2nd Tanker Disaster TODAY! Fuel-laden tanker still burning off Hong Kong

  NEWSDESK   25 Nov 2002 09:10 Fuel-laden tanker still burning off Hong Kong

This stuff has got nothing to do with alt.energy.renewable

Accidents happen, keep it where people want to talk about it.

Hey genius, if we had alternative renewable energy, the frequency of these 15 tanker disasters every 13yrs would be diminished....do you comprehend that incredibly simple TRUTH.

If they were using LPG it wouldn't bother the environment much except in the very close proximity.

Yeah, but I don't care. Disaster news contributes little else but noise in alt.energy.renewable. Anyway, we'll run out of oil/gas/everything else in a few decades or so, so something must happen.

You do understand that interfering with tidal currents involves interfering with the local marine and estuarial ecosystems, don't you?

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I expect that most of us would agree that any power extraction system will change the local ecosystem somehow. This points to the need for research to determine what the effects will be, and then to evaluate whether they are deleterious or beneficial, and then to balance those against the benefits (or otherwise) to the terrestrial (i.e. the terra-firma based) ecosystem.

Then to hope that any post-deployment reality accords with the research.

I currently have no opinion pro or con, but I hope that folks get it right, for my grand-children's sake.

December 5, 2002

Not if the energy and matter conversion systems are in space, where there are no local ecosystems.

That should be a big hint right there.

Thomas Lee Elifritz