Re: Books



Scotty wrote:

The world will be destroyed before then... At 50% efficiency that is an area of
2 million sq metres of collector or 500 acres which according to one of your
examples has to track the sun! I wonder if the power collected is enough to move
that array. And 500 acres on which you can't grow food...

Well, your first (non-mathematical) mistake is twofold...
that of assuming all land is arable and that all cropland
is in food production.

Or some charlatan trying to sell you a "new" kind of bridge.

Or some Luddite with hands over eyes...humming loudly.

Well, now that the name-calling is out of the way, what shall
we talk about?

Deirdre
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