THIS.

Ferret

One strongly suspects you're willfully missing the point here...

Ferret

Actually, large temperature increases over a short period of time (decades or centuries) isn't at all unprecedented:

http://www.greencarcongress.co...

Ferret

I didn't see him say that.

Ferret

Well said brother.

Well said.

Ferret

Most armchair scientists don't understand this at all.

Ferret

I was wondering if anybody would mention those amazing ruins!

That civilization moved/disbanded because they were found in a wet period and then hit a dry one. Unfortunately the timing of our arrival in California was about the same.

Ferret

I wish AGW cultists would stop throwing this kind of thing out there. All it does is damage their credibility even more.

It's a proven falsehood that the water shortages in California are caused by global warming. Yes, California is in a drought, but the water shortages are being caused more by bad policy than by anything else:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...

Facts are stubborn things.

Ferretman

Lightbulb standards are not the proper province of the Federal government; no power enumerated under the Constitution grants such authority nor can be stretched into granting such authority.

LEDs and (my favorite) magnetic resonance bulbs are superb technologies and I have several in my off-grid house precisely because they are so energy efficient. I can afford them. What do the greenies who insist that $30 light bulbs be mandated want to say to the woman with two kids barely getting by on a few hundred dollars a month? They need to be able to buy cheaper lighting than that.

Lighting technology will advance, and over time all bulbs (even incandescents) will become more efficient. Keep the government out of it.

Ferret

....how happens to live in a 100% off grid solar house.

Groups trying to "stop" deployment of solar and wind (and geothermal and yes, nuclear) are just stupid.

I have zero problem with the basic thesis that none of these techs should be subsidized by the government. Let them stand or fall on their own; no industry (and that means none ) should be subsidized by the Feds in any way whatsoever.

But there's also no reason to throw up roadblocks per se. That's ideology, not conservatism or libertarianism.

Ferret

...and frankly I can't charge them where I need to be able to charge them.

My house is off grid and solar-powered so you'd think that would be ideal. The problem is that when the sun is out I'm not at the house, I'm at work....where there aren't any places to charge something like this (military base). And of course when I'm home the sun isn't up--I'd have to pull down my batteries (which supply all the power to said house) to charge the car.

I could easily be sold on an electric car, but not until the price comes down and I've got some way to charge it up at work.

Ferret

So no real response to the observation, just personal insult?

Typical Warmite.

Ferret

....gave it a 3 out of 5.

Was never particularly interested in reading the books. They simply didn't look all that interesting.

Ferret

Ten years before I got ready to build I went to an Open House at a new development north of here precisely to see the house that had the fuel cell generator. At that time it was about the size of two or three large freezers and ran on natural gas.

The tech and I talked a lot. He figured that within ten years the same product would be about the size of a cabinet freezer and perhaps $10K in cost. It would easily run on propane (which is what I knew I'd have in the mountains).

Flash forward ten years, I'm getting ready to build and search online for fuel cell companies--and find virtually no changes since that initial visit. Nobody was selling a house-capable fuel cell generator, they were more custom built than mass produced, and finding a good way to handle the recharge filters wasn't really standardized yet.

Needless to say I was quite disappointed. Ended up going with solar which I do like, but not making power 24x7 is quite annoying.

Maybe someday.....either this or Mr. Fusion!

Ferret

This skews time to work to the benefit of the coasts rather than the heartland. Not my idea of fair.....