Freezing your Green Ass Off
It was though a million bloggers stopped typing and the Internet fell silent.
The question has been asked, what happens if we convert to wind power and the wind stops blowing? That question has been answered: We freeze. We bake. Our computers stop and our mass transit will not run. The dirty little secret about the current way the Greening of the West is being implemented is that it will not work. Look at the Science
It’s not that it can’t work. Rather it is as though the folks driving this green train are either ignorant or they deliberately want us to fail. Since many in the Green movement are Watermelons (Green on the outside, Red on the Inside), I think they draining our bank accounts and then setting us up to fail is deliberately. Communists have been trying to destroy capitalism for years. Looks like they have found away. I will believe differently when there is a large and rapid increase in the building of nuclear power plants and the bad mouthing of clean coal stops. This is not to say that clean coal exists, but what you will notice if you watch the Watermelons who run those clean coal commercials is: they wouldn’t want it if it did exist. It will not help them destroy capitalism so they do not want it.
Again, if you want to know why should have doubts about the Greening of the West, read this carefully. In particular, pay attention to the Danish experience. What happen to a real world example of a western nation when it went hog wild for Windmills.
The problems, for those who need it bottom lined is that wind power is intermittent. In Denmark the wind power stations may spend as much as one third of the time operating at less than 10% capacity. If you look seriously at what it might take to store the power from the good times in hydrogen or batteries and then to find practical ways to to use say the stored, hydrogen safely on a nation scale, the problems are staggering. Not insurmountable but certainly a problem that may take decades to solve on a national scale. What some fail to realize is this: It’s one thing to have an experimental plant make a few bubble of hydrogen in a laboratory, it’s a whole other thing to replace every power line in this country. I say “replace every power line in this country” as a way getting handle of what putting in a nationwide hydrogen infrastructure would require. It would be on the order of replacing every power line in the country. I believe it would actually be more expensive and time consuming than that since every nut and bolt of a new infrastructure must be built first. You have use electricity to split the water (that plant that makes H2 bubbles is not yet ready for prime time), you have to store and transport the H2. Compressing, liquefying, storing and transporting H2 are non trivial task. Understand, no one is saying it can’t be done. All we are saying is there are no magic wands to make it happen quickly, and we need to be doing something in the mean time–something like nuclear power and clean coal. The electricity to split the water into O2 and H2 will not come out of thin air–yet. Again, a nation wide infrastructure of solar energy will also take time and energy. Also, solar is under 25% conversion efficiency. Until we get those magic plants out of the laboratory, the conversion efficiency of hydrogen is even worse.
The myth of the Danish green energy ‘miracle’
I have doubtless offended some religious sensibilities. I can tell that Climate Change is just religion with some of you when I bring up the subject of Al Gore. If you truly believed that we are killing ourselves and destroying the planet through global warming, and you were a millionaire, wouldn’t you have the smallest carbon foot print of all the millionaires in the world? You are a millionaire. You can afford it! But Al Gore has one of the largest carbon foot prints on the planet. Do the rules only apply to us but not to him? Is he a God who walks the earth and are we merely serfs? If there is a green way to live, shouldn’t millionaires be the first to live that way? Again, they can afford it. If one green technology doesn’t work or doesn’t well, they can keep swapping thing out and trying different configurations until they hit upon one that works. The average person needs technology that works correctly the first time. The millionaires and limousine liberals who talk the green talk have an moral an ethical obligation to walk the green walk if for no other reason than to work the bugs out so that the rest of us can follow.
A similar argument could be made for the trillion dollar government that the Democrats have set up. Rather than trying to force the rest of us to go green, Let’s see the government go first. Government runs everything that the private sector runs and more. Most of us don’t have our own private military after all. So government has a huge playing field in which to establish which are the best green technologies. Let private industry compete for contracts to turn the government green. Let the best contractor win. Then the populace can follow the the practices that work best.
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Good article. People definitely need to image the real threat that global warming has on our world climate and beginning with green energy in the household is crucial. If everyone simply does something small for our environment then final results will be massive! I’ve looked into the various home green energy solutions and one that appears really impressive at the moment is magnetic energy. Heres a link to an interesting article I recently read about it: <A href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Magnetic-Energy-Generator—A-4-Hour-DIY-Project-That-Will-Save-You-Thousands-Every-Year