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Old 09-19-2005   #33 (permalink)
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Re: A New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy

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All very interesting facts and figures, beautifully crafted arguments against the need to have any alternative sources of energy. But the simple fact is that they will come to noaught when carbon based fuels will no longer be sufficient to choke the atmosphere of its biggest user. Carbon based fuels are finite. When they do become uneconomical what would the proponents of it recommend as alternatives?

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Was I unclear?

GSWB cannot supply one for one replacement NOW for the energy we currently produce in the United States.

Nor can it do so for the EU.

Japan? Forget it.

There is not enough usable surface area on the Earth or easily extractable resources to build and maintain for the mounting of a GSWB scheme to work to present day generating scales.

So what are the alternatives to GSWB and our dwindling extractable POL stocks?

I wrote about them; nuclear fusion, hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, geothermal, and hydro-electric power. With wind and solar power in those niches where they are effective contributors.

Biomass I rejected. It is a hydrocarbon poison worse than oil.

Now, I know you read this in the above post, when I shot holes in the GSWB pipedream? If you didn't read this, where was I unclear?


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