[tinwhiskers] Re: Do-Gooders
- From: "Bob Landman" <rlandman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tinwhiskers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 02:20:00 -0400
Dear Gordon,
Global warming is a subject that none of us here is, I suspect, a subject
matter expert.
The subject in this forum is tin whiskers and we all have various degrees of
expert knowledge about the subject and that's what we should focus on.
I think it is counterproductive to go off on a tangent on a subject of which
there is considerable vocal disagreement.
I can't speak for how rational or irrational the science on global warming is.
I'm leaving that to the climate scientists and meterologists to sort out.
Besides, it seems to me that there's a lot of positive effects to come from
dealing with the potential threat of climate change. Improved efficency in
energy consuming products for one. New sources of energy for another. Wind
turbines now are being built in Germany that will produce 7MW each! Solar
(both PV and sterling engine), tidal, the potential of fusion (still off in the
future but still theoretically quite possible. A fusion physicst friend
(retired from NRL) proposes fusion-fission as an intermediary solution as that
burns up the waste as it is being generated.
None of these developments would be seeing the major investments they are now
getting were it not for the recent spike in the price of oil. And of course
the cartel cleverly lowers the price every time we get started on alternative
energy so the threat of global warming keeps the heat on (so to speak) to
develop these new sources to compete with oil. And that's a good thing, don't
you think? For no other reason than national security (economic as well as
defense).
So global warming turns out to be a tempest in a teapot, so what? Plenty of
new jobs and industries are being created.
Isn't that's a lot better than continuing to burn fossil fuels, esp. coal? It
seems so to me.
I have my hands full dealing with lead being removed from solder. I'm content
to deal with that.
Bob
From: tinwhiskers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:tinwhiskers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gordon Davy
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 6:18 PM
To: tinwhiskers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tinwhiskers] Do-Gooders
Bob,
What's to decouple? Phil Shewmaker shared some valuable information on what he
is seeing coming into his company for service. His only mention of global
warming was that its proponents act in exactly the same way as the proponents
of other activist causes, including RoHS. After having been an observer since
my days in Berkeley in the 1960s, I think his characterization of "Do-Gooder"
activist behavior is quite accurate. It would be off-topic to speculate on who
wrote their play book, so I won't. But I will say that what ties all their
goals together is a desire to reduce the freedom of us little people and to
concentrate power in the hands of an elite (of which they will be members, of
course).
Gordon
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