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Gotta disagree. A few thousand pounds of plutonium will replace a few million barrels of oil EASY.
That'd have to be an electric car, then, and the battery tech isn't there (not as a direct replacement for gasoline). Unless, of course, we just put a small fusion plant in each car...
Living down river of Hanford for a couple decades, and watching various highly radioactive things go up river to be "temporarily permanently" stored until some solution for storage is discovered and perfected is not a happy feeling.
Long-term storage would have to be solved, plants would have to be constructed by someone other than the lowest bidder, security issues need to be addressed, health and safety issues worked out - a hydro dam can fail and result in catastrophe, but at least it's a short-term catastrophe, on the scale of Katrina rather than Chernobyl.
I ran across an artcle the other day (I think it was on MSNBC, but I can't recall for sure) where a marketer admitted that they are using the "green" label as a "shopping for salvation" (his words) gimmick, in other words manipulating people into buying things that really are no better for the environment, but make them feel better. Alot of people don't have a religion any more, and the new phony green movement has become a new means of allowing them feeling that they have control over their lives.
I know the post above is old, but here is something that happened over the weekend regarding John's old company. We at home with guests and an alert for a severe t'storm and hail event came over the radio. I instinctively turned on the Weather Channel. I was ready to see the latest radar, up to date data, etc. for the warning area.
Instead, there was the "crawl" talking about a warning, but they kept showing this "documentary" about global warming. Some of our guests said that they stopped using the WC bacause it is not what it was in the John Coleman days.
I am writing to many of the shows sponsors to voice my concerns.
I ran across an artcle the other day (I think it was on MSNBC, but I can't recall for sure) where a marketer admitted that they are using the "green" label as a "shopping for salvation" (his words) gimmick, in other words manipulating people into buying things that really are no better for the environment, but make them feel better. Alot of people don't have a religion any more, and the new phony green movement has become a new means of allowing them feeling that they have control over their lives.
Thats just like people who buy "wind power" from the utility. Unless there's a tower or a farm within a few miles of you it's a pretty safe bet your still useing power from a non-renewable source, and if they say they are offsetting power from a non-renewable source thats a smokescreen as well The load in this country is going up faster then any new renewable resource can match......
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The load in this country is going up faster then any new renewable resource can match......
