. the Sahara or Oz, with kilometer-long arrays of solar collectors taking up vast hectareage of real-estate, etc. But again: any fundamental breakthrus like CF will completely change this equation. And IMO for the better. We really, really want to severely lessen the human footprint on the planet, I would think. - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn/JqEACgkQXo3EtEYbt3G58gCfeiw6sE6x5L8VPJgY1I6jldiI ncwAoO8zMeMY7oLS5ahkC5EvC1mdKBLv =9LYf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
