tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post6112279947929976885..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Shock: Google Research Team Says "Renewable Energy Just Won't Work" SiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-15285206563100619102014-11-27T16:47:47.329-05:002014-11-27T16:47:47.329-05:00Will,
The US-style patent system doesn't do w...Will,<br /><br />The US-style patent system doesn't do what the sales pitch says it does, and it never did. The behavior of humans under US-style intellectual property laws is now understood, and it doesn't work the way you imply. Check into the libertarian analysis of patents from the last 30 years. While you're there, notice that other kinds of monopolies don't work they way they're advertised to, either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-81917062987659386912014-11-26T06:13:42.815-05:002014-11-26T06:13:42.815-05:00"Unlike the people who earnestly believe thos..."Unlike the people who earnestly believe those magic unicorn farts will someday power everything, a group of engineers tasked with finding a way to produce a billion watts of renewable power at a cheaper price point than a coal-fired plant has to face reality."<br /><br />Shoot, nuclear power solved that engineering problem in the middle of the last century, with zero carbon emissions. The remaining problems are political.EgregiousCharlesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-26168141098147420222014-11-26T02:07:42.049-05:002014-11-26T02:07:42.049-05:00If the government can create billions of dollars o...If the government can create billions of dollars out of nothing, why can't we do the do the same with electricity? <br /><br />AntibubbaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-86345115015946782102014-11-23T15:30:16.761-05:002014-11-23T15:30:16.761-05:00It is working exactly as planned. The goal is to ...It is working exactly as planned. The goal is to enrich cronies, destroy the middle class through ever increasing taxes and higher costs and to pull America down a couple of notches. So far so good. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-29206789474166661622014-11-23T15:24:41.048-05:002014-11-23T15:24:41.048-05:00Don't forget about the import tariffs, patents...Don't forget about the import tariffs, patents, and local utility companies saying no to buyback which are being used to make PV cells more expensive. A few years back in Germany I heard of a couple 400K SF factories being built to make PV which was put on a flexible backing with a "printing" process, spread with rollers like ink. Whatever happened to that? Patents ban competition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-77359639869751639212014-11-23T09:38:10.850-05:002014-11-23T09:38:10.850-05:00Reg T: "Word!" Exactly! But don't ...Reg T: "Word!" Exactly! But don't forget his vow to "spread the wealth." He has been working hard to do that also!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-8068320429503426312014-11-23T09:35:57.346-05:002014-11-23T09:35:57.346-05:00Welcome to planet earth. Ain't physics a bitch...Welcome to planet earth. Ain't physics a bitch? <br /><br />It will be interesting to see if this conclusion propagates, or the only result is lefty think tanks divesting themselves of Google stock in retribution to the heretics. Aliennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-27641564926785525872014-11-22T20:26:20.637-05:002014-11-22T20:26:20.637-05:00I don't think Solyndra and the other alt. ener...I don't think Solyndra and the other alt. energy companies (which took their billion dollar subsidies and ran) pulled the wool over Barry's eyes. I think he merely decided to give it to them (weren't they donors to his campaign?) to deprive us - and our economy - of the proper use of it. (And Moochelle is doing her best to deplete the coffers further with her vacations and other multi-million dollar expenditures.)<br /><br />He said he would drive up the cost of electricity and gasoline, didn't he? Probably the only truth he has spoken in public since he began his run for President. I can't think of a single thing he has done since his inauguration which hasn't advanced the Cloward-Piven agenda.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-25739949805340940852014-11-22T19:59:20.468-05:002014-11-22T19:59:20.468-05:00Or as Mr. Scott would say..."I canny violate ...Or as Mr. Scott would say..."I canny violate the laws of Physics, Captain!"....drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.com