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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (6711)2/27/2001 1:55:57 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Solar is a one time, up front capital investment. People who have solar end up paying less in the long run.

To generate a significant fraction of our electricity from solar power would not only require a very large up from capital investment. It would also require a lot of land and you have to consider maintenance costs and cloudy days.

it galls me that Tim couldn't see that the world he was proposing was basically a planetary-scale terrarium where man's impact on the ecosystem was total.

I wasn't proposing anything. I was merely stating that human economic and technological progress can continue even if our population continues to go up. Depending on future fertility trends it is likely that the world's population will peak at 10 to 25 billion people. At that level we do not need to make the world in to anything like a terrarium.

Tim
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