Posted on 05/03/2008 6:55:14 AM PDT by kellynla
Good read.
Your energy manifesto is right on!
I would like to see the new and rebuilt refineries made “convertible” to the hydrogenation of coal into gasoline and other petroleum products. The main obstacles to converting some of our energy needs to gasoline converted from coal are:
1. Enviro whackos, of course (those jerks can go live in the woods and eat grubs if they really care about “mother earth.”
2. Capital costs for the conversion plants (a good reason to build new refineries is that in the process, adding the capability to convert coal into petroleum is less of a cost than building a conversion plant on its own, and will help absorb the capital costs in plants we need already)
3. Coal production currently being used for electrical generation.
So, I think the plan should be:
1. Short term, 5-15 years, drill for every drop of oil we have and use it up. Begin construction of nuclear plants with the goal of converting 80-90% of electrical generation to nuclear power. Construct new refineries with capability of conversion to hydrogenation of coal.
2. Intermediate term 15-25 years: Complete conversion of electrical generation from coal/oil/gas to nuclear power. Implement full strategy of conversion of coal production to hydrogenation for gasoline and other petroleum products.
3. Long term 25-75 years: At some point, we will have to move away from use of fosssil fuels, but the technology isn’t there yet. Some day, it will be. The main things we need are continued development into battery and superconductor materials technologies, and an eventual shift from fission to fusion reactors.
Well, those are the only points I’d add to your excellent Manifesto. We need a clear goal (end energy dependence on terrorist states), a plan to get there, and the consistent commitment to get it done. My fear is that our government is so broken and society so fractured by the left that the commitment is can’t be made consistently.
My boiler-plate response to anyone who says anything like this to me is: "Why don't you be pro-active about it and off yourself? Put your money where your mouth is, or shut up."
“Why don’t you be pro-active about it and off yourself? Put your money where your mouth is, or shut up.”
Agreed, but then the person, or “they” open their pie holes and say something else just as stupid. I don’t want to hear it’ cause I’m sick and tired of hearing the same ol’, same ol’ out of them, so usually I avoid the dumb b—tards.
Some people still haven't heard of the Black Swan; or the effect of the Black Swans on civilized cultures...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Great posting, kellynla... GREAT!!!
Tanx...
I’m only surprised that the thread/article didn’t get any more response than it did today...
“There are too many of us already.”
But they never offer up that ultimate personal sacrifice to better the world. It’s always someone else who makes up the “too many”.
I know I've just about run out of contemptuous things to say about all the contemptuous developments like those this article re-interates.
I've just about iterated everything disgusting about government being infested with GANG-GREEN, then re-interated it ad nauseum!!! I've gotten too old and lazy to actually do anything about all this crappola except shoot off my mouth through this cold and impersonal keyboard!!!
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