nakedjaybird

Wind's Our Future, but Natural Gas Is Now

And DougM, if you're satisfied with solar/NG, you ought to really be satisfied with solar/biofuel AND BE ALL HOMEGROWN, AND of course, leave the hydrocarbons stored in the ground (all the hydrocarbons: coal, ng, oil, tar sands, oil shale - who, in their right mind would want to dig any of these AND FURTHER PROCESS THEM, to JUST BURN THEM??? DUH!!

Wind's Our Future, but Natural Gas Is Now

DougM - come on, Fusion exists right now. Look at the sun. We can use as much of it right now with every solar PV unit we install. And it doesn't pollute our air, nor use our hydrocarbons. And it's free. Not always available, but we can work on that. Oh, yes it might cool the earth a little.

Wind's Our Future, but Natural Gas Is Now

marc - why would you want to burn NG and throw away 70% of it's energy vis-a-vis generate and use as much free and available wind and solar energy and throw nothing away??? PURE GAIN!

And why wouldn't you want to employ this logic ASAP/AMAP/IEWP???

Boone's got it half right: replace NG power generation with wind (and solar).

What's wrong is then burning NG in vehicles and throwing away 70% of that energy as waste heat. Now if he could recover that waste heat and make it useful electricy for a hybrid, great.

At that point I'd suggest burning biofuels and still leave all the NG in the ground - as stored-already.

So it goes.........