Jim,
That's quite an interesting array of material to contemplate in one sitting, much less solve. Let's level the playing field a bit, if you don't mind, kindly sharing with the rest of us what you're referring to with respect to the Daniels Model. I, for one, am not familiar with it by name, and doing a search on <Daniels Model> leads to many differing, albeit, some plausible, possibilities.
While awaiting your explanation, I should also note that your focus does not point, with the exception of nuclear energy plants, in the direction of finding and harnessing new sources of energy as much as I thought it would. You ssem to instead depend on the reasoning that has characterized the economic modeling of the fossil fuel industries, both of the past and the present, and now moving into the future.
Am I being overly critical on this point, or have you put some thought to this question and subsequently resolved that the necessary gestation periods for new sources are not conducive to the time frames and massive scales that we've been discussing, i.e., to meet the electric power needs of over nine billion people 50 years from now? Or, are there other reasons that account for this that you'd like to broach and maybe openly discuss?
FAC |
