Originally Posted by Geof  No I did not 'say' anything. I took a section from the article you referenced in support of your points and made it bold and italised. I was pointing out that you cherry picked numbers to support your points but the very article you used has conclusions that support the points Mariss and I make.
I have not bothered to check whether the person I quoted was correct in their analysis; you can do that if you want to dispute it, after all it is your link.
Does it not occur to you that the reason Mariss and I are hard to convince is because we do understand the technology, the energetics, the thermodynamics? I do not need to run numbers to know that using nuke power to desalinate sea water for irrigation of deserts is totally unfeasible. |
Hi Geof,
I mentioned that to simply make the point that there are alternatives to fossil fuels, the cost will simply be higher. At some point the cost of making synthetic fuels will equal that of fossil fuels. Yes there are difficulties, but it's not impossible. I didn't intentionally cheery pick that article, I just read enough to see what I wanted and left the source so you could examine it. I should have read it more throughly.
Sorry,
Donna
I'll do some more research and get back to you.