Actually: here's the whole thread:
- Since when were railroads, wind mills and biomass (burning wood) considered to be cutting edge economic technology? The most efficient fuel remains to be oil. You just poke a hole in the ground and pump it out. Try pushing your car for 20+ miles and you will soon learn how much work one gallon of gasoline can do. Carbon dioxide emissions are a valuable plant food and since we aren’t wasting growing space with windfarms, or solar arrays we have more room for agriculture or natural ecosystems. The BTU’s produced by an oil well compared to the land required to sustain it has a much higher efficiency rating than any of the so-called “green” technologies.
- January 30, 2011 5:47 AM
- James Rowen said...
- All the technologies you dismiss have been continually refined and improved. And they operate more cleanly than burned oil or oil-based operations, and are not sold to us by people who are killing our soldiers. And how did that stick a hole in the ground approach work in the Gulf. Plenty of issues to contend with that you are blowing off.
- January 30, 2011 9:17 AM
- Anonymous said...
- Actually the gulf of Mexico turned out pretty well. If that was the greatest environmental disaster in the history of our country then I would say that we are doing pretty well and if we would develop the oil resources in our own country we wouldn’t need the mid-east. Our dependence on the middle east is a direct result of the environmental movement and other fabricated "issues".
- January 30, 2011 10:14 AM
- James Rowen said...
- The Gulf worked out pretty well? I haven't heard anyone living there or nearby say that.
- January 30, 2011 2:34 PM
Perhaps an extreme case of playing “the devils advocate”? Or just plain mental illness.
ReplyDeleteOil spill?, what oil spill? A credible journalist gives a good perspective on the latest end of the world disaster that wasn’t.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-survivors-080510
Other myths include oil being a fossil fuel
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-survivors-080510
Or CO2 throwing the climate into an unprecedented crises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI
As Descartes once advised: “Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.”
Here’s an example of real cutting edge green energy technology
ReplyDeletehttp://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/30/china-announces-thorium-reactor-energy-program-obama-still-dwelling-on-sputnik-moments/#more-32829
Of course we are too busy shoveling wood chips into a railroad engine while trying to attach a windmill on top.
Of course we are too busy shoveling wood chips into a railroad engine while trying to attach a windmill on top.
ReplyDeleteI don't know enough about thorium reactors to tell if they're really "green energy technology." But -- for better or worse -- research on thorium reactors is going in the US and other countries, not just in China.
Anyway, China is the world's leading producer of wind-powered electricity.
Railways are considered the leading edge of technology in almost every other country. Mauritania just got trains with a new kind of wheel.
ReplyDeleteOne of the biggest shocks since coming back to the US is how primitive things are becoming and how incapable we are of dealing with the economic downturn. At least in Japan, SOME things got better.
(And Anonymous, I dare you to look someone in the face who lost their job because of the oil spill and say that it was not significant.)
Wow. I see republicans are back to pushing the abiotic oil theory. That theory dates back to the Soviet era. The same time when Lysenokoism was destroying the Soviet biology community, abiotic oil was destroying geology. The Russians have yet to produce a single barrel of abiotic oil. It's amazing to see the Republicans falling for Soviet era pseudoscience.
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