Comments on: What Did We Learn About Assumptions? http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/04/04/what-did-we-learn-about-assumptions/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:42:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Steve Real http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/04/04/what-did-we-learn-about-assumptions/#comment-62269 Steve Real Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:50:11 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4548#comment-62269 It's quite probable and just possible, that we all kill ourselves off, like a group of lemmings falling off a cliff from Beijing to Berlin to Boulder. It’s quite probable and just possible,
that we all kill ourselves off,
like a group of lemmings falling off a cliff
from Beijing to Berlin to Boulder.

]]> By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/04/04/what-did-we-learn-about-assumptions/#comment-62255 R Margolis Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:02:43 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4548#comment-62255 As long as distributed technology does not have too large of a public health impact (i.e., everyone having their own energy system and all the individual casualties trying to maintain it). We should still use economy of scale where it works. The public will soon have to choose what kind of society (and following what kinds of energy) they want. As long as distributed technology does not have too large of a public health impact (i.e., everyone having their own energy system and all the individual casualties trying to maintain it). We should still use economy of scale where it works. The public will soon have to choose what kind of society (and following what kinds of energy) they want.

]]> By: kaibosworth http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/04/04/what-did-we-learn-about-assumptions/#comment-62224 kaibosworth Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:34:58 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4548#comment-62224 Creating community ownership and involvement in distributed technologies is the way to go. Then, we feel a sense of attachment and personal investment in the energy we buy (especially if our energy is attached to our house). If we develop the same as we have historically, we're no different than the huge alienating coal and nuclear plants. <a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/014344.html" rel="nofollow">Also, check this out</a> Creating community ownership and involvement in distributed technologies is the way to go. Then, we feel a sense of attachment and personal investment in the energy we buy (especially if our energy is attached to our house). If we develop the same as we have historically, we’re no different than the huge alienating coal and nuclear plants.

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]]> By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/04/04/what-did-we-learn-about-assumptions/#comment-62218 R Margolis Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:06:49 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4548#comment-62218 Also, the assumptions on infrastructure will need to be challenged too. Currently in the US you face opposition for windmills and transmission lines. It will be a challenge to convince current opponents to accept current technologies in their own neighborhoods. Yes you can build solar thermal in the desert for peaking power, but other technologies face opposition (e.g., offshore wind). How do activists win public buy-in for those technologies that affect their backyards? Also, the assumptions on infrastructure will need to be challenged too. Currently in the US you face opposition for windmills and transmission lines. It will be a challenge to convince current opponents to accept current technologies in their own neighborhoods. Yes you can build solar thermal in the desert for peaking power, but other technologies face opposition (e.g., offshore wind). How do activists win public buy-in for those technologies that affect their backyards?

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