Posted on 10/26/2006 5:20:33 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Horse Feathers
bump.
Energy costs money, energy IS money, and the love of money is the root of all evil. What I'm referring to is the naive assumption that wind/solar/green energy will somehow replace CO2 emitting CxHx sources, thus reducing global warming. The problem is a lack of self discipline. You bring on line your green sources and CxHx useage rates won't go down, it will just be more total energy to play with, I know human nature too well. How many people wisely save/invest excess capital vs how many max out credit cards with no hope of repayment? It's like a cocaine addiction, the addict must always have more, more, MORE; instead of self control. Better a dry morsel and peace therein than plenty...with strife......Thus it is laudable that texans are developing alternate energy sources as REPUBLICAN entrepreneuers, but hand in hand must go WISE use of energy. You don't leave a loaded gun in a nursery for children to play with, nor let a 5 year old drive a semitruck on the freeway. What if a fantastic new energy source became available, far beyond the ones you mention? Do you see my point?
There is a lot of other info at that website.
I would like to see Strayhorn get a chance to run our state for awhile
She had her chance when she was mayor of Austin...........what a nightmare. Like My Wife says, "She's good at being the comptroller because you need to be a b@%ch to do that job"
The movie is CHAIN REACTION : The problem has been too little energy but what happens when everyone has TOO MUCH available energy? What if you gave 7 x 10^9 people a FREE KW of energy, IMMEDIATELY they would DEMAND a FREE MW, then GW...where does all the WASTE HEAT go? You see, you naively think that all the energy(lights, motors, etc)you use just "goes away". It doesn't "go away", it becomes lower WASTE HEAT, thermal garbage if you will. And the ONLY way our biosphere gets rid of WASTE HEAT is via blackbody radiation to space(no conduction/convection). Thus the current developments in new energy sources HAS to be controlled rationally, or we all COOK......This may be an extreme example but consider the fruit fly analogy : the earth is made of green cheese and you introduce 2 fruit flies that reproduce every 1/2 hour. At that 2^168x2 rate, in one week the earth becomes a solid mass of FRUIT FLIES. But in actual fact they'd COOK themselves long before that, from WASTE HEAT. We could easily become those "fruit flies".....bottom line : either a BALANCED energy input = output or we go extinct like 98% of all species that have ever lived on the earth-stage...tomorrow's DIRT.
No, the only reason clinton wasn't convicted by the senate on impeachment charges was that algore as president would have been too painful for US. No, what I'm saying is that we become responsible adults in our energy use or become self-exterminating fruit flies, a virus in the biosphere, exploding out of control. You are looking thru the microscope of too little energy, I'm looking thru the telescope of TOO MUCH energy. If you think global warming is bad now, imagine what happens when EVERYONE has whole atomic bomb's worth of energy to play with. Some 40,000 americans die in traffic accidents every year, and that's just CxHx-run CARS; put a THOUSAND TIMES as much energy under the hood...see what I mean?
And yet everything I wrote is true and easily fact-checked.
That's my point : with higher energy prices people are FORCED by cost to husband that part of the budget. And yet if energy is virtually free and unlimited, where are the controls, the self discipline?
As Dennis Lee said to us in his energy presentation-show : What you don't know about...you don't know about.
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