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World Leaders Throw Their Weight Behind Push to Fight Poverty, Preserve Environment.
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| 9/2/02
| Paul Geitner
Posted on 09/02/2002 2:55:07 PM PDT by Jean S
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posted on
09/02/2002 2:55:07 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: JeanS
"This is not charity, it is an investment in our collective future," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Spoken like a true collectivist.
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posted on
09/02/2002 2:57:56 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: JeanS
Since we (the US) are so wonderful, we should propose to forgive 220 billion in foreign loans to all of our former USA colonies in Africa, Asia, and South America.
Oh yea, we did not have colonies that stole their wealth and insured poverty like Spain, Great Britain, Holland, Portugal, France, Germany, etc
..
But, doesn't it sound Good! It is a liberal idea to sound wonderful, say you care about the poor, while you gorge on a huge banquet (as in what is taking place in South Africa right now) but actually do nothing to solve anything. This way you can keep saying how much you care while accomplishing nothing. Makes you feel good inside as you eat the lobsters, drink the wine, and partake in the pastries.
To: JeanS
My understanding is that any electrical generation that requires the use of super-batteries for storage is actually not clean. They hide the environmental dirtiness that comes from production, maintenance, and disposal of toxic battery components.
Anyone know if that's true? And how dirty are the batteries? (It's a given that they're dirty; we're not allowed to put them in landfills.)
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posted on
09/02/2002 3:14:18 PM PDT
by
xzins
To: JeanS
"No country should be allowed to take the law into their own hands," especially the United States, "because they are the only super power in the world today, and they must be exemplary in everything they do," he said Maybe it's just me, but this UN creepshow is really getting vocal, and annoying, and I don't recall it being like this during Clinton's reign, wonder why.
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posted on
09/02/2002 3:22:49 PM PDT
by
X-FID
To: X-FID
I wonder if Hillary flitting around the world giving our money away kept them quiet.
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posted on
09/02/2002 3:32:58 PM PDT
by
lonestar
To: JeanS
Screw them and the limo they drove in on!
To: rockfish59
Drop dead Mandela, you rotten commie!
To: JeanS
Yikes! When I read the title, "World Leaders Throw Their Weight Behind Push to Fight Poverty," thought I was about to read a story about Jesse Jackson and his shakedown coalition.
Hmmmm....anybody know where the reverend is these days anyway?
To: lonestar
I wonder if Hillary flitting around the world giving our money away kept them quiet. Hehe, possible, but I think the lib's are trying to push their agenda by acting like these thing's are important and have alway's been around, and they are not.
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posted on
09/02/2002 4:09:16 PM PDT
by
X-FID
To: X-FID
I hate the UN! Not real fond of the Clintons. LOL!
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posted on
09/02/2002 4:20:54 PM PDT
by
lonestar
To: lonestar
I hate the UN! Not real fond of the Clintons. LOL! Preaching to the choir there lonestar, Haha!
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posted on
09/02/2002 4:24:27 PM PDT
by
X-FID
To: X-FID
That was a safe assumption! LOL...
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:21:25 PM PDT
by
lonestar
To: JeanS
I just bought a U.N. flag to wipe my boots on.
The enviro-wacko's are supposed to sound pissed off after this conference. That way they can solicit more money. They are in the BUSINESS of crying. This is a multi-billion dollar business they are in.
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:25:20 PM PDT
by
Trteamer
To: JeanS
"If we are elevated, our elevation will have been accomplished through our own instrumentality... No people who has solely depended upon aid from others ever stood forth in the attitude of freedom."
- Frederick Douglass
To: JeanS
"
World Leaders Throw Their Weight Behind Push to Fight Poverty, Preserve Environment."
What weight?
To: xzins
"My understanding is that any electrical generation that requires the use of super-batteries for storage is actually not clean." Not sure what you mean by 'super batteries'. Batteries are energy storage devices, i.e., they only store chemical energy. By definition, they take more energy to build than they release.
There are new devices called "supercapacitors" which are really super--for capacitors. But you cannot run a car on them.
There are only a few primary power sources available. These are solar, wind, hydro, nuclear and fossil.
Solar and wind are too dilute to be useful. All useful hydro sources are already fully exploited. And fossil fuels are (in reality) just concentrated solar energy, amassed over millions of years.
All fossil power involves combustion. Fuel cells, steam engines, turbine engines, I.C. engines--all use combustion. Even if the fossil fuels are cracked to make hydrogen, it still involves combustion.
Hydrogen combustion liberates water, which is a greenhouse gas. Anything else also liberates CO2. Even experimental devices which 'crack' gasoline to H2 on-board the vehicle will eventually have to have heavy carbonaceous sludge removed periodically.
TAANSTAFL!
--Boris
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:40:01 PM PDT
by
boris
To: JeanS
World Leaders Throw Their Weight Behind Push to Fight PovertyThis is a joke isn't it?
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:49:38 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: boris
Not sure what you mean by 'super batteries'. Batteries are energy storage devices, i.e., they only store chemical energy. By definition, they take more energy to build than they release.
By super batteries I mean those that (1) hold charge for long periods and (2) require large series of banks of batteries to be able to power even a home.
If I understood you correctly you said it takes more energy to build a battery than they release. Speaking of a rechargeable battery that would not be so. HOWEVER, the chemicals and materials used in battery construction are quite toxic and they must eventually be discarded someplace in the environment.
Since they wear out on about a 5 year cycle, then you'd have to buy more and pollute the environment even further.
My point is that I don't think solar will be any cleaner than is natural gas or some other combustible fuel.
What do you think?
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:53:08 PM PDT
by
xzins
To: JeanS
And blah blah blah.
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posted on
09/02/2002 5:54:39 PM PDT
by
Valin
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