tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post2617109169917196449..comments2024-03-29T00:30:39.262-05:00Comments on real economics: Polish 'Coal-aholics'Jonathan Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-16255977466677919482013-01-08T13:40:40.152-06:002013-01-08T13:40:40.152-06:00Thanks for your great information, the contents ar...Thanks for your great information, the contents are quiet interesting.I will be waiting for your next post.<br /><a href="www.sire-search.com" rel="nofollow">life sciences</a>V. K. Sinhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181184742206228172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-87376774235432713812012-12-31T15:44:44.583-06:002012-12-31T15:44:44.583-06:00Thanks Mike.
Brilliantly written.
I often wonder ...Thanks Mike.<br />Brilliantly written.<br /><br />I often wonder if the insistence on instant perfection doesn't come from people who never learned to build difficult things as children. As a result they can stare in awe at something like a Renaissance cathedral while listening to the tour guide tell them it required 150 years to build and not understand that the good stuff takes a lot of time and persistence, overcoming hundreds of setbacks, and maneuvering around more than a few wrong turns to accomplish. They are the sort of people who wonder why figuring out a new way to power a society can't be done immediately.<br /><br />I don't know—bring back the 1500-part Erector Sets maybe.Jonathan Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-36745005740875648322012-12-31T10:14:11.148-06:002012-12-31T10:14:11.148-06:00One of my constant sources of frustration in energ...One of my constant sources of frustration in energy matters is the insistence on instant perfection by green energy critics.<br /><br />Not only critics from the oil/gas side of the fence who of course are defending their turf, but also from the purist greenies who insist all wind turbines shall never harm a bird or remote solar/wind farms should somehow beam the electricity directly into urban centers without the need for transmission lines.<br /><br />All this creates an analysis and policymaking paralysis that has held back green energy progress now since at least the 1970s energy crisis, if not since Tesla and Edison et al were kicking solar ideas back in the day.<br /><br />All of which wouldn't be half bad if at least history would show the grace and generosity of the oil/gas industry leadership, eh...but we know now the truth there.<br /><br />And now we have global warming/climate change...and a global economy clumsily avoiding a green energy job market that actually might solve this ongoing recession for a generation...and yet given these challenges and opportunities, society STILL cannot move forward.<br /><br />Which brings us (me anyhow) back to the God question...and the meaning of life. I cannot imagine a better way for a God (or whatever interplanetary council of leadership you prefer) to judge the value of the humanity of us creatures placed here, than to sit in idle amazement of our inability to save ourselves as a global society.<br /><br />The answers are right there for the taking, and yet for 50 years of increasingly mounting evidence, we choose certain death of the entire society over an increasingly obvious solution. I share your frustration with the deniers, who are they saving? What will they pass on to their children, a lesson in stubbornness and inaction?Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05252804186064393926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-27681510676216451532012-12-24T03:29:55.241-06:002012-12-24T03:29:55.241-06:00There's no pure examples out there. I give th...There's no pure examples out there. I give the Germans a lot of credit for moving the technology of renewables froward, and I certainly appreciate their willingness to take on some very tough problems. <br /><br />But are they perfect? No?<br /><br />Gimme a break—if I cannot celebrate partial success, I don't have anything to celebrate. The topics I cover are grim enough as it is.Jonathan Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217670446743983955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413935813892441553.post-30917764821753025002012-12-24T03:09:58.687-06:002012-12-24T03:09:58.687-06:00Isn't Germany building 24+ coal fired power st...Isn't Germany building 24+ coal fired power stations?just askin.marcmarchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14415426599368157490noreply@blogger.com