[ExI] Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of ALL POWER by 2030

[Mike Dougherty]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:09:26PM -0500, Mike Dougherty wrote:
>> I want to see the blueprint for a solar-powered 747.  I imagine it has
>
> You've already seen it. All current 747s are solar powered.
>
> It's just really old, really tired sunlight, converted at
> an abysmal efficiency and packed in dirty drek underground,
> so we've burned through worth a gigayear of it within a
> mere century.

Flippant remark meant to make you smile at the thought of an absurdity
that I expected to have no response and it gets two.  When I try to
make a (semi-)serious point I wonder if the message got delivered.

>From your logic above you'd claim that people are solar powered
whenever they eat plants.  Really?  I'm all for a specious rant now
and again, but "everything is really solar powered" is a bit much.