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Comment Re:"The Polar Bears will be fine" (Score 1, Flamebait) 372

You know, if that were all Alarmists wanted to do I'd support that totally. Heck I do support that already--I am 100% solar powered and 100% off-grid already.

But that's not where so many Alarmists stop. They want to ban beef because cows make methane. They want to force me to buy light bulbs that cost 10X as much as the ones I had because they use less energy (mox nix in my case since it's my power, but I use LEDs because it's my power). They want me to install showers that are even more low flow than the ones I have now, and it's been seriously proposed that I have to get rid of flush toilets completely in favor of stinky "dry toilets". Some of them want to ban the internal combustion engine, stop flying for pleasure (doesn't apply to their folks of course), cease cruise ships for the same reason, tear up roads in favor of bike paths everywhere.

Yeah. If they stopped at the power thing I'd be with them 100%. Go beyond that and they just get dismissed as seeking power over me. That may or may not be fair, but that's how it comes across.

Ferret

Comment Re:AWESOME! (Score 0) 372

That's a pretty dark view sir....."all they care about is how much they can make and how much power they have..."

As I recall the various statements Alarmists have made from Mann to Anan it's the AGW believers who have proposed throwing Skeptics into jail, fining them, firing them, etc. That sounds more like the power thing you're alluding to. Perhaps you're looking at the wrong group for where those who crave power over others reside.

Ferret

Comment Re:Talk about creating a demand (Score 1) 334

Ha. No such technology exists, unless you don't count maintenance costs as additional costs.

This is untrue. My alma mater was the University of Missouri at Rolla (big tech school in Missouri) and it was a year before I realized that the tiny little building just off the library was an actual working nuclear reactor. Unless it's been relocated/moved it was about the size of two trailers more or less (though of concrete block construction) and I think three stories in all.

Ferret

Comment Re:Talk about creating a demand (Score 1) 334

I loved my swamp cooler when I lived down in the flatter areas of Colorado...that sucker was cold.

Now I'm up at some altitude and in an ICF house, so my walls are very thick and I haven't felt the need for anything other than a couple of fans. Good construction of the house can very much make a difference, if that's an option (i.e. you're building from scratch).

Ferret

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