N.Z. Bear is taking on a 2 percent solution suggested in some brainy whoop-te-do article on fixing the environment with solar energy.
“If 2 percent of the continental United States were covered with photovoltaic systems with a net efficiency of 10 percent, we would be able to supply all the U.S. energy needs,” said Bulovic, the KDD Associate Professor of Communications and Technology in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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This is suggested by a professor at MIT - so what else do we need to know???
So, with N.Z. Bear’s figuring, all the country has to do is PAVE OVER GEORGIA to save the world. Of course, they aren’t counting on any rainy nights in Georgia, now are they?
Him and his commenters did a lot of fancy figuring and calculating. HOWEVER, one cost they DIDn’T figure on is how they are going to get ME out of MY house to pave over Georgia.
It’ll get ugly up in here - not to mention it could get right costly!
As I pointed out in his comments. We Georgians take our Second Amendment rights VERY seriously.
They are doing some serious figuring over there. But I say just pave over Mexico and take care of several problems at once.
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:54 pm
I notice that it seems like another case of NIMBY- since they didn’t propose to pave over the California deserts. Those ugly @ssed white windmills they have are bad enough though, so maybe they figured they sacrificed enough.
July 3rd, 2006 at 12:04 am
Hey now, let’s not be too hasty in choosing Mexico. I still live down here. I say we use all the blue states and deport the lefties to someplace nice where they’ll fit in, Cuba comes to mind…
July 3rd, 2006 at 12:18 am
Kurt - California really IS a good idea! It’s going to fall off into the ocean anyway
Bullwinkle! Good to see you. Cuba’s good or Iran??
July 3rd, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Hell let them pave over New Mexico, we have tons of desert and too much sun. Of course they would have to reactivate the &th cavalry to handle the Indian uprisings. Hmm that would make for some interesting warblogging!