Crazy Conspiracy Month: Enviromentalists Secretly Hate Women, Gays, and Aborigines.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

To me the choice is simple, we can prop up a cabal of brutal dictatorships that kill homosexuals, keep women as second class citizens, and don't care if they destroy the environment.

Or we can by our oil from Canada.

To be explicit, if you object to harvesting the Alberta oil sands you are an objectively misogynist, gay bashing, Gaia raping hypocrite.

;P

Comments

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm all about Nuclear power, not to mention research into Fusion, and Orbital options.

The problem with the traditionally advocated alternatives (solar/wind) is that the math doesn't work out. Even with a signifigant (100%) increase in efficiency the relative enrgy density of wind and solar power means that you'd have to pave most of the US with collectors in order to meet current energy demmands.

[soliloquy76.livejournal.com]

Even with a signifigant (100%) increase in efficiency the relative enrgy density of wind and solar power means that you'd have to pave most of the US with collectors in order to meet current energy demmands.

So you use wind and solar to add to the aggregate energy output.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

Sure, which is the direction in which we are already headed.

It just annoys me when people push "alternative energy" as if it represents some all encompassing solution while also ignoring the practical engineering issues like storage, distribtion, and relative density of said energy sources.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

People have no clue how energy density plays such a large part in all of this.

Hydrocarbons are popular because they have such a large energy density. If you had a battery that could go ounce for ounce with them you'd have a ready replacement for vehicle's hydrocarbon fuel.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

It will be a multi pronged approach.

Your power will not come from one giant coal plants, but from lots of little sources.

The grid will become smart. More efficient. Superior distro.

Storage will improve, improving efficiency.

And devices will require less and less power, reducing demand.

All of these in concert will help ween us off the barrel.

So that's energy. Now onto textiles.

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

Don't you know it's only "alternative energy" if it's something the left-wing supports?

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