Fools, we MUST heat the planet now, before we die from freezing cold! The sun is reaching a low point in it's cycle, and we are threatened with catastrophy from the coming Ice Age! Only mass-consumption of fossil fuels can generate enough CO2 to save us all from a fate worse than death!
I call bullshit on you. The problem isn't the RNC convention scheduling, it's the idiots in the IL legislature that can't figure out how to hold an election in under 90 days. No other state seems to have this problem.
You're gonna have to find another way to vent your spleen.
As for me, I'm thrilled to have an opportunity to cast my vote for President Bush.
. . have more proof than the NY Times. Gee, there's a bastion of journalistic integrity. Not.
You know, if you'd stayed awake in history class, or even bothered to take a polysci course at the community college, you'd understand that policy-makers have to make decisions without having all of the facts.
Because, if you wait for all of the facts to become known, you usually have to find out about them at the bottom of the smoking hole left by 3000 of your closest friends dying.
Try thinking for yourself for a change. Geeks are bad enough, but a geek who can't think is a waste of protein.
Ooooh, there's a powerful, technically economical argument. I feel sooo put down. If you're so righteous, then turn yours off. Along with your screen, CPU, TV, refrigerator, water pump, lighting, sewage pumping station, and your momma's dialysis machine.
"battery"
Strike two! Priced batteries lately? How about cycle costs? Disposal? Environmental effects? Lead-acid? How about Ni-Cd? NiMH? Dont'cha just LOVE those heavy metals? Oh, darn those details.
"millions of unused acres"
Great! For that $0.01/kwh wind power turbine, let's build $10.00/kwh worth of power lines to deliver the power from those millions of unused acres. They're called unused BECAUSE NO ONE LIVES THERE, doofus. Strike three.
Bonus Round!
"Only a problem if they are put in migratory paths"
Well, d'uh. Looked at any migraotory paths, lately? Hmmm, didn't think so. Suddenly, you find that all those millions of unused acres are being used the THE ANIMALS THAT ALREADY LIVE THERE. Wow, betcha didn't think of that, eh? Strike four.
Now, run along and play little one, let the big people take care of keeping the little blinking lights working on your happy box.
[reality] Wind power is NOT continuous, but demand is. What do you think will happen on a nice HOT summer day, when there's "not a breath of wind"? And, everyone wants to run their A/C? Yep, it'll be time to fire up the the old reliable coal/oil/gas/nuke plant.
And, you can't store electricity (like someone suggested pumping water up hill) because if the site was viable for this purpose, it's already in use for it. Think about it: How many folks would want to live near a body of water where the level went up and down dramatic amounts on an unpredictable basis (i.e., non-tidal)?
Oh, and someone said something about 3% surface area gets you 95% power? Right. Try telling that to the 3% of folks who currently own that land. Think they're gonna give it up just like that? Hardly.
Lastly, for every environmentalist that advocates wind power, there's another one standing there bitching because the wind turbine interferes with the mating/migratory/feeding habits of owls/eagles/geese/ducks/bats/moths/butterflies/[in sert your own local fauna here].
So, the bottom line is: you have to have a diversity of energy sources that includes some wind, sure, but also includes coal/oil/gas/nuke/waste/bio/geo. Then, very few people are real happy, and very few people are real pissed, and everyone gets reasonably priced electricity anytime you flip a wall switch. [/reality]
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Excellent post! Thanks for injecting some facts and reason into the typically childish debate that comsumes so much of the bandwidth around here.
You're awfully fixated on anal probing, crap, asses, being bent over, keisters, and shit. Are you sure you're name isn't "Eric Cartman"?
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Hang in there, friend. The thoughts and prayers of (most) of America are with you today.
You have long days ahead, but stay focused on what's most important: Family, friends, health, & safety.
Good luck, and God bless.
was $10M, not $1M . .
b) I don't belive he made it into the southern hemisphere.
Like the southern hemisphere has anything that matters?
Check out the last photo on the page. Yowsza! Nice CFM lips.
How horribly horrible.
- From the Department of Redundancy Department
Let's warm up the whole planet, and then we'll all be living in tropical climes. Think of the productivity burst!
Of course, this may be somewhat offset by short-skirts and belly-tops being used year-round.
It's a win-win. Sweet!
All right, everyone take a deep breath now, annnnnnnnndddd after me:
Bullshit, bullshit, bulllllshit
Just another example of greenie-weenie brain damage. Takae a close look at the assumptions, and you'll find that, well gee whiz, IT CAN'T BE DONE!
How about that? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true.
Now, go back to geeking.
Fools, we MUST heat the planet now, before we die from freezing cold! The sun is reaching a low point in it's cycle, and we are threatened with catastrophy from the coming Ice Age! Only mass-consumption of fossil fuels can generate enough CO2 to save us all from a fate worse than death!
NO MORE BIKINIS!
Aaaaaahhhhh, the pain, the PAIN!
I call bullshit on you. The problem isn't the RNC convention scheduling, it's the idiots in the IL legislature that can't figure out how to hold an election in under 90 days. No other state seems to have this problem.
You're gonna have to find another way to vent your spleen.
As for me, I'm thrilled to have an opportunity to cast my vote for President Bush.
. . have more proof than the NY Times. Gee, there's a bastion of journalistic integrity. Not.
You know, if you'd stayed awake in history class, or even bothered to take a polysci course at the community college, you'd understand that policy-makers have to make decisions without having all of the facts.
Because, if you wait for all of the facts to become known, you usually have to find out about them at the bottom of the smoking hole left by 3000 of your closest friends dying.
Try thinking for yourself for a change. Geeks are bad enough, but a geek who can't think is a waste of protein.
{bitchslap}
"So?"
Ooooh, there's a powerful, technically economical argument. I feel sooo put down. If you're so righteous, then turn yours off. Along with your screen, CPU, TV, refrigerator, water pump, lighting, sewage pumping station, and your momma's dialysis machine.
"battery"
Strike two! Priced batteries lately? How about cycle costs? Disposal? Environmental effects? Lead-acid? How about Ni-Cd? NiMH? Dont'cha just LOVE those heavy metals? Oh, darn those details.
"millions of unused acres"
Great! For that $0.01/kwh wind power turbine, let's build $10.00/kwh worth of power lines to deliver the power from those millions of unused acres. They're called unused BECAUSE NO ONE LIVES THERE, doofus. Strike three.
Bonus Round!
"Only a problem if they are put in migratory paths"
Well, d'uh. Looked at any migraotory paths, lately? Hmmm, didn't think so. Suddenly, you find that all those millions of unused acres are being used the THE ANIMALS THAT ALREADY LIVE THERE. Wow, betcha didn't think of that, eh?
Strike four.
Now, run along and play little one, let the big people take care of keeping the little blinking lights working on your happy box.
{/bitchslap}
[reality] Wind power is NOT continuous, but demand is. What do you think will happen on a nice HOT summer day, when there's "not a breath of wind"? And, everyone wants to run their A/C? Yep, it'll be time to fire up the the old reliable coal/oil/gas/nuke plant.
n sert your own local fauna here].
And, you can't store electricity (like someone suggested pumping water up hill) because if the site was viable for this purpose, it's already in use for it. Think about it: How many folks would want to live near a body of water where the level went up and down dramatic amounts on an unpredictable basis (i.e., non-tidal)?
Oh, and someone said something about 3% surface area gets you 95% power? Right. Try telling that to the 3% of folks who currently own that land. Think they're gonna give it up just like that? Hardly.
Lastly, for every environmentalist that advocates wind power, there's another one standing there bitching because the wind turbine interferes with the mating/migratory/feeding habits of owls/eagles/geese/ducks/bats/moths/butterflies/[i
So, the bottom line is: you have to have a diversity of energy sources that includes some wind, sure, but also includes coal/oil/gas/nuke/waste/bio/geo. Then, very few people are real happy, and very few people are real pissed, and everyone gets reasonably priced electricity anytime you flip a wall switch.
[/reality]