In a message dated 5/22/2001 10:24:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
talon57@well.com writes:
<< Read the 1999 book "Natural Capitalism" by Hawken and Lovins to
learn that conservation/high efficiency technologies already ARE
on-the-shelf. If implemented these revolutionary ideas would pay
themselves off within five years, after which we'd be pumping far
less greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and saving bucks to boot. >>
I am enthusiastic about solutions to the energy crises(s) of whatever flavor
oil for gasoline, of California's situation. Having said that, after many
years of watching what OPEC did twice in the 1970's, and the response to it,
I remain skeptical of Amory Lovins's claims. Micro turbines are expensive,
comparatively, as are fuel cells. I was was reading a New York Times business
article today, and the greatest seller of alternate power generation is not
Allied Signal(mircoturbines) or Ballard Power Systems(fuel cells), but
Caterpillar Inc. maker of diesel generators-thats OIL-fired generators. I
get cranky when the Lovin's make political statements, rather then technical
and economic ones. Let the dollar speak instead.
-Cynically, yours, Mitch
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