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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
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Subject: Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
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From: ricka@praline.no.neosoft.com (RHA)
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Date: 13 Nov 1996 02:11:34 -0600
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Article: 15828 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Newsgroups: talk.environment, sci.environment, sci.energy, sci.econ, sci.agriculture, alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Xref: newz.oit.unc.edu talk.environment:76470 sci.environment:111194 sci.energy:57725 sci.econ:59991 sci.agriculture:15705 alt.sustainable.agriculture:15828
In article <5639ue$2ll@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>, jw <jwas@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>In <55s4ct$2d@newsy.ifm.liu.se> redin@lysator.liu.se (Magnus Redin)
>writes:
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>>Jay Hanson <jhanson@ilhawaii.net> writes:
>>> Our future was sealed when we went over our solar budget.
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>Our energy consumption is only about 0.00007 of our solar budget...
Incorrect. If you want to start thinking in terms of a solar budget,
then you must also account for the percentage of the solar influx
used by the plant life we need just to continue to eat and breathe.
And then there's the component used by the oceans to maintain
currents (Europe might get a tad irritated if we managed to shut down
the Gulfstream), now the fraction used by the atmosphere to maintain
circulation, that which transfers water from the ocean back to land
masses.....
You first need to work out the fraction that can safely be re-routed
for our use before calculating what percent we use.
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>>Or you can use an electric oven(nuclear power) to make a new plate.
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>That, too...
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rha