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Saw a clip of Rick Perry on Hannity last night. Cue up to 9:40 to see the problems addressed and how the solutions offered here would cure a good deal of them..
Being a governor of the largest state in the lower 48 with all the border issues he's been tackling is impressive. A senator won't do this time around. Has to be a governor to run all the complex problems that states face.
But one of his comments was just unfortunate. He cited as they always do on the right, that "oil will be our jobs savior". That's going to lose a lot of middle votes from people who are just stunned by the weird weather all around caused by climate change (better term because when ice cubes/or caps melt, there are freak cold spots due to thermal properties and heat exchange surrounding the phase changes of solid water to liquid water ...until...it's too late and then it become global warming proper) which is a fact and as the months roll by, only a lunatic would deny. Snow in Hawaii in Summer anyone?..
Anyway, now that California is just flipping the bird to BigOil and it's "reverse osmosis fossil fuel laden" "solution" to its drought problems : California Punts Energy Politics In The Butt To Solve A Crisis. Greece You listening US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum by simply reflecting concentrated solar radiation on a pipe filled with fluid to run distillers (or steam turbines producing electricty with free fuel forever), perhaps a mitigation situation may arise that helps everyone...even those heavily invested in oil...bear with me here.
The cat is out of the bag and there's no putting her back. That thought makes BigOil shudder. But it shouldn't. The only reason people are addicted to the oil trade is because of the money in it. Fine. And we shouldn't destablize either those markets from US oil or Arab oil. We don't want our friends in the Middle East to instantly be placed in poverty and have to come running to us for money instead of the other way around like it is today. We could merely return the status back to trading partners where we are on an even keel with each other. Think of the money saved in just military outlay alone. That money can and always will find a place to be spent elsewhere (thinking of Russia and China here). Not that we have to remain enemies with them either. After all, if markets were better stablized and playing fields more fair, the males would have all the bananas and females they needed without all this strife and bullshit. I like to boil things down to their essence.
BigOil fears solar thermal and geothermal steam turbines and distilleries because they cannot compete with free fuel (solar radiation/geothermal heat) to run big-power turbines just like they and nuclear do... But...they need not fear the backyard startups if the Bill I'm thinking of grants them the sole right to produce and sell solar thermal or geothermal electricity for a couple of decades with a guarantee against competition. Think of it as a weaning program where the babies get even richer milk as they transfer over. Make it 3 decades so all those alive right now can get fat and retire off of the monopoly.
For one thing, solar thermal radiation concentrated is dangerous. The backyard guy producing power this way could burn himself or his house up. So a properly run facility by those already in the business of producing power, who could hybridize these plants with oil for cloudy days or night time energy, would be the best...at least for 3 decades or so..*wink wink*. Imagine the profits escalating if for 200 days out of any given year your fuel was free...think about it...$$$$$
There will always be a place for oil in America. For one thing in diesel transport. What's killing our economy right now in part is the price of diesel for transporting goods here and there. Fuel costs are driving the price up on common goods shipped. Those prices are causing consumers buying power to fail. So they're tightening their belts, which causes less consuming. Less consuming hurts business which in turn hurts jobs. It's funny, but Rick Perry's "creating jobs, getting people off welfare" plan could actually be solved by solar thermal steam, not oil...at least not predominantly.
Yes, it's my pet dream. And yes I know why it is being resisted so fiercely. But we can create a situation where everybody wins. I realize this will make us slightly less dependent upon foreign oil or blasting up the ground under our last fresh Aquifers with a toxic sludge, or force us maybe to sell our surplus oil to Europe or something, cementing those allies better...and all that would suck...I know...I know.. But if you think about it long enough, a solar thermal/oil Rick Perry would have a better shot at explaining how he would make our economy better and create more jobs. Because the ripple effects of adding a green energy hybrid with a free fuel source and granting a monopoly (you know, so that it might actually happen) for a time, would create far more jobs than a quick "cut n run" mass destruction of our and the Canadian environments.
We sell food too, that is dependent upon these aquifers and a clean environment & soils... And you haven't lived until you've tasted benzene-watered corn from the Midwest! Mmmm mmmm! Pass the xylene-flavored butter please!
But in all other respects, I kind of like Rick Perry as the next POTUS. For one thing I hear the Bush family doesn't really like him. Great. That alone and he's got my vote.
Being a governor of the largest state in the lower 48 with all the border issues he's been tackling is impressive. A senator won't do this time around. Has to be a governor to run all the complex problems that states face.
But one of his comments was just unfortunate. He cited as they always do on the right, that "oil will be our jobs savior". That's going to lose a lot of middle votes from people who are just stunned by the weird weather all around caused by climate change (better term because when ice cubes/or caps melt, there are freak cold spots due to thermal properties and heat exchange surrounding the phase changes of solid water to liquid water ...until...it's too late and then it become global warming proper) which is a fact and as the months roll by, only a lunatic would deny. Snow in Hawaii in Summer anyone?..
Anyway, now that California is just flipping the bird to BigOil and it's "reverse osmosis fossil fuel laden" "solution" to its drought problems : California Punts Energy Politics In The Butt To Solve A Crisis. Greece You listening US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum by simply reflecting concentrated solar radiation on a pipe filled with fluid to run distillers (or steam turbines producing electricty with free fuel forever), perhaps a mitigation situation may arise that helps everyone...even those heavily invested in oil...bear with me here.
The cat is out of the bag and there's no putting her back. That thought makes BigOil shudder. But it shouldn't. The only reason people are addicted to the oil trade is because of the money in it. Fine. And we shouldn't destablize either those markets from US oil or Arab oil. We don't want our friends in the Middle East to instantly be placed in poverty and have to come running to us for money instead of the other way around like it is today. We could merely return the status back to trading partners where we are on an even keel with each other. Think of the money saved in just military outlay alone. That money can and always will find a place to be spent elsewhere (thinking of Russia and China here). Not that we have to remain enemies with them either. After all, if markets were better stablized and playing fields more fair, the males would have all the bananas and females they needed without all this strife and bullshit. I like to boil things down to their essence.
BigOil fears solar thermal and geothermal steam turbines and distilleries because they cannot compete with free fuel (solar radiation/geothermal heat) to run big-power turbines just like they and nuclear do... But...they need not fear the backyard startups if the Bill I'm thinking of grants them the sole right to produce and sell solar thermal or geothermal electricity for a couple of decades with a guarantee against competition. Think of it as a weaning program where the babies get even richer milk as they transfer over. Make it 3 decades so all those alive right now can get fat and retire off of the monopoly.
For one thing, solar thermal radiation concentrated is dangerous. The backyard guy producing power this way could burn himself or his house up. So a properly run facility by those already in the business of producing power, who could hybridize these plants with oil for cloudy days or night time energy, would be the best...at least for 3 decades or so..*wink wink*. Imagine the profits escalating if for 200 days out of any given year your fuel was free...think about it...$$$$$
There will always be a place for oil in America. For one thing in diesel transport. What's killing our economy right now in part is the price of diesel for transporting goods here and there. Fuel costs are driving the price up on common goods shipped. Those prices are causing consumers buying power to fail. So they're tightening their belts, which causes less consuming. Less consuming hurts business which in turn hurts jobs. It's funny, but Rick Perry's "creating jobs, getting people off welfare" plan could actually be solved by solar thermal steam, not oil...at least not predominantly.
Yes, it's my pet dream. And yes I know why it is being resisted so fiercely. But we can create a situation where everybody wins. I realize this will make us slightly less dependent upon foreign oil or blasting up the ground under our last fresh Aquifers with a toxic sludge, or force us maybe to sell our surplus oil to Europe or something, cementing those allies better...and all that would suck...I know...I know.. But if you think about it long enough, a solar thermal/oil Rick Perry would have a better shot at explaining how he would make our economy better and create more jobs. Because the ripple effects of adding a green energy hybrid with a free fuel source and granting a monopoly (you know, so that it might actually happen) for a time, would create far more jobs than a quick "cut n run" mass destruction of our and the Canadian environments.
We sell food too, that is dependent upon these aquifers and a clean environment & soils... And you haven't lived until you've tasted benzene-watered corn from the Midwest! Mmmm mmmm! Pass the xylene-flavored butter please!
But in all other respects, I kind of like Rick Perry as the next POTUS. For one thing I hear the Bush family doesn't really like him. Great. That alone and he's got my vote.
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