Comments on: Obama: “the American People Aren’t Stupid” (on “Drill, Baby, Drill” Strategy)

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Obama: Gas Prices Go Up Without Shift to Clean Transportation — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:11:18 +0000

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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:39:27 +0000

[…] I think everyone knows that’s debatable, but it’s good to see Obama drilling home the point that it is actually completely stupid to think that drilling, alone, will keep our gas prices from […]

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:43:00 +0000

Seek help.

Therapy, pharmaceuticals, or combination of the two might pull you back from the abyss….

By: R-One.

R-One. — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:02:00 +0000

Number 1. Obama is a F-ing Surf, number 2, we have more oil rigs / feilds in the USA than the world combined. so Obama, STFU and set the war off so we can get this over with already. The Globalists must have war, it worked in WWII. The world is broke on purpose.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Why build nuclear plants which will be very slow to bring on line, make electricity more expensive, and create even more hazardous waste for which we have no solution?

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(Dr. Alexander MacDonald, Director of the Earth System Research Lab at the) U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was in Vancouver on Friday for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual convention and mentioned in a talk there that clean, renewable energy (not even including hydroelectric) could cheaply supply 48 states of the continental U.S. with 70% of its electricity demand by 2030. The other 30% would be half from fossil fuels and half from nuclear and hydro.

“NOAA embarked on the renewables project three years ago, collating 16 billion pieces of weather data derived from satellite observations and airplane observations and weather station reports,” Scott Simpson of the Vancouver Sun writes.

“Then it designed a program to filter the information to remove unlikely venues for wind or solar power arrays – such as national parks and urban areas – and came up with a map showing robust wind resources in the middle of the continent and decent ones in the northeast Atlantic states, as well as strong solar production areas in the desert southwest.”

But here’s where the NOAA researchers stepped beyond the good to the great, research-wise: they balanced potential power production and electricity demand to determine, how, where, when, and to what extent clean energy could produce the electricity we need. The end result — 70% of electricity demand….”

http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/20/clean-energy- could-supply-u-s-with-70-of-electricity-by-2030-no aa-director-says/

That’s with technology we have at hand right now. The price (“cheaply”) is right. Wind is extremely less expensive than new nuclear. Solar is about the same price and falling quickly. Geothermal is cheaper than nuclear.

We already have more than the 7.5% nuclear needed. We could even shut down some of the most dangerous plants.

We already have the hydro.

As storage prices fall we can replace the 15% fossil fuel portion.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:13:00 +0000

For one, the evidence is there. They’re called ‘deniers’ for a reason — they ignore the evidence. But, really, the issue is that industries and people threatened action away from fossil fuels are manufacturing doubt.
But, yes, we’re crossing that “it just makes sense in EVERY single way” point in some industries now — geothermal and wind are the cheapest energy options on the grid. and others are reaching that point fast.

By: Dcard88

Dcard88 — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:29:00 +0000

When you face the reality that we are stuck with the deniers until the evidence gets stronger (although the temp seems a LOT higher this winter and if summer follows we could possibly see the anomally/spike of a +1 degree for the year that one would expct on occasion, which might actually persuade a significant percentage of the deniers), we might be smart to take an ‘everything’ path. Approve 5 or 6 third gen Nucs and build some more gas and clean caol plants. As long as we dont slow down on alternatives and converting all the dirty coal plants, we will still get to the point where alternatives are the same cost in 10 to 20 years. By then (and of course sooner is possible) science should be able to come up with some excellent energy storage solutions that will make all the arguments moot.