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Originally Posted by renormalised
Very commendable efforts. But like I said before, most people will want to keep their present lifestyles in so far as energy usage goes. That's just a give fact. If we can implement some of these technologies, then great. Do it. But if we want to see costs come down and efficiency to rise, we're going to have to look at other ways of doing things. No matter how laudable or necessary a thing might be, if it's going to cost too much in the long run, most people won't have a bar of it, eventually. I'm afraid it'll take a lot longer to change human nature than it will to build these powerplants. They will only ever be a stopgap measure (even if that means 50 years of use, or more).
That's why we need the money to do the research necessary to come up with these technologies. In the meantime, we have to make do with what we can do. But we're going to have to pull our heads in when we do.
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I wonder how the mob would react to a choice between a carbon tax designed to fleece the masses without impacting the large CO2 producers and getting wasted on flying Krudd and friends to world climate conventions or a levy to start changing over to renewable power sources? Sadly that is not an option we are being given.
Mark