Well, I'm still waiting for Mr. Fusion.............
Posted on 07/01/2013 1:05:46 PM PDT by neverdem
All of their meager estimates don’t even take into account the fact that people will start heating and cooking with wood, charcoal, and dung and that smoke will go up chimneys with no emissions controls whatsoever. The net result of taking away coal-powered electricity is more greenhouse gases than ever!
This 0.02 degree of cooling could easily be offset by a single volcanic eruption about which we can do nothing. Our climate does does not have a tipping point...there are feedback mechanisms that have kept our climate on a relatively even keel for millennia. We have in the past seen massive global cooling which caused three ice ages where the northern hemisphere was basically covered by glaciers and global warming that melted those glaciers...all with no possible input from humankind. our puny measures to change CO2 concentrations by parts per million will not do anything.
When I was a kid they told us that nuclear energy would make electricity so cheap it wouldn’t even need a meter....................
Some states have outlawed fireplaces.
Some states have outlawed any burning at all on private land.
Some states have outlawed BBQ grills that use charcoal and lighter fluid.
Do you see a pattern developing here?.............
Do you know that Lewis Strauss was talking about Fusion, not Fission, nuclear energy when he said that in 1954?
No I didn’t know that. But it makes no difference, since neither has come about.........
By the way, “too cheap to meter” is another way of saying, so expensive to hook up, the fuel cost are insignificant...
Well, I'm still waiting for Mr. Fusion.............
Coal represented 25 percent of total U.S. exports in 2012.
Can you provide a little more info on that?
In 2012, the US exported 125,745,662 tons of coal.
http://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t7p01p1.pdf
Our total 2012 exports equaled $1,546,455,000,000.
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/2012pr/aip/related_party/rp12.pdf
Coal prices widely vary perhaps $75~150 per ton depending on quality, location, etc. Even at $150/ton, it would be about 1% of our exports.
I thought I read it the other day but when I Googled I couldn't find anything. I did find out that U.
S. exports last year were roughly $2 trillion while coal exports were around $16 billion. So I'm way off. Sorry.
Thanks for the links. I stand corrected.
There won't be any grandkids if their grandparents freeze to death.
My mother had an euphemism for the total collapse of civilization: "burning the books".
I see books as fuel before long.
One volcanic eruption can, and will, forever skew the data rendering insolvent....
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This is a massive election opportunity for the GOP and not just in Coal Country. This is an attack on jobs and the poor and on economic liberty.
People no longer by into the ‘global warming’ hoax and climate change is a garbage word. They do view coal as dirty, but smart PR from coal producers and energy users could undermine that and pronto.
We need to start now, though, because you have to challenge the idea that coal is belching dirty black smoke into the air. Couple that we an economic liberty message and you win.
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