isn't it fun to throw explosives at people that you disagree with? obviously the storm trooper is on the side of righteousness....

No, it's highly irresponsible, unless of course, it's your job. There's nothing like pleasure at work.garyb wrote:isn't it fun to throw explosives at people that you disagree with?
An interesting observation. If there are two sides to the 'force' in Star Wars, why didn't Darth Vader come over to the Light Side?garyb wrote:obviously the storm trooper is on the side of righteousness....
ah, the Sheep, there they are.dawman wrote: Even though the Sheep think thier tax dollars are spent to bring them comfort during a crisis.
I'm with you, and I think that there is an overall gain to using things like solar, wind and geothermal that will come from decentralized power. I just heard something about a promising new technology that uses graphene cables to transfer heat from miles into the crust. It's basically geothermal but a lot easier to implement and can happen nearly anywhere. I also think that new better nuclear reactors could be part of the answer, but there's too much emotional baggage to implement that. Another technology, that's cheap and easy to implement that would help the environment out a lot is the latex condom. There are plain and simply too many humans but no democratically elected official will admit to this. Also, I bet I save a lot of kilowatts using an XITE-1 instead of giant racks of synth gear and modular stuff.garyb wrote:no, THOSE solar panels are for the military.
the panels on my house are for me.
making panels pollutes a LOT of water and is not a "clean" process. it's not any cleaner than using oil. there are metals, rare elements and gases that are quite poisonous involved in manufacture. it's a good thing of course, to decentralize power and in the long term, panels are less expensive than oil, gas, and coal(not in the short term), that's why i purchased panels. to think that they will create a clean world is crazy talk. it takes people to make a clean world, not technology.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/ ... rty-secret
http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/sol ... -you-think
since ALL man-made greenhouse gases including, but not limited to CO2, is only some 0.3% of all greehouse gases in the earth's atmosphere(water vapor being 95% of the entire total), burning the oil or using the panels won't affect climate change in any way. there is just basic math involved here. we won't even consider the blast furnaces needed to turn sand into pure silica and the CO2 emissions from that.
again, i LIKE solar panels. i generate my own electricity using them. i only pay to run the air conditioner in the summer, and occasional electric heat in the coldest few weeks in the winter.