Where "renewables" make sense, like hydro-electric, wind/solar for those applications that actually work, fine! great! But we will always need fossil fuels. Period.
Where "renewables" make sense, like hydro-electric, wind/solar for those applications that actually work, fine! great! But we will always need fossil fuels. Period.
An engineer/physicist can better explain than me, but basically it's the amount of energy contained in a fossil fuel, such as a gallon of gas, when used directly to power an engine. So, you actually use less fossil fuel when using it directly. Otherwise, energy is lost in great percentages if, say, you use fossil fuels to power a plant to generate electricity to power/charge vehicles.
The internal combustion engine, and its off-shoots, powered the industrial revolution and powers the world today.
In the case of vehicles, maybe some small nuclear power plant can be devised to run them, but oh boy! can you imagine the "fall out" (no pun intended) from the whackos! Only real option is to make internal combustion engines as efficient as possible. But, we'll need fossil fuels until the end of time.
I'm not a whacko, but no way in hell would I be okay with cars having a nuclear power generator on them.
How about a nuke plant to generate electricity to charge up electric vehicles....and to provide electricity to consumers: houses, buildings....
The French, yes, the FRENCH! have been working on the issues of nuke power, like what to do with the radioactive rods when they are replaced in the plant. They have come up with some good solutions.
And still the left rants even when caught lying their arse off per the facts.
NOVEMBER: 9,000 RECORD COLD TEMPS...
Lake Erie coldest in decades...
2014 CHICAGO COLDEST IN 110 YEARS...
Of course most of Americans have read these latest news stories right? No...?...?
Dueling Datasets: Satellite Temperatures Reveal the ‘Global Warming Pause’ Lengthens to 18 years 2 months – (218 Months)
There are at least 66 excuses to explain the global warming 'pause' 'The hiatus period of 18 years 2 months, or 218 months, is the farthest back one can go in the RSS (Remote Sensing Systems) satellite temperature record and still show a sub-zero trend.'
http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/12/04/duelling-data-sets-satellite-temperatures-reveal-the-global-warming-pause-lengthens-to-18-years-2-months-218-months/
Earth's sea ice expands to record high...
STUDY: Carbon dioxide emissions help rainforests grow faster...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2891432/Carbon-dioxide-emissions-help-tropical-rainforests-grow-faster-Study-shows-trees-absorb-greenhouse-gas-expected.html
Cool pics. Pun intended.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-sweep-US.html
Just remember this while reading today's global warming gloom and doomer news.
Scientists balk at ‘hottest year’ claims: Ignores Satellites showing 18 Year ‘Pause’ – ‘We are arguing over the significance of hundredths of a degree’ – The ‘Pause’ continues
Climate Depot's Marc Morano: 'Claiming 2014 is the 'hottest year' on record based on hundredths of a degree temperature difference is a fancy way of saying the global warming 'pause' is continuing.'
Astrophysicist Dr. Dr David Whitehouse: 'The NASA press release is highly misleading...talk of a record is scientifically and statistically meaningless.'
Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: ‘Why 2014 Won’t Be the Warmest Year on Record’ (based on surface data)– ‘We are arguing over the significance of hundredths of a degree’
Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels debunks 2014 ‘hottest year’ claim: ‘Is 58.46° then distinguishable from 58.45°? In a word, ‘NO.’
No Record Temperatures According To Satellites
Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: ‘Please laugh out loud when someone will be telling you that it was the warmest year’
Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.: 'We have found a significant warm bias. Thus, the reported global average surface temperature anomaly is also too warm.'
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: 'With 2014 essentially tied with 2005 and 2010 for hottest year, this implies that there has been essentially no trend in warming over the past decade.'
http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/...use-continues/
And these are the guys projecting/predicting global warming over eons and can't even get a little storm right??
Storm Fails To Live Up To Predictions In Some Areas As National Weather Service Meteorologist Apologizes
January 27, 2015 12:40 PM
NEW YORK (CBS Connecticut/AP) — A howling blizzard with wind gusts over 70 mph heaped snow on Boston along with other stretches of lower New England and Long Island on Tuesday but failed to live up to the hype in Philadelphia and New York City, where buses and subways started rolling again in the morning.
Gary Szatkowski, meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, apologized on Twitter for the snow totals being cut back.
“My deepest apologies to many key decision makers and so many members of the general public,” Szatkowski tweeted. “You made a lot of tough decisions expecting us to get it right, and we didn’t. Once again, I’m sorry.”
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2015...in-some-areas/
Blame De Blasio and Cuomo and Christie for the Blizzard Snow Job
As politicians rushed to out-serious each other, New Yorkers were whipped into a fear frenzy.
Every modern event has a hashtag and this morning, as New York City takes stock of the #snowmageddon2015 that wasn’t, it’s turning to #snowperbole.
On Monday, as Governor Cuomo, Governor Christie, and Mayor de Blasio rushed to out-serious each other, New Yorkers were whipped into a fear frenzy. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare, photos of Whole Foods depleted of kale circulated, and people stocked up for what would likely be days (maybe weeks!) indoors.
Even as we were doing it, we acknowledged it didn’t make much sense. After all, we’re in New York City. Bodegas never close. Delivery guys on bicycles have been a constant through all previous winter storms. All New Yorkers have their stories. That time we ordered Chinese Food during the snowstorm of 1994. Swimming on Brighton Beach during Hurricane Gloria. Buying Poptarts at the corner bodega during Sandy. Driving from Manhattan to Brooklyn and back again during the blackout of 2003. Yes, those are all mine.
http://time.com/3684240/blame-de-bla...zard-snow-job/
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