Saving the World with $100 billion.

[Frank Lee]

Isn't it astonishing that gummints pay people to reproduce in the midst of a population explosion?

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Energy: R.B.Fuller explained that an electrical grid intertie across the Bering Strait would allow the global shifting of solar input. In the 70s.

Line losses. Figure roughly 1% per 100 miles for HV, which makes anything over about 4000 miles impractical. (See e.g. Wikipedia: Electric power transmission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) Of course you have to remember that there's not much demand for electricity close to the Bering Strait, so you have to run your line across most of Alaska and a big chunk of Canada before finding many customers, and a similar distance on the Siberian side.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Isn't it astonishing that gummints pay people to reproduce in the midst of a population explosion?

If I were still doing on-line dating, I might as well use "How do I get in on this payment to reproduce thing?" as my headline.

Originally Posted by jamesqf

Line losses. Figure roughly 1% per 100 miles for HV, which makes anything over about 4000 miles impractical. (See e.g. Wikipedia: Electric power transmission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) Of course you have to remember that there's not much demand for electricity close to the Bering Strait, so you have to run your line across most of Alaska and a big chunk of Canada before finding many customers, and a similar distance on the Siberian side.

Then I am not spending my imaginary $100 billion on that!

It is not like you can just run a line merely long enough to reach land on both sides, set up solar panels, and offer twenty-four-hour solar energy to whoever wanted it. The idea really does require electricity to travel from one hemisphere to the other, and even if you had a line running along the arctic circle, that would be completely useless for a good part of the year.

It is an interesting idea, though. Those toothpaste reactors definitely sound like a better idea. Nuclear is good enough for France, aren't they stereotypically picky or something?

I was in Paris a few times. I was not impressed with their croissants.

[Frank Lee]

You could always follow the Child Fund model, that of creating an organization to play on Middle Class guilt to perpetuate itself while not really accomplishing anything. Oh, and the CEO pay is pretty righteous too.

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Isn't it astonishing that gummints pay people to reproduce in the midst of a population explosion?

What explosion ?

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

What explosion ?

The BANG heard everytime a "water has burst" occurs (wink,wink)

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

The BANG heard everytime a "water has burst" occurs (wink,wink)

But that is an event, not a trend

[Frank Lee]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

What explosion ?

This one:



You know- that human one. On Earth.

[gone-ot]

TRICYCLE "motors" are so-o-o much easer to make than internal combustion engines, ie: no condums needed...or used.

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

This one:

I thought we were talking about the USA, seems fewer babies there.