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[Philippe]

Wayne, I’m a grandpa of a few now.

I adjust my energy consumption to what I think is « reasonable »  for them and their off spring to need when I’m long done.

The rest is just irrelevant to me, at least …

Amities

Philippe



> Le 24 avr. 2021 à 19:24, Wayne Torry via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> Has anyone done any real fact checking of the CO2/Climate Change Hoax and
> fear mongering?
> Who’s going to pay for the atmospheric CO2 injection when crop yields fall?
> Has anyone looked at paleo climate change when temperatures and CO2 levels
> moved in opposite directions?
> Do y’all really expect China and the Third World countries to reduce
> emissions? Have you read the Paris Accord?
> Ask the Germans about their attempt at renewable energy.
> Thus concludes my rant. Crawling back under my rock.
> Have a great weekend.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 12:46 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Here in central Texas we are paying$2.45 to $2.65 per gallon of regular
>> gas(location matters to price,  we are affluent enough that people won't
>> drive to save a dime in some demographics).  Diesel is hovering right at
>> $3.00 a gallon unless you have an agricultural exemption in which case
>> something like$0.55 is taken off for taxes.
>> 
>> While I have installed a solar system that generates about 100kwh
>> extraneous to current needs for a potential electric vehicle I still relish
>> low energy costs.   Texas is a big state with places of interest being long
>> distance away.   Yesterday there was an interesting cultural event 140 km
>> away.   We just went to see with no worries.
>> 
>> Everything is about balance.   The entrance fee supported some artists and
>> the relevant support staff.   22 liters of gasoline has a carbon cost but I
>> generate 10% of my neighbors electricity,  compost my yard waste,  don't
>> eat corn and have reduced my consumption of meat.   Everyone talks about 0
>> carbon emissions but that is unrealistic unless we all become small
>> freeholders with no trade beyond our village.
>> 
>> Perhaps if the chemical engineers come up with a way to pull carbon from
>> the air and turn it into all the carbon based items we use everyday from
>> excess wind and solar generated in our sunny regions.  A hydrogen economy
>> is problematic because hydrogen is so reactive that most materials
>> deteriate quickly in useful lifespan terms with the risk of extremely
>> Taoist oxidation events.
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 12:53 AM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> The price of gas in Bridgeport, California.  Does anyone in the USA have
>>> a higher gas price they can show?
>>> 
>>> California Gas Prices (leica-users.org)
>>> <
>>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/s/California+Gas+Prices.jpg.html
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Aram
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Aram Langhans
>>> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
>>> & Unemployed photographer
>>> 
>>> “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin
>> himself
>>> would ever have dared dream.”
>>>    James D. Watson
>>> 
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