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Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable
Urchin writes "Although scientists are agreed that we must cut carbon emissions from transport and electricity generation to prevent the globe's climate becoming hotter, the most advanced 'renewable' technologies are too often based upon non-renewable resources including indium and platinum —
resources that could dry up in 10-15 years if they were widely used in the renewable energy market."
you first. start with turning off your pc.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
I could sure use some global warming right about now.
Is that Vista or Windows 7
*ducks*
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Fresh install of XP.
"I know you are, but what am I?"
Dude, Christian Scientists don't count.
No, I'm saying conspicuous consumers should cut down a little.
Hey, you are starting to sound like a communist. The whole point of wealth is so that you can show it off. :-)
Unless the two places you pick off the map are Jack, CO and Shit, WY.
Are you really saying that because trees aren't fed and kept alive by the waves that we cannot use tidal power effectively? Really? Are you really saying that? You know that plants are strengthened by the wind so there is a direct correlation to the life of a plant in terms of the wind.
You basically said that because my car isn't powered by my cats farts, that we could never use cat litter to pave a highway. Yes, I am really trying for a car analogy.
than carbon emissions affecting pirate population.
Funny you should mention pirates. We get pirates seizing tankers of oil and boatloads of weapons, and London gets a blizzard.
Coincidence? I think not. This is simply additional data points to demonstrate the centuries-old connection between pirates and global temperatures.
Obviously, the 3% and 17% are right.
Since I intend for my people to walk among the stars,
Gene Roddenberry is dead, man.
The last few grams of silicon?
Do you know that silicon is as plentiful as the sands of the desert?
The data we have on the Earth presents a pretty good picture of warming, and the scientific consensus is that it's human caused. The trend in scientific consensus is also increasingly towards it being human caused.
So not only all do all true scientists agree, but the percentage of scientists agreeing is increasing every day.
Does that mean the true scientists are breeding or something? Should they all believe that overpopulation is a problem, just like global warming?
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Or make giant toast.
Do you have ESP?
There is also a prophecy in the Bible concerning the end of the age, where the sun will be seven times hotter: Isaiah 30:26
In the book of Revelation, which is about the end times, we also read about a very much hotter sun: Rev 16:8-9
Ah yes, the perfectly accurate Bible... I forgot about that when I was evaluating my scientific results. Should I run any more data past your particular religious authority of choice?
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London gets a blizzard? Sorry. I've been in London for a week now and coming from Minnesota I find it very hard to relate to all of the sentiment by everyone about "oh no, there are some flakes and falling and now no one can drive". It boggles the mind I tell you. A friend of mine here in London (who is from Singapore originally) said he did not have anything to scrape the snow off his car so he had to pull out a broom dust pan. I told him to just use his hand, it's only snow after all not poison. Also stop bitching about the COLD... it's BARELY below freezing so I was able to go with just an insulated flannel shirt whereas everyone else is walking around with several layers and what not.
Oh yeah... renewable energy is a myth so please just vote for clean coal everyone because it must be clean right? I mean it has "clean" right in the name of the energy source so how can you refute its cleanliness, you fickle commies!
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No! Solar cells are destroying the environment. The government needs to BAN them to protect us from Big Solar killing the planet for short term profit.
DENIERS like you need to stop lying about this.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
A cruve ball, eh.
But there's no easy and efficient means of stepping the power down.
Why not? You could just wire Germany, France and Italy in series.
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'sustainable' power does not mean iridium, palladium, zirconium, stupidium and whatnot. it consists of innumerable alternative energy sources.
one of which, is SUN, and a possible other, in future, is cosmic rays. you dont need to sustain these, they just are.
is it possible that the article may be trying to portray the new drive for alternative energy in a bad light ?
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