RE: Schumer"s and Cortez's Clean Energy Economy
Technology is largely a lie, it is today's vernacular for miracles.
Technology has transformed life today. It's just absurd to deny the fact.
There is no such thing as renewable energy
Biofuels, for example, are renewable. Anything you can grow more of, is renewable. Stuff that can't be renewed includes coal, oil, natural gas etc. Technically even that is renewable in geologic time. It's just not practical to wait millions of years for it.
Sunlight, and wind, at least for the next four billion years or so, are inexhaustible.
I find it unbelievable that most conservatives are unaware of the 1st law of thermodynamics.
You must be a conservative. You clearly don't get the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
So the only alternative is they really want the liberal agenda.
It's really not accurate for you to use "liberal" as a synonymn for "rational." It's often true, but they aren't really the same thing.
But since the Earth is always gaining energy from the sun, crops, trees, wind, and sunlight are renewable or inexhaustible. As I said, you don't seem to understand the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
I use it every day. If you don't, you'll find people will start to avoid you.
Energy can't be created or destroyed, it only goes in one direction, it is always less available, always!
Hint: outside inputs can cause local decreases in entropy. The Earth is such an example.
And last night while I was sleeping I inventoried all the water on earth, and it is still there, LOL so YES, you can't use water, deal with it.
I showered a couple of hours ago. So you're wrong. The water then goes to the sewers,gets treated, and is released. Eventually, it gets reused.
I believe it is axiomatic that if a technology works, liberals will be opposed to it.
Wind power works. In Iowa, for example, about 35% of the state's electricity is by wind, and thereby, Iowa has one of the lowest costs for electrical energy in the United States.
Solar works. That's why, as the costs drop and efficiencies rise (technology, again!)more and more people and corporations are using solar to reduce energy costs.
If a technology doesn't work, liberals and many conservatives will be 100 percent for it. Do I dare say a "wall" not very tech
Didn't work in the old days, either. Ask China.
Technology that doesn't work, Solar panels: Solar panels produce no net increase in available energy.
They merely convert sunlight to usable energy. The tools in my shed, my electric mower, and Mrs. Barbarian's potting shed use solar. So does my security system. All of these charge batteries that hold energy to be used at night or when the sky is very cloudy. Works great. If the curve of cost/effciency continues in a few years, it might be cost effective for a 70+ y/o guy to invest in solar panels for his house. If it the payoff is longer than 20 years, I'm not interested.
Solar Panels are a ponzi scheme where you send very valuable potential energy (coal) to China, they send back worthless solar panels and liberals and others love them.
So do many other Americans. The amount of solar energy utilized by panels is rapidly growing now.
Solar panels "produce NO net increase in available energy".
Right. They merely convert sunlight to a useable form of energy.
In fact they produce negative amounts of energy.
Nope. You see, energy is neither created nor destroyed. It's just converted to some other form of energy.
The number one problem with solar panels are; Their power is never on demand and they are always at full load.
Right. So for the time being, fossil fuels will continue to be a significant, albeit declining part of our energy budget. Until technology can find a way to store that energy efficiently, we'll still need oil and natural gas.
So no mater how many panels there are, you can never ever reduce even one power plant, as the sun doesn't always shine. You must understand that ALL energy is produced with energy. To have a net gain, in any energy source, you must produce a multiple amount of new available energy to have a net gain[/quote]
No. Remember, energy is never created or destroyed. It's merely converted to a different form of energy.
There are many facilities that do now burn refuse for energy, and that's a good thing, too. It just doesn't have the potential that other sources represent.
