Re: Runaway Global Warming Possible!
From: Coby Beck (cbeck_at_mercury.bc.ca)
Date: 01/28/05
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:57:11 GMT
"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:19:51 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Coby
> Beck" <cbeck@mercury.bc.ca> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
> such a way as to indicate that:
>>>>OK, then we set you in charge of constructing a "Dutch solution" for
>>>>Bangladesh. Make sure to include plans for how you are going to pump out
>>>>water from one of the major rivers of the Earth, what you will do with
>>>>all
>>>>sediment the river carries, how long this dam needs to be, and not to
>>>>forget, who will pay for this megaproject.
>>>
>>> Sounds like an interesting technical challenge. Certainly not an
>>> insurmountable one (it wouldn't be a dam, it would be a dyke).
>>
>>LOL! Spoken with the flip self-confidence only ignorance can provide.
>
> ??
>
> What's ignorant about it? Have you done an analysis to indicate
> otherwise? Could you provide a cite for it?
It is ignorant in that you have not at all considered what it would require
before making the claim. I have not done an analysis. Have you? It is
your claim, you should support it. I am not an engineer but I will be
convinced with some rough numbers about the length of said dyke and the
quantity of concrete required and volume/time of water that needs pumping
along with a reference to any single mega project that has come close to one
percent of the scope of yours.
>>or progressed without massive
>>consumption of oil, nor could it ever. If we stop burning oil, we will
>>all
>>live in poverty and despair. Talk about mindless and hysterical.
>
> We will, unless we come up with a cheaper substitute. That's neither
> mindless or hysterical. It's fact.
This is not what you said before. What you said was:
"If we implement nonsense like Kyoto, ...[we will]
pauperized ourselves with mindless and hysterical "solutions.""
That is what spark my sarcastic response.
Your revised position is much more reasonable. But why must an alternative
to oil be cheaper? How about as expensive, or a bit more?
-- Coby Beck (remove #\Space "coby 101 @ big pond . com")
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