[Fwd: [CrashList] Why 'alternatives' are no alternative]

[Shane Mage]

>Shane Mage says:
>
>> The following, from the 16/9 Science News, is only one of many
>> refutations of the manic doomsday pessimism of Mr. Jones:
>
>how does this refute mark's post? this Science News abstract describes
>something in a lab, a cool result the way they've sandwiched the
>layers of photo-electricity and conversion to hydrogen together, but
>how does this relate to the issues mark jone's raises? whats at stake
>is not simply what can be produced in a laboratory and reported in a
>technical journal, but what can be deployed now or soon that will make
>a sizeable difference in energy budgets and anthropgenic climate
>forcing. you're arguments have to be more forceful than bob dylan song
>snippets ...
>
>what will they think of next???

The point of course is the speed with which science and technology are
proving the practicality of the hydrogen economy.  What has been demonstrated
in the lab will soon, historically speaking, be the basis for material
production.
This report came just on the heels of Mr. Jones's rant.  Technological
progress is
ongoing over a much wider front.  The time scale of the crisis is still
measured in
decades.  Two decades is plenty for full growth of what is now a fledgling--no
longer incubating--fuel cell technology based on renewable energy sources.
Existing hydrocarbon sources will last much longer than that and can be
phased out before irreversible climatic deterioration strikes most of the
world's surface.

Shane Mage

"L'intendance suivra"--Napoléon