Re: Wow squared, pstuart

Posted by Bobba on Aug 19, 2002 at 14:53
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Re: Wow squared, pstuart (pstuart)

Solution is the usage of another much
cleaner fuel produced by readily available
natural sources as already mentionned.

Yes, you mentioned wind and solar. I pointed out the difficulties and limitations of each and you failed to respond. I mentioned nuclear and you rambled off something about nuclear bombs but failed to elaborate. Nuclear is best answer until you can logically refute it. Now for the more difficult question – To what is it a solution?

Greenhouse gases, lets take it another way,
how many cars in North America?

A double fistful

Compare this to Asia and Africa, if Africans
and Asians had the same per capita consumption
of Gasoline as with North Americans

IF pigs had wings they’d fly. You forgot the economic forces that enable these less consumptive nations to have these commodities. Wealth is created but in order to get it, you must produce. What must you produce? You must produce a commodity that is in demand. I’ll draw on that point in a second.

we would be in big trouble, for one the supply
would shrink rapidly

Ignores the current ability to both increase oil supplies, but other supplies as well, such as those you mentioned, the much better one I mentioned, and a myriad of others we haven’t even yet thought of. Necessity is the mother of invention.

causing the usual wars for oil,

War is always a problem. It is the reason I am such a proponent of nuclear.

…clean air would have to be bought in bottles.
Is that at all desirable?

I see no evidence for that. I’ve been to many third world nations and many first world nations. The air in the latter is always far more breathable – even in the most congested areas. The exception may have been Tokyo in the mid 70’s. Since then they too have cleaned up significantly. It has to do with wealth providing the luxury of environmental safeguards. Everywhere there is wealth, there is a happy environment it would seem. So if these nations got their act together, I’ve not a doubt in the world that they too would realize the benefit of a cleaner environment. Currently, these third world places are absolutely filthy. You should really be complaining to them, not us.

or rather we go to a cleaner fuel ASAP
and let the other citizens of the world enjoy
techno advancements without the mistakes
caused by unabated NOx CO CO2 SOx etc
dumping into our atmosphere.

To what advancements do you refer? How will they pay for them? Anyway, the rest of your post degraded into politics so I’ll forgo replying to it. Now, do you think CO2 is really a problem? Do you think global warming is, at the realistically predicted values, a detriment in the aggregate? If so, why so? Do you think there is any significant thing that can be done about either. What would it cost and how would it profit us.


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