winniman wrote:
2001400ex wrote:
It truly amazes me how many people are against research into renewable energy. And instead prefer to repeat oil company propaganda designed to stifle alternative energy sources. The reality is we need to reduce our dependence on oil and increase research and development on renewable resources. That's where the world is going, America might as well be on the forefront of the technology.
No one is against research. When they are mandating that fossil fuels be seriously reduced without providing the replacement, how is that going to work. Pie in the sky solar and wind only work with a standard generator running full on in the background to account for spikes in the grid, wind slowing or clouds. If you have to run a back up generator, how is that helping anything. If the wind stops, and it gets dark, I guess we just shut everything down until morning. Get ready for lots more nuclear plants is all I can say.
I agree on nuclear, we have better storage capabilities for the waste now and better technology to manage the mistakes that were made earlier. It's a stop gap until we find a better solution.
That being said, there's billions of dollars going into stifling research. The oil companies, instead of being on the leading edge of it, are trying to fight it as oil is more profitable now.
How solar and wind helping anything? Well the generator is running less, causing less fuel burn and less emissions. Pretty simple actually. See people install solar on their house, some months of the year they add to the grid and other months they still use the grid, either way less fuel is burned than without. It's basic math when you think about it.
