As long as we're using petroleum-based fertilizers to grow the "bio"
portion of the fuels, coal or oil-fired power plants to generate the
electricity needed to run the factories that turn the biomass into
fuel, and trucking it to the gas stations in deisel-burning semis, I
don't think we'll see any kind of net gain -- it's more a shuffling
of the deck chairs.
I've done a fair bit or reading on the nuclear (oops, nucular)
industry in the last year, and if anyone would take the time to
educate themselves about the waste generation, handling, and number
of accidents and close-calls we've had it would surely disabuse them
of the notion that fission is anything like a responsible way to
generate power.
We've got to work it from all angles -- reduction of consumption,
solar, wind, hydrogen fuel cells -- all of it, and the sooner the
better.
CV
On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:15 AM, John P. Brooks wrote:
President Shrub thinks we will just switch to bio-fuels......that will
surely save the world....
On 10/28/07 8:53 AM, "Mike Quinn" <[email protected]> wrote:
When was the last nuclear power plant built? When will the next
singular plant
produce power? When will we have 10,000 nuclear power plants of
*any* kind?
Given that some say the world is already past peak oil, I
personally don't see
how we're going to make it to 10,000 nukes...
see PO article in last Monday's The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,2196435,00.html
Graphic Showing Oil Producing Countries Past Peak Oil...
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/10/25/oil-producing-countries-
past-peak-oc
t-2007.png
or: http://tinyurl.com/33ambo
If we are past PO, then the likely ensuing hoarding will
accentuate the
problem...
Mike Quinn, Austin
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