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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (3703)12/31/2008 9:34:34 AM
From: Eric  Read Replies (2) of 86356
 
Bob, actually if we sat down and discussed the various merits of a plan to utilize renewables vs oil and coal in the long run you would probably agree. Yes we do have an extensive installed base that utilizes each of those fuels and Natural gas to run our world but in the long run our balance of payments as is currently happening will virtually bankrupt us. We have the energy here for the taking and it is all free. Of course it costs money to "tap" those sources and it cannot happen overnight or in twenty years but it can happen in fifty years. Since we export less and less over time how are we going to afford ever increasing energy costs? That is my main concern along with some of the environmental factors.

When I see people talk about wind generation and they say the wind stops at night I chuckle quite a bit. Those folks obviously do not understand the physics of wind generation around the world. In many places it actually is much stronger at night! In our location up here in the NW we get so much wind in the winter that one little generator more than compensates for the loss of solar radation in the wintertime on our PVs. Storage is the holy grail and we are making headway very quickly now. As I posted a year ago, a article in Scientific American addressed the storage question beautifully, an engineering problem simply solved.
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