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Shell Ditches Wind, Solar, and Hydro
thefickler writes "Shell has decided to end its investment in wind, solar and hydro projects because the company does not believe they are financially sound investments. Instead Shell is going to focus on carbon sequestration technologies and biofuels. Not surprisingly, and perhaps unfairly, bloggers have been quick to savage the company: 'Between Shell's decisions to stop its clean energy investments and to increase its debt load to pay for dividends, the company is solidifying an image of corporate greed over corporate responsibility.' Is Shell short sighted, or is it just a company trying to make its way in an uncertain world?"
If those alternative energy sources were even remotely feasible you can be sure they would be all over them.
It's not about feasability, it's about rentability. The "environmental whack jobs" say that pollution and ressource waste are an underestimated factor in the real costs. This has been definitly true in the past (if health is of any value to you) and is possibly true even today. Very few people believe that we can continue to run the world we do now for a few hundered years without catastrophic consequences for all life on it.
Of course there are those who believe in a miracle that will save us all and those that say live will probably adapt. At least the latter are right but then we should not care about "The Crisis(TM)" since economy will adapt and we should not care about them getting the hands chopped off because they will adapt or be replaced by fitter individuals. In short the latter have an obvious lack of empathy.
Bio-fuels can be the form-and-fit replacement for petroleum products, thus a natural for Shell. Their failure to invest in other technology will allow the Slashdotters who obviously know better to fill the gap and grow rich.
If the Third World wants food let it control its population to fit its resources. We technologically advanced people owe lesser cultures nothing. It is their duty to adapt to their circumstance instead of practicing the social policies of Robert Mugabe.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Thanks, but I don't want my species go extinct, even if it does make Shell execs richer (and the world a better place). But wait--can you really carry your wealth into the next world with you when you die? This changes everything...
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
You are gullible aren't you. You remind me of lemmings incapable of noticing what is going on and diverting their actions.
Inteligence has nothing to do with it. I already stated that you think you are smarter then what you are so please don't try to hang your failed jokes on the intelligence thing. Face it, it wasn't funny to anyone but you and that is because of your mental aptitude not some superior intellect.
There goes your mental aptitude again, Correctly in this sense would mean used as it is in the real world. You can take anything and show that if it is used in ways no one else every uses, it is bad for you. But that doesn't mean it is bad or dangerous nor does it mean it should be removed from public consumption.
Don't mistake normal rules of communication for my special interpretation. You simply didn't realize is what your trying to say I guess. There is nothing special about me or anyone else who reads "it caused X" and determines that means it directly caused X.
And no, a faulty transistor in an artificial horizon wouldn't be the cause of the crash. Well, not unless the auto pilot was flying when it crashed and for some reason it took reading from it (which is shouldn't). The faulty transistor would have allowed the pilot to make an error which caused the crash. In either cause, something else caused the crash, the malfunctioning artificial horizon was just a bad input stream. Many pilots fly without them entirely so it isn't necessary to keep the plane in the air.
You have to make a coherent statement first. You in effect saying the dog is blue and then expecting people to understand that you were only talking about his leash. You have wasted more electrons then you could have ever saved because you didn't say what you meant to say- or so you claim by going back and clarifying what you meant.
Common knowledge, you didn't even read the links you posted did you? None of the but that last one say fossil fuels kill or damage anyone. The last link isn't something I would consider scientific either. All the other links you provided said little more then it an increased risk was noticed. Contrary to what you might think, increasing a rick does not mean "causes". But here you are claiming it is know that something is caused by something when you can't even find a creditable link that makes that claim. Instead you post links about increased risks and so on and then through your imaginative mind, jump from a risk to a cause. Here is something to consider, people jump out of perfectly good airplanes every day. Doing so increases your risk of injury or death. That doesn't mean that parachuting will kill you. It means that something in the process can and you are exposed to it when you participate. To lump things like you have, that would mean that ever skydiver has dies or be injured, every person who drives a car has dies or been injured and everyone who gets into a gun fight dies because guns kill. Obviously, if that seems ridiculous, then so does you claim on
Lol.. So now you have given up on your position and went straight to attempting to insult me. I figured as much would happen seeing how I was goating you. so lets play this game.
1: My english is good enough to deal with you.
2: I never said anything about statistics other then you fall into the group who aren't as smart as they think they are. However, if your talking about the increased risk verses causes, then you need to look at the program again because your still wrong.
3: Perhaps you should learn more about everything before attempting to challenge me. Rhetoric isn't one of your strong points and I wasn't attempting to use it. I was calling you an idiot.
4: Ditto to you. I don't think you really have the comprehension of either. Certainly claims you have made show this.
5: What caused the crash? The pilot error'd in his man=maneuvering of the plane. The artificial horizon is not needed to keep the plane in the air. It just makes navigating and doing so easier. If a plane crashed with a bad artificial horizon, it would be because of an action the pilot took, not because of a bad resistor.
6: I suggest you do the same. At least then you won't look like a sheeple being lead to the slaughter. You have made connections that don't exist and presented them as fact, you have attempted to deny shit that is fact, face it, your a mess. Look around and listen to what others are saying. It is fact that the ones you are listening to have had to go back and incorporate some of the things they were dismissing just a few months before because the non-believers were right. That's just fact, it's happened at least 3 times now and you can't deny it. It's because the entire process is politically motivated and politicians lie. You accept those lies without question which makes you a complete idiot.
7: Mentally retarded patients on the 6th floor does not equal intelectuals. You yourself couldn't even be considered an intellectual. Look at how this threat started, you made mention to Shell execs not being able to take their money with them to the after life, I pointed out that they most likely aren't considering any world other then this one, you jumped in with Jesus is a magical zombie and global warming is the one true religion. Do you seriously think that is intellectual? I mean show your intellectual friends and see what they tell you. You a fucking moron is what you are. You can't even see that money and the control of money is effected by both sides of the arguments or that the entire process has been hijacked by politics. You even attempted to claim an increased risk meant a cause which is false. how intellectual is that? Someone has lied to you, probably your parents, you aren't the smartest person they know, they just say that so as to not hurt your feelings. They probably lie to you about other things too. Have you ever wondered why your mom thinks your the most hansom man around yet you have never had a date that you didn't have to product a credit card before hand? And no, your cousin doesn't count even if you did take her to the prom.