Posted on 03/08/2008 8:50:51 PM PST by vrwc54
Oh yea, screw michael faraday. We should all make our own electricity. Isn’t the point of alternating current that we can just hook up and energize or supply with little loss of efficiency? And we don’t have to have those crappy panels all over the place.
Geothermal, on the other hand, is where its at . . . literally. No grid required.
Dee Boyle-Clapp is de worst kind. That aside, these flakes may serve a purpose in moving solar power along to wherever it will eventually fit in.
Not to knock Mr Clapp, but there are a couple of mis-conceptions here. First, covering 125,000 square miles with a solar farm in arizona actually ADDS to global warming, can you see why? Second, it is naive to think solar electricity will replace fossil fuels, it will just be in ADDITION to other energy sources. The instant you use energy(higher to lower Potential energy level via Kinetic energy)it becomes WASTE HEAT/entropy, and the only way the biosphere gets rid of heat is by T^4 radiation to space.
Thus all this talk of energy SOURCES is slanted the wrong way. Keep ADDING new energy via human use and before you know it, the outside temp becomes 150 deg F. Instead of ADDING to the problem, INSULATE as best you can, reduce your energy useage as much as possible. Saint Peter says this age ends in FIRE, give everyone(7 billion people)whole atomic bombs worth of energy to play with, and it WILL...FAST!
How many people do you think this planet can sustain?
Don’t give me an argument, just give me an answer.
It’s still economics, no matter how you look at it.
Dee Boyle-Clapp
What an unfortunate name...
Shucks, what's $16,000 if it's going to save the environment? What was the cost of that propane use again? Oh, and that wood burner? Not in California you won/t, they're on their way out.
And what was the expected life of the batteries and how much to replace them? Oh, and how are they going to be disposed of when dead?
Solar is the way to go - get off oil, then tell the sheiks to go pound sand.
In order to go solar, everyone north of the latitude of say........St.Louis, would have to relocate south of that line.
Head football coach at Georgia institute of Technology?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson_(American_football_coach)
Very well
1,000 billion.
I wonder where his solar panels were made?
Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China (solar panel & toxic pollutant)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982754/posts
My guess is that it hasn't been addressed at all in any research that is being conducted for future inclusion in a peer-reviewed journal.
I note that the description of the "technique" doesn't actually contain any concrete details on what it is, or what it is supposed to accomplish. It looks like the same kind of mystical, new age, hippy "thinking" that was foisted upon me while I was growing up, that I learned to detest thoroughly.
>>>”A/C is out of the question”>>>>
This solution would not work for me.
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The other Paul Johnson ;-)
I have some of the first Whole Earth catalogs, they were talking about “off the grid” back when facepaint and bellbottoms were popular, and people lived in domes.
Very few are willing or able to put up with the “off the grid” lifestyle.
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