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Comments: Ronald Bailey asks what energy sources

it seems that most news releases
are about the us or eu activites
which are either proactive or reactive.
perhaps we need to forget these
world summits (world applies only in ome aspects)

i was at the earth summit in rio, spending abouyt half
the time at the earth
summit and the other
half at the parallel conclave.
i chose not to go to this one,
although it would have been
a nice place for a tourist visit.
bailey's comments are useful to
stimulate those who want to save the earth
as opposed to exploit it. michael glantz

Posted by michael glantz on September 1, 2002 02:06 PM

Perhaps, but his Global Warming and Other Eco Myths myth is reactionary.

Posted by Andie Miller on September 1, 2002 02:57 PM

... and very obviously rooted in a capitalist agenda.

Posted by Andie Miller on September 1, 2002 03:03 PM

'Daily Summit would add one point to his discussion of developing countries and renewable energy. The rural poor have a huge amount to gain from renewables, which will lead to more distributed patterns of energy generation in developing countries. Just as mobile telephony is hugely attractive in countries that haven't built fixed line telephone infrastructure, so solar and wind power is more economically viable in countries that are decades away from completing a "natonal grid."'

Distributed power generation is an excellent idea for sparsely populated areas, especially when they lack existing energy infrastructure. But your hands become detached from your wrists when you associate renewables with distributed generation. There is no necessary connection between them and in practice it is the opposite; huge centralized wind farms with massive cables feeding grids.

Renewable energy generation can be implemented as distributed energy generation as can non-renewable energy generation. It is not useful to conflate renewables with distributed generation.

Posted by back40 on September 2, 2002 05:49 PM

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