A few notes in response.

Tech and posibilities asside, what are the impacts of energy solutions?

For the Sat solar type, it has to beam that energy back, with some cost to heating up the atmosphere, which will raise temperatures and change weather patterns, to what extent, the power levels would be enormous locally, I hope that they model that before the field a unit.

Lets look at wind turbine. They take energy from the wind, is that free, no, is there an effect yes, will it change wind patterns and weather patterns, yes. On the small scale we see now probably not too much, but consider the butterfly effect, we just don't know. If adopted on a large scale then yes probably dramatic effect. Probaly as much as the deforestation of the Amazon. Another massive global change that is not looked at for true cost.

Wave energy, well lets just see enough change to say shift the Gulf Stream and see what Europe has to say.

Nuclear, the waste and devistation of accidents. A risky venture at best. Sure you can find a gambler to lay off the bet but its only a matter of time before things go wrong or you run out of room to store things, or people willing to have that hot material in their back yard or ground water.

People are looking for free energy and worse yet free profit. So anything done on a large scale has to be looked at very closely, and like our new Global economy, Global effect needs to be taken into account. Maybe the UN and the World Court needs to get more involved.

I can hear the cries already from those entrepreneur's that want un-fettered, un-regulated access to profits at any cost to other people.

I know lets just do some genetic engineering of all the animals and plants on earth so they feel right at home with global warming.

On a happy note, there may be one redemption for Satelite based power generation. Lets put up enough Satelite arrays to block incoming solar energy to cut down the global warming, two birds with one stone, cooler climate and cheap power. Oh wait all the plants will die, then the oceans, then the animals, then us.. Well you can't have everything. Lets try anyway, what do we have to loose?

Sure, like giving women the right to vote and freeing the slaves, you misogynistic racist.

Welcome to the American legal justice system?

> However, the secondary effect will be that audits do, in fact, improve, because
> the premiums on your insurance depend on how often you fuck up and the insurance
> company has to pay for it.

You are essentially suggesting that audit quality does not current affect an auditor's demand and the market instead would benefit from direct price impacts of insurance premium changes due to audit quality. Do I restate you correctly?