BUSH, THE MASTERMIND BEHIND 9-11?
Of course not. He's merely the puppet, front man, deluded dictator (see: raytal.com for the infamous comment by the Shrub on 12/18/01 when he told us, with a smirk, what was coming...
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Re: "I'm not familiar with Peter Huber, but I'd be curious why he thinks covering the land with oil wells is preferable..."
Are you familiar with the concept of "energy density"?
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Huber is a Right Wing swindler. He's also very intelligent. He convinced me to throw away my bottles of Chateau La Fite(sic), after they were emptied into my glass, of course. Instead of recycling the glass. It's a foolish waste of energy and compassion to do so. Silica is plentiful and easier to fire into new bottles than used glass. Landfills aren't adversely impacted by having sand returned to them in the form of glass shards.
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Re: In a lot of ways, I tend to have a beef with a lot of the concepts embraced by ecologists.
In the run-up to George Bush's turkey shoot in Iraq, several of the "concerned" anti-war folks in my town thought it better to travel 175 miles to Portland to protest, rather than walking downtown. When I pointed out the irony of having to burn several barrels of crude oil from overseas sources in order to get the group down there, they did understand the irony, but didn't modify their behavior.
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Re: but increasing the use of ethanol as fuel happens to be a concept I agree with
I don't have the facts on my fingertips, but what I alluded to earlier is that ethanol is a loser. In American agricultural practices, you spend more of the energy budget on diesel for transport, plowing, etc. and natural gas on the production of ammonia than you get back in ethanol. It is an economic waste of money and resources. Ethanol is a loser.
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Re: Wind power is all well and good, but it won't push cars,
You are absolutely wrong about this.
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Re: FWIW, I'm also a big fan of increasing the use of solar power.<g>
Get real. Wind power can now be generated on appropriate sites at a cost under $50/Mwh. (5 cents per Kwh) This is competitive with almost all other means of generation, especially when all true costs are considered. (Eg.: waste disposal of nuclear fuels, acid rain costs of coal fired generation, etc.)
The cost for solar generation, in the current generation of solar generators is about $500/Mwh. (50 cents per Kwh) No where even in the ballpark compared to conventional ute power sources. |
