cooking with fidel

[Red Robe Majere]

Faced with crippling power outages and a grumbling public, Cuba's President Fidel Castro has made an urgent televised appeal for energy thrift, even demonstrating the relative merits of Chinese-made pressure cookers.

the rest of it here
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/05/30/thrift.shtml

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I thought the Cubans were getting Venezualan oil?

[Severian]

The major problem now is the power plants...out-of-date Soviet ones.

[Forward Union]

In backwards cuba....food eat you!!!

but seriously, I think its good that Fidel prefers to lead by example rather than push from behind (even though that sounded like an innuendo)

[OleMarxco]

Dude, that not only SOUNDED like an innuendo..it WAS an innuendo! :lol:
But to be seriously, 'tho, Fidel's cookin' some serious shit here, with this, 'tho, I gotta admit. He's a chef or sumthin' at 'is spare-time, or WHAT? Heheheh! Just kiddin', o'course. That's all I have to add to this topic...fer THIS time! ;)

[encephalon]

I wrote a poem once about something like "cooking with castro." Strange.

anyone have much knowledge on why they don't use a mixture of solar and tidal power?

[Che NJ]

I don't think they can buy solar technology because of the sanctions on their nation. And tidal power only works in certain areas.

[gewehr_3]

Couldn't they buy the solar panels from Canada?

[encephalon]

solar panels are extremely expensive, and not quite ready to replace other forms, so I'd imagine that's why they don't use it so much. Still, it would seem to me that an island should be able to use tidal energy.

[Severian]

They use solar panels in some remote areas where it's more practical than bringing in power lines. Cuba's got more rural electrification than anywhere on earth.

I don't think tidal's exactly large-scale cost-effective either. At least it's not used in a major way in the world.

Nope, for the present the options are fossil fuels, nuclear, and in some places hydroelectric.

[encephalon]

yeah, solar energy takes a lot of space as well, which I'm just guessing cuba doesn't quite have.. dammit, you'd think there'd be something..