those investors will end up being the rate paying customers.Wanted: Investors willing to pony up 100 billion for equipment that will be placed directly in the path of future hurricanes…….
Needed: Individuals who are willing to connect to & rely upon a power grid & generators that are in the path of future hurricanes…….
Absolutely necessary: No more hurricanes……..
Good luck.
The article again is a reminder that the earth is awash in energy, whether wind or solar. The problem is humans who have adapted their lifestyle to an unnatural model. All other living things are adapted to living, surviving and excelling in nature as she is, where she is, and how she is. Only humans have regressed to the point of attempting to modify nature contrary to her nature to make human the norm nature is to satisfy, rather than nature the norm to which humans must adapt.
Using energy from coal, oil, and NG is like drawing from a savings account. Proper use of savings is to fill in the voids when nature does not momentarily provide sufficient energy. Instead, humans have decided to live on the savings and discard the abundant free energy available because it is "too expensive." Savings will not last forever. More likely, the "too expensive" free energy from wind and solar more realistically reflects the real cost of energy, and many of us are fooling ourselves when we think we can live on savings. The housing boom and living on equity loans is a gentle reminder of this folly, as is the retirement savings of most Americans that won't do diddly to get them through retirement.
For a 7+ billion population world, living on energy savings of coal, oil and NG is like living on home equity loans -- enjoy the ride while it lasts, but a bailout from nature just might not be in the cards.
The first part is correct, the second is not. Take man off the land and nature does just fine, reforests all by itself. Nature did it before and will do it again without man. Nature reforests, man strips the land.Our colonial forefathers stripped the land bare.... Then man with nature's help reforested.
The first part is correct, the second is not. Take man off the land and nature does just fine, reforests all by itself. Nature did it before and will do it again without man. Nature reforests, man strips the land.
There is no new savings, replenishing the account, for coal, oil and NG. You're correct that as these become more expensive, necessity will force a change. But in the meantime we are using up the savings that would be there for future generations, and not only using it up, but wasting most of it on really quite frivolous things, kind of like spending the retirement/pension funds on expensive travel and dining that will deplete those funds long before a person dies and really needs the funds for essentials. "Long before a person dies" is the equivalent of future generations; they too will need these precious resources for essentials; but the current generation is spending them now.
We really are pretty close in agreement. I just think we now should pay the real cost of our use of energy resources (environmental cost, pollution cost, health cost in disease and death, etc.), which would "force" a change, and instead now use sustainable and renewable energy resources rather than spending the wealth that could be saved for the generations that follow. We are living on borrowed time, let's stop the borrowing.
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