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- From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
- Subject: Re: Renewable Energy - solar
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.223636.19543@adobe.com>
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- References: <1992Nov14.185409.17561@ke4zv.uucp> <Nov18.182720.65718@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Nov20.060352.20615@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:36:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.060352.20615@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >Ah, but unlike photovoltaic cells, or solar thermal collectors,
- >it costs us nothing, or nearly nothing to deploy organic solar
- >collectors. Converting that energy to readily usable combustibles
- >also costs us nothing. Our only cost is that of recovery, and that's
- >only a fraction of the cost of photovoltaics.
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- I grew up on a farm and always thought it took lots of water (a scarce
- resource in the West), fertilizer, land, and labor to grow plants.
- The land, in particular, is subject to depletion when used intensively.
- This kind of thing is what makes gasohol from corn uneconomical.
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- Did my pa taught me wrong?
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- Will Intel be the only X86 chip maker without a 586?
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