Re: if you were president

Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4 May 2007 13:23:11 -0700, $Zero <zero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

if i were president, i'd focus a lot of the nation's time and energy
on developing affordable and practical solar powered technology.

then i'd have the Chinese mass produce it and make the solar power
modules available cheaply to everyone.

for what?

to gear up all of the world's populations to be able to better focus
all of their time and energies on becoming master musicians and
doctors and architects and farmers and chefs and space explorers and
whatnot instead of dumbfuck warriors.

As far as I know, affordable solar is still a big technological
question mark.

Depends a lot on what you mean by "affordable" don't it. One of the
big problems is that folks have been trained to use lots more
electricity than is actually needed to get the job done. Plenty of
ways to cut down on what's used. In some ways Nicky Tesla shot us in
the ass by making it easy to transmit 'lectricity long distances, too
bad he ain't around to help fix it. By and large, folks who set up a
solar power system are doing some silly stuff. They try to replace
the power input to a wasteful house instead of doing the job that
needs done. Kind of like converting a gas-hog V8 to run on alcohol
instead of starting out by replacing it with a 4-banger. People are
addicted to wasting power. Power companies like it that way, it's how
they make their money. Gas companies tend to jerk things around to
maximize profit, they raise gas prices and solar companies get a few
bucks to research with, they look like figuring something out, gosh
guess what gas prices go back down and nobody cares anymore. If the
human race wasn't short-sighted and stupid, on the whole, well we'd be
something else wouldn't we, and it'd prolly still be goofy. Gas
prices have been going up here at the start of camping season, driving
the prices on camp trailers and other kinds of RVs down, keeping the
hoi-polloi at home to fix up their raggedy-assed houses because they
can't afford to "See The USA In Your Chevrolet". It's all pretty much
a joke innit, follow da money.

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