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To: Gary Mohilner who wrote (70045)	5/15/2016 10:41:11 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86350

"I'm 73, I believe that mankind can survive on earth with limited change during what may be my lifetime. What I totally disagree with in terms of the right is the constant allegation that doing the green thing, the right thing, whatever you want to call it is a job loser. We need to lead the world at making the needed improvements and it needs to take on the urgency of the Manhattan Project. Not panic, but change to make the world a better place." In engineering there is the concept of the "time constant of a system".It is known by the Greek symbol Tau. Basically the concept is easily understood by the idea of how long it takes to turn around a battle ship as the large mass of the battle ship makes fast change impossible as the "time constant" of the battleship is very large. The time constant of the planet earth makes that of the battleship look small. Basically that means that if AGW is happening it is going to happen. Changes due to green energy will be slow to have any impact. Ergo - if AGW is happening - it is going to happen. You are correct - if there is to be change it will require radical new technology - and I believe that technology would have to be a means to radiate heat to deep space. Even that would take decades to make an impact. Short of that huge advances in batteries are needed so that "green energy" is available when the wind does not blow or the sun does not shine and whatever impact "green energy" would have would begin to be real. It is good to believe that it is necessary to do something if one believes in the problem. It is also good to be honest as to what can be done and when. Bob