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If we can’t drill our way out of it, or alternative-energy our way out of it, what do Greens suggest?
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jun/18/solar-plant-builders-decry-freeze/
I’m not a Green because I put a couple of conditions on the proposed solutions that they don’t. To be acceptable any solution must: end global warming by ending the dumping of 4 billion years of stored energy and CO2 into the ecosystem; Not involve the death of 5 or more billion people or their reduction to subsistence levels without hope for improvement even by “benign neglect”; not require the end of freedom on the planet or of technological civilization.
I know of only one solution to these requirements that meets all these requirements, Solar Power Satellites, beaming power to earth without changing the total balance of energy input to the earth. The electricity made is used to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen which is combined with carbon dioxide extracted from the air to form methane to feed our natural gas systems and methanol to run our transportation systems. I’m sorry, but I know of no immediate solution to our current problems. Had we started when SPS were first proposed we could have had 2 or more in operation now and be able to change over relatively easily. Because not all the research necessary was done, it would still take nearly 20 years to get the first full size prototype in operation.
I expect this will be a long and deep recession…
As far as the article goes, it just shows how bureaucratic our government has become.
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