[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Jerks.

[freedumb2003]

Some of the smartest minds in the world gathered last week

ineffective ways to address climate change.

Those terms are 100% in conflict.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Daniel Nocera, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and director of its Solar Revolutions Project, points out... We could build a nuclear plant every 1.5 days for eternity, and even that wouldn’t be enough to satisfy our energy needs, according to Nocera.

I searched the web page source. That is the only time the word “nuclear” appears, and the statement is such patent bullcorn that I’m shocked it’s coming from the mouth of a grade school teacher, let alone an MIT professor.

[Little Ray]

The One and Only True Green Path: Nukes.

Compact. Reliable. Renewable.

Nuclear Power.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[meadsjn]

Bottom line: We are wasting a lot of time, money and effort on ineffective ways to address climate change.

Bottom line: We are wasting a lot of time, money and effort worrying about climate change, period.

We could solve a whole range of real problems by rounding up the enviro-whackos, and grinding them up for dogfood, fertilizer, and cement additive.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[technically right]

“harness the sun” Ummm, will a troika do or will it require a four-in-hand.

[theymakemesick]

Only solar energy can give us what we'll need

I'll have to give my solar array a test tonight to see how it works in the dark.

[chimera]

Down in the Sunshine State, Florida Power and Light has an uprating program going on that will add about 400 MW of nuclear capacity for a cost of about $1.5 billion. They are also adding 75 MW peak (18 MW average) solar thermal power capacity (this is the Sunshine State after all) for a cost of $476 million.

I will leave it as an “exercise for the student” to run the numbers and tell us which one makes more sense.

[calcowgirl]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Some of the smartest minds in the world gathered last week at the Aspen Institute in Colorado ...

Dateline "Santa Monica" for a Colorado meeting.

Pretty appropriate as the Communists who infested California in the 1940s and 50s are still alive and well.

[GOPJ]

Ummm, what these guys don't get is we live in a capitalist society - people want to save money.

Maybe some products worth buying? Offer stuff to get my power bill down and I'll buy.

[Marine_Uncle]

"By midcentury, we'll have to cut carbon emissions 80% or more to prevent the planet from an irreversible warming trend that will have catastrophic ramifications."
What a load of sh*t from people who don't even understand no one in the scientific community that are educated on these matters can show any individual research study that proves CO2 has any effect on the trapping of heat.
Meanwhile the oceans continue to cool down absorbing even a greater rate of CO2. What these bozos will start pissing and moaning about next (actually they have been), is that some areas of our oceans are getting more acidic (of course they are absorbing more CO2), and that it is bad for the coral reefs.
These people are assholes. So many appearing to understand the climatic control mechanisms that are cyclic in nature that we have no control over. The Republican Congress had better step up to the plate and be one spokesmen as how things are becoming very dangerous. I understand the few attempts recently in this direction. They must become more forceful and start contacting more less then liberal universities and scientific organizations as how best they can start to counter this crap. Or we all will be pushing ox carts around in about twenty years.

[SunkenCiv]

We need better policies and plans -- now.

Okay: #1, dump the phony anthropogenic climate change demagoguery into the dustbin of history, and reclassify its advocacy as hate speech, making that a death penalty offense; #2, build the fence along the Mexican border; #3, stop running open irrigation canals across the altiplano; #4, open the north slope and our continental shelf to drilling, and drop all fuel excise taxes except on imports and exports ($10 or $20 a barrel either way); #5, require clean diesel technology on freight haulers and on diesel passenger cars; #6, eliminate the EPA's dozens of different formulations of gasoline and go back to one, but require zero sulfur content; #7, oh, I just want to go to bed now, #7, impose actual fuel economy requirements, instead of the stupid toothless CAFE BS, and eliminate the so-called Clean Air Act; #8, develop the methane gas hydrates on the ocean floor; #9, fund multiple lines of research into development of ambient temperature superconductors for use in the electrical distribution infrastructure (and then some); #10, fund multiple lines of research into development of fusion reactors for power generation (multiple lines, because no one knows how to do it, and it's not unlikely that it's impossible); #11, bore a downhill hole from the Qattara Depression into the Mediterranean, in order to drain off the supposed meltwater rise in the world sealevel (which hasn't risen these past 150 years) and other activities with a view to eventually refoliating the Sahara.