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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Krowbar who wrote (539349)2/14/2004 8:20:34 AM
From: Northern Marlin  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Good morning,

I came across the exchange you've been having with several others on this thread by searching for "wind power".

I'm interested in learning the relative costs per kWh for all energy sources available to us in the U.S. I'd be grateful if you could supply any links about those costs. I live in an area where wind is reliable year round. There are 3 Vestas turbines within a 100 miles of my home. Some of the power plants in my area use coal, and the only nuclear reactor in the area recently shut down permanently after numerous operation problems.

My number one issue in the coming Presidential election is energy independence for our country. I don't care who the candidate is, as long as he/she makes promises to do whatever it takes to move our country toward energy independence that person gets my vote.

Hell, I voted for the current president, and for my trouble I helped elect the most fiscally irresponsible administrator in the history of our country.

I'm not married to any single source of energy either. We should be looking at all possibilities. Wind power seems the most attractive to me because its side effects are only visual. But we should be examining ways to get the most out of all the resources that we have Stateside (oil & natural gas in Alaska & Gulf of Mexico, coal, solar in the southwest, hydroelectric where possible). I'd also like to see a concerted scientific effort toward harnessing fusion.

Government can play a helpful role. Tax credits can be enacted that make it attractive for entrepreneurs to take business risks in developing these resources. Grants can be provided for scientific research to find cleaner ways to burn coal, get more electricity per area of photovoltaic cell, and perhaps even find the key to using fusion for unlimited energy.

Excuse my rant, but I suppose that's the purpose these political threads serve.

Phil
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