On Mar 26, 1:24 pm, "Chris.B" <
chri...@nypost.dk> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 5:19 am, Rich <
n...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > You stupid dope. What do you suppose would happen if we ditched oil,
> > coal, etc? In addition to spending 50% of our income of B.S. alternate
> > energy, the SAME kind of corporations who run oil would run wind and
> > solar. Fool.
>
> Whoah! Let's not be quite so quick to attack the dope. Wind and solar
> have the almost unique ability to provide independent energy free of
> the monster energy companies.
Wind power is not practical on a small scale.
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/04/small-windmills-test-results.html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/30/why-windmills-won’t-wash/
Of course any given solar panel will work less well in a dark, cloudy,
northern clime such as Denmark than it would in a sunnier, more
tropical country such as Bangladesh.
> Without the corrosive demand for ever
> higher quarterly payments mankind could suddenly find itself severed
> from the treadmill of work.
Treadmill of work:
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-06-01/bike-powered-electricity-generators-are-not-sustainable
> No need to commute for miles merely to
> keep warm and enjoy the benefits of electricity.
There are other benefits to commuting. One could also suggest that
keeping warm is easier in a tropical country such as Bangladesh than
it is in a dark, cold northern country such as Denmark.
> Much of which is
> wasted over very long supply cables and conversion from AC to DC in
> our domestic apparatus.
It's funny you should mention that since Denmark imports so much of
its electricity from Sweden.
> The world needs to save energy more than it
> needs to increase energy output.
Tell that to the kids:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3788/
> Why no global home insulation drive?
Again, one could also suggest that keeping warm is easier in a
tropical country such as Bangladesh than it is in a dark, cold
northern country such as Denmark.
> Because it keeps us tied to the Big Providers. Africa is discovering
> oil just as we need their dirt cheap labour to make more shit as China
> becomes too expensive. Who will make the dirt cheap shit now? Robots?
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/after-hours/2011/08/29/inside-legos-danish-factory-40093752/
I'm not knocking Lego blocks, I had fun with them when I was a young
child.
> Electric cars have now been touted as potential battery stores for our
> homes. Take transport (too) out of the list of holds which employment
> has over us and it all begins to look quite rosy. Why do we need coal
> and oil when we can live independent from them?
Denmark gets about half of its electricity from coal plants some of
which are owned by Sweden, which has nukes and hydro but no coal
plants within its borders. Meanwhile, wind hasn't contributed much to
Denmark's energy picture. And a good portion of Denmark's fuel use
involves container shipping.
> This new found freedom
> should be top of the right wing political agenda if individual freedom
> really is their goal for all. Imagine a world where our actual working
> hours shrank back to that of the caveman?
And our life expectancy as well. Also, cavemen got by without posting
hourly rants on the Internet. What's your excuse?
> A world where self
> expression and real talents could find value to society again.
Ugh. Og kill mammoth. Og eat leftover mammoth rest of life. Have time
now draw on cave wall.
> Instead
> of being passive consumers and slaves to the treadmill we could all
> lead our own lives. Instead of merely contributing to the obscenity of
> the already, utterly pointlessly wealthy.
Who, for the most part invest the money.
> It won't happen of course. We are all too addicted to wasting our
> lives away. Worshipping the infinite gradations of status and
> hierarchy. Filling our empty hours by collecting worthless, ephemeral
> detritus and paying to be amused by others less talented than
> ourselves.
You should quit that.
? Even YouTube is changing its Open Contribution policy to
> something far more commercial and saleable. I blame TV for most of it.
> Before TV people made things for themselves and amused themselves with
> their own natural talents. CNC ended mechanical talent. TV the ability
> to think for oneself. Hobbies became something other people did.
Such as, for example, amateur astronomy?
> While
> we passively looked on. Bemused and critical by turns on our TVs. Or
> scribbling semi-literate, obscene comments on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tar4V4t4ADA
I suggest that all Denmarkians load up their windmills, solar panels,
bicycles, Lego blocks, any spare treadle pumps they may have lying
around, and emigrate to Bangladesh. Once there, they can let the
Bangladeshis scrap the ships, while the Denmarkians set up the solar
panels and operate the treadle pumps.
With the Denmarkians now shouldering the burden of operating the
treadle pumps and other tasks, the Bangladeshi children can spend time
getting an education and with the solar panels set up, there will be
enough light for them to do homework after sunset.
Freed from a cold climate, the Denmarkians will no longer have to
worry about staying warm, saving quite a bit of fuel. Who knows, the
Swedes might even learn to get by with just hydroelectric plants!