|
|
Post by Toreador on Jan 26, 2023 8:32:17 GMT
It looks that way, but looking at how history turns out, I'd guess that China will be the world leader in green technology, and in doing so will manage to produce energy so cheaply that it is almost free. As for cars and suchlike, well I think the new technology will eventually surpass the old. After all the conventional car engine is over 150 years old. They will have personal electric flying cars with antonymous flying so anyone can fly in one.  Lol....interesting that the major producer of solar panels has one of the worst records in green energy. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2023 11:42:14 GMT
You mean the great storm of 1703? (which was likely a hurricane reaching the UK). Or perhaps the Royal Charter storm of 1859. But hey, I don't read anything. One off events are not the answer either, its always possible to find the perfect storm and a bit of history describing a storm which would have been far deadlier in its day. So another thing for you to consider is frequency. Frequency is difficult to gauge owing to the modern day communications reporting every time a cow passes wind. Years ago we had to rely on diarists reporting abnormal events, relying on people who could write, people being in the area where an event occurred feeing inclined to record it. Therefore it may appear that things are more frequent now, but statistics can be interpreted/manipulated by different people in different ways. |
|
|
|
Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jan 26, 2023 12:18:41 GMT
It looks that way, but looking at how history turns out, I'd guess that China will be the world leader in green technology, and in doing so will manage to produce energy so cheaply that it is almost free. As for cars and suchlike, well I think the new technology will eventually surpass the old. After all the conventional car engine is over 150 years old. They will have personal electric flying cars with antonymous flying so anyone can fly in one. BvL, you're Xi Jinping's rep in this country so I would expect you say that. However, on this occasion you may be right. I mean, the writing is on the wall. Western governments are killing their economies as they fall over themselves to be seen as green, and to achieve this they buy more and more from China, a coal based economy. And because green energy is so expensive industries in the west increasingly relocate to, yes you guessed it, China. China can and thanks to stupid left wing eco zealots probably will, dominate the world. And make no mistake, China's strength is due to a coal based economy. Please, dont give me ZG type crap about China being the world leaders in green technology. China's economy is booming because of coal, and that's not going to change anytime soon. Many world expert economists say the same including from the US. Check out their solar farms and the like. They can build this for a fraction of the cost and so green energy is indeed cheaper than coal. I've done the calculations myself because unlike secretive Britain they give all the figures(cost, output, development time etc).
Coal is pretty cheap in China as well though. We exploited all our coal reserves during the industrial revolution where in China they built many of the power stations in the 1980s so they still have a long while to run. They are using the coal as a stop-gap because they do have an energy problem. It is projected to require more and more as they manufacture more stuff. The other day I heard they are joining up with Argentina. They will replace the 100 year old British railways with high speed systems and hope to do good trade with Argentina's oil reserves so as to get even more energy. Everywhere you look in China they are figuring out new energy schemes. Another is deep sea drilling in the South China Sea. There are huge oil reserves but very deep so they have the deepest drilling in the world. Nothing to do with fisherman's rights - lol. |
|
|
|
Post by zanygame on Jan 26, 2023 17:24:18 GMT
One off events are not the answer either, its always possible to find the perfect storm and a bit of history describing a storm which would have been far deadlier in its day. So another thing for you to consider is frequency. Frequency is difficult to gauge owing to the modern day communications reporting every time a cow passes wind. Years ago we had to rely on diarists reporting abnormal events, relying on people who could write, people being in the area where an event occurred feeing inclined to record it. Therefore it may appear that things are more frequent now, but statistics can be interpreted/manipulated by different people in different ways. A good point, but it doesn't seem to stop you claiming it HAS happened before. However the frequency of record flooding, heat, wind speed etc is in the last 2 decades. But the really important thing is what's driving it. When people say it happened in 1700 or 250,000 bc we can look at the evidence and see the volcanic eruption or the continental drift. Just saying its happened before is pointless unless you can state what's causing the current extremes. There is no continental drift, no reversing of the poles or super heating of the earths core. No solar activity, no Milankovitch cycle. No excessive volcanic activity or catastrophic release of bound Co2. Urban areas cover far to small a space, forests the same. The only thing there is is increased atmospheric Co2 produced by man. |
|
