Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:28:47 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: Michael Vince <mv@roq.com>, Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOENAFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <437C8065.7030702@alphaque.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dinesh Nair >Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 5:07 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Michael Vince; Peter Clutton; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems > > > > >On 11/17/05 20:35 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following: >> In the tropics you are flooded with free energy streaming down >> on you all day long and your complaining?!?!? Please, search >> Google for the term "photovoltaic" and be enlightened. > >photovoltaic arrays and solar energy panels are not as >econiomically viable >in developing countries as you think it is in your geocentric worldview. > Absolute total rubbish. Let's take one of these developing countries - China PRC - shall we? Read the following: http://www.threegorgesprobe.org/tgp/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=13667 "In the cities we have photovoltaic integrated building schemes, like the '100,000 roofs' project in Shanghai, and plans for solar street lights. And photovoltaic application in the rural sector will be a big player in China. " "Electricity consumers across China will pay a little more Ð an extra 0.2 per cent Ð to subsidise the provision of photovoltaic technology to rural users" And in the long view, Once the non-renewable energy sources like oil and coal run out, all that will be left for electrical generation is solar, ie: wind and photovoltaic. And when that happens, the countries along the equator will become the energy kingpins for the rest of the world, in the same way that the oil producing countries are today. Ted
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