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LindsayRichards wrote:
I just got the new Samsung J5 Smart Phone. Very slick. Spain's alternatives have been a real disaster. Germany is retreating. I went to LED's on my coach for boondocking and have AGM batteries. The US's hydro is in a declining state (very unfortunately). France is over 80% nuclear and it really helps them. When you say coal is still used in 40% of the US's power generation. That is a lot. It is 12 times greater than wind and solar. It is losing out to CNG though. The US uses 1/6th of the coal used in the world today. The recent EPA ruling had nothing to do with global warming, but were about SO compounds. The global warming decisions are yet to come. They will result in additional scrubbers being added at coal plants and the cost passed on to consumer of electricity. Our air and water are at their cleanest in the last 50 years.

I remember going to disneyland as a kid and couldn't believe the smog. Amazing change now and 10 times the cars. (number pulled out of my a$$) From what I gather natural gas is a better alternative than coal and may work as a stop gap. Re hydro, I think the US will be able to buy more Hydro from Canada as it continues to develop its hydro output. What Canada's problem is now is its delivery grid. 20 to 30 years out of date. The power will be online before the delivery grid is ready by about 12 to 15 years.

Efforts are being made all over the world but if you want to do some interesting googling it is surprizing how much china is now doing to to improve air and water quality. Although they produce a tremendous amount of polution dictated by the sheer size of their population, western nations (with the US and Canada leading the way) still produce more pollution per person than they do by a factor of almost three.

I hope we can look back in 30 years and see the kind of improvements that we have seen in the last 30 years. BUT, I think we need to take chances on new technologies now and not wait until someone else has proved them out. I would rather see subsidies in these areas than big oil which we all know will eventually not be near as much of a player in the real world.

JMHO