[ExI] Bosch exits Solar business in Germany

[Keith Henson]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:00 AM,  Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:44:56PM +0100, Mirco Romanato wrote:
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>> > If solar doesn't succeed, we're dead. So perhaps I would try to
>> > make it succeed, if I were you.
>>
>> "We are dead" include you and who?
>
> In absence of cheap, abundant energy the carrying
> capacity of the local ecosystem is at about 100
> megamonkeys.

Carefully managed, the population shrink might strop closer to 1 B.
On the other hand, it might go even below your number.  Even the
farmers would not know how to cope with a low energy environment.

> Do you feel lucky, punk?

One in 7 or one in 70, lucky either way.

Fortunately, there seem to be other options.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/alternative_energy/2013/03/solar_power_in_space_ray_guns_will_beam_it_back_to_earth.html#

Keith