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Quotes from The Clothesline Paradox — Steve Baer

1965–2024 United States

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The design of houses can be stilted by such graphs.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

A few years ago Peter Van Dresser mentioned the Clothesline Paradox.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

Legislation aimed at encouraging the use of solar energy equipment by subsidizing... certain hardware must end by being pathetic and blundering.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

Solar energy advocates are continuously humiliated by being shown "energy pies." Slices are assigned to coal, gas, oil, hydroelectric and even nuclear. but solar energy is evidently too small to appear.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

If you drive to... buy a newspaper the gasoline consumption appears. If you walk—using food energy—the event has disappeared from sight...

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

If you install interior greenhouse lights the electricity... is faithfully recorded. If you grow the plants outside no attempt is made at an accounting.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

Why wouldn't it be fair to expand the slice—4% (1973—Bureau of Mines) given to hydroelectric power by a similar factor of efficiency—for the solar energy consumed in raising the water to its working head?

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

Now that the experts have started this infantile accounting system, which evidently finds us... independent of the sun, solar energy will be admitted only so long as it has been properly collected, stored and transferred.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

If you... ride and graze a horse... the horse's energy... does not appear on anyone's energy accounting.

The Clothesline Paradox (1975)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steve Baer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.