We just sit on it....While our enemies get fat and rich off our money...America DOES NOT put it's citizens or itself first...
Posted on 02/10/2007 7:18:08 AM PST by rellimpank
Last fall, Xcel Energy Inc. in Minnesota said it was planning to turn to wind and water rather than coal to supply its customers' electricity needs. According to a November article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Xcel was assuming that governments would begin imposing a tax or other cost on carbon dioxide emissions. The utility figured that turning to an alternative source of energy would save money for its customers Given global warming initiatives announced recently by President Bush, measures being taken by state governments across the country and last week's release of the summary of a new report on climate change, that's probably a pretty safe bet. And it's one Wisconsin utilities should consider more seriously.
Instead, Madison-based Alliant Energy Corp. has asked Wisconsin regulators for permission to build a coal-fired power plant - with some capacity for alternative fuels such as biomass - in Cassville along the Mississippi River in Grant County.
Alliant and its customers - and certainly the
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Alliant is building another coal plant next to the former Iowa Electric power plant in Marshalltown, IA.
The plant in Cassville, Wis mentioned was the catch of the century for the local economy about fifty years ago--
While we goof around with solar and wind, France is 89% powered by nuclear--and without a single safety incident in its history. We are such idiots.
All power from the sky with NO powerplants needed on Earth. We could move towards a Garden of Eden existence with every person on Earth benefiting from a great deal of energy with NO pollution.
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I don't believe either MN br WI has much potential for development of either wind or water power.
Get real. We need practical solutions, not pipe dreams. Power plants need to be nuclear. Then we can liquefy the coal for transportation.
This article is all hype, do not waste your time.
Capitalism is very efficient - regardless of what blowhards may say, when faced with reality, people always vote their pocketbooks. That's why it's only a matter of time before the energy sources/production/delivery/utilization schemes that anyone in the energy business knows will eventually be adopted will be adopted.
Yeh, when government doesn't get in the way.
--we need to keep current on enemy thinking--
--we need to keep current on enemy thinking--
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avoid wasting time on echoing blow harts story lines, copy!
You got more important objects to accomplish like echoing our goals and principles. Like nuke.
This may be part of the solution: http://www.futuregenalliance.org/
Are wind and water? going to save the customers money over a hypothetical carbon tax?
Not necessary. Put the smelters and factories in space, too, and right there save 1/3 of the power grid load and all the pressure.
"Naational Space Society proposed going to the Moon, mining the lunar material, building space factories and manufacturing solar Power generating stations"
There are mentally deranged nuts standing on street corners hollering about things just as stupid.
We are not standing on streetcorners. :)
--nope--although there is a cluster of windmills (about 20) from roughly Montfort to Cobb, Wis--
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