Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
"Did not mean to be insulting, in fact, wasn't."

Maybe it was the wrong word -I meant to say that I felt insulted at the idea that I would have said something so dumb.

Anyway, I take your word that you did not imply that.

"First I am not arguing for an all wind and PV grid, as i've stated over and over."

Well, then we're agreed -I must admit that I had read some (not all) of your posts as arguing for that. I must have misunderstood them.

"But to have wind a very high penetration in the grid, i also stated is now  EASY to do FAST in a mature industry, which wind has already proven. I stated the UK could ramp up to 6 gigs a year within 3 years, that's huge. Wind's current capacity total in the UK is 6.5 gigs, equal to 4.5% of annual demand. So i claim 4.5% of new demand met each year by 2015."

I don't dispute that as far as the supply chain is concerned. I'm less sanguine about that happening in the UK because of British law. But even if it were on a slightly smaller scale, I'm a big supporter of ramping up thick and fast. Please read anything I ever write about energy with that in mind: I am fully convinced of the possibility and opportunity (from an energetic, environmental and economic perspective) of strongly ramping up renewables.

"Of course i understand that introducing new technology in our civilization is problem free"

Well, I did not say that. But we will have to do something about nuclear waste. Using it as fuel is not the dumbest idea a priori. It may be that we should not do it, but then we need to show how the alternatives are better.

"Without the Hubris of thinking your civilization is capable of building miniature suns yet."

Let's not go there though, please. This kind of arguments have been used against many a scientific progress, especially IVF, without which my first son would not have been born.
Let's discuss scientific endeavours on their merits, rather than introducing this kind of moral taboo. Renewables don't need that to sound good -I mean, the name alone is inspiring.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Fri Feb 10th, 2012 at 03:45:00 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Others have rated this comment as follows:

Display:

Occasional Series