I agree with you Frank. The coal reserves within this country will last for hundreds of years while the others are iffy. I am afraid that Obama is more concerned with the votes of the green groups than the future health of the country.
It is time to cut back spending upon hot fusion mega projects. Why would we want to develop a large scale system such as that which would have most of the same problems as the fission reactors but cost many times as much? The argument that hot fusion does not lead to proliferation of nuclear weapons has long since been lost; just look at the current nuclear powers as well as soon to exist future ones. Natural gas has some good characteristics as we know, but the fracking process appears to be risky and needs major improvement. One look at the recent nuclear incidents in Japan and elsewhere and you have to be concerned about fission. Our main hope seems to be LENR and it can not come into fruition too soon. I hope that there is no dark side to this technology waiting to be revealed at just the wrong time. Dave -----Original Message----- From: fznidarsic <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 10:36 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Partial list of coal fire power plants being shut down in the NE I don't know if all of the natural gas will really be. Problems are coming up with Benzine injections and other fracking injections. Drilling has slowed here in Western PA, it has not worked out as well as planned. I like Obama the way he talks, acts, and his ideals on woman's rights, however, shutting down the trans-america pipe line and a lot of the coal fired power plants cannot be in the national interest. Here is what BP says about the future of gasoline power. Its not good. We are going to need cheep electrical power or become a 3d world nation. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/02/28/bp-predicts-the-future-of-cars-hint-yours-probably-isnt-part/ Don't count on cold fusion, there still are not independent tests of a robust system. It will be to late under any condition. Coal needs to run and small portion of the revenue needs to be vectored off to fundamental research, preferably in cold fusion and not squandered on hot fusion. Frank Znidarsic
