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Urbane Guerrilla · 05-03-2006, 06:35 PM

I dunno... an oil company is really an energy company. They could be going into nuclear power, even, were they to take the wider view. They? It would only take one doing it to galvanize the others, and they'd do well by doing good. And I'm letting nuclear (even if George Bush and about a third of Congress, both houses, don't pronounce it right) stand for all the other energy alternatives.

I don't hold a lot of hope for any of this, though. The alternatives are so spread out, so unconcentrated, that gathering and concentrating the energy they develop is uneconomic, or else the pollution problems they pose are not easily made tractable. (ka-ching!)

Maybe if we could convert gamma radiation and alpha and beta decay directly into alternating current instead of having to wait for it to decay down to heat and boil water with it...

05-03-2006, 06:35 PM	#7
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	I dunno... an oil company is really an energy company. They could be going into nuclear power, even, were they to take the wider view. They? It would only take one doing it to galvanize the others, and they'd do well by doing good. And I'm letting nuclear (even if George Bush and about a third of Congress, both houses, don't pronounce it right) stand for all the other energy alternatives. I don't hold a lot of hope for any of this, though. The alternatives are so spread out, so unconcentrated, that gathering and concentrating the energy they develop is uneconomic, or else the pollution problems they pose are not easily made tractable. (ka-ching!) Maybe if we could convert gamma radiation and alpha and beta decay directly into alternating current instead of having to wait for it to decay down to heat and boil water with it... __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.