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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This is where everyone has there heads in the sand.

It’s like the wind energy crap. The amount of energy it takes to build the machine to capture wind energy negates the amount you will get out of it over it’s working life.

Without Oil everything they are working on gives back so little return (except nuclear) that it’s just never going to fly.

Consumption is going to outpace supply in the next 10 to 20 years at the latest.


35 posted on 02/24/2008 3:08:18 PM PST by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: ScratInTheHat
"The amount of energy it takes to build the machine to capture wind energy negates the amount you will get out of it over it’s working life."

Nonsense. I can show you wind turbines that have been running, producing more energy each day that they run than it took to manufacture them, since the mid 60s.

The hills near our ranch are dotted with old, still working wind turbines, that require almost no maintainance (and that is a lucky thing, since people are not inclined to maintain things until they fail).

40 posted on 02/24/2008 3:30:14 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: ScratInTheHat

Agreed!


56 posted on 02/24/2008 6:14:13 PM PST by tubaplayer
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