Re: San Francisco EXEMPT from California smog checks!!

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From: John Higdon
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 17:10

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in article 3D24F751.B169A8E6@sig.because.this.is.invalid, Michael Dix
wrote:

> The only practical alternative to fossil fuels is to use nuclear
> power to generate electricity and to produce hydrogen by
> electrolysis for mobile uses. (Growing sufficient fuel each year
> to meet all our needs I consider impractical. Solar and wind
> will never meet more than 5-10% of our energy needs.)
> 
> Bring on the nuclear reactors.

After decades of trying, it still comes down to fossil fuel or nuclear power
for the bulk of energy we as a civilization consume. The airy-fairy
technologies (wind, solar, cow farts, geothermal, etc.) will never amount to
anything other than background sources of energy...unless we are willing to
step back into pre-industrial modes of living. No matter how much the
activists or the legislature would like to change the laws of physics, the
reality looms large.

Recently, I heard conversations about how there is enough wind in North
Dakota to supply twice the electrical needs of the US. Even assuming that
assertion to be true, anyone trying to harness even a tiny fraction of that
energy would meet so much "environmental" opposition that the project would
be doomed from the start. I have to admit, if I were a resident of ND, I
would seriously give pause to the idea of covering the state with hundreds
of thousands of windmills.

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