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I am one of the more vociferous opponents of the global warming hoax. That said, dumping tons of dirt in the atmosphere is stupid and unhealthy. Like in Pieking, it practically amounts to suicidal.
The stuff we are pouring into our atmosphere and digging up has all kinds of problems with it. The smokestacks in Boardman OR put more nuclear stuff, uranium, etc than was put into the atmosphere than was emitted on a daily basis than was emitted during the whole career of Trojan in Rainier. The sulfur, the fly ash that is dumped is just ignored.
We have to get cleaner fuels, like Thoruim based nuclear for example. Not going to Happen. The environmental lobby will drive their escalades and hummers and protest. Then go back to their coal heated homes. They won't install solar, they will insist their neighbors do so in rhetorical fashion.
Since three mile island, louder since Chernobyl, louder yet since Fukushima there is no way no nukes will be built. That makes sense. Of a sad type. For some reason Thorium is not being built, even in places supposedly hot for it like China and India. Which means their is some reason for it beyond my ken. We have to something better than coal. That means nuclear. Which no one trusts.
Cars can't yet be run off of batteries. They are tremendously more efficient then the were, and way cheaper. They are, however, way more expensive than gas cars. 20k verses 40 k. They just can't compete in the realm of the average consumer, who has to put food on the table rather than feel good. There are lots and lots of folks who want to feel good, more power to em.
There are all kinds of problems. I welcome discussion of real solutions, rather than the hysteria that its loudest defenders don't credit.
The stuff we are pouring into our atmosphere and digging up has all kinds of problems with it. The smokestacks in Boardman OR put more nuclear stuff, uranium, etc than was put into the atmosphere than was emitted on a daily basis than was emitted during the whole career of Trojan in Rainier. The sulfur, the fly ash that is dumped is just ignored.
We have to get cleaner fuels, like Thoruim based nuclear for example. Not going to Happen. The environmental lobby will drive their escalades and hummers and protest. Then go back to their coal heated homes. They won't install solar, they will insist their neighbors do so in rhetorical fashion.
Since three mile island, louder since Chernobyl, louder yet since Fukushima there is no way no nukes will be built. That makes sense. Of a sad type. For some reason Thorium is not being built, even in places supposedly hot for it like China and India. Which means their is some reason for it beyond my ken. We have to something better than coal. That means nuclear. Which no one trusts.
Cars can't yet be run off of batteries. They are tremendously more efficient then the were, and way cheaper. They are, however, way more expensive than gas cars. 20k verses 40 k. They just can't compete in the realm of the average consumer, who has to put food on the table rather than feel good. There are lots and lots of folks who want to feel good, more power to em.
There are all kinds of problems. I welcome discussion of real solutions, rather than the hysteria that its loudest defenders don't credit.