and now I say WOW you really and truly don't get it...The biggest problem of nuclear energy is the waste and what to do with it. In fact, one of the biggest expenses of the nuclear power industry could be the storage of nuclear waste. Currently there are several ways in which nuclear waste is stored. Most of these methods are temporary. In most cases a viable long-term solution for waste storage has yet to be found. This is because the time period for storage is so damn long, on the order of thousands of years. You tell me how is that going to work out years from now...Solar does not have that problem...You also need to maybe read up a bit more on solar energy, because it can be stored...not so much the electricity but the heat. Heat unlike electric current, is something that can be stored. Solar thermal systems are built to gather heat from the sun, boil water into steam, spin a turbine and make power, as existing solar thermal power plants do...but not immediately. The heat can be stored for days and can be chosen when to be used. In California's Mojave desert, there are rows of solar mirrors in what's called "solar thermal power plants" that use this idea to make electricity for more than 350,000 homes.
Methinks he is trying to sneak this onto some sort of bigger energy/climate bill and wants to get some from the other side of the aisle on board first...but only time will tell
Don't worry MOOBY ... Obama isn't doing a thing about our energy problems except setting up new tax nets and killing incentives.... the oil talk is just that .... talk. Actually he put huge amounts off limits at the same time.
remember that statement next time you want to step on a plane or purchase anything that wasn't produced in your own backyard. like it or not, oil is our present and what enables us to proceed into the future. that future will have to include other sources of energy, but we aren't there yet and we won't get there by denying our present needs. the monitor you're staring blankly at right now contains petroleum based components and i'm willing to bet that your house is filled with similar products. we have the choice of depending on others to fill our petroleum needs, may of them self-avowed enemies, or tapping our own reserves until we can switch over to a more sustainable energy source. which of those alternatives seems the wisest choice to you? we can't return to that idyllic pre-industrial world with streets covered in horse shit and ignorance assured by limited travel and information sharing, so what is this grand design you have to tide us over until our energy requirements can all be met by clean and green sources?
hopefully he'll be transported home and never darken our doorway again.
that's ok. anyone too ignorant to admit when they don't understand a word isn't really worth communicating with anyway. hell, sometimes even i don't know understand what i've just written. sometimes i just get a little too high for my own good.UTI.... I read your posts with glee.... but I hope you realize that most of the "progressives" don't use dictionaries.... and miss at least half of your context!
I had one arguing with me over what a thesaurus actually was!!! I knew then I had to "dumb down" my posts.... and yet...
