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____/ Rex Ballard on Friday 18 Dec 2009 09:27 : \____
> On Dec 14, 7:35 pm, Eyeball <culleys_eyeb...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:49:10 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> > What would Al Gore use?
>> Answer: Whatever makes him the most money.
>>
>
> Men like Al gore already have all the money they need. What they seek
> is power, the chance to make a difference, and the chance to have a
> positive place in history.
>
>> It figures that you would support another
>> dishonest opportunist liar like Al Gore,
>
> Al Gore has used his name to try to make a difference. All Gore
> didn't invent the internet, but when the Bush I administration cut the
> funding for the ARPA network and the National Science Foundation
> Network, which was the predecessor to what we now call "the Internet",
> Al Gore brought attention to the fact that there was already a huge
> communications infrastructure that could be used by businesses and
> educational institutions alike. He helped to sponsor the funding to
> keep the core infrastructure and communications network links from
> being dismantled.
>
> When MCI offered to charge 1/3rd of what their competitors were
> bidding, if they could put business on the same communications links,
> because there would be enough bandwidth for both, the government
> snapped it up, and within 12 months the Internet had gone
> "commercial".
>
> Al Gore didn't invent global warming, there is a substantial body of
> scientific research that indicates that the earth is warming up, that
> CO2 and other "greenhouse gasses" are helping to raise those
> tempratures, and that at some point, if the trend continues, most of
> the equatorial regions will be uninhabitable, sea levels will rise,
> ice caps will melt, and weather will get more dramatic. Eventually,
> less and less of the planet will be habitable, until only the polar
> areas can support human life and domesticated crops and animals.
>
> What scientists don't agree on is how soon this dramatic change will
> happen - whether it will be 1000 years, 100 years, or even only a
> decade or two. They also don't agree on how to reverse the trend.
>
> Al Gore again stepped in and suggested that something should be done
> about the issue, and suddenly the global economy is beginning to look
> at alternatives. Burning liquid methane aka "natural gas" yields less
> CO2 and the other byproduct is water.
>
> Nuclear Reactor technology has advanced radically in the last 20
> years, since 3 mile island. Gas cooled and Sodium cooled reactors
> eliminate nearly all liquid waste, and need to be refueled much less
> often. These newer reactors are used in Aircraft carriers, and by the
> French and many of their international customers. In places where
> there aren't the extreme regulations and paranoia, Nuclear reactors
> are providing the promise of power "too cheap to meter".
>
> Bio-Diesel and Ethanol can be blended in various ways to significantly
> reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and research is showing that
> both can be derived from plants that can easily grow in arid or sandy
> soils, like switch-grass and various types of weeds. The Bio-fuels
> are cleaner, but they are more expensive.
>
> Many of the big "Oil Companies" have been planning ahead for decades,
> and have just been waiting for the incentive to make the switch.
>
> On the other hand, the Coal industry is very concerned, because coal
> mining is still very labor intensive and shifting away from coal could
> leave millions of workers who mine, transport, and manage coal fired
> plants out of work.
>
> One of the frustrations of the current electrical grid is that
> although energy could be produce more economically by putting power
> plants closer to the resources they need, such as moving coal fired
> plants to West Virginia, or nuclear plants to Utah (where safe storage
> is literally a few hundred feet away in salt mines), or Windmills in
> states that have lower risk of tornadoes, or solar plants in places
> like death valley or Nevada.
>
> The problem is that the power grid was not designed to accommodate
> fluctuations in weather, or distribution from deserted areas of the
> country to densely populated cities. Even if you could generate a few
> gigawatts of power, you could theoretically sell it back, but moving
> it from a ranch in the rocky mountains to a major citty, even a nearby
> one like Denver, wouldn't be possible, because the wires are all
> designed to go from the cities to the suburbs and then to the rural
> areas, often with small guage wire providing the transport to the
> farms.
>
> It's likely that Al Gore has also seen the possibilities of Linux on
> the desktop, much the way he saw the possibilities of Linux servers
> back in the 1990s. Linux made it possible for low-cost PCs, located
> or near restaurants, businesses, and other strategic locations to
> interconnect with each other and provide dial-up access to the
> Internet. Once hundreds of millions of people were using Dial-up,
> cable companies and telephone companies realized that they COULD run
> that "last mile" of high speed cable profitably.
>
>> Roy Schestowitz. Why?
>> Because you are one yourself Schestowitz.
>
> Roy, like many of us who post to this group, see that Linux makes
> possible things that Windows doesn't. Linux gives you more freedom
> and power over your PC. It gives you the power to do things that you
> probably couldn't afford to do with Windows and Windows software. At
> the same time, the Security, stability, and flexibility of Linux have
> led to it's deployment in hundreds of millions of devices over the
> last 10 years.
>
> You might not see a Linux logo on your computer at the moment, but
> it's very likely that if you are reading this e-mail, you used Linux
> or Unix to get it.
Google uses Linux at almost every level.
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