Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates no panic, but domestic climate science and technology investments

re: Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates no panic, but domestic climate science and technology investments

TokyoTom — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:28:59 GMT

William, I'm with your first paragraph, but you have me on the second, as the only way to turn water into a "fuel" is either to store it behind a dam and capture potential energy by releasing it, or by putting energy INTO the water (heat or electricity) to generate eith steam to drive turbines or H2 that releases energy when burned.

re: Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates no panic, but domestic climate science and technology investments

William Bunker — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:42:16 GMT

A topic of great economic consequence is the state's withholding of advanced energy technologies in favor of corporate monopolies and state monopolies of tactical power.

Producing the engines to make all water into fuels would allow every IMF borrower country to immediately escape the bonds of 1st world domination. This is an acceptable condition for most of the world's populace, but controllers desperately want that monopoly to stand.

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re: Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates domestic climate science and technology investments

TokyoTom — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:35:00 GMT

LL, thanks for your visit. Well, of course Manzi hasn`t done that, as he`s just not a libertarian and doesn`t care about protecting people and property from damages caused by others. Rather, he`s a conservative; I imagine he wants to keep government small and doesn`t particularly care that the status quo protects the polluters, who are happy to pay modestly for the protection.

re: Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates domestic climate science and technology investments

Lab Lemming — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:13:48 GMT

Does he advocate forcing emitters to raise contingency funds so that they can pay for any damages that they cause?

If the risks are as small as he suggests, then it should be easy for the emitting companies to adsorb the extra costs.