[ExI] Small scale solar payback time (was Re: Planetary defense)
spike
spike66 at att.net
Tue May 24 13:28:33 UTC 2011
>... On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl
...
>> of course the current energy companies which may hire
>> environmentalists to defeat such a notion. That could be huge, perhaps a
show stopper.
>I don't see environmentalists here hating on solar wind and geothermal.
>If yours do (really?), they're obviously fake environmentalists. -- Eugen*
Leitl
Our environmental protection law does not distinguish between real and fake
environmentalists. Either can sue to gum up the works on a competitor's
power generation scheme. Legal costs and delays can easily dominate all the
engineering challenges combined. The fake environmentalists are actually
the biggest threat: they have actual money behind them. While the real ones
are out protesting, sitting in trees and doing silly stuff like that, the
corporate ones have teams of lawyers and a highly effective agenda.
spike
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