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

Mirco Romanato painlord2k at libero.it
Sat Jan 19 14:27:33 UTC 2013


Il 18/01/2013 21:19, Dave Sill ha scritto:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki
> <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>>
>>> So whenever you're using a derived, secondary source of energy,
>>> especially one that is limited (because it's a nonrenewable resource, or
>>> is fundamentally limited, as biofuel due to HANPP) it always
>>> make sense to consider tapping the primary.
>>
>> ### No, not always. Only if the secondary is close to running out or
>> if the primary becomes cheaper (in a very general sense of being more
>> economically efficient). I am reasonably certain that we *could* use
>> solar and wind to supply 99.9% of all power by 2030, and we *could*
>> hop on one leg instead of walking on two but, why?
> 
> I think the key word in Eugen's quote is "consider".

How considerate is binding or cutting off one's leg to jump around just
using the other one? To save energy? To consume less food?

In a world of one legged beings, two legged are kings.

Mirco



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