Michigan legislative action thread
We just need harvest the shredded poultry downstream to better utilize the full economic benefits.
And the main reason it's more costly is because Obama appointed an anti-nuclear activist to sabotage the NRC.
Our nation's aircraft carriers and submarines run 20 years at a time on nuclear fuel that could fit under the desk you're sitting at right now. The fact that our nation seems determined to kill off this zero-emissions abundant source of power which it invented is a scandal.
Power seeking Luddites!
Where are the Mega Fauna?
April 21, 2014
I, like many people, am perplexed by the raging debate over Global Warming, re-labeled as Climate Change since no discernible warming has been documented for the past 17 years. Whether the Earth is warming, cooling, or staying the same there are those who blame it all on increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide, CO2. Their solution is to emit less carbon dioxide from organic combustion reactions, be they gasoline engines, wood-burning stoves, coal burning in commercial power plants, or a plethora of additional activities. The method to reduce carbon emissions is to tax the offending activities.
As recently as last week the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) floated the idea of vacuuming atmospheric CO2 from the air and sequestering it underground. Regardless of the technological hurdles such an operation would pose, I find the underlying rationale to be flawed. First some ballpark numbers:
Atmospheric CO2 is now reportedly flirting with or has crossed the magic 400 ppm (ww) threshold. That means that, roughly, there are now 755 billion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere, up from approximately 708 billion tons 30 years ago, a 6.6% increase. That I personally do not believe this increase to be anywhere near a crisis, or the result of Humanity’s activities is beside the point.
Have you ever wondered why there are no mega fauna on this planet anymore? Where are the really big animals? First, there were the dinosaurs, and lastly such things as Wooly Mammoths, Mastodons, or giant tree sloths, among others. Is it not possible that the demise of the mega fauna is at least partially due to biomass (translation: bio available carbon) being sequestered over eons, as petroleum oil, coal seams, or peat bogs?
It is a fact inherent in the carbon cycle as taught in elementary school that every form of life, including us, started as atmospheric carbon dioxide. That carbon is the most basic of stones out of which life is built. If carbon were in fact sequestered by natural processes, as it apparently has been, then eventually the biomass of this planet would become so thin as to be unable to support enormous or even large animals.
This line of reasoning leads to a surprising conclusion. If a fundamentally new source of energy were discovered, that did not rely on any type of combustion, and was plentiful and cheap then burning hydrocarbons would be relegated to a niche status like making fuel for classic automobiles. In that event, the environmentally responsible action would be to dig up all the coal and oil and burn it anyway thus increasing the biomass available to all life on Earth. For that reason, I consider an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide to be a healthy thing for life on this planet.
Government has ruined science and it will ruin civilization soon and drive humans back into the caves once again. Always has, always will.
“wind powered fire trucks”
These are just as feasible as solar powered Boeing 747s.
Only, will these fire trucks be schooner rigged or brigantine rigged, and how efficiently can they tack against the wind in order to reach a fire?