[TheForge] now Japanese nuke plants OT: POL:

[Rowland Smuck]

I am in favor of using any energy source that is wasted if we don't use 
it, my favorite is ocean wave technology, steam from deep wells, 
lightning etc, any ideas???
Rowland
On 3/18/2011 8:08 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> James Binnion wrote:
>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:47 AM, peter fels wrote:
>>
>>> That's changing, both in the cost and efficiency of solar cells
>>> etc,
>> Alternative energy sources aren't even close by orders of magnitude
>> yet, yes they are getting better but they still cannot compete in
>> scale or cost with petro or nuke.
> A truth the nuts and twigs crowd flatly refuse to acknowledge.  If they
> want to return to the stone age, I support them fully so long as they
> leave the rest of us to live as we see fit.  Unfortunately, the
> watermelon marxists seem ill-contented to  leave us alone.
>>> Also there is a vast amount of natural gas and methane hydrate if
>>> we can somehow sequester the CO2.
>> This is probably easier than making solar or wind cary the load, but
>> still a huge engineering task.
> 	And it is not "green", so what's the point - at least until the oil
> spigots run dead-dry?
>> James Binnion jbin at well.com
>>
>>
>>
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