Conventional plants would become peakers, for times when wind isn't blowing, and the sun isn't shining and the birds aren't singing. Forget the birds. We set this up right, we can wipe out all life and the electricity will be there. Don't need to worry about what to do when the birds aren't singing. Think who puzzled those alien anthropologists will be when they find a lit up planet and no life.
Less electricity doesn't mean poverty. Calif is the 5th or 6th largest economy in the world; our per capita use is half that of the rest of the US. I still have lights at night, the internet, a sound system, a bank account,...
"Rainforests like it wet, warm and with lots of CO2"
2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Amazon rainforest 'could become a desert'
And that could speed up global warming with 'incalculable consequences', says alarming new research
By Geoffrey Lean in Manaus and Fred Pearce
Published: 23 July 2006
The vast Amazon rainforest is on the brink of being turned into desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate, alarming research suggests. And the process, which would be irreversible, could begin as early as next year.
Studies by the blue-chip Woods Hole Research Centre, carried out in Amazonia, have concluded that the forest cannot withstand more than two consecutive years of drought without breaking down.
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