From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 21:18:03 MST
In a message dated 3/21/2002 8:51:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:
Robert Bardbury noted:
<<Are the folks over there *crazy*? (No offense to citizens
in the respective countries intended.) This is interesting
because it would seem to cast Sweden and Germany on courses
quite opposed to France with the U.K. someplace in the middle.>>
<<http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclear-civil-02k.html>>
This statement from the Spacedaily article was telling
<<The agreement also calls for the production of renewable energy to increase
from the current six terrawatt hours, of a total of 150, to 16 terrawatt
hours in the next eight years, and stipulates that a certain quota of all
electricity bought by consumers must come from solar or wind power or
biofuels.>>
Its merely, magical thinking. The Swedes have no access to some magical
"green" technology that would produce the amount of electrical power that
they desire. I would love there to be some magical solution also, but no
engineer is standing up and saying 'here is the solution that will work, and
here is the evidence.'
Why not Hot Dry Rock Geothermal, for example? Technical advances are always
welcome, but very, rarely, are they world-shakers. I suspect that there are
decent advantageous, thing we could do, but I see little evidence that the
Swededs are succeeding, where all other nations have failed.
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