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To: gr8eman

So, you still haven’t supported your original contention regarding people freezing to death because of wind power.

You also haven’t supported your contention that a whole new technology to store energy is required (it’s just physics!).

I made the comment that the problems with wind power (occasionally the wind doesn’t blow) could be covered by having a mix of power sources. You responded, I think, with a link to the Encyclopedia Britannica about the Green Party. I have to accept your contention that this article talks about their agenda to get rid of all fossil fuels since this article resides behind a pay wall. However, since the Green Party only holds 10% of the seats in the German Parliament, I’m not really concerned what they think, since they are not even close to being in control of German Policy (BTW, I think the Greens could properly be called Socialists, not Fascists).

So, back to the real world. I believe that renewables can be a valuable part of a diversified energy policy and, apparently, the 90% of the German Parliament that are not the Green Party agrees with me.


19 posted on 08/06/2015 8:29:03 PM PDT by Team Cuda
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To: Team Cuda
You should study energy, (potential, static) which encompasses molecular energy states up to conductivity, resistivity, absorption, and reflectivity of matter. Study power grids and how they function. Study Newton's laws, Schroedinger's equation, Planck's and Boltzmann's constant...heck...even throw Ohm's law in there for good measure.

For a fun experiment you could deck out your house with solar panels and windmills and try to power your lights, heat, computers, etc. for a full year. It could be a fun experiment which will enable you to learn that the only "renewable sources" of energy are fossil fuels, trees, peat, and gas.

You could write the Green party members (or any enviro-whacko in the US if you don't understand German...they're all the same) and ask their opinions on burning wood, coal, and gas.

You can also study heat's relation to mass, and maybe will understand that bodies (human or otherwise) that have less mass (children) than larger mass (adults) naturally hold heat for a lesser amount of time when chilled.

You may ask yourself, "what is the law of supply and demand, who passed that law, and what does it mean when supply of a commodity, say, generated electricity decreases? Does the price go up when the demand goes up? hmmm...

You may even get really crazy and bombastic and study Economics 101, and ask yourself if the amount of time and money spent (cost) of "diversified" energies, i.e. the effort it takes to combine them, store them, and integrate them into usable supplies, is more or less than concentrating your efforts on a single source? After your whimsical journey in which you truly learned the answers to all of these mind-boggling questions, call up 90% of the German (or any) Parliament and quiz them on precisely what they understand about these issues. Fortunately, I already know the answer!

20 posted on 08/07/2015 7:21:54 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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