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There is no excuse. For over a decade, MODERN MARVELS has brought grand stories to life.
Meet the engineers, scientists and politicians helping to create a new energy future.
The ultimate celebration and investigation of engineering excellence. Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS® tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.
Early in the 21st century, two facts are becoming impossible to ignore: oil is only going to get more expensive, and global warming traceable to our use of fossil fuels will impact civilization in ways that we're only beginning to grasp. Stepping in to fight these massive problems are the rapidly evolving technologies that harness renewable energy. MODERN MARVELS® shows how air, water, earth, and fire are transformed into clean, reliable sources of energy. This incisive hour takes an in-depth look at the most proven and reliable sources: solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, and tidal power. From the experimental to the tried-and-true, renewable energy sources are overflowing with potential... just waiting to be exploited on a massive scale. And unlike fossil fuels, they'll always be there.
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=76721
There's no excuse for not making use of Renewable Energies except for our stupidity and other unmentionable human flaws.
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The text in bold has been a problem with mankind forever. If there isn't money to be made by the rich it won't get done. We really need a leader that will immediately institute four executive orders as stated in the .pdf file not some $300- $1,200 stimulus tax return as Bush has done. We need to get out of Iraq today and reallocate the $16B a month towards the four most important issues this country is faced with. I wouldn't have a problem paying $4.00 a gallon if I knew in the end these four directives would be accomplished and the four most important issues this nations faces would be resolved, but as it stands now when I go to the pumps I feel anger simply because I know my money is making some middle-eastern pricks rich and the profits from the sales are being funneled back into the enemies hands that's being used to buy hardware to kill our own people who believe they're dying for a good cause. How's that for a middle eastern tactics. The bad thing is, it works. This isn't a suspicion, it's a fact and even with this knowledge (we) continue to insert our heads up our asses on a day to day basis go down the same path of destruction as if all will be well.
I personally see no reason why these four executive orders could not be institutionalized by midnight tomorrow. Not only would the end product be for the good of the nation but all during the construction phase it will make jobs for the 11.5 % we now have unemployed and afterwards there would still be jobs for maintenance. Lets take care of our own, first. What a concept.
What this quote implies to the Saudi's in laymans terms is this: " Man if you don't drop your cost you're going to ruin it for both of us", "don't you understand if this continues you and I are going to lose big bucks", "I'm going to be forced into funding alternative energies methods we've had for decades and we're going to lose fuel sales"." this is going to impact the get rich quick plans I had reserved for a cronies and hurt my investment portfolio", "is that what you want?"
Bush says, "I said very plainly, I said, `You've got to be concerned about the effects of high oil prices on some of the biggest customers in the world. And not only that, of course, high energy prices (are) going to cause countries like mine to accelerate our move toward alternative energy."
What A Bum And you wonder why we can't get anything done in America
What's Your Cure For Energy Cost How about becoming proactive with solutions in hand. This could actaully be an opportunity for LLNL if you were to play your cards correctly.
I wouldn't mind paying $100 a gallon, and I wouldn't mind paying my outrageous federal taxes if the $$ were funding sustainable energy and solutions to fundamental problems around the world. Maybe $100 a gallon would push investments in public transportation in the medium term, energy research in the short term, and control of global warming in the long term. The Iraq war is the greatest folly in my lifetime, or maybe even going back to my grandparents' lifetime. Bush and his administration is OUT OF CONTROL. The follies we are witnessing at LLNL are symptoms of a greater illness.
Energy science or any other science not related to this mission was secondary, so why are people so suprised that LLNL work was/is not directed to reducing the price of oil.
DoE is the biggest bad joke in recent history. They have never done anything useful for this nation in energy production or weapons work. Very little warhead work was done since DoE was formed by that grinning hillbilly Jimmy Carter. Then that pervert Bill Jeff killed off testing. So why blame yet another southern governer like W for shooting a crippled horse to put it out of it's misery.
You want cheap fuel? Drill. Drill in Alaska, offshore, in your backyard if that's where it is. Build fission plants again - fast breeders with decent recycling tech which can reduce the waste stream to short-lived isotopes that are easily managed. Generate hydrogen using that cheap electricy and run your land vehicles with that. Get serious about celluose as a feedstock for ethanol.
How do you fund all this? Easy - cut foreign aid to near-zero levels. Take those billions of dollars and do something useful in our country for once. Dismantle DoE and DoHS and a few other departments and you'll balance the federal budget nicely too.
And about those prices.... First, go after the speculators who are driving up the prices, seize their profits and toss their butts in prison. Change the regs on refineries and tell the enviromentalists to deal with it. And notify other nations that our export prices are directly tied to the price of oil.
Of course there are people who would object to those ideas. As long as those people keep getting placed in positions of power, don't cry about high fuel prices.
We Have A Cure