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Obama's Green Obsession: More Harm Than Good?

Intermitent power. Can a factory or plant run on intermitent power? No. Can Chemical Plants that involves controlled chemical reactions run on intermitent power...and not have an accident? No. Can a regular office run on intermitent power? No. Have you ever lived in a place where because of adverse weather, the power got knocked out for a few days? Human activities just about shut down and stopped during those powerless days. Well, this is what it will be if we rely on wind and solar power. We can't; not possible in this modern world of ours. That is why we don't. We need reliable base power from coal, oil, gas and yes..... that polution free nuclear plant.


On Nov 11 09:22 PM Evanoff wrote:

> Interestingly, I love your argument about labor intensivity with
> the wheelbarrows and outlawed bulldozers because it illustrates the
> environmental point so clearly.
> Let's take another example: There are a limited number of trees.
> Arbitrarily, let's say there are 10,000 trees left in the forest
> and we are willing to cut down 1000 of them. If one man with a chainsaw
> can cut down 1000 trees by himself, that is one employed logger.
> If a law goes into effect banning the use of chainsaws (not so strange
> really: think about rules on net fishing intended to limit catch),
> and a man with an axe or handsaw can cut only 100 trees, then that
> is 10 logging jobs.
>
> The point you are missing completely is the constraint of limited
> resources. Having the economies of scale, lower unit costs, more
> efficient (and fewer) employees all make sense only in an environment
> of unlimited potential growth of a whole industry and competition
> between companies for share of that growing market.
>
> The world's fisheries are the first place where we have seen the
> need to reduce total catch and therefore limit maximum possible efficiency
> (an even BIGGER net could catch ALL the fish at once! why not?).
> With forestry, the maximum limit is drawing into focus. The question
> of peak oil production has been asked, if not yet answered.
>
> And coal? How exactly do you put a mountain back together? It is
> one of the single most destructive sources of energy to extract.
> Have you ever been to an Appalachian strip mine? Personally, I'd
> rather have fluctuating electricity in my home on windless days,
> and a nice mountainside nearby for recreation, than a million watts
> of power in my house and nothing of beauty left to enjoy outside
> it.
> Inefficient sources of energy are worth it for reasons that trump
> efficiency. I'll take the wind power, thanks.

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