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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult?

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To: Don Hurst who wrote (3523)	1/8/2014 12:52:44 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 4326

I have been a paid up photovoltaic fan club member for 30 years. But as a potential solution for a wider range of supply issues rather than as a matter of environmental religion. Photovoltaics had seemed likely to gain competitiveness but that process has been slower than I thought it would be. <Instead of coming up with ways to prevent solar solutions it is time for all of us, you especially, with your knowledge and expertise to come up with ways to make it happen instead of viewing it as something such as Maurice does...Hitler and Brown shirt stuff.> My old company, BP, had a division BP Solar [now shut due to the losses as competition took off in recent years] and I was coming up with applications for photovoltaics in the late 1980s. Unlike air pollution from things such as lead in gasoline, soot emissions from diesel and nitrogen oxides, benzene and other nasties, which affect everyone and need to be controlled as a matter of public policy, photovoltaics are of benefit to the owner of the panels with no public pollution issue. If people want to buy photovoltaics, that's up to them. There's no need for a government department to get involved. People can calculate their costs, risks, and decide for themselves whether the supply profile will be for them or not. The burden of government is very large these days. Adding to the burden is a very bad idea. One of the problems with Big Brother government is that they ban people from coming up with individual solutions. So, for example, an outhouse, or indoor improved dunny would see a fleet of Brownshirts on the attack. A BP colleague in his student days had been working on plasma incineration of human poop as a disposal mechanism. A city would be less liable to have sewerage problems if instead of a large centralized system, everyone had individual on-site disposal methods. People with gardens could have composting systems such as we used on a hippie commune a few years ago when we had a few days holiday there. It was very clean and with a nice view over the hills and forests while sitting a very nice experience [admittedly not raining at the time]. Mqurice

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