Re: green unintended consequences

Hi Charley,

  The butterfly effect, is often misquoted and misapplied.  It doesn't refer to consequences caused by a particular minor event; the butterfly wing.   Rather it refers to the *inability* to trace a major event, i.e. the hurricane, back to the inciting series of events or event.

   So we agree that paralysis out of fear ir ignorance is a bad thing.  However doing something that is unsound e.g. Food to EToH and calling them growing pains doesn't make sense either.

  We need to move boldly toward the direct harnessing of solar energy on a large scale; not a few tens of 100 MW monsters, but many tens of thousands of multi-hundred kW installations.  

  A commercial sized distributed generation model is technically superior because there will always be some portion of it that is collecting sunshine.  Furthermore, the energy can be transported shorter distances from generation to consumption, boosting the service factor of the entire grid.