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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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lchic - 08:01pm May 29, 2003 EST (# 12186 of 12209)
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' the decentralization of energy production, and reducing the need for vast distribution infrastructures '

The sun shines 'everwhere' .... sometime

A very decentralised and free resource

but that 'sometime' can be only a handful of days in some zones of the globe

Free decentralised provision .... has to be captured ... effectively and cheaply and then re-distributed at a price 'the market' CAN afford to pay .... which is a LOW price in zones that are dirt poor.

lchic - 08:02pm May 29, 2003 EST (# 12187 of 12209)
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post above in response to Jorian

jorian319 - 08:10pm May 29, 2003 EST (# 12188 of 12209)

If the "first world" can decentralize, some of the obsolesced tech might be reallocated to the third... just a thought.

lchic - 08:11pm May 29, 2003 EST (# 12189 of 12209)
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Browser : Economies of scale energy

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Economies+of+scale+energy&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

NON-DEPLETABLE ENERGY SOURCES -- Energy which is not obtained from depletable energy sources.

http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/glossary/n.html

Mexico - Renewable energy needs 20year PLAN

Renewable energy is competing with other sources that have already been wildly subsidized by government. Subsidies for conventional energy sources over the past five decades in decreasing order are: $272 billion for oil, $73 billion for natural gas, $68 billion for coal, $63 billion for hydro, $61 billion for nuclear. Now compare these huge amounts with $27 billion total for all wind, geothermal and solar technologies combined. Looking at these figures, its not surprising we have little renewable energy (except hydro, which was strongly subsidized).

http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/guest_columns/guest06-06-02.htm

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lchic - 08:14pm May 29, 2003 EST (# 12190 of 12209)
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Why give obsolete C20 solutions to the upComingWorld why not give the C21 solutions ...

The old are obsolete because they were inefficient and too expensive ... HighCost not LOWcost

lchic - 08:15pm May 29, 2003 EST (# 12191 of 12209)
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So Jorian ... why is the Advanced World - advanced

and why is the UpComingWorld not as advanced?

lchic - 08:22pm May 29, 2003 EST (# 12192 of 12209)
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browse : elitist nyt 2003

The 'bloggers' have opinions

http://www.kathryncramer.com/wblog/archives/2003_05.html May 29, 2003 Of Chipmunks, Smoke, and Mirrors ... IN THIS MORNING'S NEWS, it seems the paint is chipping on some of the Pentagon's sets. How much of the war was made for television?

Jorian are you a 'blogger'?

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