bob urz wrote:
William Sommerwerck wrote:


These are the same brain surgeons that want you to buy electric cars and
plug them into your garage every night. And how many 50" TV's would it
take to use the same energy as charging your electric car?
Yet there is plenty of energy for that.

You're not thinking this through. Where does the energy to power the car --
or an electric power plant -- come from?


Well valid question. Supposedly, there is a shortage of power in
California. So adding a million electric cars is going to do what?
Require building new power plants. I think they more or less tapped
out hydro capacity. So that leaves nuclear and coal as the only
feasible alternatives. It would take 20 years to get a new nuke
plant built (if ever). So that leaves coal. With all the new
environmental regs on coal plants, that leaves tons of toxic fly ash
to be disposed of. Where is that all going to go? There was a big
release of fly ash in Tennessee that is still an environmental
nightmare. Its an environmental shell game of shifting blame and who
has to pay on any given day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsto...h_slurry_spill
http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/...wind-turbines/

Wind mills & solar power, you know, the greenies "renewable energy".
Of course the sun doesn't shine at night, when presumably most people
would be recharging their electric cars, and wind power is unreliable.
It all *sounds* good, especially if you're a lawyer or a journalist
whose scientific knowledge is at the elementary school level.


The Bio fuels industry is in shambles in some parts of the country due
to dropping oil prices. many plants were abandoned or sit half
completed. Wind power and solar are feel good alternatives, but
realistically are supplemental sources of power. It won't be long until
the "no cell phone tower in my back yard" group moves on to wind mills.

They already have, here in PA various communities are now regulating
windmills. Then there was the proposal to build windmills in the ocean
off Cape Cod; the Kennedys and their rich friends killed it because
the windmills would ruin the view.

Jerry