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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (408336)	8/20/2008 8:48:00 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574805

>Z, we're not going to "reduce our carbon footprint" by a significant amount unless we significantly reduce our standard of living. I'm just not convinced of that. >Of course, you can always promise the "Holy Grail" of alternative energy that proves to be more potent and less environmentally harmful than oil, but until then, you're going to be squeezing blood out of a stone. I'm pretty convinced that if we'd spent hundreds of billions on solar and wind over the last 30 years, we'd have been somewhere by now. We might still be powering our cars mostly on oil, but we could've reduced our reliance on fossil fuels for our energy needs in our homes and businesses, where storage and portability isn't as much of an issue. We likely could've reduced our emissions significantly (50%?) by now, and could've led the rest of the world in doing the same. I'm very interested in seeing the effectiveness of the solar plant being built in CA... -Z