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To: LukeL

Wind power is stupid as hell. Environmentalists already file against them because of all the birds it will kill. They aren’t a continual source of energy and have to be shut down when the winds are too high.

Dammit all the damn God-given common sense appears to only be left in godly people. You build top of the line, modern nuclear plants. You drill for your own domestic oil. You get rid of ethanol and MTBE from gas, and allow modern cars’ and trucks’ electronic air/fuel computers do the job they were built for - mtbe and ethanol are not needed in new cars. You cut down on all the different blends of gas from over 20 to 3.


13 posted on 04/22/2009 5:50:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

We can also use the Fischer-Tropsch Process to convert coal and Natural Gas to liquid fuels. The Process is expensive but we can have the security we need with this process. This is what we can do with the coal we don’t use in power plants that should be converted over to nuclear.


14 posted on 04/22/2009 6:01:30 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Where do you store the excess power and how do you replace the power generated when the wind doesn’t blow. Tidal power (unproven tech as far as I know) would be far more consistent than wind or solar.


17 posted on 04/22/2009 6:15:36 PM PDT by airedale ( XZ)
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