Posted on 07/03/2002 5:13:40 AM PDT by Valin
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:36:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It is already too late for the United States to lead the world in the fight against global warming. President Bush saw to that last year, when he abandoned his promise to make power plants reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they send into the air.
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I'd support the latter, this doofus wouldn't, so he must want the economy to shrink.
he missed his chance to come clean with that paragraph....maybe if they said they wanted to reduce POLUTION and left out the junk science of global warming I would back them,and,at the same time,leave it up to the STATES to set their own standards....but they continuosy want to federalize it and use junk science to back it...nothing but political play.
I can imagine how many Twin Cities people read this propoganda article and went "Yah,right on!!" but also cheered when we didn't have to have emissions testing anymore.....
I have no problem with reducing emissions of mercury etc, as long as we weigh the risk versus the cost. Nuke plants emit zero mercury. There is no technology to reduce CO2 emissions from coal burning plants except, burn less coal. If CO2 is such a threat and we don't want to ration electricity, nuke is the only way to go.
If you want to look at other ways to reduce CO2, like seeding the ocean with iron, then lets discuss that.
As far as Eurotrash, don't make me laugh. The only technical innovations they produce are quicker ways to surrender, to the Germans, the Palestinians et.al.
We're already behind.
Toyota to market fuel cell cars this year
"Toyota said in a statement it expected full commercialisation of fuel cell vehicles from 2010 at the earliest, once standards were in place and the public better understood hydrogen fuel."
Conversion to hydrogen as a major energy source eliminates a lot of CO2 emissions.
Maybe. What energy source do you use to produce the hydrogen?
(And yes, I know, scale-up can be a b*tch.)
I remember an old sci-fiction story where the roads were solar cells.
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