Posted on 04/07/2009 9:54:34 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
We need better policies and plans -- now. Everyone agreed, from the chief executive of Duke Energy Corp. and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to the leader of the Evangelical Environmental Network. We're not energy-efficient and the challenges of becoming so are bold and grave.
We need to produce somewhere between 28 and 35 terawatts of energy by 2050 to power our growing population and consumption. How are we going to nearly triple our source of energy in less than 50 years?
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Jerks.
These are self-righteous jerks with an urge to power. Power to make YOU, one of those who doesn’t see the world through their particular set of beer goggles, relent his ignorance and cussed stubbornness and TOE THE LINE. And these guys don’t have the slightest sense of humor.
They are hard after the power of law, since they know they can’t manage with just the power of persuasion.
ineffective ways to address climate change.
Those terms are 100% in conflict.
>> Daniel Nocera, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and director of its Solar Revolutions Project, points out... We could build a nuclear plant every 1.5 days for eternity, and even that wouldn’t be enough to satisfy our energy needs, according to Nocera.
I searched the web page source. That is the only time the word “nuclear” appears, and the statement is such patent bullcorn that I’m shocked it’s coming from the mouth of a grade school teacher, let alone an MIT professor.
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Thomas Kostigen is the author of You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet and the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Green Book. He writes the "Ethics Monitor" column for Dow Jones Market Watch and the Better Planet column and blog for Discover magazine. He is a longtime journalist and former Bloomberg News editor. Kostigen has been writing about global warming, the environment, social issues, and government policies for two decades. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
The One and Only True Green Path: Nukes.
Compact. Reliable. Renewable.
Nuclear Power.
Check the stock holdings on these A***h***...
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>> Nuclear Power.
The utter failure of the greens to embrace nuclear power is all the evidence you’ll ever need that their agenda is not really about energy independence or about climate change or about “saving the planet”.
It’s 100% about subjugating the US and transferring wealth to the UN.
Most greens are too stupid to have an agenda. The girls are there because it “feels good.” The guys are there because the girls are easy.
Its the Green leadership that’s Evil. And the more you look at them, read what they write, observe what they do, the more you realize it. And its not little “evil” its big “Evil.” They’re as Evil as the Committee for Public Safety was during the Terror. They intend to reduce the number of people to a “sustainable” level.
Bottom line: We are wasting a lot of time, money and effort worrying about climate change, period.
We could solve a whole range of real problems by rounding up the enviro-whackos, and grinding them up for dogfood, fertilizer, and cement additive.
“harness the sun” Ummm, will a troika do or will it require a four-in-hand.
I'll have to give my solar array a test tonight to see how it works in the dark.
Down in the Sunshine State, Florida Power and Light has an uprating program going on that will add about 400 MW of nuclear capacity for a cost of about $1.5 billion. They are also adding 75 MW peak (18 MW average) solar thermal power capacity (this is the Sunshine State after all) for a cost of $476 million.
I will leave it as an “exercise for the student” to run the numbers and tell us which one makes more sense.
Dateline "Santa Monica" for a Colorado meeting.
Pretty appropriate as the Communists who infested California in the 1940s and 50s are still alive and well.
Maybe some products worth buying? Offer stuff to get my power bill down and I'll buy.
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