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- From: max@megatek.com (Max Elliot)
- Subject: Re: New energy budget, please write
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.221754.9082@megatek.com>
- Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
- References: <1993Jan19.222038.11614@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:17:54 GMT
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- From article <1993Jan19.222038.11614@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, by constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino):
- > In article <1993Jan19.070527.5722@truffula.sj.ca.us> cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) writes:
- >>Background: In the last 12 years energy efficiency, conservation, and
- >>renewable energy have taken a back seat to reliance on fossil fuels. The
- >>environmental consequences are devastating: smog, acid rain, global warming,
- >>water pollution, toxic waste and more. Fortunately, strategies to improve
- >>America's energy efficiency and utilize renewable (i.e. solar, wind, biomass,
- >>and geothermal) and natural gas technologies exist today that can deliver
- >>energy while protecting the environment, creating jobs, promoting the export
- >>of American technologies and improving our security by reducing our dependence
- >>on oil.
- >
- > You contradict yourself. If in fact global warming does occur and is due to
- > CO2, building hundreds of natural gas plants won't slow it down.
- >
- > Killing off nukes AND fossils? Wow. That's a pretty lofty goal.
- >
- > I'd rather be dependent somewhat on fossils than completely dependent on
- > the wind, the sunshine, etc.
-
- I'd rather be totally dependent on the wind and sun. It may not be possible
- in the short term, but thinking only of the *short* term is *short* sighted.
- I'm curious as to why you would not like being totally dependent on the wind
- and sun? Worried they might let you down? I'm worried that our friendly fossil will *definitely* let us down, it's just a matter of time.
-
- Max
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