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Re: Another ingenious burglar this really sucks



On Oct 1, 5:10=A0pm, JoeRaisin <joeraisin2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/1/2010 10:06 AM, mleuck wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sep 30, 8:50 pm, nick markowitz<nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> =A0wrote:
> >> On Sep 30, 1:15 pm, mleuck<m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> =A0wrote:
>
> >>> On Sep 29, 9:50 pm, Jim Rojas<jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> =A0wrote:
>
> >>>> mleuck wrote:
> >>>>> On Sep 27, 10:59 pm, Jim Rojas<jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> =A0 =A0wrote:
> >>>>>> Doug wrote:
> >>>>>>> "Comrade technomaNge"<u...@xxxxxxx> =A0 =A0 =A0wrote in message
> >>>>>>>news:i7rld1$e10$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>>>>> On 09/27/2010 08:07 PM, Jim wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Sep 27, 5:53 pm, nick markowitz<nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> =A0 =
=A0 =A0 wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>http://consumerist.com/2010/09/thieves-suck-money-from-supermar=
ket-sa...
>
> >>>>>>>>> Four years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> >>>>>>>>> Why .....why ....... how stupid can they be? =A0Jeeeeze, you'd =
think
> >>>>>>>>> they were French, or something.
>
> >>>>>>>> Ya know what chafes my ass?
> >>>>>>>> As bad an opinion as I have of the French, they have nuclear pow=
er
> >>>>>>>> plants and haven't blown themselves up yet.
>
> >>>>>>>> But the greatest country on Earth (that's us) can't have more
> >>>>>>>> than a token nuclear power presence due to tree hugging regulati=
ons!
>
> >>>>>>>> technomaNge
> >>>>>>>> --
>
> >>>>>>> I think the US generates about 20% of its electricity from nuclea=
r power,
> >>>>>>> while it may pale in comparison to France's 75%, I'm not sure I w=
ould call
> >>>>>>> it a "token presence"
>
> >>>>>>> Doug
>
> >>>>>> The French are smart enough to recycle and reuse spent fuel rods, =
while
> >>>>>> we here in the good ole USA stand around with our fingers up our a=
sses
> >>>>>> trying to find underground caverns to bury it all in...
>
> >>>>>> I could never understand why we even use nuclear power. Geothermal
> >>>>>> accomplishes same exact results without the dangerous radiation.
>
> >>>>>> Jim Rojas
> >>>>>> Technical Manuals Online!http://www.tech-man.com
> >>>>>> 8002 Cornwall Lane
> >>>>>> Tampa, FL 33615-4604
> >>>>>> 813-884-6335
>
> >>>>> Well that's an easy answer, you can't get enough geothermal to make=
 up
> >>>>> the difference, same thing goes with wind and solar.
>
> >>>> Countries like Greenland& =A0Nova Scotia run entirely on Geothermal
> >>>> energy. We can do it, we just need all the oil to get used up to tak=
e
> >>>> away the excuse why not to.
>
> >>>> If you look at the history of this country, this is always the case.=
 We
> >>>> seem to have a need to get ourselves out of a pending disaster befor=
e
> >>>> anything really changes.
>
> >>>> Brazil no longer uses crude oil to run the majority of their vehicle=
s.
> >>>> They use ethanol, which they grow crops and process themselves. Etha=
nol
> >>>> can be made from sugar crops, corn, switchgrass, as well as other
> >>>> abundant biomass. The excuses are endless, but the crisis is real.
>
> >>>> Brazil has been making ethanol since the 1970's gas shortage...some
> >>>> governments actually learn from history. Other governments are doome=
d to
> >>>> repeat their mistakes over, and over again...until it takes a nation=
al
> >>>> crisis to wake them up...
>
> >>>> Jim Rojas
> >>>> Technical Manuals Online!http://www.tech-man.com
> >>>> 8002 Cornwall Lane
> >>>> Tampa, FL 33615-4604
> >>>> 813-884-6335
>
> >>> We use a lot more energy than Greenland and Nova Scotia, there isn't
> >>> enough Geothermal available.
>
> >>> Ethanol is a heavily subsidized industry, if the government doesn't
> >>> subsidize it then it collapses, also its not a big deal making it but
> >>> what is a big deal is using more energy to make it than it produces.
> >>> Also because of the crops used to make it our food bills are higher
>
> >>> Brazil is now a huge oil producer and while they made a major switch
> >>> to ethanol they use sugar beets which doesn't require a lot of energy
> >>> which isn't possible for us they still use a lot of oil. Their ethano=
l
> >>> industry also couldn't exist without being heavily subsidized by the
> >>> Brazilian government, now I may be in the minority on this but I'd
> >>> rather our government butt out since they are currently destroying th=
e
> >>> Ethanol industry.
>
> >>> Fact is you can't make enough energy out of alternative supplies to
> >>> power even a fraction of the country, there isn't enough crops, grass
> >>> etc for Ethanol, not enough land space =A0and contrary to what the
> >>> enviros tell everyone oil isn't going to run out for a long long
> >>> time.
>
> >>> In Texas they are drilling into a massive deposit of natural gas
> >>> around the Dallas area and people end up complaining about noise,
> >>> local government wants to slow it down with even more taxes and
> >>> regulation and the environmental groups want it stopped altogether
> >>> claiming it creates earthquakes (yes really), even if they started on
> >>> your geothermal fantasy it would be stopped rather quickly by
> >>> bureaucracy..
>
> >>> Texas has the largest windmill farms in the country, even that's a
> >>> nightmare with problems like suitable land, power transmission,
> >>> extremely expensive, people complain about the looks of the things,
> >>> low frequency noise that apparently makes people and animals living
> >>> nearby sick and the fact that at best they can run at less than 10%
> >>> efficiency.
>
> >>> I don't know why you go off on these "the sky is falling" rants James=
,
> >>> if you were sincere on what you say then by all means get an alcohol
> >>> conversion kit in your car, create your own ethanol, power your house
> >>> completely by alternative sources such as solar cells or windmills
> >>> then come here and tell us what we should do, you won't because you'd
> >>> quickly find out how expensive, inconvenient and impractical it is to
> >>> do change to other power sources which is why nobody has and won't in
> >>> the near future
>
> >>> The "crisis" you talk about could have been avoided decades ago with
> >>> nuclear energy but noooooooooooooooooooooo
>
> >> We need to do more with hydro power and we are not.
>
> > The trend in many areas is to remove many dams in the northwest, the
> > reason is they supposedly harm different species of fish. While most
> > of these aren't providing power it does give you an idea how difficult
> > it would be to push something like hydro. Here's a link to Michigan's
> > DNR (Department of Natural Resources), apparently they like saving
> > fish but don't mind 12% unemployment and a state that's going
> > bankrupt
>
> >http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10369-124681--,00.html
>
> Around here, one group of greenies has been lobbying to remove several
> hydro-dams that have fallen out of use rather than get them running
> again. =A0There was a guy who wanted to buy them, refurbish them and sell
> the electricity.
>
> They finally won, the dams are going away and now another group of
> greenies is screaming about the acres and acres of wetlands (that have
> been around for the hundred years or so since the dams were built) that
> are going to be destroyed.
>
> Ya just can't please everyone.

We have active working lock and dams on the 3 rivers which could be
used to make energy they do it at a couple but not all of them


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