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OBAMA TELLS SAN FRANCISCO HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY

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Comment by Chicago | 2008-11-03 17:37:42



Shell Oil also have technology that can extract Oil from Oil Shale. the Oil in our oil shale region (CO, WY, MT, UT) has 5 times the oil reserve of Saudi Arabia.

Again, we need to use our own resources to reduce global demand until alternative energy can replace 100% of our enrgy needs.

If all Americans start using electric cars, where’s the electricity going to come from? electricity from wind turbines can not be transported to different regions of the US, the current grid is not setup for it. If the wind blows today and generates electricity by the region where the turbines are located doesn’t need the electricity being generated then it is wasted. when the wind doesn’t blow, then you will still need the power generated by coal and natural gas fired power plants.

These natural gas and coal fired power plants can not be brough online quickly, they need to be ramped up and once they are generating at capacity, they simply can not be shut down right away.

Tell me how the gap between solar and wind generated electricity can be filled if the sun don’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow without nuclear power, coal fired, and natural gas fired power plants?

There is a huge gap in our electricity generation system if coal and natural gas is replaced by wind and solar. both would still need to be backed up by coal and natural gas powered plants.

There’s no way to store the electricity generated by wind and solar, that is a fact. until we get efficient batteries that can store the electricity, there will always be a huge gap and wind and solar will not meet peak demand from one coast to the next.

McCain had stated a couple of months ago that he will institute a program that will award a few million dollars for anyone that can invent an efficient battery. that is a major step in alternative energy, yet many of our democrat brothers and sisters scoffed and laughed at the idea. again, many people simply have no clue about what the country really needs. McCain knows we need efficient battery technology to store the electricity generated by alternative energy yet no one took him seriously.

We simply can not switch off oil, coal, and natural gas, without efficient batteries that will store energy, without updating the national electricity grid to transfer electricity from one region to the next efficiently, and without nuclear power.

Anyone that believes that oil is replaceable right now simply have no knowledge of the inefficiencies of our national grid.

In the meantime, while some people are blocking efforts for more drilling and clean coal, we will keep sending $700 billion to other countries instead of keeping that money within our economy and some of that money can be used to finally improve our national grid, fund battery research, and actually start pushing our country towards an alternative energy based economy.
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