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To: goldstategop; Cincinatus' Wife
"If only we could stop breathing"

You are entitled to make such statements, but it makes you look like an ignorant old fool, and re-enforces the Free Republic stereotype.

OTOH, if you want to build and operate a new power plant, and emit 100,000 tons per year of CO2, you will be regulated.

The best available control technology for such a situation is natural gas, which is why the majority of new electrical generating capacity in the US is natural gas fired, with wind being a distant second and coal a distant third, unless you live in Texas.

Wind and Solar now leading Texas in Power Growth

8 posted on 12/05/2015 3:53:10 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
From your LINK: "Wind and Solar now leading Texas in Power Growth"

Most new electricity generation in Texas will come from wind power, and next year solar power growth is expected to exceed natural gas-fired power plants in terms of new capacity added to the grid, according to a new report Tuesday from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas..."

Texas has been battling the EPA and Obama non-stop in Federal Court (they're closing coal powered plants in TX) while trying to comply with the EPA dictates of increased "clean" energy.

Still, Texas has managed to have growth and jobs.

12 posted on 12/05/2015 4:13:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Ben Ficklin

He forgot the sarcasm tag, though most of us don’t really need it for something that obvious.

On a more general note, Chennai is just the latest city in India to be flooded out. Mumbai regularly ends up chest-deep during the Monsoons, as do many others. It has very little to do with the amount of rain, and a great deal to do with unregulated building (both by the government and illegal squatters) and poor engineering of roads, drains, and other infrastructure.

And the best available power technology, if you’re worried about CO2 emissions (which we don’t really need to be; AGW is a scam of monumental proportions), is nuclear power. The main problem is the flat-earth Luddites who got scared by a bad ‘70s disaster movie and now won’t allow modern, clean (and very safe) nuclear generation plants to be built.


13 posted on 12/05/2015 4:13:54 AM PST by Little Pig
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