tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post8294472911424771092..comments2024-03-29T05:15:40.793-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: The result of planning your energy needs on bird cuisinartsFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-27467127705702472342014-06-13T05:40:35.756-07:002014-06-13T05:40:35.756-07:00True. Can't remember who among the clowns onc...True. Can't remember who among the clowns once said that 'giving humans a source of abundant energy would be like giving a monkey a machine gun'. They really would rather most of us live like it's the tenth century.Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-36590265487852103942014-06-13T05:40:33.489-07:002014-06-13T05:40:33.489-07:00True. Can't remember who among the clowns onc...True. Can't remember who among the clowns once said that 'giving humans a source of abundant energy would be like giving a monkey a machine gun'. They really would rather most of us live like it's the tenth century.Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-56287491899929537412014-06-12T20:36:19.947-07:002014-06-12T20:36:19.947-07:00Remember, these people don't WANT a better ene...Remember, these people don't WANT a better energy source. These people don't LIKE high living standards.<br /><br />"If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won’t give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other."<br />—Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth–Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-45928837592453272772014-06-12T19:02:53.776-07:002014-06-12T19:02:53.776-07:00Frikkin' communist LudditesFrikkin' communist LudditesDifferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581662615586346808noreply@blogger.com