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- If we needed governments to make investments in new technologies, then we would not have a free market system, and tax payers would not be on the hook to pay for those that failed, nor contributing a portion of their taxpayer investment dollars to a political party that they may not support.
We don't have a free market system, rather a mercantilist, regulated system, thus the results we experience of such a system. - Reply to this comment
- China now has four wind turbine manufacturers among the global top 10 (up from zero in 2005), and its installed wind capacity doubled every year between 2006 and 2009. China surpassed the United States in installed renewable energy capacity (including wind, solar, small-hydro, biomass, waste-to-energy, geothermal, and marine) with 103 gigawatts in 2010, which is almost double the U.S. total.
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Dan1903: "Windmills!!! What a farce."
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No danny boy, educate yourself for once, they are WIND TURBINES, not the windmills of Denmark that pump water, although Vestas is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines -- the largest in the world, with plants in Colorado as well as China!
http://worldofwind.vestas.com/ - Reply to this comment
- Dan1903: "People like Occupy live in a dream world were<sic> we fuel up with vegitable<sic> oil. The solar panels cost too much and they don't fuel vehicles. Batteries don't last long enough and are expensive. Ethanol moves the cost of corn up and takes too much energy to produce."
Thanks for proving how little you and rush limprod know today, and how totally wrong you are on all clean and green sustainable energy!
First off, diesel engines run fine on used vegetable OIL with harmless emissions.
Secondly, solar PV panels have plummeted in price the past few years, costing about $7/watt 20-years ago, and today a mere $1.50/watt. I followed a solar car on I-40 through Arizona a few years ago, having no problem maintaining 70 mph, and have only gotten better with technology changing almost monthly for the better.
Thirdly, while batteries have always been the weak link for solar PV systems or vehicles, the newest lithium-sulfur batteries have been used on the longest and highest solar-powered flight, and continue to get better each year. We're close to a breakthrough on batteries.
And lastly, while I know it's just in republican empty heads to endlessly attack biofuels since that's all they know, E-85 was $2.89 at the pump yesterday -- about 20% less than GASoline -- and we produced so much of it along with biodiesel in 2011 with RECORD PRODUCTION LEVELS, that they were among our #1 EXPORTS last year!
GO FISH danny boy, since you get more ridiculous by the hour! - Reply to this comment
- TimeToEvolve: "Isn't it time to evolve past the Exxon Chevron driven reliance on oil. While we always will need oil, is it really worth having endless wars for it? While we fry the planet, we could at least be developing alternative, sustainable energy. We should have listened to President Carter. We need to evolve as a species. Socially, politically and economically."
Yes, I often wonder how long we would already have been energy independent today, had we followed through with President Carter's vision for the future when it came to clean and green sustainable energy back in the 1970's, and multiple OIL embargoes? - Reply to this comment
- chevyhotrod:
The Range Fuels Fiasco
A case study in the folly of politically directed investment.
So what? How many startups in Silicon Valley actually fail too?
Did you just post that to make more attacks on President Obama's vision for the future, or are you just attacking renewable energy?
From your same WSJ article:
"As taxpayer tragedies go, Broomfield, Colorado-based Range Fuels has all the plot elements -- splashy headlines, subsidies and opportunistic venture capitalists. Range got its start in 2006 when George W. Bush used a State of the Union address to extol wood chips as a source for cellulosic ethanol that would break America's 'addiction to oil.' Mr. Bush pledged that with government funding cellulosic ethanol..." - Reply to this comment
- chevyhotrod: "You better run out and by a new Chevy Volt.......Why don't you move to China then?"
GEE hotrod, you have all kinds of bad advice for everyone else, so I can just imagine what kind of standards you have for yourself!
First off, our OIL consumption has decreased by about 2 million barrels a day since our peak usage in 2006 -- more than we've ever gotten from the Gulf of Mexico in one year -- and that is due to higher vehicle efficiency, hybrids and E.V.'s, along with increased production of biofuels at record levels in 2011.
Secondly, the Chinese people are showing their complete dislike of pollution from fossil fuels (coal-fired energy plants in particular), thus the reasoning behind the Chinese government pushing for huge amounts of renewable energy by 2015 and 2020 -- something the entire world should be doing! - Reply to this comment
- Apparently propoganda minister axelrod was not around prior to the last presidential election, not only did the democrats blame bush for high gasoline prices among everything else Obama the campaigner blamed Bush and promised to bring down gasoline prices if elected, in hindsite that was a load of crapp and now they have the audacity to state the president has no control over gas prices, typical leftwing hypocrisy!
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- chevyhotrod: "Maybe if we look at China and see what they are doing and what their energy needs and economic growth have in common"
Many of the long-term global trends point to steady increases in the price of oil. Reserves are finite so the commodity is slowly becoming scarcer -- something that pushes the price up.
The explosion of development in countries like China and India has created more demand as those and other developing regions industrialise. They build more roads and increase manufacturing -- it all requires oil.
The bearish argument is that technological new energy developments -- solar, wind, etc -- should begin to reduce the world's dependence on the black stuff.
Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-1658364/Oil-price-predictions-What-crude.html#ixzz1pap1bmIf
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Over the next 25 years, 90% of the projected growth in global energy demand comes from non-core economies. China alone accounts for more than 30%, consolidating its position as the world's largest energy consumer. In 2035, China consumes nearly 70% more energy than the U.S., which will be the second-largest consumer, even though by then per-capita energy consumption in China will still be less than half the level in the U.S.
Chinese emissions are steadily rising due to their strong economic growth but the country is working hard to manage its growing middle class and economic growth in a sustainable manner, unlike republicans in the U.S. that can only worship and placate BIG OIL.
The Chinese central government is committed to increase renewable energy consumption to 11.4 percent of the energy mix by 2015 and 15 percent by 2020, and not only manufacturing wind turbines and solar PV panels, but installing them throughout the country in huge numbers.
The Chinese depend on imported fossil fuels, particularly coal, for their energy needs. But coal cannot fuel China's forecasted growth, and with Chinese citizens demanding cleaner air -- sometimes via mass protests that terrify Beijing -- burning more fossil fuels would add to their already severe pollution problems.
So from the Chinese leadership perspective, greening the economy is the only way forward. Those policies sent a strong market signal that kickstarted China's renewable energy market, particularly in solar and wind, which were basically nonexistent before 2006.
China now has four wind turbine manufacturers among the global top 10 (up from zero in 2005), and its installed wind capacity doubled every year between 2006 and 2009. China surpassed the United States in installed renewable energy capacity (including wind, solar, small-hydro, biomass, waste-to-energy, geothermal, and marine) with 103 gigawatts in 2010, which is almost double the U.S. total. - Reply to this comment
- RetRanger: "You're the King of personal Attacks "Ocuppy" so I guess you would know."
Thanks CBS for allowing this poster to continue again this week with his incessant need to stalk and slander other posters with his need for constant attention like a little boy. - Reply to this comment
- Dan1903: "The REAL reson oil is expensive has nothing to do with supply and demand"
Sure it does danny boy -- just in a completely distorted way!
The supply-demand equation of OIL is also distorted by speculation, with over-zealous trading making the market more volatile than it would otherwise be. This speculation has risen recently like in 2008, when the price of a barrel of OIL was 50% more than currently, proving that the market will move in a far more violent way than the small demand shift of an expected increase of only 1.5 percent to 89.25 million barrels a day in 2012, suggests. - Reply to this comment
