[R-G] A Solar Grand Plan

[Richard Menec]

Hi Gregory,

As a socialist I'm also of course very leery about any fix to the endless growth models imbedded within capitalism.  Attempting to solar power every car on the planet is completely nuts.  The staggering amount of resources that go into maintaining car culture, along with enormously costly highway infrastructure, is just not sustainable.  We need mass public transportation, and with proper funding I'm sure the engineering professions could come up with some workable plans for solar-powered railway passenger cars....

The Grand Plan article does give me hope that under a different society the ingenuity and planning is at the doorstep in terms of organizing  the means of production in such a way that would use a clean energy source, and that would in turn minimize the impact on the environment.  

cheers,
Richard

PS: Please note that the old email address you have of mine is no longer being used.  It is now menecraj at shaw.ca.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: gregory meyerson 
  To: Richard Menec 
  Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 11:07 AM
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  From: gregory meyerson <gmeyerson at triad.rr.com>
  Date: December 31, 2007 11:50:54 AM EST
  To: Richard Menec <menec at mts.net>
  Subject: Re: [R-G] A Solar Grand Plan


  hi richard: what do you think of this plan?



  especially the 344 million solar hybrid vehicles. are these powered and constructed without fossil fuels? (I looked up the astrolab produced by venturi in france. they are powered without fossil fuels. I couldn't find out much concerning batteries--the production process does employ fossil platform but there was not much info)




  I tend to distrust technological solutions that maintain a perpetual growth economy.


  what problems couldn't be solved with this tech solution?



  are there resource shortages that mass solar production can face? (heinberg discusses this a bit)



  this technology is encouraging, even with the green capitalism assumptions built in.


  g
  On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:02 PM, Richard Menec wrote: