<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">--- On <b>Tue, 11/10/09, Novak, Louis (L.M.) <i><lnovak1@ford.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Novak, Louis (L.M.) <lnovak1@ford.com><br>Subject: [mdlug-discuss] Winds of Change<br>To: mdlug-discuss@mdlug.org<br>Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 8:44 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build<br>windmills." - Chinese proverb <br><br><br><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-e" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-e</a><br>nergy-by-2030 <br><br>A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables<br><br>Key Concepts<br><br>* Supplies of wind and solar energy on accessible
land dwarf the<br>energy consumed by people around the globe.<br>* The authors' plan calls for 3.8 million large wind turbines,<br>90,000 solar plants, and numerous geothermal, tidal and rooftop<br>photovoltaic installations worldwide.<br>* The cost of generating and transmitting power would be less than<br>the projected cost per kilowatt-hour for fossil-fuel and nuclear power.<br>* Shortages of a few specialty materials, along with lack of<br>political will, loom as the greatest obstacles.<br><br><br>-- <br>Louis Novak <a ymailto="mailto:lnovak1@ford.com" href="/mc/compose?to=lnovak1@ford.com">lnovak1@ford.com</a> (313)248-6788 <br>Ford Motor Co., IT Security & Strategy <br>Eco-Tip: Bottled water is a waste of money and resources. <br>Drink tap water from a reusable container instead.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mdlug-discuss mailing
list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mdlug-discuss@mdlug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=mdlug-discuss@mdlug.org">mdlug-discuss@mdlug.org</a><br><a href="http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug-discuss" target="_blank">http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug-discuss</a><br><br></div></blockquote>1) It's behind a pay wall.<br>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.<br>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?<br>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?<br><br>Allen<br><br><br><br><br><div class="plainMail"><br></div></td></tr></table><br>