So, I'm going to go with the part in bold and draw the conclusion that global warming will be good for the solar thermal energy industry...
The enemies of nuclear-powered electricity generators are loud and very crowded in Washington DC.
I would say to those who preach loudly against building power plants, nuclear or otherwise: You are free to believe anything you want - you are free to say whatever you want to about. However, when we run short of power, we are going to shut you off first. Those luxurious offices are going to be just peachy in the dark with no heat/AC. Have a nice day...
Big energy eaters would need nukes, and these already have nuclear weapons, so all this talk about nonproliferation is dissembling of the first order.
anyone who is concerned about global warming, as opposed to being concerned about what those who say they are concerned about global warming want to do, needs to seriously consider nuclear power as a viable option.... even Patrick Moore, one of the original founders of Greenpeace, is on board because nuclear power is the only mature technology that can produce the base power load needed without producing carbon emissions.
In the 1990s the nuclear industry was telling people it could replace foreign oil. They ran pictures of Muammar Khadafy and the Ayatollah Khomeini saying, ‘If you think nuclear power is dangerous, consider the alternative.’ Now they’re trying to do the same thing with global warming.”
This is a laughably stupid comment. Is he saying Khadafy and Khomeini weren't really dangerous? What an airhead!
These people are communists and useful idiots. They deserve no respect and should not be given the time of day.
This is a classic example of how true facts can be twisted into misleading statements. The truth is that maybe 25% of Denmark's electrical production capacity is wind power (I read that it was 17%, but I won't quibble over a few percent). Unfortunately, the wind doesn't always blow when and where the power is needed, all while the windmills are capable of working. The total electrical energy produced by wind power in Denmark that is actually used, is more like 2-3%. Some additional comments"
· Decrease the number of car miles traveled by half.Only for the RAM's (Raggedy @ssed masses). The important people, like politicians and liberals will be exempted.
· Build 10,000 square miles of solar collectors to produce hydrogen.Where are you going to put them? Where will the hydrogen be stored?
· Put up 2 million large windmills.NITKBY (not in Ted Kennedy's back yard)
· Capture carbon from 180 coal-to-gas synfuel plants and store the carbon dioxide.Store it? Where?
· Install 700 times the current capacity for solar electricity.There isn't a lot of use for electricity in the places where the sun shines consistently. Most of the electricity would be lost in the transmission from there to the users.
· Increase ethanol production 50 times by creating biomass plantations with area equal to 1/6th of world cropland.It takes four gallons of ethanol to produce five gallons of ethanol. If all of the US farm land were dedicated to ethanol production, it would only produce 30% of our fuel used.
· Double global nuclear capacity to replace coal-based electricity. Why not quadruple it?
Does anyone think for one minute that the tree huggers would allow any of these options to be built? The million windmills would chop up flying birds, the massive solar farms would disrupt the environment and the "not in my backyard" mentality and environmental permitting process would prevent the building of syn-fuels and ethanol plants for decades.