From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 12:13:37 MDT
Harvey Newstrom set forth:
<<I think curtailing our damage to the environment is important. That is
why I oppose letting some nations off the hook. I understand the
argument that they are trying to catch up with other countries. Such a
scheme implies that clean air is a luxury afforded to the rich
countries, but which cannot be afforded by the poor countries.>>
What about building new technologies to substitute for the crummy old
technologies? Nobody really addresses that because it is the "hard" question.
The Left like films with pictures of sunlight and greenery, while choruses of
females (mother nature archetypes) sing in the background, while goldent
sunlight pour down.
This is known as propaganda. Please be aware that propaganda won't power
civilization, although it often seems as if bullshit does. Wind power use is
certainly expanding, but can it replace total electrical energy production?
Maybe yes, but probably not. Not if you consider how many gigawatts is
produced by "dirty" coal plants, methane gas turbines (we Americans call
natural gas), and lastly nuclear fission and hydroelectric.
Physicist and energy maven, Amory Lovins, has long promoted conservation
technology as the most economical, and he seems to have been right-on. Yet in
the long term, his efforts at his Rocky Mountain Institute appear to have
been less successful, with his photovoltaic-hydrogen powered, institute.
Lovins has suggested that the giant hydroelectric dams like the Grand Coulee
and Hoover be used to produce hydrogen for powering cars and trucks. My
question is, infrastructure non-withstanding, how actually close is America
to justify changing the hydroelectric dams to H² production? We have to have
workable, get your hands dirty, hydrogen-powered cars before we should even
consider this. So are we 4 years, 10?
The people in the media, and even the scientific press are so good at
exaggeration, and out-right lying, that many of the electorate are
brainwashed by pretty pictures and camera-work, ledgerdamaine. And also
pretty choruses of women's voices singing in the sunlight and verdant, green;
while magical, clean, green, technologies, produce a paucity of energy or
fuel, in that strange and disturbing realm called, reality.
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