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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse

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To: elpolvo who wrote (9466)8/27/2009 1:13:25 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 24213
 
Can't say I'm in total agreement with hymn; we just need to run a whole lot faster while we still can. Like putting batteries in Tehachapi, where they haven't had a quake of over 7.5 in 57 years, one month, and 6 days, more or less. Just need to strap them down good.

"By the time sunlight gets to us, after traversing 93 million miles of empty space, it’s simply not that concentrated an energy source"..there's so damn much of it that it doesn't need to be all that concentrated; all we have to do is catch it.

Energy Source: Solar Energy
Every year, the sun irradiates the land masses on earth with the equivalent of 19,000 billion tons of oil equivalent (toe). Only a fraction — 9 billion toe — would satisfy the world's current energy requirements. Put differently, in 20 minutes, the amount of solar energy falling on the earth could power the planet for one year.
re.pembina.org

That's so much energy we could even set up PV powered freezing units on the polar ice caps and save our elves from global warming. So what if it goes 6 months without sun? The ice is too cold to melt then, anyway.

I'd spend more time arguing with him, but I'm running out of energy.
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