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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Parihaka, at times you verge on the obnoxious.
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Really? I will admit I tend to be more direct on this forum than most of the others I inhabit, but it's not that many forums that openly advocate terrorism and blame the victims of terrorism for their murder. I know you and the other regulars here are all hip to being casual about that sort of stuff but I guess I'm not so cosmopolitan as y'all, hence letting my opinion freer reign than would be normal for me.
This very thread for instance: while the AGW cultists are happy to make claims we're all going to die unless we reduce our carbon emissions by 40%, none of them seem able to tell me which hundreds of millions of people they've got picked out to let starve to death when the cost of efficient mass production of food goes through the roof.
Again I'm not hip enough to just not ask that question, we know of course the high cost of food isn't going to be a problem for anyone on this forum, so what the hey.
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Originally Posted by donquixote99
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Thanks but I already know about them. Ignoring the size of the recievers and transmitters, to get one gigawatt of power requires even by your wiki article at perfect conditions 10 square kilometers of solar panel.
Now just the US's power consumption in 2006 was roughly in the
100 Quadrillion Btu range, or if I've got my math right about 3.4 terrawatts. Soooo, to just power the US, we require at perfect conditions 10sq k X 34000 which gives us 340,000 square kilometres of solar panels, just to power the US. Where are you going to park these thousands of tonnes of solar panels?
Of course you have to have them on the sunny side of earth, i.e. between the earth and the sun, (not mentioning getting them up there in the first place)otherwise they won't work, so whose sunlight are you going to block off? That is after all an awfully big sunshade, roughly IIRC larger than a third of the size of the US itself.
Then, ignoring the space transmitters, you're wee wiki article gives us a ground based eliptical reciever of 10 x 14 kilometres for every 10 gigawatts, or 70sq k per 10 gigwatts or 238,000 sq k for ground recieving. That's quite big isn't it? Perhaps you'd like to educate me, and maybe back to the original AGW theme at the start of this thread, you or somebody else would care to answer my question asked across several threads:
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which tens if not hundreds of millions of people are slated to starve to death under the AGG reduction theories".
It's another of those questions I'm too uncool and obnoxious not to ask.