Reply #34: I wonder if we don't think too big sometimes. [View All]

[imdjh]

I know nothing about the nuts and bolts of such things. But every time I read someone talking about a huge effort, I wonder if there isn't someone thinking about a million small efforts.

Some folks complain that the wind farms are ugly, or they kill birds. I wonder about a million windmills the size of pinwheels. Some folks worry that damming a river will screw up the ecology downstream. I wonder about a million little paddle wheels innocuously turning slowly with the regular flow of the river. I always assume that my ideas must be foolish, that surely someone has thought of them as well as the reason they won't work.

What I get really tired of are people complaining about what is, complaining about the practical solution, and yet demanding an end to the present method regardless of the practicality (or reality) of the solution they have in mind.