[FRIAM] bigger plans, bigger little mistakes

[Phil Henshaw]

yep, possibly good accelerators for improving efficiency, but same GD
wall at the end, since outpacing demand can only be temporary.   See the
bind?


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com 
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 5:03 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] bigger plans, bigger little mistakes
> 
> 
> phil henshaw wrote:
> > The consensus response to global warming relies on reducing the
> > impacts of economic growth by improving the efficiency of economic 
> > growth!
> So we need a lot more clean power, and we need it fast.   
> Time to spend 
> some money on figuring out how to do it!
> Without efficiency gains, it's estimated 10 TW are needed globally by 
> 2025. [1] 
> The ITER/DEMO fusion reactor only promises net 1.5 GW by 2045 
> [2], and 
> the largest hydroelectric facilities (Three Gorges Dam in 
> China) are at 
> about 22 GW [3].   There's not enough high-grade silicon for 
> dozens of 
> square miles of conventional photovoltaic solar [4]. Meanwhile, China 
> builds a new coal fired planed every week [5] and apparently can keep 
> doing that for 100 years [6].  
> 
> Seems to me any cost imbalance of solar, etc. is easily fixable by 
> taxing the hell out of CO2 energy emissions while subsidizing the 
> development of new solar, fusion, carbon sequestration 
> technology (etc). 
> 
> [1] http://t8web.lanl.gov/people/rajan/Gupta_energy_for_all_2007.pdf
> [2]  http://fire.pppl.gov/isfnt7_maisonnier.pdf
> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
> [4] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e50784ea-78cb-11db-8743-0000779e2340.html
> [5] http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1223/p01s04-sten.html
> [6] 
> http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friend>
ly_article.aspx?id=17963
> 
> 
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