[LINK] Renewable energy 'simply WON'T WORK'

[jore]

On 24/11/2014 8:17 AM, Andy Farkas wrote:
> "Renewable energy 'simply WON'T WORK': Top Google engineers
> Windmills, solar, tidal - all a 'false hope', say Stanford PhDs
>
>   <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/21/renewable_energy_simply_wont_work_google_renewables_engineers/>
>
> Comment Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying
> and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly
> that renewables will never permit the human race to cut CO2 emissions to the
> levels demanded by climate activists. Whatever the future holds, it is not a
> renewables-powered civilisation: such a thing is impossible."

Ha. Poor engineers. They could've spent themselves years and just done
some "googling" on the bleeding obvious.

http://thoughtmaybe.com/can-this-current-way-of-life-continue/


      Can This Current Way of Life Continue?

    By Dermot O'Connor. 2012. (34:52)

    Combining graphs and other visual examples in animation, this short
    film goes through the issues surrounding the collapse of industrial
    civilisation--by collating the interconnectedness of energy
    depletion, carrying capacity, population growth, peak natural
    resource extraction, and other issues with the problems of
    exponential economic growth on a finite planet. Can this current way
    of life continue? The film takes us through these problems and also
    examines some of the many flaws inherent in some proposed solutions,
    such as 'change-by-personal-consumer-choice', or the vague belief in
    technology as the deus ex machina to save the day. These serious
    problems need serious solutions and require a radical rethinking of
    this current way of life that cannot continue indefinitely. Time is
    short...


Way past time to get to work.

All the best,
Jore.