Comments on: I do not like it, Mitch-I-am http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/04/i-do-not-like-it-mitch-i-am/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:17:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: david foster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/04/i-do-not-like-it-mitch-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-234248 david foster Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:40:51 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4667#comment-234248 JimC...."The interesting thing about all of this debate over renewable energy is that a lot of it depends on technologies that aren’t even developed yet"...it also depends on the definition of "renewable." Hydropower, for instance, was once considered renewable, and was much in vogue with the Left, from the FDR left to the Stalinist left. Now it's considered "nonrenewable" and the leftists want to blow up the dams. JimC….”The interesting thing about all of this debate over renewable energy is that a lot of it depends on technologies that aren’t even developed yet”…it also depends on the definition of “renewable.” Hydropower, for instance, was once considered renewable, and was much in vogue with the Left, from the FDR left to the Stalinist left. Now it’s considered “nonrenewable” and the leftists want to blow up the dams.

]]> By: Jim C http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/04/i-do-not-like-it-mitch-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-234224 Jim C Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:43:40 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4667#comment-234224 The interesting thing about all of this debate over renewable energy is that a lot of it depends on technologies that aren't even developed yet... that will need an infrastructure that's not in place yet either. This isn't to say that we shouldn't make an effort to develop these things. I'm just saying that we shouldn't plan on depending on them any time soon. We are going to need oil, natural gas, clean coal, and nuclear for a long time to come. It will be easier on everyone if we accept that, and do what we need to do to make sure we have our own supply... independent of rogue regimes in the middle east and South America. Oh yeah, regarding solar; do you realize the size of the solar farm we would need to power a city the size of LA? That doesn't even take into account that there is no way to store excess capacity. So, what do we do when the sun isn't shining? What do we do for areas like Seattle that have a chronic cloud cover problem? What do we do in areas with severe storms that get tornadoes and hail? Imagine what a golfball size hail stone would do to one of those big mirrors. Jim C The interesting thing about all of this debate over renewable energy is that a lot of it depends on technologies that aren’t even developed yet… that will need an infrastructure that’s not in place yet either.

This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t make an effort to develop these things. I’m just saying that we shouldn’t plan on depending on them any time soon. We are going to need oil, natural gas, clean coal, and nuclear for a long time to come. It will be easier on everyone if we accept that, and do what we need to do to make sure we have our own supply… independent of rogue regimes in the middle east and South America.

Oh yeah, regarding solar; do you realize the size of the solar farm we would need to power a city the size of LA? That doesn’t even take into account that there is no way to store excess capacity. So, what do we do when the sun isn’t shining? What do we do for areas like Seattle that have a chronic cloud cover problem? What do we do in areas with severe storms that get tornadoes and hail? Imagine what a golfball size hail stone would do to one of those big mirrors.
Jim C

]]> By: Steve http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/04/i-do-not-like-it-mitch-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-233689 Steve Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:18:11 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4667#comment-233689 Grumpy, Regardless of how high energy costs eventually rise, the real problem is feeding our need from foreign sources, and the resulting (enormous) transfer of wealth to arguably hostile foreign governments. Oil shale, Gulf coast and ANWR drilling will at least allow us to increase our self-sufficiency while sustainable technology develops. Grumpy,

Regardless of how high energy costs eventually rise, the real problem is feeding our need from foreign sources, and the resulting (enormous) transfer of wealth to arguably hostile foreign governments. Oil shale, Gulf coast and ANWR drilling will at least allow us to increase our self-sufficiency while sustainable technology develops.

]]> By: b2 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/04/i-do-not-like-it-mitch-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-233681 b2 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:58:50 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4667#comment-233681 Parliamentary procedure is painful to watch and hear as is the discussion degrading down to talk about science fiction, noble though it may be...There are no magic bullets in the short-term. Discussion like that keeps us frozen in place like obediant sheep. What JimC said x 10. McConnell just provided a clear basis by which to judge the election of 2006 for change in retrospect. "Marie Antoinette Pelosi" and the rest must go along with "oil is making us sick Harry"... We will have Colorado oil shale Farmer Salazar. I've walked that land, there is no farmland there, just badlands, mule deer and chukars. It's only fit for sheep ranching. None of the above will be affected by shale exploration... b2 Parliamentary procedure is painful to watch and hear as is the discussion degrading down to talk about science fiction, noble though it may be…There are no magic bullets in the short-term. Discussion like that keeps us frozen in place like obediant sheep.

What JimC said x 10.

McConnell just provided a clear basis by which to judge the election of 2006 for change in retrospect. “Marie Antoinette Pelosi” and the rest must go along with “oil is making us sick Harry”…

We will have Colorado oil shale Farmer Salazar. I’ve walked that land, there is no farmland there, just badlands, mule deer and chukars. It’s only fit for sheep ranching. None of the above will be affected by shale exploration…

b2

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/04/i-do-not-like-it-mitch-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-233611 Justthisguy Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:08:12 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4667#comment-233611 As long as I'm name-dropping, Georg Von Tiesenhausen had an office down the hall from me, and was a pleasant old gent. He's still active with the Space Camp in Huntsville, last I looked. I did not know then about his distant cousin who got HMS Barham. Oh, Byron, seems our comments crossed in the ether. Yup, I own a first edition of Ringworld, in which the Earth rotates backwards. And yes, John Derbyshire favored me with a reply to an email the other day. I was amazed- musta used just the right words in the subject field. As Pournelle says, we are not _necessarily_ screwed, but we better get crackin' right now As long as I’m name-dropping, Georg Von Tiesenhausen had an office down the hall from me, and was a pleasant old gent. He’s still active with the Space Camp in Huntsville, last I looked. I did not know then about his distant cousin who got HMS Barham.

Oh, Byron, seems our comments crossed in the ether. Yup, I own a first edition of Ringworld, in which the Earth rotates backwards. And yes, John Derbyshire favored me with a reply to an email the other day. I was amazed- musta used just the right words in the subject field.

As Pournelle says, we are not _necessarily_ screwed, but we better get crackin’ right now

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/04/i-do-not-like-it-mitch-i-am/comment-page-1/#comment-233605 Justthisguy Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:50:12 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4667#comment-233605 P.s. I hate NASA, and I used to work for them, as a co-op. Over the last 40 years, they have done more to kill the dream of spaceflight and humans escaping this planet than just about anybody else. Oh, BTW, did anybody notice that Ernst Stuhlinger died a coupla or three months ago? It was totally ignored by the MSM. He was really into electric propulsion, the bestest way to go once out of the atmosphere, and also a Christian gentleman who never had a harsh word for anybody, and also an Infantry veteran of Stalingrad, where he was wounded. Sorry to harp on this, but I did meet some of the original Peenemuende Gang when I was in Huntsville. P.s. I hate NASA, and I used to work for them, as a co-op. Over the last 40 years, they have done more to kill the dream of spaceflight and humans escaping this planet than just about anybody else.

Oh, BTW, did anybody notice that Ernst Stuhlinger died a coupla or three months ago? It was totally ignored by the MSM. He was really into electric propulsion, the bestest way to go once out of the atmosphere, and also a Christian gentleman who never had a harsh word for anybody, and also an Infantry veteran of Stalingrad, where he was wounded.

Sorry to harp on this, but I did meet some of the original Peenemuende Gang when I was in Huntsville.

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