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To: CommanderCricket who wrote (170704)	7/14/2012 9:36:38 AM
From: Bearcatbob	2 Recommendations Respond to of 206323

"So the next time you hear someone from the Sierra Club or Greenpeace, or any of the other groups on the Green/Left who are insisting that we need to quit using fossil fuels immediately, do them – and yourself -- a favor: buy them a calculator. " They won't use it.

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (170704)	7/14/2012 10:36:09 AM
From: KyrosL	1 Recommendation Respond to of 206323

Wikipedia has an article that vividly demonstrates the energy density of oil. en.wikipedia.org Allowing fifty years to develop the requisite capacity, 1 CMO of energy per year could be produced by any one of these developments: 4 Three Gorges Dams, [14] developed each year for 50 years (200 dams total), or 52 nuclear power plants, [15] developed each year for 50 years (2600 nuke plants total), or 104 coal-fired power plants, [16] developed each year for 50 years (5200 coal plants total), or 32,850 wind turbines, [17] [18] developed each year for 50 years (1,642,500 wind turbines total), or 91,250,000 rooftop solar photovoltaic panels [19] developed each year for 50 years (4,512,500,000 total) It seems if PV becomes cheap enough to put on EVERY house and building roof, we can make it.