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From: Rit (no email)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2007 - 23:05:39 EDT
I apologize, in advance for my grimness, but it's hard to hold my tongue on
this one.............
IMHO, I think we have passed the point of no return in achieving our global
balance with nature.
Each and every one of us feels we have a right to have the things that oil
and chemicals produce. We, as a race, are not going to change. We love the
benefits of oil and the chemical industries.
The truth is that the biosphere can't continue to support us or our dirty
habit of burning up everything in sight. The harsh fact is that there are
way too many humans on the planet, producing way too much CO2 and other
pollutants. Only war, famine or some other plague can slow the wild
population growths and higher levels of pollution coming.
I think it's a race to see if the human race can mutate fast enough to adapt
to the extremely polluted environment we are creating. If we can't, then
the natural order of things will wipe the human race off the planet and grow
weeds over our "civilizations"
We and our descendants face a real nightmare of rising seas, polluted air,
barren seas, wildlife kill off and a host of other surprises from our last
150 years of the industrial revolution.
Being sailors, we see, first hand the changes in the oceans, lakes, rivers
and streams. I see fellow mariners polluting and caring nothing about the
marvelous sea they are floating on.
What is the answer? I only wish I knew.
Do you have one?
Rit
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Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 8:42 PM
To: LIVE_ABOARD
Subject: lv-ab: Ethanol
Let's see now.
10 BILLION bucks per year. That's what we are
currently giving to the oil companies to foster
"alternative energy research".
Even assuming 700 bucks per 125 watt Kyocera
solar panel that would pay for 14,285,714 and a
fraction panels. Even if we assume only getting
HALF the rated power for 4 hour a day, that is
130,357 MEGA watt hours every year.
I think...
And that number will be added to the total EVERY
YEAR!
So. How much carbon dioxide production would THAT
eliminate?
I bet a lot more than the oil companies will ever
'develop'.
Eric Thompson
S/V Procrastinator
South San Francisco
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