Ping to the Swedish Ping List.
Posted on 09/06/2013 6:50:16 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Unfortunately, as we saw during his Stockholm stopover, the president lives in the press’s energy bubble.
President Obama swung through Sweden Wednesday on his way to Russia and couldn’t miss the chance to comment on what a wonderful job the Swedes are doing in creating a clean energy world:
Sweden is obviously an extraordinary leader when it comes to tackling climate change and increasing energy efficiency, and developing new technologies. And the goal of achieving a carbon-neutral economy is remarkable, and Sweden is well on its way. We deeply respect and admire that and think we can learn from it.
From there it was on to a tour of the Royal Society of Technology Expo, where he viewed some of Sweden’s pending energy breakthroughs. As reported in the Hill:
First up was Solvatten, a company that makes water filtration devices for families of up to six people. Obama asked whether Solvatten’s product could be easily scaled up to supply people in Africa and India with clean water — the employee said yes, for less than $100.
“Congratulations. It’s a great story to tell. We’re very proud of your work,” the president said in response, according to pool reports.
Obama then met with a trio of professors who were working on fuel cell technology for vehicles.
The president wrapped up his tour by meeting with the Volvo Group to discuss its plans for hybrid plug-in mass transit systems, such as for city buses. Volvo is planning to launch the “fully electric and emissions free” buses in 2015.
The White House quickly followed up with a fact sheet:
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Ping to the Swedish Ping List.
Yes. It’s not my ping list, but the owner gave permission and directions for eveyone to use it.
The Swedish government has officially opened Sweden’s doors to the entire Syrian population. And Swedes are now virtually forbidden from owning firearms. What a country!
“We”...who is he referring to? I know how he loves to use I most of the time, why switch to we?
An interesting story from Sweden, the Rape Capital of Europe.
And those rapes are largely avoidable since the rapists are mostly imported Muslim men. But left-wing self-loathing is the main political currency in Sweden, so the borders remain open and the Muslims poor in.
Does Sweden punch above it’s weight?
Yes, I noticed that too. But if you axed him, I bet he would use his other favorite expression to explain it: the "bunch of" us.
Test your link. Won’t work on safari.
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LOL, yes, he does like to use that one too. Moving around a “whole bunch” of gas = red line .....ha, ha. Yeah, looks like that really scared the stuffins outta them.
Just for clarification: The government has not decided to build new reactors. It lifted the ban on building new ones but the only operators that may build new reactors are the ones already running the old. So there are a lot of if’s and but’s in the 2009 decision.
The government is a coalition including one party that is almost religiously opposed to nuclear power. However, the opposition holds some 2½ parties of the same conviction
That said, the article is correct in many ways: Solar power is useless on a latitude that roughly equals that of Alaska, we would get the most when we need it the least, and wind is never more than a complement. If it can be used for burning less oil or coal, fine. That is not the case in Sweden but might be in the US. Also, the US uses a lot of electricity for air conditioning, which the swedes don’t so solar power may be useful to the US after all.
The Swedish nuclear reactors are getting old though. They need to be replaced some day but no new reactor is so far even projected.
I like passive solar, but solar panels seem (to me) to be a scam. They are very expensive and only seem worth considering when the govt. subsidizes their purchase. I also wonder about what they do to your roof in the high winds we experience in the midwest. Some govt. and commercial businesses mount an array of panels on the ground in the “yard” but that also seems to waste valuable green space IMHO.
We had a case just last week when solar panels on the roof of an industrial building prevent firemen from fighting a fire, and the building was a total loss.
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