tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post3250430418105462387..comments2024-03-24T00:14:28.448-07:00Comments on SunWeb: ThruAnotherLensJohn Weber http://www.blogger.com/profile/18104568019314685460noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post-73509453988622597842011-12-20T16:00:42.086-08:002011-12-20T16:00:42.086-08:00The best wind and solar energy devices are clouds ...The best wind and solar energy devices are clouds and trees. They work. Their EROEI is good. No mining is needed, except that done by roots and mycorrhizae. They need no fossil-fuel subsidy. The only investment we need to make in trees is to stop getting in their way. And when we do that for the trees, and let them re-forest, they make more clouds, to add to the clouds that the sun makes over the oceans. Over the land, the sun and the forests cooperate to make it happen. They also make wood, with all its many uses. And of course, that's only a couple of the great multitude of primary services which forests do for the life of the Earth.<br /><br />But, awkwardly, humankind can only fit in to that natural climax-ecosystem arrangement if there are not more than about half a billion of us, worldwide. Preferably less. And we have never established any kind of control over our numbers.Rhisiart Gwilymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16198537913810396544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post-31739210116623648122011-12-19T06:20:49.591-08:002011-12-19T06:20:49.591-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Tom Wayburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13722539859652296773noreply@blogger.com