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Tue Apr 24 10:49:49 EDT 2007
please don't appeal to my fear or think I might care..
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This page finally made me realize why global warming chicken lit-
tles bother me so much:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,k-7100,00.html
What I want to know is, when are environmentalists going to real-
ize that the way to convince people to use alternative "clean"
energies is to appeal to our desire to have CHEAPER, more inde-
pendent sources of energy? When I say "independent" I mean a way
to generate electricity MYSELF. I don't mean it in terms of the
US not relying on oil from unstable countries - I mean me not re-
lying on the national electrical grid.
If a technology came out that allowed me to make a relatively
small investment, break ties with the bastard power and natural
gas companies, and not rely on a relatively unreliable distribu-
tion mechanism (i.e., power lines from a centeral source) then I
would jump on that in a second.
What is needed is a disruptive technological break through - like
super cheap, efficient, and super long lasting solar panels that
would allow me to disconnect from the grid completely. The key
is that I would have to be able to recover any modest investments
very quickly - and for me that is no longer than 3-6 months. It
would additionally have to be very low to no maintenance and su-
per easy to install so that I don't have to pay a licensed elec-
trician to do it.
Why would I want to pay a premium on a hybrid car? To "save the
planet"? Don' make me LOL out loud there. The same goes for the
expensive, fragile, and low yield indepenent energy sources that
are available today.
These people need to spend less time talking and more on facili-
tating the disruptive technological breakthroughs that will allow
everyone to finally become energy independent. I can see a time
when each house generates its own electricity. No power lines
mean no power outages during severe weather. They'd be more mon-
ey in the pockets of everyone, so other industries would grow to
accomidate the loss of the energy markets, etc. It is a win for
the real world, practical consumer and for the enviro-freak.
I don't see this as a conspiracy of any particular industry try-
ing to preserve its dominance. I see it as a failure of the tree
hugger, socialist freaks from understanding the power of the free
market to effect change. If the supposed concern for the Earth's
environment was not a passive attack against Capitalism, I might
be more inclined to agree with the message. At the end of the
day, the choice to not take the free market approach is a very
conscious, calculated, and utterly retarded one - from what I can
tell, anyway.
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