Re: San Francisco EXEMPT from California smog checks!!

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From: boogers
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 06:31

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"John Higdon" <no-spam@ClearChannel.RadioMonopoly.com> wrote in message
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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.

Why is that, John?

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