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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (24686)	1/14/2010 1:59:25 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

>> The Obama administration is sitting on it's hands while blathering about alternatives - yet doing nothing to make it happen. We could make a lot of energy just from Obama's hot air...

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (24686)	1/14/2010 2:22:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Re: "Not an upgrade - it's new construction and the EPA is not forth coming with the permits." You are right on both points. (One other thing I would suggest is that we need a redesign so that we move to a more DECENTRALIZED electric grid. Far more efficient and friendly to localized power production... far less lost to line loss, etc. Of course, we also curiously enough, need exactly the opposite of that! We need true inter-regional grid transmission capacity. Which we don't have nearly enough of yet....) Re: "The Obama administration is sitting on it's hands while blathering about alternatives - yet doing nothing to make it happen." Well... estimates of the required expense to rebuild our power grids for the demands of the 21st. Century run into the hundreds of billions (and the budget tank is pretty dry!) so I understand why it isn't happening all in one fell-swoop. (Personally, if you had asked me ten or so years ago if I would have preferred to spend about one trillion tax dollars or upgrading America's infrastructure, or spend it in the sands of 'Mess-o-potamia', I would have come down on the side of spending it in America... but, hey! That's just me and it's too late now.)