bham wrote:
For Desertec, don't agree with you Did67, don't kid yourself, colonialism is no longer as easily applicable today and that is for the best; if such a project were successful, fear that the energy source countries could be paid, even if it means redistributing the windfall to the citizens.
OK, guys ...
1) Much space would be needed to deal with this subject; Colonoliasm, in the era of globalization, indeed, it becomes very complicated ...
2) Leave me, based on experience (12 years in Africa, tours in the Sahara) the right to express these reservations. How I tolerate the raguments of those who are against wind turbines while I am 150% for and find them beautiful!
3) If the idea came to a Tuareg chief to install solar panels everywhere and to sell us, dear I hope, energy, I will still be with the authentic Touarges who will fight to preserve their space, their culture, their way of life ... And if the idea came to a Desertec executive to corrupt a chaffaillon, I would be against him ... And if he just had the idea, from the top of his science , to convince him without corrupting him, I would always be against ...
4) I am not an idealist, I unfortunately still use too much oil to afford this luxury (of being an idealist). But if I wrote elsewhere in another thread that I am ready to pay for my pellets even a little more than oil, it is also because I want to stay in the local economy ... Of course, that petroleum is a form of neo-colonialism ... An "indoor" ski resort in Dubai, that is perhaps reasonable ???? And the moguls who buy an A380 for themselves are perhaps respectable people ???
5) But it is not because it is worse with petroleum, that I am "for" doing "a little less worse" with solar ...
I express ONE point of view. Mine. With conviction. And even consistency ... We are not fundamentalists on this forum, no ? No "established truth"? Shall we talk?