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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6298635" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>No, we should not.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But only slightly more foolish than putting them all on equal footing is putting them on only two footings - "C02" and "everything else", and then saying that everything else is equally irrelevant, so long as we bring down CO2. That thinking will simply have us chasing one crisis after another. We got into this position by failing to consider the results of our actions. Repeating the performance will not serve us well.</p><p></p><p>You see, it isn't like solar roads are the only (or even our primary) choice in the matter. I would expect to see a mixture of technologies used - so you aren't comparing solar roads to fossil fuel CO2. You're comparing solar roads to other electricity generating technologies.</p><p></p><p>Which has greater environmental impact, end to end - a solar road, or a wind farm that has the same energy output? Or that hydroelectric dam, you mentioned? Or a nuclear plant? Which of these has the most supportable maintenance costs? What are the expected dollar and environmental costs of system failures? And so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6298635, member: 177"] No, we should not. But only slightly more foolish than putting them all on equal footing is putting them on only two footings - "C02" and "everything else", and then saying that everything else is equally irrelevant, so long as we bring down CO2. That thinking will simply have us chasing one crisis after another. We got into this position by failing to consider the results of our actions. Repeating the performance will not serve us well. You see, it isn't like solar roads are the only (or even our primary) choice in the matter. I would expect to see a mixture of technologies used - so you aren't comparing solar roads to fossil fuel CO2. You're comparing solar roads to other electricity generating technologies. Which has greater environmental impact, end to end - a solar road, or a wind farm that has the same energy output? Or that hydroelectric dam, you mentioned? Or a nuclear plant? Which of these has the most supportable maintenance costs? What are the expected dollar and environmental costs of system failures? And so on. [/QUOTE]
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