[lbo-talk] catastrophy II

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 06:25:07 PDT 2011


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Dissenting Wren <dissentingwren at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I believe all of this, which leaves us with a pick your poison set of
> alternatives.  I think James Hansen has done a good job of showing the flaw in
> Lovins' "soft-energy path": that no combination of these technologies will
> create the reliable base load capacity to run an electrical grid.

Bless Hansen, but keep in mind that energy policy is not the field he's made his career in. Emannuel Kerry has made similar mistakes. Lovins has been at this since the 70's, and while I haven't followed him for a while, I keep waiting in vain for somebody to his positions down.

-- Andy



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