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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (544601)1/18/2010 8:22:43 AM
From: Brumar892 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1574097
 
I suggest you read the Foreign Policy article I posted to you and try to wrap your melted mind around it.

Its magical thinking to believe that solar and wind and the necessary storage technology are good enough here and now to replace fossil fuels and nuclear, or we are right on the verge of having them ready. Secretary Chu appparently knows that massive breakthroughs have yet to be made before that can happen.

The last 49 years that I've been alive have seen unbelievable change. I think you may be a lot older than me

Yeah, apparently I'm 8 years older than you. I suggest you have more respect for your elders .... maybe they've seen more than you and learned more.

if you believe that electric powered vehicles won't be successful in a big way in our lifetimes.

I don't know ... I'm open to the idea but I see some big barriers. I've addressed these elsewhere. You otoh KNOW its a certainty and that it will happen soon. And that we should base our policy on the certainty of it happening.

They are more a efficient use of energy than burning fossil fuels and they are a more sustainable way of using our energy supplies, not to mention more environmentally friendly.

Not necessarily. Depends on how the electric energy is made. Furthermore, there are environmental costs and limited resource constraints with all energy sources.

Common sense tells you that technological breakthroughs will continue to happen, because they have happened continually for all of humanity's history. For you to think otherwise is really the fantastical thinking.

The pace of technological development is uneven and hard to predict ..... except for magical thinkers.
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