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Posted By hurr1 3 months ago in NewsWe're in a major energy crisis. But did you know that technologies exist that could solve it all if they were just given funding?
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ecotourusa3 months ago
I just saw a solar prototype on the morning show today. they put a solar panel on top of a golf cart to get around. I'd love one of those models myself. I don't drive much. but, when I do, it's close by. this would work for me...
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tchef3 months ago
The battery technology is still not up to speed. It takes too many batteries that are way too heavy to give you any real usable distance. And they take a long time to recharge. That's why they are working on fuel cell technology. the fuel cell produces electricity from the chemical reaction in the cell. Recharge simply by refilling the fuel cell. But so far the chemicals that work are too expensive and energy consuming to make it practical at this time.
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jimdoze3 months ago
Every little bit helps. However, an industrial economy requires industrial energy production. The idea that Solar, Wind and Bio will provide an industrial energy production base for this economy is wishful thinking. They CAN help at the margins. They cannot provide the base. Nuclear CAN!
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ecotourusa3 months ago
Jim-
have you ever heard of T. Boone Pickens?
check this out:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9985905-54.html
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jimdoze3 months ago
Pickens? definitely. I had just commented on him on another thread as follows:
T. Boone Pickens has some ideas. However, he should be spending his money building his proposed wind farms instead of proselytizing. Let us ask why he is proselytizing? Is he looking for the people to look to the government to provide wind farm builders greater incentives? He is spending $58 million on his ad campaign. That $58 million could set up a major wind farm that would produce real electricity, not just media buzz.
Natural gas is part of his "plan"... and, at the same time, he says "we can't drill our way out of this one". There is a bit of a disconnect there since how else will more natural gas be produced other than by drilling for more of it?
Where is the heavy lifting alternative here? I still haven't heard anything about nuclear as part of it. Without that, his "plan" is pie in the sky.
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tchef3 months ago
I think solar will become a large resource. As the price of solar panels come down you will see them on the top of every building turning whole cities into solar farms. The Sun gives off incredible amounts of energy, just look at what it does to the cover on your grill, car, or boat. When we figure out better ways to harness that energy it will solve a lot of our problems.
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canadianrancher573 months ago
Simonsez- It seems your comment has recieved mixed reviews, but if you are refering to some of the hairbrain ideas that people are proposing and recieving public and government funding for I tend to agree. On the other hand if you are looking for funding in a get rich scheme I was wondering if you needed a partner. lol
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crghss3 months ago
Well first you need the approval of the state regulatory commission before you change a thing. And they look at one think. Cost past onto customer. Who pays for the Transmission lines? Who pays for the the new natural gas burning plant that will replace old coal or oil plants? The commissions will not approve those costs. They will let you build new plants using what ever is the cheapest. But won't let replace any preexisting plants. Because thats not a required expense.
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truthiness3 months ago
the sun will be here as long as we are. it will continue radiating energy at us all the while. the hold up is not the amount of energy. it is the technology. which, as history has taught us, is just a matter of applying ourselves.
continuous, clean energy.. why not?
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donald513 months ago
There is a reason the Repug 109th "Do NOthing" Congress Energy Bill threw out all the Energy Anti-Monopoly laws instituted after the Great Depression... so they can control the alternatives too... see all those commercials on TV where they have bought into the alternatives... not investing in them has just perpetrated our dependance on big oil... all part of the Repug plan.
I that it was the Dem plan to take more taxes from the big oil record profits we have seen under the bushies and invest these taxes more in alternatives... but the Senate obstructionist Repugs defeated the bill with Dumya's threat of a veto pending too!
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danielistical3 months ago
Good luck bush just canceled funding for alternitive energy just two weeks ago that SOB is a real POS
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antibrainwasher3 months ago
Standard oil anti-trust 7 sisters, Exon, Conoco and the like, make more money than Saudi Arabia. The control a massive political and economic machine, bigger the GNP of this coutry, trillions of dollars.
Do you suppose they could buy some influence here and there?
Nothing will change, unless the people vote to put some teeth into regulating the billionaire moguls in this industry and others.
We need to give the evangelical army whatever they want, abortion, guns, gays, flags....all these inconsequential crap issues, and focus on ousting the entrenched right wing big capatilist senators who provede the veto proof majority.
Give money to the DNC. They are focused like a laser on a national strategy to oust the Republican senators. 12 republicans, the likes of Rick Santorum or Mike Dewine who were thrown out, have been targeted.
In order to take back the nation from the superclass of globalist billionaires. Money talks, cons walk. DNC. Donate
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tchef3 months ago
The big oil companies are raking in record profits and John McCain wants to give them more tax breaks as part of his economic policy. I say tax them and spend the money on alternative energy research done by someone who doesn't benefit from keeping us dependent on oil.
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