Posted on 11/02/2008 5:45:22 PM PST by edzo4
Coal is one of the true measures of the energy strength of the United States. One quarter of the world’s coal reserves are found within the United States, and the energy content of the nation’s coal resources exceeds that of all the world’s known recoverable oil.
Coal is also the workhorse of the nation’s electric power industry, supplying more than half the electricity consumed by Americans.
Coal-fired electric generating plants are the cornerstone of America's central power system. To preserve this economically-vital energy foundation, innovative, low-cost environmental compliance technologies and efficiency-boosting innovations are being developed by the Energy Department's Fossil Energy research program.
Electrical Production in the United States for 2006
Power Source % of annual production
Wind Power 0.7%
Solar Energy 0.1%
Petroleum Coke Fueled Boiler 1.1%
Oil Fired Boiler 0.2%
Nuclear Power 19.4%
Natural Gas Fueled Boiler 3.9%
Diesel Generators 0.3%
Incinerators 0.3%
Hydroelectric 7.0%
Geothermal 0.30%
Fuel Oil 0.2%
Combustion Turbine Generators 3.6%
Combined Cycle Natural Gas 12.4%
Coal Fired Boilers 49.1%
Biomass 270 6,256 0.58% 53.5 .3%
oops I got excited, it should say “Coal PRODUCED 50%”
So Obama want’s to bankrupt 50% of our energy resources? Way to go dude. You will throughly destroy the America we know and love. But that has been his agenda all along. What surprises me is half the nation will vote for him and allow him to do it.
Wow...talk about a REALITY CHECK for Bo.
What an uninformed, follow the puppet-master, unadulterated FOOL that man is.
GOOD LORD. This lackey, this hack and fraud as president??
Come on Mac and Sarah!!!!
Pol Pot Was a Consistent Altruist-Collectivist
Dear Editor,
Re: “Pol Pot: poster boy for the madness of revolutionary chic” — by Robert Fulford — April 22, 1998 — Globe and Mail
I’m glad Robert Fulford, at least, stressed the logical connection between Pol Pot’s atrocities and the ideas that were “fashionable in left-wing circles in Paris during the 1950s” (where Pot was a conscientious student) — a connection many other commentators are missing or evading.
Pol Pot was a consistent practitioner of the philosophy of altruism-collectivism — the widespread view that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the so-called “good of humanity” — the same philosophy that underlies our health-care system, welfare programs and countless other altruist-collectivist schemes.
If the rights of individuals — the right of each to life, liberty, private property and the pursuit of happiness — are subordinate to the “good of humanity,” it can only mean that whoever claims to represent the interests of humanity and seizes political power are free to sacrifice individuals to their beliefs. Whether it involves enslaving doctors to provide “free” health care, or confiscating private property to “save the environment,” or punitive taxation to “reduce the gap between rich and poor,” or, as Pol Pot did, murder millions to create “social equality” — it’s the same evil principle.
Those today who still champion collectivism over individualism should ask themselves this: How many millions of human lives would have been saved (not to mention the misery suffered by those who survived, or the prosperity lost) if the governments of Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot were restricted to the job of protecting individual rights rather than “free” to pursue their view of the “good of society”?
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
For example, solar (concentrated thermal and PV) and wind have a huge drawback -- no adequate system storage.
Wind -- best generation locations are thousands of miles from primary consumers, the grid is inadequate to conver the energy, and generally only 1/3 of electric generation makes it to consumption. The rest is lost as waste.
And there's more...
In reality, there’s no such thing as clean coal. Real energy independence. Fission, baby...!
I think McCain (a cagey old codger who seems to have a mind as quick as a steel trap) has intentionally pulled a “November surprise” with Obama’s “bankrupt-the-coal-companies” tape. You know his campaign had to have had the tape all the time. I just hope he did not wait too long. If it works, it will become the most famous “rope-a-dope” strategy in the history of American politics.
They don’t nuclear power, they don’t want coal power. What the heck are they going for? Cutting down 1million trees for windmills? No, they are against that too. Well, not the windmill thing, but good grief. What do these people want besides a crippled US?
don’t forget no domestic drilling for oil, or oil shale
Up here in New Hampshire, coal accounts for about half the fuel used to generate electricity.
What do the local Obamaites think is going to happen when coal supplies are turned off?
These are the same dweebs who can hardly wait to buy an electric car and plug it into the grid...
And Obama wants to bankrupt this industry?
He is nuts.
I believe if an independent group does analysis on whose plans are better, with increased prices in petrol, electricity and goods and services as a result of all of Obama’s new taxes and fines, most families will come out better under McCain’s policies.
I am sorry, McCain/Palin didn’t have the tape all the time. They didn’t have it until it was sent to them today. FReepers saw it this morning on a news outlet and sent it everywhere, including Drudge BTW, and it started getting out there. Sarah picked it up and ran with it. SF chronicle has kept this tape under wraps since Jan, failing to report the “bankrupt coal” statements because they knew it would hurt their frickin’ communist candidate. I can’t remember the news outlets name that ran it first this morning and I don’t know how they got it, but I am glad they did.
Obama’s tax cut won’t be squat next to the ‘new’ power bill...
I think it would be just perfect if that smug little smirk was wiped off obama’s face by a scandal called Coal-gate
LOL
When Obama wins, we can look forward to tripled Electric bills.
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