Green Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources

Cap and trade is supposed to push us towards green energy such as wind power.

If Pickens is willing to walk away from a 2 billion dollar investment just how feasible is it for wind power to become a major source of electricity?

Wont cap & trade just make things worse?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090707/ap_on_bi_ge/us_pickens_wind_energy

That’s not the way I read it. He said he got ahead of himself purchasing the generators before wrapping up the leases for places to put them. He said he is looking for locations to place the wind turbines. In his own words:

"It doesn’t mean that wind is dead," said Pickens, who runs the Dallas-based energy investment fund BP Capital. "It just means we got a little bit too quick off the blocks."

So dragging Obama into it is way off the mark.

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A Wind blows across a hill, has done since time inmomorial, that wind is part of the global weather system, so someone comes along and builds a wind farm on the hill, most of the energy is removed from the wind, what effect does that have on the global weather system?
Wave power, many years ago it was demonstrated that wave farms caused or increased costal erosion at a point some distance from the "farm".
Geothermal, taking heat from the earths crust, what will be the long term effect of this accelerated cooling?
Solar, the production cost of photovoltaic cells has been questioned elswhere but what about heat extraction. placing large solar powered boilers in the desert may seem like a good idea but what are the effects on the flora, fauna and geology of removing that heat source?
maybe the sun will go out before the effects are apreciable but has anyone ever done any reasearch in to the down side of "green" energy?

I agree that the downsides of "green energy" should be researched. Let’s just make sure we’re not doing it to somehow prove that there isn’t a need for green energy.

Continuing with oil production without looking into alternatives is certainly a mistake. Whether or not there are downsides to green energy still doesn’t address the problems that an oil dependent economy poses.

Perhaps one green alternative that is foolproof is for everyone to consume a little less, buy locally, recycle (and by that I don’t just mean thowing your plastic bottles in a recycling bin but actually reusing materials) and do what they can to make less of a global footprint.

All it would take is about $10-20 a month for 10 years 50% of energy could be produced from clean sources like wind and solar. But human behavior can be persuaded through rules. One of our government’s innovations is compliance standards. Check it out.

http://www.compliance.gov/

You need to lok deeper at the numbers.

Besides – you are talking about a 10-20% increase in energy costs. This translates into a similar increase in costs for businesses. Thses costs will have to be passed on to the consumer – which means 1970’s style ’stagflation.’

Another issue is that althenative energy has a perfect 100% track record of failure in terms of producing energy at a cost the consumer can afford. How much money are you willing to bet on the assumption that history will not repeat itself?

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Proactive meaning that expensive energy is our future (wind and solar without dams, nuclear, hydrocarbons) or reactive about cheap energy with irrational fear and emotion over the pollution.

Thankfully he is not reaching for quick fixes like the last Bush did or is he?

Wind power has been tried in Europe. The result is unsightly wind farms full of turbines that broke down constantly and never really generated much power.

Like the wind farm in California the only serve to slaughter migratory birds.

Of course it would make a lot of money for GE, you know the company that owns MSNBC…Obama’s own propaganda channel.