Posted on 09/07/2012 6:20:18 PM PDT by count-your-change
While the U.S. is either closing coal fired powered plants or forcing them to change to much more expensive natural gas, Germny is pressing ahead with coal fired generation of electricity.
Has Germany abandoned its efforts to be "green"?
No, but the rising costs and unreliablity of "green" electricity has some German government ministers concerned. Go to the link and read the rest of the article with the excerpt below:
"He (Altmaier) is also worried that his country could become dependent on foreign imports of electricity, the mainstay of its industrial sector. To avoid that risk, Altmaier has given the green light to build twenty-three new coal-fired plants, which are currently under construction."
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
He’ll have to fight those that want us to ride bikes attached to generators for our power needs.
Well, if those people feel that strongly about it, they should sign a contract saying that they will only consume what energy that they, themselves, solely produce while being a human hamster wheel. If put to them in those terms, they might have a change of heart.
“The U.S. is unlikely to build any more nukes in the foreseeable future so that leaves coal and/or nat. gas power plants and as nukes are decommissioned their output will have to be replaced somehow.”
Not if Romney gets in. He’s pro nuclear energy, and methinks the permits to build new plants will flourish.
and those permits will be tied up in court for 20 years by eco-nuts and NIMBY liberals.
“There are only two options that can provide enough power when we need it, reliably, and cheap enough not to destroy our economy, coal or nuclear. Now make your choice in that context.”
I chose nuclear!!!
How long would it take from permitting to actually having a commercially operating plant? 10 years? 15? 20?
“How long would it take from permitting to actually having a commercially operating plant? 10 years? 15? 20?”
A long time; however, you’ve got to start somewhere, and you need a Prez who is willing to get the ball rolling. That’s where Romney comes in. He will get the ball rolling. In the interim, he deregs any regs the EPA has put in under Obama’s regime against coal fired plants, approves the pipeline, and gets rid of any impediments to fracking or other means of increasing our energy output. Romney will open up the job spigot for energy resources on many fronts. Can hardly wait. November 6th can’t come soon enough.
Lots of power comes out of these plants.
November is going to be interesting indeed.
“The smart grid movement is partially driven by the irregularity of renewable power sources.”
I think it was entirely driven by that.
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Pros and cons
http://energyfromthorium.com/lftradsrisks.html
Maybe the Germans have updated the technology to the point where emissions are acceptably clean. With all the coal we have, we certainly should be working on that!
New union contracts?
The natural extension of that is hunting down and killing the "elite" is not murder, it is self defense.
It's difficult to imagine just how much steel and concrete and alloy piping goes into the three plants at Palo Verde. Three and four thick walls of reinforced concrete in some buildings takes a lot of concrete and steel.
Plus when the job shut down quite a bit of material and tools were destroyed to keep them off the local market.
Water in Arizona is fought over like gold and Palo Verde purchased “effluent” to treat for cooling water and of course the usual court battles over that.
I heard a one day delay costs one million dollars in each plant. But it's been a few years since I worked there.
The “elite” will be desperate to hold onto power, and they will succeed after a fashion, however, at this point in the history of this present earth, they won’t be simply against the masses, they will have an opponent that will be arriving soon.....”God is not mocked”.
Not many rich, not many powerful shall see the Kingdom of Heaven.
It is best to retreat to areas that stretch their resources.
I'm guessing that you are not aware that there are two nuclear plants well under construction with completed licenses in Georgia. Go to the Southern Company web site and watch the video here.
All the arrows in the quiver...
From the video we can see building a nuke plant is a massive undertaking. I'm like a little kid with his Tonka Toys watching big construction projects.
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