Posted on 07/03/2007 1:32:27 PM PDT by P-40
Very cool. Hope it takes off.
123,000 new jobs huh. How many will be paid for in total with tax dollars or heavily subsidised? 122,000?
246,000
...pedaling those little bicycle generators after the conversion to make up the shortfall and keep the lights on.
In the western part of Texas, there’s not much of anything to speak of. They could cover most of west Texas with solar cells and power the rest of the country. Not like there’s anything else to do with it.
Why would they put a snow plow storage yard in Texas?
Gee, West Texas has hail storms. I am sure someone has thought of that.
It does look like a bunch of snow plows. Shiny ones at that. :)
utter baloney. imho.
solar is hyped by greenies but we could serve the entire nation with nuclear power with far less costs and far less numbers of workers...
123,000 people ??? $6-12 billion in employee costs alone just for Texas for electricity generation? They are on crack. That number of people would be enough to staff 200-300 nukes which in turn could power half the nation.
And then there is this article currently on Drudge describing a recent study claiming we use to much of the sun.
Solar ‘Greed’? Humans accused of overusing the Sun!
ROFLMAO
Sorry, can get the link from drudge to hear on us using to much son.
sun that is sorry
You take Drudge seriously regarding this? Try independent thinking instead of allowing yourself to be pulled into demagoguery.
How many jobs could be added to the U.S. economy if we drilled in ANWR and off the coast of Florida?
Just curious.
“And you would store that waste....where? That is the problem I don’t think we are ever going to get worked out. “
It’s a solved problem. Nulcear used fuel is a valuable resource that should be recycled, just like aluminum cans. It’s easier to recycle if the short-lived radioactivity dies down. so ... You store it on site at the nuclear power plant site for 50 years (dry cask storage, been doing that for the last 40 year laready no problem), at which point it is a lot cooler. Store it another 50 years at Yucca Mountain and/or then reprocess it as Mox-type fuel for another go around.
by 2050, we should have lead-bismuth fast reactors that can use up this stuff and burn it completely so there is zero real nuclear waste ove time.
“And I think the greenies gave up on solar power...now that too many people are using it and getting paid for it. :)”
People are paid for solar because it is a taxpayer-funded boondoggle. yet solar gives us less than 1% of our energy. meanwhile nuclear generates 20% of our power.
With all the money we waste on ‘alternative energy’ and ethanol subsidies, we could redirect is on cost-effective nuclear power and end forever the ‘threat’ of global warming.
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