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January 9, 2009
Baccheus
T Boone Pickens is the big advocate right now. What's interesting is that he's an oil guy, not a greenie. He's pushing is to make American energy independent not because its good for the environment. Greenies, who never have enough money to promote their causes have pretty much taken the attitude of "whatever dude, go for it."
It has its' place but is noisy and not overly efficient. I advocate less greed in the use of power. Here in england they are forcing us to be greener yet the big city companies leave thousands of watts of lighting burning day and night. We will never meet the requirements of the whole world at the levels we use power now so must reduce what we all use then provide as much of our power from the most reliable and least toxic sources.
Gas turbines are the best we have at the moment for efficiency vs pollution so we need to be generating gas from waste and using that as primary source where possible then supplementing with wind, wave, solar geothermal and any other technology we can find but not nuclear until the science can deal with the waste.
I will repeat my call for reduction of energy use as the only long term solution.
Comments on Who advocates for wind power to be used? »
T Boone Pickens is the big advocate right now. What's interesting is that he's an oil guy, not a greenie. He's pushing is to make American energy independent not because its good for the environment. Greenies, who never have enough money to promote their causes have pretty much taken the attitude of "whatever dude, go for it."
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The guy above is right Pickens is a oil tycoon and he is pushing wind power. I like it myself,it reduces our carbon foot print to almost nothing.
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It has its' place but is noisy and not overly efficient. I advocate less greed in the use of power. Here in england they are forcing us to be greener yet the big city companies leave thousands of watts of lighting burning day and night. We will never meet the requirements of the whole world at the levels we use power now so must reduce what we all use then provide as much of our power from the most reliable and least toxic sources.
Gas turbines are the best we have at the moment for efficiency vs pollution so we need to be generating gas from waste and using that as primary source where possible then supplementing with wind, wave, solar geothermal and any other technology we can find but not nuclear until the science can deal with the waste.
I will repeat my call for reduction of energy use as the only long term solution.
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