[mdlug-discuss] Winds of Change

[Allen Majorovic]

--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Novak, Louis (L.M.) <lnovak1 at ford.com> wrote:

From: Novak, Louis (L.M.) <lnovak1 at ford.com>
Subject: [mdlug-discuss] Winds of Change
To: mdlug-discuss at mdlug.org
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 8:44 AM


"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build
windmills." - Chinese proverb 


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-e
nergy-by-2030 

A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables

Key Concepts

*    Supplies of wind and solar energy on accessible land dwarf the
energy consumed by people around the globe.
*    The authors' plan calls for 3.8 million large wind turbines,
90,000 solar plants, and numerous geothermal, tidal and rooftop
photovoltaic installations worldwide.
*    The cost of generating and transmitting power would be less than
the projected cost per kilowatt-hour for fossil-fuel and nuclear power.
*    Shortages of a few specialty materials, along with lack of
political will, loom as the greatest obstacles.


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Ford Motor Co., IT Security & Strategy 
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1) It's behind a pay wall.
2) It's SciAm which, after their trashing of Bjorn Lomborg, has no credibility having given up any pretense of a claim on scientific rigor by refusing to run a response.
3) As someone else in the thread observed all the various "alternative" power sources are diffuse in nature. You'll have to cover a stupendous amount of land in order to even come close to generating sufficient electricity. You think the people who favor these ideas will favor using the land necessary to implement them?
4) Since all the mentioned sources aren't economically self-sustaining, that's why they require huge subsidies, where's the money supposed to come from to fund this scheme?

Allen








      
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