[lit-ideas] Re: Dumbing it down for Julie...
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 03:09:08 -0500
JK:
>>Ah, if only all e-mails came through entirely intact and with universal
>>indications re. quotation style, etc.<<
Yes, one of my pet peeves, too. I hate trying to guess what a cryptic post is
in response to -- as if it were assumed I had been paying attention.
Julie Krueger: "admittedly slow and dumb under the best of circumstances"
Goethe: "Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away." : )
Mike Geary
a run-away
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Krueger
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:03 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dumbing it down for Julie...
Ah, if only all e-mails came through entirely intact and with universal
indications re. quotation style, etc.
One can only dream.
Thanks for clarifying.
Julie Krueger
admittedly slow and dumb under the best of circumstances
On 5/29/08, David Wright <wright@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
R e s p o n d i n g t o t h e f o l l o w i n g . . .
Irene:
Natural gas powers a lot of our electricity (oil is mostly transportation,
agriculture, plastics and the like) and natural gas is going the way of oil
which is to say, it's a finite resource, running down. Water is running down
too, so states that use hydroelectric power may start to see declines in the
not too distant future. Biofuel is a waste, literally.
...
The problem with nuclear power plants is that they take about 10 years to
come on line, and they take oil to build, so we need to get started on them
pretty quick...
...
The real answer is conservation, lots of conservation, plus wind and solar
farms out in the desert. Also conserving water big time and transporting goods
by rail and water instead of truck.
w r i t i n g v e
r y s l o w l
y . .
.
d.
Is David talking to himself?
Julie Krueger
On 5/29/08, David Wright <wright@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well said. That is the problem, in a nutshell, that the majority will
not exercise limited use. I suspect that even coal would suffice if only...
That is, fundamentally, my argument against religious veggiedom. That is to
say, that abstention from the consumption of meat is not enough, it is merely a
star(t) on the horizon...
egregiously yours,
d.
I recently heard a discussion with pro-nuclear power types who
claim it's not dangerous. They made a pretty good case. The problem from what
I could tell is that we don't really have much choice. Natural gas powers a
lot of our electricity (oil is mostly transportation, agriculture, plastics and
the like) and natural gas is going the way of oil which is to say, it's a
finite resource, running down. Water is running down too, so states that use
hydroelectric power may start to see declines in the not too distant future.
Biofuel is a waste, literally.
The problem with nuclear power plants is that they take about
10 years to come on line, and they take oil to build, so we need to get started
on them pretty quick, and of course where to bury the rods (some can be
recycled I think). Unfortunately, we need so many power plants that there's
only enough uranium for about 20 years if enough plants were to be built to
power everything.
The real answer is conservation, lots of conservation, plus
wind and solar farms out in the desert. Also conserving water big time and
transporting goods by rail and water instead of truck. I heard/read that
Algeria I think is coming up with solar farms, these huge magnified mirror type
things, such that they may be able to power Europe. We're not even beginning
to think about anything at all.
--- On Fri, 5/30/08, David Wright <wright@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: David Wright <wright@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Today's situation with food
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 3:02 AM
Always a Roberts reader, and even a secret Irene affic... I
wouldn't bust your (non-pork) chops if I didn't generally agree with you.
By-the-by, what are your thoughts on nuke power, considering that we cannot
reasonably expect the masses to limit their consumption of electricity.
turning a dynamo,
d.
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