Posted on 06/08/2015 6:34:43 AM PDT by xzins
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed that the world should phase out the use of fossil fuels by the end of this century.
Merkel said Monday that the G-7 leaders committed themselves to the need to “decarbonize the global economy in the course of this century.”
That is a technical term for ending the use of oil, gas and coal – but not nuclear power – and replacing them with alternative sources of energy such as wind and solar power.
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None of them can solve problems in even one of their cities but they think they can solve the worlds problems in a small get together? Morons..........
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Excellent post!!! How very true. Those who accomplish so little, and often make things worse, want to pontificate to the rest of us on how to live. Disgusting.
Merkel is not too bright.
From a Michael Crichton speech.
“If I was selling stock in a company that I told you would be profitable in 2100, would you buy it? Or would you think the idea was so crazy that it must be a scam?
Let’s think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horse****?
Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport.
And in 2000, France was getting 80% its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan were getting more than 30% from this source, unknown in 1900. Remember, people in 1900 didn’t know what an atom was.
They didn’t know its structure. They also didn’t know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS. None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn’t know what you are talking about.
Now. You tell me you can predict the world of 2100. Tell me it’s even worth thinking about. Our models just carry the present into the future. They’re bound to be wrong. Everybody who gives a moment’s thought knows it.”
These Fools have no idea what the World will be like in 1 year let alone 100 ,LOL
The thing is that the electric cars now on the market are using lithium-ion battery technology developed in the 1990’s! Now, with the arrival of new, much-higher density battery types over the next few years, the prediction by VW Chairman Martin Winterkorn of a VW Golf-sized car going 800 km (497 miles) on a single charge by 2020 may not be so far-fetched.
They should talk more about phasing out Islam, then go do it.
I was thinking more like 'carbonite' them (like Jaba did to Han Solo).
Nothing more than a “dog and pony show” and BS politics all rolled up into a farce.
The free market and invisible hand will indeed make the determination. But unlimited government will tell you to drive an electric clown car and not use more than X BTUs of energy this year.
When I was little, my grandparents looked happily at my future as one of promise of prosperity.
I don’t have grandchildren...yet. Both boys are grown and the grandkids can’t be far off. But already I weep for them in a future I know will be bleak and miserable. Their lives will not be so long or prosperous as mine.
I truly have seen better looking strip mines.
The technical term for the agreement is stupidity
Great. Leave our grandchildren landscapes littered with windmills and solar panels instead of trees, meadows and vast unfettered views of nature.
Lovely.
So, where is all the electricity going to come from to power all these electric car batteries?
Hydro power (no more rivers to dam)
Natural Gas (fracking is bad)
Coal (bad CO2)
Nuclear(not in my backyard)
wind (high upkeep)
solar (10% efficiency)
Biomass/wood burning pellets(cutting trees)
All of the above contribute to our current power grid. Some of the above are going up in percentage, some are going down. Solar is going to have to become much more efficient to increase its contribution. Can the grid handle the additional load of millions of people charging their autos
at home? Probably not currently.
You may be correct in that battery technology will improve greatly in the coming years. However, where is all the power going to come from to charge these batteries?
You just used it again. A prediction means to speak that which WILL occur, ie pre= before and diction= to speak. When words such as may, could, can, perhaps etc are used, it becomes a guess.
Good luck with that G7.
China must just be laughing their collective butts off. Anyone born today better start learning Mandarin.
Just like our national debt.
2100? these people love making inane platitudes about the distant future......dont they.
they want us to ride our solar powered...iphones...to work... maybe....??
Stripped of their titles of POSITION,....these dumb schmucks would take on the “appearance” of drunken street corner.... or BAR STOOL...philosophers.
they deserve nothing but our PITY....and VOCAL..OPPOSITION !
What a hoot. They can’t plan past there term of office. Kicking the can.
We're changing over to renewable energy. That means we can take the old electricity and make new electricity out of it.
Problem solved.
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