From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 02:41:08 MST
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, spike66 wrote:
> When the Kyoto Protocol was being debated I wondered
> about the fact that the US government does not have
> the authority to dictate how much CO2 is produced by
> its citizens. Furthermore there is nothing in the
Why have a meeting, then? The whole point is to not put the local fox in
charge of the local chickens. Because we know how well that's going to
work...
> US constitution from which such authority could be
> derived. In their saner moments, every government
> on the globe must have realized that they too lacked
> the authority to dictate CO2 production. Why did they
Authority? Huh?
> decide to play chicken with that proposal, and wait
> for the US to be the bad guy? Did not every government
> recognize this as a bad solution to a questionable
> "problem"? Did they not wait around for the US to
> point out that the emperor was naked as a boiled egg?
Aargh. Don't you see the big chances redicing the CO2 emission is giving
us? Spike, think solar satellites. Think beaming power from the Moon. (And
this requires completely or almost-complete closure fabbing in situ).
Think hydrogen economy, cheap photovoltaics, pipelines, storage,
hydrogen as synthetic agent, fuel cell cars, artificial photosynthesis,
and scooby dooby do.
This is tech waiting to be developed, and be exported for los muchos
dineros.
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