It?s truly sad that something as critical as our depleting energy resources and the pollution and global warming they cause can?t be elevated beyond conventional thinking and the maintenance of the status quo. I?d like to believe this is because we have entirely too many ignorant people in powerful positions (e.g., government, academia, business and the media), but I?m beginning to believe it?s more because of those who know the truth are too afraid to speak it or that they have been brainwashed into believing they are being patriotic and a good planetary citizen by keeping the truth under wraps (for whatever reason).
Discussions about whether we need more coal or nuclear power plants?or even more solar and wind?when there are advanced, non-polluting energy technologies that are virtually unlimited in resource is like discussing whether it is better to light a house with candles, gas lights, kerosene lanterns, or torches when electric light bulb technology has been around for years.
Advanced technologies like zero point, electrogravitics, and low energy nuclear fusion (aka cold fusion) are real and have been around for decades. But until a critical mass of the population is reached where they start demanding the release of these technologies, and/or a conscience is grown by those on the inside who know they have been actively suppressing these technologies to keep the energy cartel firmly in control of the world economies and governments, we will continue to destroy the planet and ourselves at an exponential rate.
Wake up people and do your own research. Don?t believe me, the government, mainstream academia, or the media. The information is hidden in plain sight, but you actually have to open your eyes and your mind to take it in.
And for those of you on the inside who know the truth and have been having second thoughts about your role in the suppression, I implore you to search your soul and ask yourself is what is rapidly unfolding in the world really what you want? Is what you are doing really worth the cost to you and your family and its future generations? Do you really want to live in a world where such secrets, deception and ruthlessness require you to trust no one and to keep looking over your shoulder? Is wealth, power and control really all that matters?
For those of you who would like to do your own research and investigation into what I?ve said there is a wealth of information in books, journals, videos and CDs, and on the web. Here are a few good resources and topics you can start with by searching the web or visiting your local library or book store:
Brian O?Leary, Ph.D.
Paul LaViolette Ph.D.
Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.
Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.
Thomas Townsend Brown
Paul Biefeld, Ph.D.
Nikola Tesla
Tom Bearden
Guy Obolensky, Ph.D.
Eugene Podkletnov, Ph.D.
Stanley Pons, Ph.D.
Martin Fleischmann, Ph.D.
Michael McKubre, Ph.D.
Jeane Manning
Zero Point Energy (ZPE)
LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction; aka Cold Fusion)
Electrogravitics
Subquantum Kinetics
Welcome to Mr. Rogers neighborhood where he states: "That we need a Marshall Plan...We havent spent the money... we are going to co-invest with the government"
Everything he stated translates into: Privatize the gains, and socialize the losses.
Mr. Rogers seemed very sincere on 60 Minutes last night. Yet when it came to putting their money where their mouth is about carbon sequesteration they were all talk. What would Duke really give to solve that problem? An inexpensive, clean replacement for fossil fuels would put thousands of people out of work and the people who owned stock in all those coal mines would certainly take a bath (financially). Seriously, what's it worth?
Yes please got to the NSIDC this poster is WRONG, go there your self!! The ice bridge to the Wilkins shelf just collapsed, and the NSIDC has stated, "ncluding March 2009, the past six years have all had ice extent substantially lower than normal. The linear trend indicates that for the month of March, ice extent is declining by 2.7% per decade, an average of 43,000 square kilometers (16,000 square miles) of ice per year."
"...Jim Hansen's predictions and numbers have been continually discredited. Do your research.Go to the NSIDC site and see that the Arctic sea ice extent is back to normal. Posted by elmeramos at 6:58 PM : Apr 26, 2009"
If IGCC with CCS are the next great thing in the power industry that will allow us to produce cheap electricity with coal, why has Duke not invested a dime in it? Why are they waiting for the government to prove its efficacy before they jump in? Renewables like wind and solar thermal get very little government investment, yet they manage to produce 2%. Maybe if we focused on truly renewable technologies with the same level of investment that is poured into coal and nukes, getting them to 50, 60, even 70% wouldn't be as daunting a challenge. Several studies have been done showing that 100% of America's energy needs could be satisfied with 100 sq miles of concentrated solar thermal in the southwest. We just don't have the political will to walk away from coal.
Additionally, even if we figure out a way to do IGCC w/ CCS as cheap as the dirty plants of today - you still have to get the coal out of the ground, and MTR is one of the most environmentally destructive activities practiced on this continent (except for maybe tar sands in Canada). And you will still have the problems of the coal-ash lagoons, just like the one that failed in Tennesee last year causing billions and billions and billions of dollars in property damage.
We need nuclear power, but the biggest point is, if we are going to spend a trillion bucks on "clean coal" then why not put that instead into a "marshall plan" to get us off coal? We don't need to use coal. We should invest in wind and solar and geothermal. WE DON'T NEED COAL.. The people who are telling us that are lying, or right-wingers. They are unable to think outside the box. Would you like some proof that we don't need coal? In 200 years it will all be gone, and then what? Yes, then humanity will live without it. Skip those 200 years and let's do it now. People forget -- all fossil fuels are finite. All of them. They WILL run out. So stop using them for fuel and save their use for other things future generations will need.
The coal man interviewed in this segment is not "reformed". He's so greedy he wants to make money killing off future generations of people. Same with T. Boone Pickens. They're both frauds. We need to be interviewing people with solutions to climate change, not these snake oil salesmen. "Yeah, I believe in climate change, but I'm gonna keep building coal plants anyway." Are you frakkin' kidding me? This man should be put in jail. He's killing people.
There has been talk from American politicians who want to build 100 nuclear power plants. This is a straw man argument. We can not afford nuclear power. The economic costs of nuclear power are huge when compared to cleaner coal, solar, or wind farms (these are expensive too). We can not even agree politically as country on building a waste storage facility in Yucca mountain in Nevada. Nuclear energy costs are much higher than coal fired plants or even the more expensive FutureGen projects with carbon capture systems. The nuclear waste disposal issue just does not go away with a half life of many tens of thousands of years for the waste that must be stored in stainless steel barrels when transported anywhere. The only country that has successfully employed nuclear power is probably France. France reprocesses its nuclear waste with breeder reactors but they still have a nuclear waste storage facility in the Normandy peninsula. It is worth noting that the French are investing rather heavily in wind farms. The excellent nuclear power programs employed by the US Navy is a poor example for commercial applications because the Navy applications are very limited to ships and submarines.
IGCC coal plants with CCS, Solar thermal plants and photovoltaics panels, wind farms, turbodiesel European cars, smart grids, and biomass are the right way to go for America. We could probably have solar and wind farms producing half or more of our electricity in 20 years. IGCC coal plants could serve as a mainline back up. We should also back this up with aggressive recycling programs and energy conservation programs for buildings. Forget nuclear power it will be an economic failure. S. David Freeman used to be in charge of the TVA in the 1970's and he canceled nuclear power plants because they were uneconomical. Far smarter to invest a few trillion dollars in IGCC plants and turbodiesel cars that get 70 MPG. Then we can bring our troops home forever from the Middle East and read Psalm 23 for OPEC's obituary. I do not think many America families who have lost servicemembers in these wars will feel very sorry for OPEC's demise. I won't either.
YOu people are so high up your self and think you can control everything with your technology when infact you are making things worst.....! Mother is a living organism and only people like your selves would think of injecting pollution back into the earth I mean would you inject your own Urine or feces inside you? Bottom line is that people in industrialize countries are not willing to sacrifice or compromise the future of this earth and our own. Go to any large city of an industrialized country everyone is out in their cars, or want to fly with a cheap ticket every year for vacation or has a 52 inch plasma tv Nothing is going to change until a huge part of the world population ceases to exist sadly enough this is the only way human understand we have come so far with technology but in the end we are still ignorant as ever! But guess wha this time history wont be one sided and everyone would know that we are all at fault but certain people the so called elites and highly educated were the ones who propagated this polluting mentality around the world and lost respect for mother nature were are all dammed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps the nay-sayers of global climate change will come around after the crisis gets worse. The human species is not known for forethought but rather taking action only after every possible denial of fact is fully aired. If the mountain ice around the world is gone by 2015, as some predict, gasoline will seem cheap compared to water. If you think our economic worries are bad now, wait until there are billions of dislocated refugees around the world looking for food and water. And of course, a trillion dollars for carbon capture will seem like a bargain compared to the cost of U.S. costal cities under water.
We need to build 100 new nuclear power plant as fast and safely as possible. Nuclear power represents the most compact, most reliable, least poluting form of energy that can produce power 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year.
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Discussions about whether we need more coal or nuclear power plants?or even more solar and wind?when there are advanced, non-polluting energy technologies that are virtually unlimited in resource is like discussing whether it is better to light a house with candles, gas lights, kerosene lanterns, or torches when electric light bulb technology has been around for years.
Advanced technologies like zero point, electrogravitics, and low energy nuclear fusion (aka cold fusion) are real and have been around for decades. But until a critical mass of the population is reached where they start demanding the release of these technologies, and/or a conscience is grown by those on the inside who know they have been actively suppressing these technologies to keep the energy cartel firmly in control of the world economies and governments, we will continue to destroy the planet and ourselves at an exponential rate.
Wake up people and do your own research. Don?t believe me, the government, mainstream academia, or the media. The information is hidden in plain sight, but you actually have to open your eyes and your mind to take it in.
And for those of you on the inside who know the truth and have been having second thoughts about your role in the suppression, I implore you to search your soul and ask yourself is what is rapidly unfolding in the world really what you want? Is what you are doing really worth the cost to you and your family and its future generations? Do you really want to live in a world where such secrets, deception and ruthlessness require you to trust no one and to keep looking over your shoulder? Is wealth, power and control really all that matters?
For those of you who would like to do your own research and investigation into what I?ve said there is a wealth of information in books, journals, videos and CDs, and on the web. Here are a few good resources and topics you can start with by searching the web or visiting your local library or book store:
Brian O?Leary, Ph.D.
Paul LaViolette Ph.D.
Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.
Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.
Thomas Townsend Brown
Paul Biefeld, Ph.D.
Nikola Tesla
Tom Bearden
Guy Obolensky, Ph.D.
Eugene Podkletnov, Ph.D.
Stanley Pons, Ph.D.
Martin Fleischmann, Ph.D.
Michael McKubre, Ph.D.
Jeane Manning
Zero Point Energy (ZPE)
LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction; aka Cold Fusion)
Electrogravitics
Subquantum Kinetics
Everything he stated translates into: Privatize the gains, and socialize the losses.
Seriously, what's it worth?
"...Jim Hansen's predictions and numbers have been continually discredited. Do your research.Go to the NSIDC site and see that the Arctic sea ice extent is back to normal.
Posted by elmeramos at 6:58 PM : Apr 26, 2009"
Additionally, even if we figure out a way to do IGCC w/ CCS as cheap as the dirty plants of today - you still have to get the coal out of the ground, and MTR is one of the most environmentally destructive activities practiced on this continent (except for maybe tar sands in Canada). And you will still have the problems of the coal-ash lagoons, just like the one that failed in Tennesee last year causing billions and billions and billions of dollars in property damage.
The coal man interviewed in this segment is not "reformed". He's so greedy he wants to make money killing off future generations of people. Same with T. Boone Pickens. They're both frauds. We need to be interviewing people with solutions to climate change, not these snake oil salesmen. "Yeah, I believe in climate change, but I'm gonna keep building coal plants anyway." Are you frakkin' kidding me? This man should be put in jail. He's killing people.
IGCC coal plants with CCS, Solar thermal plants and photovoltaics panels, wind farms, turbodiesel European cars, smart grids, and biomass are the right way to go for America. We could probably have solar and wind farms producing half or more of our electricity in 20 years. IGCC coal plants could serve as a mainline back up. We should also back this up with aggressive recycling programs and energy conservation programs for buildings. Forget nuclear power it will be an economic failure. S. David Freeman used to be in charge of the TVA in the 1970's and he canceled nuclear power plants because they were uneconomical. Far smarter to invest a few trillion dollars in IGCC plants and turbodiesel cars that get 70 MPG. Then we can bring our troops home forever from the Middle East and read Psalm 23 for OPEC's obituary. I do not think many America families who have lost servicemembers in these wars will feel very sorry for OPEC's demise. I won't either.