| Re: Do not feed the Dinosaur!
Eeyore wrote:
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> Bill Baka wrote:
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>> Eeyore wrote:
>>> Bill Baka wrote:
>>>> Eeyore wrote:
>>>>> Bill Baka wrote:
>>>>>> Eeyore wrote:
>>>>>>> Bill Baka wrote:
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>>>>>>>> You must have cheap electricity then, because here in California we
>>>>>>>> start at about 15 cent per Kw/hour, then if we dare to go over 500 KwH
>>>>>>>> the rate jumps to nearly 20 cents per Kw/hour.
>>>>>>>> We don't call PG&E Pacific Gouge and Extortion for nothing.
>>>>>>>> Bill Baka
>>>>>>> That *still* doesn't make solar electricity generation economic.
>>>>>> One major investment versus paying and paying....
>>>>>> Kind like renting a house versus buying.
>>>>>> Good solar panels will last over 20 years and if you buy now you will
>>>>>> not be stuck with the ever increasing rates.
>>>>> They *still* don't make economic sense.
>>>> It doesn't make economic sense but but more of a global less CO2 sense.
>>> The best way to reduce CO2 emissions is to use energy more efficiently rather
>>> than find highly expensive new ways to make more.
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>> The best way would actually be "BIRTH CONTROL". Less people using
>> electricity.
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> You have an aversion to using energy efficiently ? It does seem to be the 'American
> way' it has to be said.
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>> Simple, but nobody wants to hear about that solution.
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> Because it's not going to happen. It would be a generation before it had any
> meaningful effect anyway.
I'm just wishing it would happen voluntarily, if possible. More people
use more power. I do feel sorry for the starving kids in Africa, but
they tend to have more and more children to replace the ones who died
for lack of food. We can't solve that problem and as the mortality rate
goes down the consumption goes up.
Catch-22.
Bill Baka
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> Graham
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