Comments on: Renewables Could Rape Nature says Climate Expert http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/07/27/renewables-could-rape-nature-says-climate-expert/ Working with you to change the world. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:40:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Xialun Tan http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/07/27/renewables-could-rape-nature-says-climate-expert/#comment-10716 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:59:07 +0000 http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/07/27/renewables-could-rape-nature-says-climate-expert/#comment-10716 Nuclear power may have its advantages of high energy/ land mass concentration but the dangers of storage of radioactive material is huge. Maybe with the possibility of solar power space stations and higher efficiency wind farms Ms Ausubel may reconsider her opinions. Raping the land? Come on! What do you think about radioactive contamination? Or maybe solar/ wind power isn't as exciting as the technologies don't have the same bomb making potential. Scott is right, a balance is needed. It will probably require the cooperation of countries sharing international grids, but once again this would mean big powers like US and China will need to become more conscious of worldly concerns rather than their own financial targets. Nuclear power may have its advantages of high energy/ land mass concentration but the dangers of storage of radioactive material is huge. Maybe with the possibility of solar power space stations and higher efficiency wind farms Ms Ausubel may reconsider her opinions.

Raping the land? Come on! What do you think about radioactive contamination? Or maybe solar/ wind power isn’t as exciting as the technologies don’t have the same bomb making potential.

Scott is right, a balance is needed. It will probably require the cooperation of countries sharing international grids, but once again this would mean big powers like US and China will need to become more conscious of worldly concerns rather than their own financial targets.

]]> by: scott ehredt http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/07/27/renewables-could-rape-nature-says-climate-expert/#comment-2425 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:39:53 +0000 http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/07/27/renewables-could-rape-nature-says-climate-expert/#comment-2425 A balance is needed. Where we get lots of sunshine and not much wind, lean heavily solar. If it's windie like in the midwest, drop in the wind mills. You can farm around them. We still need nuclear and fossil fuel plants as backups. At some point, we are going to experience a "500-year cloudy/windless" weather event that last for weeks. Consumers aren't going to put up with that. But what's missing is funding. We need to temporarily switch our consumption from cheeseburgers and iPhones to creating additional capacity to make green energy. (i.e. taxes on fossil fuels with additional revenues funneled to tax credits for establishing green sources of energy....until such time as a balance is reached. A balance is needed. Where we get lots of sunshine and not much wind, lean heavily solar. If it’s windie like in the midwest, drop in the wind mills. You can farm around them. We still need nuclear and fossil fuel plants as backups. At some point, we are going to experience a “500-year cloudy/windless” weather event that last for weeks. Consumers aren’t going to put up with that.

But what’s missing is funding. We need to temporarily switch our consumption from cheeseburgers and iPhones to creating additional capacity to make green energy. (i.e. taxes on fossil fuels with additional revenues funneled to tax credits for establishing green sources of energy….until such time as a balance is reached.

]]> by: Mick Lynch http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/07/27/renewables-could-rape-nature-says-climate-expert/#comment-2418 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:29:25 +0000 http://www.globalcool.org/en/2007/07/27/renewables-could-rape-nature-says-climate-expert/#comment-2418 With regard to Jesse Ausubel, and anyone else's comments that seem to fly in the face of common sense, the question that always needs to be asked is 'Who is funding their research?' 99 times out of a hundred, it's someone who is profiting from the way the world is at the moment, and are desperate to keep things that way. So yes, you'll probably find that the funding trail leads straight back to an oil company. With regard to Jesse Ausubel, and anyone else’s comments that seem to fly in the face of common sense, the question that always needs to be asked is ‘Who is funding their research?’
99 times out of a hundred, it’s someone who is profiting from the way the world is at the moment, and are desperate to keep things that way. So yes, you’ll probably find that the funding trail leads straight back to an oil company.

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