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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (25102)	9/2/2009 11:09:22 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Rat eats, shoots, and leaves. The crowd goes wild. Rat is in his truck and half way home. The ball floats gently thru the hoop and touches nothing but net. Atlas goes back to cutting out paper dolls. How Nuclear Just Got Bum-rushed By Nick Hodge \| Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 For the second month in a row, renewable energy has provided more energy than all nuclear reactors in the country combined. The [EIA]Monthly Energy Review chronicles energy production and consumption data through May 2009. From January to May, production from coal fell from 1.968 quadrillion Btu (QBTU) to 1.722 QBTU — a 13% decline. The use of natural gas fell 0.6%, from 1.845 QBTU to 1.834 QBTU. And nuclear went from .771 QBTU .684 QBTU, falling 11.2%. Can you guess what happened to renewables? They grew from .650 QBTU to .707 QBTU — a rise of 8.7% — and clearly the only grower of the bunch. Sorry for the numbers and figures, but there would be more than a handful of doubters if I simply claimed renewable energy production growth outpaced coal and natural gas, while its total production was greater than nuclear for the first five months of 2009. energyandcapital.com

To: average joe who wrote (25102)	9/3/2009 1:15:40 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Bringing good news is more easily done via cyberspace these days than by physically moving tonnage of people and machinery to deliver the news: <Gore told the conference he was bringing “good news” from the U.S.: that President Obama had secured billions of dollars for renewable energy work.> Perhaps Al Gore hasn't heard of the internet. President Obama could just type it into the White House website and everyone could see the news and hear it too via text to voice. Or Obama could make a speech about it right there on the website. Look at this ... click 'submit' and hey presto, the news is around the world before Al Gore has had his first cocktail. It's right now a completely blue sky, the sun is nearing the horizon, spring has arrived on schedule. I don't need to attend a conference at the cost of $thousands to "bring the good news" about how nice the weather is here right now. Mqurice