Montecresto
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To the bolded. Not in the concentrations we saw when British Petroleum ****ed up.
50% of all oil in the oceans is caused by nature.
Renewables will never reach the portability and power conversion of oil, natural gas, and coal. Renewables will never keep up with the output of nuclear power plants.
Renewables work in small scale and to supplement on a large scale. They can only work on a large scale if you kill off most of the human population, reduce the standard of living, or there is a God-like technological breakthrough.
50% of all oil in the oceans is caused by nature.
Renewables will never reach the portability and power conversion of oil, natural gas, and coal. Renewables will never keep up with the output of nuclear power plants.
Renewables work in small scale and to supplement on a large scale. They can only work on a large scale if you kill off most of the human population, reduce the standard of living, or there is a God-like technological breakthrough.
Not in the slightest. Getting rich is great. But you can't wait till you run out to begin working on replacement.
Viable replacements need to be in progress now.
And by the way, people can get rich off them too
But burning nasty, polluting dinosaur (pun intended) fuels must be stopped at some point. And it will be too, regardless of opinion now.
To the bolded. And men would never fly, walk on the moon, or communicate by cellular phones. We can't be bogged down by short sighted and backward thinking people!
What renewable isn't damaging to the environment or ecosystem and doesn't suck on power conversion rates? How are you going to improve performance and portability of each?
Are you actually suggesting simultaneously throwing billions and billions into research of renewables while winding down existing fossil fuel use immediately? Surely you aren't that foolish.
No blog can rescue us from the damage of 35 years of Reaganomics.
Hmmm I disagree with you there. The US has the lowest levels of upward social mobility of any developed country. The odds are that in the US if you are born poor you will die poor whatever your level of intellect sadly. This is a state of affairs that has gotten progressively worse with the passing of decades
a lie repeated often enough is still a lie.
Renewable energy sources will quickly become more efficient as we use them more and get better at it.
Green energy is still in its infancy; it's unreasonable to expect it to immediately be just as efficient as the fossil fuels we have been working with for hundreds of years.
Oil wins every time.
Letting Shell drill in Arctic could lead to catastrophic oil spill, experts warn | Environment | The Guardian
"Environmental groups and experts hit out at the US government on Tuesday following its announcement that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell would be allowed to resume offshore exploration and drilling in the Arctic’s American waters. Unforgiving conditions in the Arctic’s icy waters not only make the chances of a spill likely, the complete lack of infrastructure in place to deal with a potential disaster means the consequences of the move could be calamitous, environmental activists and experts say.
According to a study published in February by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the same regulatory governmental agency that yesterday issued its approval of Shell’s Chukchi Sea exploration plan, the chances of one or more oil spills occurring as a result of drilling in the Arctic over the next 77 years are 75%. In open water or broken ice, the same study says that between 44% and 62% of crude oil resulting from a spill would stay put – neither dispersing nor evaporating – after 30 days. “Yesterday’s announcement is inconsistent with the federal government’s commitment for stewardship of the Arctic Ocean, it is inconsistent with President Obama’s commitment to combat climate change, and it is a clear prioritization of Shell’s needs ahead of the protection of one of our most important natural resources,” said Michael LeVine, Oceana’s Pacific senior counsel."
In my view instead of squandering even more resources on this nonsense we should use them to make our fossil fuel plants much cleaner and more efficient
I have to disagree, but only a little.You live in a fantasy world, a world where up is down and left is right. Petroleum set free people, and Reagan's boom is a sharp contrast to Obama's failures.
Renewables cannot replace oil, no matter how hard you cross your fingers, close your eyes and wish it were otherwise.
I would support an effort to make fossil fuels more clean and efficient. Good luck getting that one passed by congress, though.
Apparently the gas produced in the new fracking process has only around 20% of the toxicity of other types of fossil fuels. Its cheaper to extract too so thats surely all good
Hmmm I disagree with you there. The US has the lowest levels of upward social mobility of any developed country. The odds are that in the US if you are born poor you will die poor whatever your level of intellect sadly. This is a state of affairs that has gotten progressively worse with the passing of decades
Yeah, no problem. Those whining locals just need to learn to drink flammable water.
The idea of capitalism is that the trash gets left behind while the smart move on.
That video was a hoax...
I didn't realize disadvantaged and possibly unintelligent people were trash.
Yeah, no problem. Those whining locals just need to learn to drink flammable water.
Economically speaking, yes, unintelligent people without a skill are trash. It gets even worse with automation.
Not true. If you have intellect and you can turn that into a skill then you won't die poor.
The idea of capitalism is that the trash gets left behind while the smart move on.
That might have been true a few decades ago but it certainly isn't now
Not being economically significant does not make somebody economic trash. Trash implies complete uselessness and an absolute lack of worth. Using the word trash is more of a projection of how you feel about them methinks.
it's worth 7 bucks an hour.
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