They’re not just coming to this conclusion, are they? Seriously.
Someone in Washington finally figured out how to do a material and energy balance.
Lo and behole! It’s not nice to try to fool Mother Thermodynamics.
here’s a novel thought.
Get our own oil and gas from our own backyard.
foreign oil problem now solved.
In the meantime we research and look at different energy in not a speedy way and we will get it right
Gosh, I hate to show my ignorance but I have to ask what the hell’s wrong with nuclear? Other than the waste problem it seems to be a whole lot better for environment than anything that has to deal with byproducts that clog the air. I’m serious. How have the environmentalist been able to stymie nuclear production of electricity for so long? Seems to me like the answer, for now anyway, is electric cars with the electricity being provided by nuclear energy.
OK, go ahead and fire away. I know I’m missing something. Can it really be simply the power of the environmental lobby?
The combination of that EESTOR super capacitor and electricity generated by modern nuke plants sounds awfully good to me.
Yep, those “non-polluting electric car” hucksters show their ignorance or delilberate deception by saying there is no pollution, just plug it into the nearest electrical outlet. So where does the power come from? coal, natural gas, atomic energy...all BAD BAD power sources.
At least we own the coal—if we’ve got the will to use it.
You see, yesterday the worry was “emissions”.
But modern power plants emit almost nothing.
So they’ve moved the goal post, created a fake problem that you can’t solve. You’ve lost the game the moment you agree to play.
The answer is “all of the above”. There is an enormous amount of oil offshore California (where it just seeps up through the ocean floor whether you drill for it or not) and offshore Alaska. There is an enormous amount of oil shale that we’ve placed off limits... again, placing limits on ourselves when we didn’t need to. There is an enormous amount of coal that can be converted to diesel if we just want to. There is enough, in other words, that we could easily replace the amounts we get from the middle east. If we just want to.
And we can build nukes to power electric cars. Lithium may be the cats meow today, but we’ll find something else the week after. The point is, don’t wring our hands, do it.
The only thing that is a waste of time is what they seem to be pushing, which is solar and wind. Both of these have their place as a niche source, but neither is of any use beyond that. They take up enormous amounts of land. Power you could produce on 40 acres with a natgas plant requires 4000 acres using photovoltaic panels. Even a solar thermal plant is wasteful of land, and none of them produce after the sun goes down. Dang.
All of these things are possible, and all of them are under attack the moment you decide to do them, including solar and wind power. The environmentalists hate them too (and in that case, I agree with them). The greens only favor wind and solar if you’re building a natgas plant; the moment you try to build a solar or wind plant they come out of the woodwork to stop you there too. They are children, the rank and file, and OPEC hacks, the leadership. They’ll tie you in knots if you try to make them happy; they will never be happy so you have to defeat them.
These "wind farms" are real eyesores that do little to solve the energy problems. Just a big money deal for the enviroloony wackos.
If we're going to have these goofy electric cars, we better get busy building nuclear power plants.
Electric Cars? — Nuke the B*st*rds.
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