Broadwater - your thoughts (Boston, Shoreham: oil , investment, corporate)

[ClarkStreetKid]

Well it's not like the Island is really dependent on oil for anything.

And don't forget those two 100 foot high wind turbines pumping our an awesome 50 kilowatts.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Kbinspections

With China and India emerging, the US needs to come up with an energy policy that works and quick. Right now our energy policy is a list of things we can't do. Can't drill in Alaska, can't drill on the west coast off shore. Can't build refineries without a 10 year battle of red tape. What can we do?

[ClarkStreetKid]

Touche'

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[Kbinspections]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

100% correct!

[NYNewbie]

Originally Posted by Kbinspections

100% correct!

What is accurate about the cartoon is that it doesn't show the energy companies championing clean energy supplies. I don't know enough about wind, water, geo-thermal, solar to know what amount of energy they could produce, but these are options. Do they cost something? Yes. It seems to me the public wants clean energy. Drive around rural Germany and you see wind energy being harnessed. While they rely on Russia for a lot of fossil energy, they do try to offset that need with domestic supplies. Wind provides Germany with 6% of its needs. Nearby Denmark gets 19% of its needs from wind.

[Kbinspections]

Originally Posted by NYNewbie

What is accurate about the cartoon is that it doesn't show the energy companies championing clean energy supplies. I don't know enough about wind, water, geo-thermal, solar to know what amount of energy they could produce, but these are options. Do they cost something? Yes. It seems to me the public wants clean energy. Drive around rural Germany and you see wind energy being harnessed. While they rely on Russia for a lot of fossil energy, they do try to offset that need with domestic supplies. Wind provides Germany with 6% of its needs. Nearby Denmark gets 19% of its needs from wind.

Correct, but the US won't go with wind. Plus, where wind makes sense, no one lives there......so now you need transmission lines, which no one wants.

Shell did spend 5 billion on biofuels.......just to conclude they don't work. They spend alot of money trying to find more oil that,then they can't drill.

Like or not, fossil fuels will be our #1 source for decades.

[Walter Greenspan]

The solution is more nuclear to produce cheaper electricity, some of which would be used to liquefy coal that would replace gasoline.

[ClarkStreetKid]

A good place for wind farms would be off Jones Beach. Has anybody thought of that?

[Kbinspections]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

The solution is more nuclear to produce cheaper electricity, some of which would be used to liquefy coal that would replace gasoline.

Coal is a great option,we have alot, but expensive to liquefy or gasification. It maybe the answer.

[nbres]

It is good to hear that other posters have some common sense about America's energy problem. NUCLEAR POWER is the only viable solution right now to meet our growing energy demands. Wind, Geothermal, solar and biofuels are not enough. We also need to open up Alaska to oil drilling as well as areas off the coast -

Maybe when gasoline hits $4.00/gallon the public will come to their senses about nuclear power.