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Some of these make more sense than covering the country iwith tens of thousands of Industrial Wind Turbines that have a life expectancy of 20 years or less and create more CO2 to consruct than they will save in their lifetime and will never, ever be able to contribute more than 7% of our electrical demands
1 posted on 07/17/2013 12:01:48 PM PDT by digger48
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I just don’t understand the dislike of petroleum. It offers one of the best BTU/volume ratios out there and still be pretty stable and safe to transport.


2 posted on 07/17/2013 12:03:46 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Saw a stat the other day that there are 14,000 abandoned wind turbines in this country, just rusting away across the fruited plain.

The minute the subsidies dry-up the people who own them no longer want to be bothered maintaining them.


3 posted on 07/17/2013 12:05:24 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Ping.


4 posted on 07/17/2013 12:06:57 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: digger48

The reason gas prices is because of so called environmentalists and our criminal government. A Denver Post article a couple years ago said crude oil for oil shale could cost $35 per barrel. Regular oil could be much less. Why is the cost of oil $100, to pay off the Saudis.


5 posted on 07/17/2013 12:07:05 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Yet with growing concern about climate change...

They misspelled "vanishing."

7 posted on 07/17/2013 12:12:51 PM PDT by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: digger48

technically the dilithium crystals are not the energy source, they focus energy, and in the process, get worn down and eventually need replacing.

/trek nerd off


8 posted on 07/17/2013 12:13:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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One way to jump start the bio-diesel / algae production would be to require those farmers with land in the CRP (crop reduction program) where the government is paying farmers to NOT produce crops, to require them to produce X gallons of bio-diesel per acre that they register in the program.

Most farm equipment runs on diesel so this would get them to start making their own diesel and they can then sell the excess into the marketplace.


12 posted on 07/17/2013 12:23:58 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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