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[I don't post to alt.philosophy, cross-post elided]
Fred J. McCall wrote: "Jonathan" wrote: Self-organized systems, where the final product is allowed to emerge as it will (NOT pre-planned) will always settle on the best possible solution. Emergent vs. pre-designed is the difference between natural and man-made. Absolute and utter bull****! snip pseudo-religion The 'self-organized' system has to beat $0.08/kWh or come in very close to it for me to be ok with it. As far as SSP saving us from "Anthropogenic Global Warming" now called "Climate Change". Climate is so complex and our understanding of it so poor how do we even pretend we know how to solve 'climate change'? Or worry about it? So I don't. I can plant a tree. So I'll do that. Dave |
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On Feb 3, 1:38*pm, David Spain wrote:
[I don't post to alt.philosophy, cross-post elided] Fred J. McCall wrote: "Jonathan" wrote: Self-organized systems, where the final product is allowed to emerge as it will (NOT pre-planned) will always settle on the best possible solution. *Emergent vs. pre-designed is the difference between natural and man-made. Absolute and utter bull****! snip pseudo-religion The 'self-organized' system has to beat $0.08/kWh or come in very close to it for me to be ok with it. As far as SSP saving us from "Anthropogenic Global Warming" now called "Climate Change". Climate is so complex and our understanding of it so poor how do we even pretend we know how to solve 'climate change'? Or worry about it? So I don't. I can plant a tree. So I'll do that. Dave well the cost of igoring the possiblity its true can lead to a devasted planet |
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"David Spain" wrote in message ... [I don't post to alt.philosophy, cross-post elided] Fred J. McCall wrote: "Jonathan" wrote: Self-organized systems, where the final product is allowed to emerge as it will (NOT pre-planned) will always settle on the best possible solution. Emergent vs. pre-designed is the difference between natural and man-made. Absolute and utter bull****! snip pseudo-religion The 'self-organized' system has to beat $0.08/kWh or come in very close to it for me to be ok with it. I bet Japan would pay more. So would the Pentagon or places too rural to get on a conventional grid. Would you also object to AC power transmission over DC for cost reasons? If the alternative to DC was nothing at all? SSP's big advantage is the ability to travel so much better. With DC you had to have a power plant almost on every city block. With AC you have to have one almost near every major city...figuratively speaking. With SSP you can have baseload power to any point on Earth, 24/7. Rain or shine, close or far from the equator Rural or populated. And you can even plant crops, or have terrestrial solar panels...beneath...an SSP receiving rectenna. SSP is characterized by high initial start-up costs, and almost NO operating costs. Operating costs for a major power plant is having to pay through the nose each and every day for a constant stream of oil, gas, coal and so on. Prices which might swing wildly from time to time. No other power source can do that, not nuclear, not fusion and especially not the growing choice of the third-world....Coal. As far as SSP saving us from "Anthropogenic Global Warming" now called "Climate Change". Climate is so complex and our understanding of it so poor how do we even pretend we know how to solve 'climate change'? NASA is convinced the recent warming is real and man-made. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/climateqa/ They say so rather strongly, but maybe you have a better source than...... "What does NASA have to do with global warming?" "NASA employs the world's largest concentration of climate scientists. NASA's mission to study Earth involves monitoring atmospheric conditions, global temperatures, land cover and vegetation, ice extent, ocean productivity, and a number of other planetary vital signs with a fleet of space-based sensors." http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blo...lobal-warming/ Or worry about it? So I don't. I can plant a tree. So I'll do that. But you make a good point, predicting the longer term future of such a complicated ecosystem is guesswork. The question on climate-change shouldn't be about arguing the finer points of volumes of statistical data. The question should be whether we're going to just let Nature takes it's course, warmer of colder? And just hope for the best? Or are we going to build the ability to manage our biosphere so we can deal with the future ....regardless of whether the future is hotter or colder? Should we just have 'faith', or control our own destiny? s Dave |
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