Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Coyne who wrote (146574)	5/19/2001 10:33:48 PM
From: rich4eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So George, please answer how have you served your Country???????????

To: George Coyne who wrote (146574)	5/19/2001 11:57:06 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

George, Oxford is considered one of the world's great learning institutions among people not afraid of education. Scumbria

To: George Coyne who wrote (146574)	5/20/2001 1:18:52 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

In 1933, the Oxford Union, Oxford University’s debating society, endorsed, 275-153, a motion stating “that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country,” a pacifist stand widely denounced by Britons. Now 50 years later they reversed this stand but it still makes you wonder. Maybe they've learned to follow the polls.<g>

To: George Coyne who wrote (146574)	5/20/2001 1:11:01 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

George Oxford produced this guy. Radically restructuring the electrical generating system was not on President Carter's original agenda. But in 1976 Amory Lovins, already the youngest faculty member in the history of Oxford and British representative of Friends of the Earth, published "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?" a landmark article in Foreign Affairs, which argued that the root cause of the problems was the centralized generation of electricity. Continuing to rely on a far-flung grid, anchored by gigantic thermal plants, Lovins argued, was a losing strategy. Too much energy was wasted in generation and transmission, the energy that was delivered did not fit the scale of end-use, fossil fuels would eventually run out, and the whole system was brittle, complex, and vaguely inhuman. Instead there was an alternate future -- a world of decentralized sources where small-scale generating stations were matched to small-scale end uses. Following this "soft path" would mean: 1) making spectacular but achievable gains in energy conservation, 2) building small "co-generation" plants that produced both electricity and steam for industrial heat, and 3) setting up a "transitional" period in which fossil fuels would be employed until replaced by "soft" technologies such as solar, wind, and small hydro. By 2025, we could be living in Energy Utopia -- a world running entirely on renewable resources. The argument was specifically aimed at nuclear power. Up to that point air pollution and dwindling fossil fuels seemed to be pushing the nation toward a nuclear future, supported by, among others, the Sierra Club. This was wrong, Lovins argued. Nuclear technology would lead to terrorist bombs, intractable wastes, the rule of a "nuclear priesthood" and huge hidden social and environmental costs. It is important to recognize that the two paths are mutually exclusive. Because commitments to the first may foreclose the second, we must soon choose one or the other -- before failure to stop nuclear proliferation has foreclosed both. Lovins's 1977 book Soft Energy Paths, first published by the Sierra Club, became a minor best seller. When Lovins briefed Jimmy Carter on energy at the White House in 1978, he found the president had already read the book. A cover story in New Times called Lovins "The Pied Piper of Alternative Energy."