[ExI] massive "green" industrial transformation of the landscape

gts gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 28 17:20:45 UTC 2007


On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:33:51 -0400, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

>> The world's largest dam, ...submerging land that was previously home
>> to more than 1 million people...
>
> If we take that into account, we get to add all the energy saved from  
> those million people not living there anymore.

Do we? Seems to me that unless we killed them or prevented their births,  
those million displaced people consume roughly the same amount of energy  
as otherwise, albeit from different locations.

-gts




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