Quote by Paul Ehrlich, professor, Stanford University: “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
This is an example of the prevalent greenie logic. They want control of your lives and controlling your use of energy is a main factor.
Without a doubt, cheap abundant energy would be a great benefit to mankind in general.
Politicians don't like to raise dust. They are terrified of being targeted by the environmentalists so there is no chance in H. E. double toothpicks that any hydro will get built and in fact they are looking at dismantling existing ones instead. They don't care about an over taxed electrical system. They really don't.
C needs a link. He won't believe anything unless he reads it on the internet. LOL It reminds me of a commercial I saw with this lady dating a French model. Why do I think C looks like him? but I digress.
This is really why you find me on the skeptics side. I am willing to do things to limit our CO2 output. The problem I have is with the warmers. They are completely political. They care nothing for science or helping the environment. Look at these people. They scream that the world is ending (an utter LIE). And what do they want? A tax during a recession??? Its like they are completely an utterly useless tools of the system. What kind of fools thinks that taxes are going to go through Congress during a recession?
The best solutions of nuclear and hydroelectric are protested by these people who CLAIM to care about the environment. Sure Solar is a good solution WHEN it becomes economically viable. But trashing our economy for this is just stupid. It will just make people more reticent about doing anything to help our environment. And we need to do things. We cannot simply bury our trash forever. Or let them become floating trash islands in the oceans.
http://geography.about.com/od/globalprob...
The enviros don't care though. They are simply political hacks saying whatever garbage they are told to say.
As a longtime riverfisher, the rites of what breathhes in what we would therein drown are precocious detail of adequate filtration of such energy's ushered generatiuvity, and few are willing to pull the weeds that time hhhas kept living as testament of life in our waters we can drink. We do not understand the interrelation of water behind a dam and the fish that pass through its concrete , and swim up waterfalls all the same. If we discount the importance of what we alter, we abandon our own wealth of understanding our nature at the spring and source of our human waters of a run to spawn.
The risk of our city security gives dams and offers insurance , but does not save life, nor has profits to for its salvation. It is our sewers that can generate the power, just like salmon palace.
When sitting on some of the worlds largest oil and gas reserves that are cheap to exploit, it would not be sensible to go for the high initial cost and limited location option that hydro represents.
All are running out water. It needs new creation to turn sea and ocean into reservoirs.
http://ipcc.ch/report/ar5/
Good locations for dams are mostly already used, hydro's potential overall contribution is small, and the upfront investment costs are considerable.
Because hydro is too cheap. Renewable energy is a means of appeasing the green religion which wants less energy used. Hydro is too easy.
It is because of the ecosystem. The difference is, that the effects of building dams are widely known, and many activists fight them. On the other hand, solar farms and wind farms have not been pushed into the public eye as much as dams. It really comes down to publicity. The effects of dams have had a lot of publicity, while the effects of solar and wind have not.
wind turbines and solar panels are cheaper Plus I dont see a link backing up your claim
It can't be because of the threat to wildlife or a change in the ecosystem because massive solar farms and wind farms do the same.
As Hey Dook says, there are few places left that are suitable.
Hydro is moving to tides and rivers..
They have no respect for water.
