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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

3 Responses to “TDS: Energy Independent Future”

1. FrancoisT Says:
   June 17th, 2010 at 2:49 pm

   Jon is da Man!

2. dsawy Says:
   June 18th, 2010 at 2:19 pm

   The problem here is the fundamental ignorance of the population. We see this in the silly calls for electric cars, which never go out of fashion with the fundamentally clueless.

   When one looks at the US energy consumption from an engineering standpoint, one quickly sees that there are very few “solutions” to the issue of replacing oil in the US economy. The so-called “alternative” energy sources being touted (solar and wind) don’t provide base load power sources unless massively over-build for the demand being placed on them, or until we design huge storage capacity into the grid. Nuclear power would be an option, if not for all the goddamn environmentalist fools and tools standing in the way.

   No matter which political party is peddling this schtick, there’s always the second law of thermodynamics standing in the way of their supposed agenda.

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