http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/3/23/125844/341#14

The 30% of faithbasers who are still proud of voting for a shaved ape?

We will never convince them, nor do we need them.  Forget 'em, they are too stupid to live.

In a pre-nanny state, freemarketeerian frontier culture they would not survive.  "Their breath-holes would get plugged with mud" (National Lampoon).

Like "Aunt Baby" (Seinfeld), they would not make it.

The question of climate change has finally moved on from is it happening? to what should we do about it?.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/3/24/2258/58671#1

If you had read some of the entries here and on related blogs, you would realize many of us have already moved on to solutions.

We actually advocate for specific technologies and economic and political strategies to get the job done. Just thought you main stream media-ites might want to know that.

Illustrious entities such as Hillary and Canada have employed one of them.  Cutting subsidies for fossil fuel corporations and diverting the savings to tax credits for consumers who put part of  their disposable income into  renewable energy and conservation.

Raising taxes is political suicide.  Trading carbon indulgencies doesn't seem to be cutting GHGs.

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2007/03/dispatchable_wi.html#comment-64391274

Excellent technology!  My take on this principle is to run a power shaft to the ground and directly power a generator when the grid can accept the power. 

By transporting the mechanical energy to the base of the machine various generators and pumps can harvest the power. It lowers the weight at the top of the tower, drastically cutting the cost of the machine.  And boosts the power output, lowering the cost per kwh for the device.

When excess wind power is available power the compressor to store the energy for later recovery.  It combines the less efficient energy obtained from the storage feature with the efficiency of direct to grid electricity production.

Heat pumps or water pumps, as well as compressors, can also be used to store the excess wind energy.  For instance, heat pumps could be used for industrial distillation, then the excess energy is stored in the distillation product.