| It's my belief that if it was not for mistaken left | | | | you on some issues but it's true.) |
| wing politics the US could be a comparative utopia | | | | I have long noticed the hypocrisy of the left as |
| compared to what it has become. In this article I | | | | they drive their SUV's to work and then do some |
| would like to restrict myself to the energy | | | | relatively insignificant thing like recycling a water |
| aspects of the problems created by the left. It's | | | | bottle. They send their chosen elites off in |
| not that conservatives have exactly been doing | | | | airplanes to go to conferences on global warming. |
| what was necessary to solve our energy | | | | Whatever they do they don't really solve the |
| problems either, but I see the real blame coming | | | | problems their so concerned about. They could |
| from mistaken left wing thinking. Let's go back to | | | | drive gas powered motorcycles using little fuel |
| say 1970 and examine what we should have | | | | that have been available since the beginning of the |
| done differently starting then. | | | | last century, and they don't even appear to know |
| First, we should have invested in and built a | | | | about electric motorcycles, but if they did they |
| nuclear grid capable of supplying power for | | | | wouldn't endorse them because its not a form of |
| residential and commercial purposes, and capable | | | | centralized mass transportation. |
| of powering an electric transportation grid. Had we | | | | My own view is that all the regulations and |
| done this we could have become completely | | | | alternative energy strategies of the left are not |
| independent of foreign oil by the year 2,000. We | | | | really effective at solving any of our energy |
| would be using clean, efficient, and abundant | | | | problems. But I really don't think it's a solution to |
| nuclear energy. Almost zero CO2, no global | | | | energy problems that they are after. Again it's |
| warming, no air pollution, and all the energy we | | | | more like a political lifestyle. Nuclear energy offers |
| needed. | | | | all the things they supposedly believe in no CO2, |
| Currently, generation IV nuclear power plants are | | | | no oil, and inexpensive abundant energy produced |
| being designed. We should have invested more | | | | by mother nature. But instead of favoring it the |
| and sooner in these new technologies. This new | | | | left and the greenies are busy claiming that |
| generation of power plants improves disposal | | | | nuclear energy is not a renewable energy source. |
| issues by reusing fuel. This also solves the fuel | | | | They create their mother-nature concept |
| supply issue. The Chinese have already contracted | | | | 'renewable energy'. Does it have a definition? Is it |
| with Westinghouse to build at least 4 AP1000 | | | | something that works in a cycle? Breeder |
| nuclear plants, and they are now ahead of us in | | | | reactors can create their own fuel. For me that's |
| implementing this vital technology. The plants offer | | | | good enough, and it's better than covering half the |
| several advantages over previous generations of | | | | planet with corn fields. |
| nuclear power including that they are 'non | | | | Critics of nuclear energy point out disposal issues. |
| proliferation' and do not require refueling for 30 | | | | They make uneducated or manipulative |
| years. The plants include 'passive safety' which | | | | statements like "do you want to store nuclear |
| means they shut down without human | | | | waste in your backyard?" The fact is a given |
| intervention if necessary, (which is supposed to | | | | families share of the nuclear waste would be |
| be exceedingly unlikely). The plant design is much | | | | immeasurably insignificant and wouldn't compare, |
| smaller and simple compared to previous | | | | for example, to their share of exposure to |
| generations. | | | | pollution from a coal plant. New generation IV |
| Second, we should be using alternative modes of | | | | plants and disposal methods go a long ways |
| transportation. I see a world where transportation | | | | towards solving these waste issues. |
| occurs without dependence on oil. I envision using | | | | NORM stands for naturally occurring radioactive |
| electric: motorcycles, cars, trucks and trains, and | | | | materials, for example, radon exposure in homes |
| supplementing this with ultralight aircraft and even | | | | built in granite ground. The fact is that NORM |
| larger aircraft such as the Aeroscraft. It's a | | | | accounts for 10,000 times more exposure than |
| complete solution that could be implemented with | | | | nuclear power plants do. (Personally I think it's |
| technology available since before 1970. | | | | more but I didn't do the math.) In fact coal |
| My thesis of why we have not yet made these | | | | production also leads to the release of radioactive |
| changes is that the left corruptly avoids actual | | | | materials. So does the making and using of |
| solutions to problems that form core components | | | | fertilizers. The fertilizers used in corn fields used to |
| of their political agenda. This is a key idea. It's sort | | | | produce ethanol create radioactive waste. I would |
| of like oil companies that supposedly block the | | | | guess many more magnitudes worse per Joule of |
| production of electric cars. The left doesn't want | | | | useable energy produced as compared to nuclear |
| a solution because they want to mandate | | | | energy production. So why does the left prefer |
| regulations. They want to be in charge of | | | | ethanol and not nuclear? Because its part of their |
| businesses and enforce an eco-lifestyle. They | | | | larger energy solution: Endless hordes of |
| want endless cadres of bureaucrats deciding on | | | | bureaucrats trying to mandate a lifestyle and |
| how energy is to be used, and they want to be | | | | getting paid to do it. |
| able to blame 'wasteful businesses' and 'big oil'. | | | | I would like to point out this is not necessarily an |
| Controlling energy is an important component of | | | | attack on alternative energy as it is on the refusal |
| the left wing agenda. Nuclear power solves the | | | | of the left to endorse an obvious solution: nuclear |
| problem which means it puts the left out of | | | | energy. In addition as explained I favor a variety |
| power. How can they mandate a lifestyle and | | | | of energy saving ideas everything from electric |
| complain about business when the problems are | | | | motos to LED lighting. Combining these ideas there |
| solved? The 'green people' don't really want | | | | is no reason we should be using any foreign oil. |
| endless free inexpensive clean energy. That would | | | | Trying to shed some light on energy issues: |
| end their lifestyle. (Sorry greenies I agree with | | | | LEDHomePlace. |