Jay You are so dogmatic. There are many "patterns in our genes", including working and cooperating together for common ends. We would not be the species we...
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Michael Vickerman
mvickerman@...
Mar 1, 2001 12:22 pm
Message: 5 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:17:22 -0800 From: Doug Salzmann <doug@...> Subject: RE: Re: PV facts At 09:49 AM 2/27/2001, Newton asked: Tom...
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Roger Baker
rcbaker@...
Mar 1, 2001 12:29 pm
Here's the link to today's New York Times story that reveals that its congressional sponsor, Sen. Frank Murkowski of Alaska, also head of the Energy and...
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Frith Denis
denisaf2000@...
Mar 1, 2001 1:20 pm
Andrew I know that it is no consolation but our (Australian) Prime Minister is no better informed than your President. Denis Frith ... Is there a consensus...
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Frith Denis
denisaf2000@...
Mar 1, 2001 1:27 pm
Scott I agree that humans cannot contribute as much physical energy as is required to maintain them, but what about intellectual energy. There are many people ...
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Roger Blanchard
blanchard@...
Mar 1, 2001 2:03 pm
Andrew, There is no question that oil production from ANWR and all other off-limit areas in the U.S. combined will have little effect upon U.S. dependence of ...
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Lawrence B. Crowell
lcrowell@...
Mar 1, 2001 2:10 pm
... This is an aspect of an old debate, nature vs nurture. The recent announcement that the human genome contains only 32,000 genes is somewhat telling. It...
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mwgreg140@...
Mar 1, 2001 2:20 pm
In a message dated 2/27/01 5:40:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, Virginia.Abernethy@... writes: << Hi: This story is interesting only for one...
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Dana Visalli
dana@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:18 pm
In case you wondered how many neighbors your child could have in 2050, here's the latest UN report. I read recently that if humans had, on average, one-child...
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Karl Davies
kdavies@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:19 pm
... Well, it seems they have at least determined that PV and wind are not going to power the (drum roll...) New Hydrogen Economy. They see natural gas and...
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weaseldog2001@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:27 pm
Depends on the interpretation. Most Americans will interpret it in a manner that does not work. Technically he is right. Sever conservation combined with...
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weaseldog2001@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:28 pm
Ahhh, the idea of using thermoelectric materials to provide electricity from the difference in temperature between the ocean depths and surface. Forgot that...
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weaseldog2001@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:28 pm
Once EROI for PVs is positive, then they'll be worth using... I need some real numbers of certain processes. Using guestimates, still leads me to the...
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lynx5_5@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:29 pm
... ~~~~~~ This gets to the heart of the issue! I believe Hubbert was including *all* human functions and capabilities in his statement (quoted in original...
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Doug Salzmann
doug@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:33 pm
... No, we can't. But we can attempt to address the issue with dispassionate analysis rather than with emotional advocacy and charges of conspiracy. That, in...
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Jay Hanson
jay@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:34 pm
... "cooperating together for common ends" wasn't one of the choices. Indeed, not one person on this list -- including you -- has posted a plausible scenario...
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Jay Hanson
jay@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:36 pm
... No, it's not "fatalism". No one on this list has posted a plausible scenario -- or any scenario for that matter -- showing how anarchy and Hitler could be...
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weaseldog2001@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:36 pm
You're agreeing with Jay, though you don't know it. If we didn't have this internal drive, that is provided by our genes, we would not be successful. That is...
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Doug Salzmann
doug@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:37 pm
... Absolutely. The main questions about the value of thermal systems and solar design relate to feasibility of implementation. Solar water heating probably...
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weaseldog2001@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:37 pm
Changing the course of events that are determined by the motions of billions of individuals, requires that you overcome and redirect the energy of billions of...
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Sheila Newman
smnaesp@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:38 pm
Hi everybody, Has anyone read, "Aggregation and the role of energy in the economy" by Cutler J Cleveland, Robert K. Kaufman and David I Stern? It can be found...
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weaseldog2001@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:38 pm
From the following site, I got a new number for solar cell wattage... http://www.acre.murdoch.edu.au/refiles/pv/text.html 1.5 watts per wafer. That's good...
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Leonard Kater
lgwkater@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:49 pm
Hey Jack, Your payback time of 273,710 years for silicon wafer based PV simply sounds rediculous. Much better times you will probably get by calculating the...
5942
lynx5_5@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:50 pm
[answer to Jay's implicit question] Jay implicitly asked about the new Battle-in-Seattle type resistance movements, saying he didn't know much about them. This...
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Roger Baker
rcbaker@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:52 pm
... Brian, et al, It is true that humans have many compassionate behaviors wired-in genetically and the intelligence to solve problems of human cooperation...
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jean laherrere
jean.laherrere@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:52 pm
Roger The US import today about 1.5 Mb/d or 0.5 Gb/a of oil from Saudi Arabia, if the ANWR holds 16 Gb it is correct to say that it can replace the Saudi ...
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mwgreg140@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:56 pm
In a message dated 3/1/01 6:14:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, unno@... writes: << On Wed, 28 February 2001, mwgreg140@... wrote: ... ...
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weaseldog2001@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:59 pm
Your question on the US is easy to answer. Because our troops are dedicated to occupying the Middle East and we intend to stay there. We get the best deals...
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solartex@...
Mar 1, 2001 7:36 pm
Dear Jay Hanson, Over and over again, versions of a "plausible scenario" for using enough incoming solar energy for living within deeply reduced, yet...
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weaseldog2001@...
Mar 1, 2001 7:36 pm
Then you're saying that although you don't have numbers that I can use to refine my calculations for current EROEI, I am wrong because things will get better? ...
