will oppose EVERYTHING that works on environmental grounds, including Sea Solar Power. Sea Solar Power offers the SMALLEST environmental effect of all possible large-scale power sources. But it will certainly have some effect.
The Luddites refuse to acknowledge that SIX BILLION human beings are going to have an impact on the environment NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO. If we gave up fertilizer, herbicide, or insecticide use, we would need to cut down more forests for agriculture to make up for reduced yields. If we all get "modern" standards of living, huge acreages will be conveted into roads, factories, shopping centers, homes, etc.
I want to point out an astonishing fact: The TOTAL MASS of all human beings alive today exceeds the TOTAL MASS of all other vertebrates COMBINED. Take the weight of all of the fishes in the sea, add the whales & seals, etc, now take all the land vertebrates, from shrews and mice up to elephants, put them on one pan of a giant balance scale. Put the humans on the other pan. The pan with the humans will go down.
How in the hell can such a huge mass of active animals with high metabolic rates fail to effect the environment detrimentally? Answer: They can't.
Of course, the Luddites ignore the consequences of their idiotic proposals: Mass starvation, for one. They don't care. Beneath their "liberal" exteriors they are among the most selfish humans alive.
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The Goddamn Luddites
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- Energy projections, PBR reactors, transition times
- Old Chestnuts and New Times
- And then there's this.
- Fracing.
- Talk about synchronicity- anyopne catch the daily show today? (n/t)
- There is also always Methane Hydrates
- Wrong! You wrote: "Nuclear is the ONLY possible scalable technology out there"
- (1) We have been through all of this before
- OK. We shall see what is the bigger producer of electric power in 2025.
- Are there any Sea Solar plants up and running yet? (n/t)
- Okay, sounds fine to me.
- Go for it!
- Singing my song
- The Goddamn Luddites
- Vertebrate mass - think first
- The secret trick word is "vertebrates."
- OK. We shall see what is the bigger producer of electric power in 2025.
- (1) We have been through all of this before
- This is a thread that would benefit from Nick Hoffman
- You seem to write off Oil Sands pretty quickly
- Please enlighten me
- Peaked, or close to it,
- re: Energy projections
- Problem with you is you don't listen
- Renewable Alternatives To Oil Viable At $60/barrel
- the 'running out for many many years' myth