Energy and “the relentless application of logic”;
In the most reader-friendly and engaging way possible, Bryce provides the reader with data — the inescapable, remorseless facts about our current use of energy and our future energy needs. For instance, he points out that a single coal mine in western Kentucky – the 35th largest in America — produces the equivalent of 75 percent of all the raw energy produced by every wind turbine and solar panel and solar cell in the country on a daily basis.
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Actually, from what I hear, those stinking giant fans might be handy for pumping all that extra global warming that keeps falling from the skies.
Johnny Horton The battle of New Orleans lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxB42cjHTGg&feature=related
He had the right idea. This way we could get rid of Obama & BP along with the EPA & other environmental vandals. Now hearing they knew about a problem in February on the rig.
No matter what! Alberta has to get its Nuke plant before the usual nuts come out.
You know, if BP offered to buy reclaimed crude at the dockside for fifty cents a gallon, the Gulf would be shore to shore with fishing boats re-purposed to suck up crude, and all those unemployed fishermen would be working, and they’d be hiring more guys.
You could suck up a couple hundred bucks worth a day with a glorified shop vac, a centrifuge made out of an oil drum and a big plastic fertilizer tank to hold the oil. And gee, no more oil up on shore.
What’s Obama doing? Building -windmills-. Tell me that’s not the dumbest son of a be@tch on Planet Dumb@ass.
All of these leftist nuts are evolutionary failures. The soft comfortable western cultures have allowed them to germinate, thrive, and thus exist. It’s no different than artificially feeding millions of otherwise starving Africans with enough sustenance energy to wake up in the morning and breed.
The lunacy in the west is allowing these Liberal turds to have enough power in our societies to drag us into their pathetic domination fantasies of being ruled and subjugated by cruel masters.
Why should logic ant truth mean anything when political leaders are manipulated by oligarchs invested in the AGW/CO2 con?
Amerika’s commander in Thief is going full monte with AGW taxation – really, what does truth mean any more?
“Why? Even though we import a significant percentage of our oil from sometimes hostile foreign powers, every significant green energy technology — from wind turbines, to solar panels and cells, to the batteries and magnets needed for these and other products such as hybrid and/or electric cars — depends upon ”rare earth” elements. These elements are also critical to the many of the U.S.’s high-tech weapons. Unfortunately for U.S. security interests, due to geographic luck, China sits atop the vast majority of those elements. Indeed, China controls between 95 and 100 percent of the world market in those elements. And China has decided to take full advantage of this situation. It is rapidly withdrawing the raw elements from sale on the market, in order to become the dominant, if not sole manufacturer, of finished products requiring rare earths.”
Have we been wise enough to declare ownership of the rare earth find in Saskatchewan off limits to China? One would hope so.
POTUS will not bypass the Jones Act. That act states only unionized labour be used. W bypassed the Act when dealing with Katrina to get people working on the problem. There seems to be more bureaucracies working against the cleanup instead of helping. Jindal must be going nuts, he wants sand barricades, the scientists say it won’t work, what they are doing doesn’t. bambam does nothing but extort money from BP.
“There seems to be more bureaucracies working against the cleanup instead of helping.”
So, clearly, the solution is more bureaucracies! What’s the old saying? “The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy”.
Speedy
[…..”There seems to be more bureaucracies working against the cleanup instead of helping.”…]
Yeah…..DON’T DO SOMETHING!!!!…STAND THERE!!!!
Jindal)Governor of Louisiana) chartered 11 oil skimming barges and then found the Coast Guard docked them indefinitely for “safety inspections” (counting lifejackets).
13 countries volunteered ships and oil skimming assets to clean up the spill—-then told thanks no thanks.
And that’s just the tip of it.
Careful Kate. You may find a couple of members of a special OPP unit at your door. Members of Wind Concerns Ontario are receiving calls and visits from the OPP under the guise of ‘maintaining public safety’. Apparenty, if you criticize green energy in Ontario, you are now considered a “resister”. Intimidation is now the new approach to implementing the green jobs/green energy/cap and trade agenda in Ontario.
http://windconcernsontario.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/opp-calling-us-resisters-phone-calls-visits-background-checks-on-wco-members/
Where’s BTJ to enlighten us knuckle dragging neanderthals that windmills are the way to go?
Well said Phantom! The currant President, like all others of his ilk, would never do such a thing; he would be helping the fishermen and he would have a partial solution to the problem. The currant President is not interested in solutions, he is interested in impoverishing people and making them dependant on gument. This Gulf Disaster is an opportunity to bring down independent people and he will not allow this opportunity to go to waste.
The 0 is against the prosperity of the American people. Sad but true, IMO.
Regarding the use of coal, it was noted back in January at http://www.terradaily.com that China would be opening a new coal-fired power plant every 7 to 10 days through out all of 2010.
Of course China also does pay lip service to clean power to satisfy the more gullible supporters of their totalitarian way of life.
I myself would love to see the OPP try to show up at Kate’s door. I expect they’d get hopelessly lost crossing Manitoba.
rom 1994 through 2008, America added the equivalent of three Spains worth of electric power output:
But how many Libraries of Congress is that?