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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (5394)2/26/2009 9:56:38 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 86352
 
I think its just a matter of looking at the positive and negative aspects of everything.

For example, I like the idea of more nuclear power, though I recently posted an article on the obstacles it faces. When I say I like it, I mean I know it can be made to work economically as we have done it on a significant scale (I am biased in favor of things we've demonstrated we know how to do). And its frustrating to see that some of the obstacles are political ... thrown up by people idealogically opposed to it.

I like the idea of oil shale ... because we've got lots of it out west. But I know the problems it faces and doubt it will ever be developed in my life time. There are other non-conventional "conventional" fuels - like methane hydrates, liquified coal. These have a positive aspect that we have a lot of them too. But there are obstacles to overcome that make either of them doubtful in my lifetime.

As for solar and wind, I don't like that they're so dependent on government aid. I'd like them more with no govt aid at all. And I see the the advocates of those things making arguments on their behalf that ignore and blithely dismiss as irrelevant the problems - transmission, storage, batteries, intermittancy, and even the future problem that there would inevitably be big environmental objections to those things if they were adopted on a big scale. I think you guys are willing to see only the pluses and ignore the negatives.

There are pluses and negatives to everything.
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