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  • From: Emery Mitchamore <emitch@att.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Vilsack Highlights role of agriculture
  • Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:26:09 -0600

Faced with this concern, I had a solar-powered well installed last year.  Of all the solar applications, it's the most straightforward.

On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Tradingpost wrote:


Question. If city water fails, is it failure of electrical power? If so, wells like mine would be DOA. Which may lead to the fallback, rainwater storage.

Consider the implications. Without fossil fuel electricity or reliable grids most electrical equipment of all kinds would be DOA. Almost nobody would have alternative energy sources to power anything. Certainly industries wouldn't. Nuclear plants need fuel transported - by what? Electric trucks running on batteries? Today alternative sources make up a tiny fraction of power generation in the U.S. And they need huge amounts of energy to develop, which today is fossil fuel-based. When the cost of fossil fuels gets high enough to panic us into alternatives, it will cost too much to build alternatives. Solar panels aren't manufactured with solar power. The eventual social and economic impact is too severe to dwell on. I'd focus on learning to provide the necessities of life in a community. That's what we need anyway, isn't it?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 12/21/2009 at 10:02 AM Smittyctz6 wrote:

I like this topic.  My 2 cents.. You will need a reliable source of water.
City water will be gone.

On Sun, Dec 2

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