I've been thinking lately... we depend on electricity a lot. It would be very easy, wouldn't it, for a terroist to sneak into New York or somewhere and ruin the main electricity outlits, the power companys? I consider us way to dependable on electricity, maybe it's just me, but i'm open ears for all comments.
The electric grids of New york are already defunkt and useless. Just like here in Britain. I think the way a terrorist would strike is in your metro system.
oh yea, good point. I guess I've always considered the metro system to low in our list for terroists the attack, but that's the more logical then the electricity.
this is what america's military invasions of every where we have done so, even by proxy, precisely has been doing. combustion+population level is still the problem environmentaly. electricty would be clean if it were produced cleanly. and as for your point on "terrorism", the redundancy of distributed systems always makes them less susceptable to targeting then centralized ones. only overscale economic interests bennifit from excessive centralization. a nation who'se every rooftop and hilltop were generating electricty from photovoltaics and windmills respectively would be far less vulnerable then one dependent on power companies and their centralized generating facilities. =^^= .../\...
I agree, we are too dependent on electricity. New alternative technologies must still be manufactured, and still effect the environment in some way. The natural alternative is wood, but the human population is too large now. Trees can not grow faster than we use them, thousands of years ago burning wood was not as harmful. Fewer people cut less trees, therefore the forest would regrow fast enough, and less people burning wood put less carbon dioxide into the air. Our large population is now leveraged on technology.
if the americans had spent the same money on renewables as on the war on iraq there would be no need for them to be in iraq ie controlling the oil reserves.
