The Hoover Dam made today's Southwest possible. Imagine trying to build it now.

Speaking of ManBearPig, An Idiotic Yachtsman Who Set Sail Across the Arctic Ocean to Demonstrate Glowball Worming, is now trapped in the ice.

Sweet.

The answer, of course, is no power at all...at least not for the little people. This is what these people are aiming for.

Windmills in Pennsylvania opposed - why? They slice and dice birds into bite size pieces.

http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/07247/814415-113.stm

Wind and solar sound good because the energy is FREE. Unfortunately the means to turn them into usable power is very very costly. If you are rich and money is no object you can afford to spend $20-$40,000 to install solar - and that cost doesnt count maintenance and battery costs. And if you live in the northern US, its just not practical unless you live like a hippie with a lightbulb on a chain in the middle of your double wide and give up most appliances. The windmills are great until they build one in someones back yard or they start cutting up birds like a blender on high speed. Even the Kennedys dont want these eye sores off the coast of the Kennedy Compound off the coast. If someone would perfect Nuclear Fusion reactors, we would have limitless clean power forever. Heard some Brits are taking yet another stab at it.

Just dam!

Anonymous wrote:
If you are rich and money is no object you can afford to spend $20-$40,000 to install solar - and that cost doesnt count maintenance and battery costs.

I think solar, if they ever find a way to make solar panels more affordable, will be nixed by environmentalits too. Do you have any idea how much pollution is created manufacturing solar panels? And how much energy does that take? And then you have to put these huge panels somewhere. Not with houses like you're talking about but for real, actual pie in the sky solar energy. Miles and miles and miles of solar panels. That's bad for local eco-systems and no doubt would even be linked somehow with anthropocentric global warming.

Pam up there in that post above has it right.

I would expect large-scale wind power to have other drawbacks, as well. All that energy extracted from the wind has to come from somewhere. It slows down the wind, potentially affecting weather patterns downwind from where the energy is extracted. For better or for worse, someone else is going to have less wind. Wind is important in pollination of plants, cooling of populated areas, etc.

Nuclear power is the only way to go. The waste problem can be easily solved by loading it onto rockets and launching them into the Sun. Seriously, this can be done safely and its reasonably cheap. Much cheaper than trying to contain it on Earth for the next 10,000 years (a futile endeavor). But the environmentalists go insane when a simple solution like this is proposed. Like Chicken Little, they fear radiation falling from the sky.

Solar requires the use of batteries which contain toxic substances and rechargable batteries need to be replaced periodically once they no longer hold a full charge.

Wind power is developing problems with blades snapping off and frequent replacement of gear boxes.

Nuclear is great except for waste. If they ever perfect nuclear fusion that would be the answer. Some speculate H3 hydrogen mined from the Moon would supply clean fusion power for hundreds of years. That would be a huge boost for the Space program as it would have a real purpose behind it with immediate benefits.

Exotic power sources like anti-matter or vacuum energy could theoretically work but the downside is they might inadvertantly destroy the Earth or in the case of vaccum energy possibly the Sun too.

Moonbats are forever gloomy. They should trust in their Mother Earth and stop over-estimating themselves.

This site gave me the best giggle I have had in a long time I particularly like the "shut up pinko" from our senile dead actor president.