Comments on: Things To Come — Soon http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-233560 DLS Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:58:27 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/#comment-233560 "'dead energy,' coal and oil, the remains of long deceased plants and animals scooped and siphoned from their ancient burial grounds, to 'live energy' being created every instant by the sun, the wind, the motion of water, the heat of the earth, the splitting of the atom, etc"<br><br>Finite versus renewable and nearly-inexhaustible -- and lefty-disfavored "hard" versus lefty-preferred "soft" power ... this is not new, but has been sought by many lefties since the 1960s.<br><br>Solar and wind remain too diffuse at this time, and are not only still in R&D and improvement stage, but remain problematic in that they are intermittent. No shining sun, no blowing wind, then no panacea. “'dead energy,' coal and oil, the remains of long deceased plants and animals scooped and siphoned from their ancient burial grounds, to 'live energy' being created every instant by the sun, the wind, the motion of water, the heat of the earth, the splitting of the atom, etc”

Finite versus renewable and nearly-inexhaustible — and lefty-disfavored “hard” versus lefty-preferred “soft” power … this is not new, but has been sought by many lefties since the 1960s.

Solar and wind remain too diffuse at this time, and are not only still in R&D and improvement stage, but remain problematic in that they are intermittent. No shining sun, no blowing wind, then no panacea.

]]> By: dduck12 http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-233298 dduck12 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:22:31 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/#comment-233298 That is great news. Water (lack of) is a BIG problem almost everywhere and soon to be a disaster in Yemen. I guess we can use the NG at nite though. That is great news. Water (lack of) is a BIG problem almost everywhere and soon to be a disaster in Yemen. I guess we can use the NG at nite though.

]]> By: mikkel http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-233291 mikkel Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:59 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/#comment-233291 There are designs that don't need <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/04/29/csp-concentrating-solar-power-heller-water-use/" rel="nofollow">lots of water.</a> There are also other approaches that I feel will become more important than industrial level generation and I will soon be able to post on it once my provisional patent is submitted. There are designs that don't need lots of water. There are also other approaches that I feel will become more important than industrial level generation and I will soon be able to post on it once my provisional patent is submitted.

]]> By: dduck12 http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-233283 dduck12 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:47:59 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/54089/things-to-come-%e2%80%94-soon/#comment-233283 The technologies you mentioned are nice, but still too small to effect a revolutionary change in electricity production. Natural gas is plentiful now and could transition us nicely to nuclear (if the red tape can be cut). (Hey, if the French can do it, why can't we?)<br>See this article: Want More Green Energy? Roll Back the Red Tape on Nuclear<br><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/19/want-more-green-energy-roll-back-the-red-tape-on-nuclear" rel="nofollow">http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/19/want-more-g...</a><br>BTW: one of the big problems with solar facilities is, believe it or not, they need a lot of water, especially since they are usually in dry, sunny places. That water is VERY precious in those areas. The technologies you mentioned are nice, but still too small to effect a revolutionary change in electricity production. Natural gas is plentiful now and could transition us nicely to nuclear (if the red tape can be cut). (Hey, if the French can do it, why can't we?)
See this article: Want More Green Energy? Roll Back the Red Tape on Nuclear
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/19/want-more-g…
BTW: one of the big problems with solar facilities is, believe it or not, they need a lot of water, especially since they are usually in dry, sunny places. That water is VERY precious in those areas.

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