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Too Many Assumptions
Electrical current flows over the shortest (easiest) path; its a natural property. What you are assuming is that we should take a longer, more difficult path to energy production by requiring a more costly, less efficient method to producing energy. You call for government coercion to use the more costly method of producing energy instead of allowing the marketplace to decide. It never works long term.
China is putting a new coal-fired energy plant online every week! They are building nuclear power plants as fast as they can afford them. Renewables make up a small portion of their power production. They are also building more hydroelectric power plants than the rest of the world. And no science is getting in their way either.
Most of the energy produced in Germany is from old fashioned sources not new renewables and will be for the next 50-100 years. Much of Spain's solar and renewable energy production is being cut as fast as possible because they can no longer afford the high-cost luxury projects. Much of northern Europe's energy comes from hydroelectric sources also and the U.S. is not only NOT building more hydro projects but is dismantling many we have built due to spurious reasoning rather than finding solutions to the problems it faces.
In the U.S. environmentalist extremists and others raised on 'Barney' and 'Mr. Rogers' feel good approach to what is the 'right-thing-to-do' are burying their heads in the sand or only use the facts that appear to support their argument. Larger industries spend more on lobbying than smaller industries. Doh! It means nothing.
U.S. government technocrats and environmentalists say no to not only oil & gas but also to coal, nuclear, hydroelectric and even say no to wind (NIMBY or the 'poor' birds, bees, etc.). There are more proven reserves of oil & gas today than ever in history and while there may be some finite limit to their production, we aren't even close to the end yet. The Boone Picken's Plan for using natural gas and wind as a transitional energy program while other means are R&D'd is a more logical choice. But your article is not about logical choice but emotional 'feelings.'
And finally, please stop with the climate change BIG lie. Yes there is global warming because we are still exiting the last small ice-age and the ice melting as a consequence of this natural cycle that Earth has suffered hundreds of times before. Solar cycles have always been the cause and the effects have always been warming. Wow! Go figure.
Man has had an effect on causing dirty air and yet the air is cleaner today than it has been since the 70s when the hated Nixon formed the EPA to clean-up the air and water. But the environmental pendulum has swung far to far to the left and needs to return to a more sensible middle ground. And since China and India are increasingly churning out pollution faster than the rest of the world could feasibly clean it up, we need to focus more on helping them find a cleaner way for producing energy rather than tell them to unrealistically stop producing energy. And their top-down, government controlled policies don't appear to be fitting in so nicely with your pie-in-the-sky recommendations.
China is putting a new coal-fired energy plant online every week! They are building nuclear power plants as fast as they can afford them. Renewables make up a small portion of their power production. They are also building more hydroelectric power plants than the rest of the world. And no science is getting in their way either.
Most of the energy produced in Germany is from old fashioned sources not new renewables and will be for the next 50-100 years. Much of Spain's solar and renewable energy production is being cut as fast as possible because they can no longer afford the high-cost luxury projects. Much of northern Europe's energy comes from hydroelectric sources also and the U.S. is not only NOT building more hydro projects but is dismantling many we have built due to spurious reasoning rather than finding solutions to the problems it faces.
In the U.S. environmentalist extremists and others raised on 'Barney' and 'Mr. Rogers' feel good approach to what is the 'right-thing-to-do' are burying their heads in the sand or only use the facts that appear to support their argument. Larger industries spend more on lobbying than smaller industries. Doh! It means nothing.
U.S. government technocrats and environmentalists say no to not only oil & gas but also to coal, nuclear, hydroelectric and even say no to wind (NIMBY or the 'poor' birds, bees, etc.). There are more proven reserves of oil & gas today than ever in history and while there may be some finite limit to their production, we aren't even close to the end yet. The Boone Picken's Plan for using natural gas and wind as a transitional energy program while other means are R&D'd is a more logical choice. But your article is not about logical choice but emotional 'feelings.'
And finally, please stop with the climate change BIG lie. Yes there is global warming because we are still exiting the last small ice-age and the ice melting as a consequence of this natural cycle that Earth has suffered hundreds of times before. Solar cycles have always been the cause and the effects have always been warming. Wow! Go figure.
Man has had an effect on causing dirty air and yet the air is cleaner today than it has been since the 70s when the hated Nixon formed the EPA to clean-up the air and water. But the environmental pendulum has swung far to far to the left and needs to return to a more sensible middle ground. And since China and India are increasingly churning out pollution faster than the rest of the world could feasibly clean it up, we need to focus more on helping them find a cleaner way for producing energy rather than tell them to unrealistically stop producing energy. And their top-down, government controlled policies don't appear to be fitting in so nicely with your pie-in-the-sky recommendations.
Edited by James-SantaBarbara
Updated - 8th Aug