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says... On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, North Star wrote: On Jun 26, 9:51*am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. *If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, *we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. * The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. *It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. * Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. What are you babbling about? In the scheme of things, your province isn't even a speck on the electricity map. Besides: "At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand." "In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources..." ~snerk~ Does that mean that we should stop looking for alternatives to fossil fuels? Or do you think we should continue to try to develop long term solutions to the problem which IS fossil fuels? |
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On 6/26/2012 11:18 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:05:24 AM UTC-4, X ` Man wrote: On 6/26/12 10:53 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, North Star wrote: On Jun 26, 9:51 am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. What are you babbling about? In the scheme of things, your province isn't even a speck on the electricity map. Besides: "At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand." "In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources..." I think this is much more interesting: "Renewable energy in the United States accounted for 14.3 percent of the domestically produced electricity in the first six months of 2011.[1] Hydroelectricity is the largest producer of renewable power in the United States. In 2009, the U.S. was the world's largest producer of electricity from geothermal, solar and wind power and it trailed only China in the total production of renewable energy." Sounds like the good old USA is doing pretty well. You mean the liberals are making up windmills to chase, like Global Taxing??? More unhinged insanity! Only a total moron would think that because something isn't completely developed right away that we shouldn't be doing it. Think about when fossil fuel was being developed as an alternative to burning wood. What if those people were as narrow minded and said well, that kerosene stuff seems like a waste of time, only 14% of people have access to it right now..... |
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On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:35:56 AM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote:
In article , says... On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, North Star wrote: On Jun 26, 9:51*am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. *If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, *we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. * The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. *It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. * Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. What are you babbling about? In the scheme of things, your province isn't even a speck on the electricity map. Besides: "At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand." "In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources..." ~snerk~ Does that mean that we should stop looking for alternatives to fossil fuels? Or do you think we should continue to try to develop long term solutions to the problem which IS fossil fuels? No, it means that bonnie was making up numbers, and even if his province got 100% of their power from windmills, it would be a tiny percentage of the power that the USA uses. It had absolutely nothing to do with your two questions. Why would you come to such an erroneous assumption? |
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On 6/26/2012 11:46 AM, wrote:
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:35:56 AM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, North Star wrote: On Jun 26, 9:51 am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. What are you babbling about? In the scheme of things, your province isn't even a speck on the electricity map. Besides: "At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand." "In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources..." ~snerk~ Does that mean that we should stop looking for alternatives to fossil fuels? Or do you think we should continue to try to develop long term solutions to the problem which IS fossil fuels? No, it means that bonnie was making up numbers, and even if his province got 100% of their power from windmills, it would be a tiny percentage of the power that the USA uses. It had absolutely nothing to do with your two questions. Why would you come to such an erroneous assumption? Because it's that shrill kind of deflection that they live on... I am waiting for him to come out, screaming, hands waving in the air, "WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN, WHO IS GOING TO SAVE THE CHILDREN"!!!! That's why I have him blocked now again, these people are like irrational children here... |
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... On Jun 26, 9:51 am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. --------------------------------------- You live in an area that does not require a lot of electricity. Not much manufacturing, etc. if you can get 30% of your power from wind. As to Bay of Fundy. How you going to get around the eviros to build the generating stations? |
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... On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:05:24 AM UTC-4, X ` Man wrote: On 6/26/12 10:53 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, North Star wrote: On Jun 26, 9:51 am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. What are you babbling about? In the scheme of things, your province isn't even a speck on the electricity map. Besides: "At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand." "In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources..." I think this is much more interesting: "Renewable energy in the United States accounted for 14.3 percent of the domestically produced electricity in the first six months of 2011.[1] Hydroelectricity is the largest producer of renewable power in the United States. In 2009, the U.S. was the world's largest producer of electricity from geothermal, solar and wind power and it trailed only China in the total production of renewable energy." Sounds like the good old USA is doing pretty well. -------------------------------- Not really. There is not another big hydroelectric generating location to build on. The Northwest is talking about taking out some of the low production, silting up dams on the Snake River as they are environmental disasters in the making as well as impeding the salmon runs. Nuclear is dead for at least 50 years after the Japanese disaster. And I do not see Fusion power generation for at least 50 years. Next year is probably the first viable fusion test at Livermore labs. But using a laser and deuterium pellets makes for probably a low overall efficiency process. We need a lot more electric generation just to keep up with all the Ipads, and phone chargers as well as the AC and heating of homes. We have brown outs in the west during heat waves now. |
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"iBoaterer" wrote in message
... In article , says... On 6/26/2012 11:18 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:05:24 AM UTC-4, X ` Man wrote: On 6/26/12 10:53 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, North Star wrote: On Jun 26, 9:51 am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. What are you babbling about? In the scheme of things, your province isn't even a speck on the electricity map. Besides: "At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand." "In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources..." I think this is much more interesting: "Renewable energy in the United States accounted for 14.3 percent of the domestically produced electricity in the first six months of 2011.[1] Hydroelectricity is the largest producer of renewable power in the United States. In 2009, the U.S. was the world's largest producer of electricity from geothermal, solar and wind power and it trailed only China in the total production of renewable energy." Sounds like the good old USA is doing pretty well. You mean the liberals are making up windmills to chase, like Global Taxing??? More unhinged insanity! Only a total moron would think that because something isn't completely developed right away that we shouldn't be doing it. Think about when fossil fuel was being developed as an alternative to burning wood. What if those people were as narrow minded and said well, that kerosene stuff seems like a waste of time, only 14% of people have access to it right now..... -------------------------------------------------------------------- I live within sight of the biggest wind farms of the USA. Lots of dead windmills, but they are replacing the older ones with giant ones. But now the complaints are that they are killing lots of birds, especially raptors. Golden Eagles especially. So now those former environmentalists who supported wind are opposing wind power. And just look at the 1% (ruling families) who shut down building a wind farm in the ocean off Cape Cod. Lots less bird kill, and lots of wind. But the view would be spoiled. |
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says... On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:35:56 AM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, North Star wrote: On Jun 26, 9:51*am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. *If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, *we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. * The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. *It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. * Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. What are you babbling about? In the scheme of things, your province isn't even a speck on the electricity map. Besides: "At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand." "In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources..." ~snerk~ Does that mean that we should stop looking for alternatives to fossil fuels? Or do you think we should continue to try to develop long term solutions to the problem which IS fossil fuels? No, it means that bonnie was making up numbers, and even if his province got 100% of their power from windmills, it would be a tiny percentage of the power that the USA uses. It had absolutely nothing to do with your two questions. Why would you come to such an erroneous assumption? Because you and most conservative types here poo poo any type of new technology. I often wonder why? |
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On 6/26/2012 11:46 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:35:56 AM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:15:56 AM UTC-4, North Star wrote: On Jun 26, 9:51 am, Oscar wrote: On 6/26/2012 8:36 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 6/25/2012 6:51 PM, Oscar wrote: On 6/25/2012 5:44 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:02:29 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in messagenews:e78eu79sv2re36jrsl1rshc0hoei5m8cni@4ax .com... You are making the same argument that automobiles will never replace horses. Electricity is likely to be the next fuel, but one thing is a sure thing: petroleum is going out. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Not for quite a while, I don't think. Electricity and battery powered automobiles are simply examples of energy generated by other means and converted to electricity and/or stored in batteries. If the current fascination with "green", electric powered cars grows, we will see the cost of generating the energy required to charge them rise. The bulk of raw energy is still in the form of fossil fuels and the conversion process adds additional energy and cost requirements. Those who think they are being "green" by driving a battery powered car have been fed a line of BS. It might make them feel good or give them some sense of being environmentally friendly, but the truth is they are more environmentally "unfriendly" than friendly. Lithium Ion batteries are the best technology we have to date and they are an environmental hazard the likes of which we haven't yet to fully experience. Solar and wind can't come close to meeting the demand and nuclear is still a political hot potato. Here's where the energy used to produce electricity in the USA comes from: http://mapawatt.com/wp-content/uploa...eneration_sour... Eisboch All of that seems quite obvious. Batteries will likely NOT be the most efficient storage medium, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be used in the interim. Oil is on its way out. Period. Unless somebody can give me a viable alternative, I'm sticking with electricity as the next fuel. Electricity is a product made from mostly fossil fuels. Shhhhh, that's not as impressive at the cocktail parties... You stupid fool! I guess you've never heard of hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.? Or is it that FOX or your insanity is telling you that they don't exist? You're the fool. With the exception of nuclear, the generators you mention are VERY MINOR players. Your arguments are not arguments at all. Just cries for attention. What are you babbling about? In a few short years of building we now get almost 30% of our electricity generated from windmills and hopefully the remainder when we can figure out how to harness the power of the Fundy tides. Renewable endless supply... much more than this province will ever need. Maybe we'll sell a few megawatts to y'all south of the border. What are you babbling about? In the scheme of things, your province isn't even a speck on the electricity map. Besides: "At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand." "In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources..." ~snerk~ Does that mean that we should stop looking for alternatives to fossil fuels? Or do you think we should continue to try to develop long term solutions to the problem which IS fossil fuels? No, it means that bonnie was making up numbers, and even if his province got 100% of their power from windmills, it would be a tiny percentage of the power that the USA uses. It had absolutely nothing to do with your two questions. Why would you come to such an erroneous assumption? Because it's that shrill kind of deflection that they live on... I am waiting for him to come out, screaming, hands waving in the air, "WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN, WHO IS GOING TO SAVE THE CHILDREN"!!!! That's why I have him blocked now again, these people are like irrational children here... Well, that insanity had NOTHING to do with the subject at hand. Are you out of meds? Did you even see my response? |
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