Nuclear power is GREEN Power. You are exposed to more radiation from cooking a single meal over a gas stove in your kitchen than a nuclear power plant is allowed to emit out into the atmosphere in a year.
Mickey - 04:05pm on 05/06/2008
I don’t think $200 will do it. Today there is no replacement! (I am sick of the BP commercial that talks about the “alternatives”—alternatives just can’t replace substantial amounts of fossil fuels—with the exception of Nuclear) There is nothing as transportable, controllable, reliable, quickly refillable, or affordable (yes, I did all able’s on purpose).
The sheer volume of oil used each day is staggering and the more electronic devices we get the more we will use.
We can conserve and supplement, but we can’t replace or conserve enough.
Battery technology is not there today. It may be in 5 or 10 years, but not today and $200 oil won’t change that. You can’t recharge a 350 mile battery in 5 minutes and I can fill my car and pee in that time! (Someone could invent an electric car with exchangeable battery racks that you can change out at the Mobil station—slide in and out with a push, you don’t own the battery, you just use the power—but it has to be cheap enough, safe enough and have long enough life. Hell, I have never had one of my laptops with a decent battery that didn’t need an expensive replacement way too often!)
What the government needs to do is get out of the way, stop subsidizing political options (ethanol anyone?) that sap real innovation and let the American free market solve the problem. All of the government efforts over the past 30 years have done nothing compared to what the past 5 years of the markets have done.
Worried about global warming? Start a company that puts solar units on every home in America by selling carbon credits (and maintaining them because they aren’t free forever)—why hasn’t Gore’s carbon company done this—because you would actually have to do something not just plant a friggin tree. BUT let the rest of us drill for the oil we need to fuel freedom.
DKK
LifeTrek - 09:05pm on 05/06/2008
What the government needs to do is get out of the way, stop subsidizing political options (ethanol anyone?) that sap real innovation and let the American free market solve the problem.
And the current price of oil and gas potentially makes other forms of energy which could not compete at the lower oil prices more attractive.
docdave - 09:05pm on 05/06/2008
The answer to the fixing the problem is a division between stationary and mobile power generation allocation. For example, oil, natural gas, ethonol and electric are all mobile power sources, in that they can be used for transportation. One could argue coal is, as well, but emmisions would be an issue. However, we currently use all of these to produce electric power (stationary electric generation).
If we were to make a stronger push to impliment LNG as fuel, becuase it’s cheaper and domestic, you could cut the need for oil down and decrease the mandate on ethonol. Then put your efforts into using wind, solar, nuclear and coal into producing electricity, which could be used to help with battery driven cars and hybrids. In doing this, you have your singers singing and your dancers dancing instead of the rats nest of power connection we have now.
For what it’s worth, it not my idea. I saw T Boone Pickens air it out on MSNBC and I thnk he kinds knows a little about the energy markets.
Thus adding insult to injury.
The answer is C O A L and N U C L E A R.
Coal can be refined into oil for $55 per barrel.
Nuclear power is GREEN Power. You are exposed to more radiation from cooking a single meal over a gas stove in your kitchen than a nuclear power plant is allowed to emit out into the atmosphere in a year.
I don’t think $200 will do it. Today there is no replacement! (I am sick of the BP commercial that talks about the “alternatives”—alternatives just can’t replace substantial amounts of fossil fuels—with the exception of Nuclear) There is nothing as transportable, controllable, reliable, quickly refillable, or affordable (yes, I did all able’s on purpose).
The sheer volume of oil used each day is staggering and the more electronic devices we get the more we will use.
We can conserve and supplement, but we can’t replace or conserve enough.
Battery technology is not there today. It may be in 5 or 10 years, but not today and $200 oil won’t change that. You can’t recharge a 350 mile battery in 5 minutes and I can fill my car and pee in that time! (Someone could invent an electric car with exchangeable battery racks that you can change out at the Mobil station—slide in and out with a push, you don’t own the battery, you just use the power—but it has to be cheap enough, safe enough and have long enough life. Hell, I have never had one of my laptops with a decent battery that didn’t need an expensive replacement way too often!)
What the government needs to do is get out of the way, stop subsidizing political options (ethanol anyone?) that sap real innovation and let the American free market solve the problem. All of the government efforts over the past 30 years have done nothing compared to what the past 5 years of the markets have done.
Worried about global warming? Start a company that puts solar units on every home in America by selling carbon credits (and maintaining them because they aren’t free forever)—why hasn’t Gore’s carbon company done this—because you would actually have to do something not just plant a friggin tree. BUT let the rest of us drill for the oil we need to fuel freedom.
DKK
And the current price of oil and gas potentially makes other forms of energy which could not compete at the lower oil prices more attractive.
The answer to the fixing the problem is a division between stationary and mobile power generation allocation. For example, oil, natural gas, ethonol and electric are all mobile power sources, in that they can be used for transportation. One could argue coal is, as well, but emmisions would be an issue. However, we currently use all of these to produce electric power (stationary electric generation).
If we were to make a stronger push to impliment LNG as fuel, becuase it’s cheaper and domestic, you could cut the need for oil down and decrease the mandate on ethonol. Then put your efforts into using wind, solar, nuclear and coal into producing electricity, which could be used to help with battery driven cars and hybrids. In doing this, you have your singers singing and your dancers dancing instead of the rats nest of power connection we have now.
For what it’s worth, it not my idea. I saw T Boone Pickens air it out on MSNBC and I thnk he kinds knows a little about the energy markets.