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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (965)	3/2/2003 10:20:18 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

No se puede impedir el viento. Pero se puede construir molinos. .. old saying, 'You can't stop the wind. But you can build windmills.' Actually a major holdup on non-oil energy is in the storage, not generation which is fairly straight-forward and in which there is little operation cost, just capital expenditure mostly ... one way that would work great is the hydrogen/water cycle, but H doesn't store easily and is explosive ... there may come along some sort of miracle battery that will go through a million cycles from fully charged to fully discharged without losing efficiency, that would be something, and would definitely make the inventor rich and famous Slap a tax of one eighth of an ounce of gold per barrel of crude petroleum consumed, and you'd improve non-oil economics right there ... use the funds to reduce or eliminate income taxes, or if really necessary to prosecute your perma-war .... actually you'd be winning a major battle in the current perma-war straight off That whole thing of switching to gas, so many on this coast did that and the ones that aren't sorry yet will be soon .... thousands switched from wood stoves to gas, and fireplace inserts that prevent you burning your windfall trees and household paper refuse, while they suck natural gas like it's going out of style .... this was ten or fifteen years ago, the big switch-over, BC Hydro was subsidising it, ballyhooing it as the most responsible thing to do .... pffft ... it's just another way to screw any chances of intelligent planned forestry, since having a fuelwood market locally is one important way to stimulate thinning and spacing and make use of wood not suitable for mills ... it really helped with cleanup and provided considerable employment, still does in many places of course, no thanks to BC Hydro ... gas was cheap as air back then, no way could that last forever