Re: Another ingenious burglar this really sucks

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 29, 9:50=A0pm, Jim Rojas <jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> mleuck wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 10:59 pm, Jim Rojas<jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> =A0wrote:
> >> Doug wrote:
> >>> "Comrade technomaNge"<u...@xxxxxxx> =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 wr=
ote:
> >>>>>>http://consumerist.com/2010/09/thieves-suck-money-from-supermarket-=
sa...
>
> >>>>> Four years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> >>>>> Why .....why ....... how stupid can they be? =A0Jeeeeze, you'd thin=
k
> >>>>> they were French, or something.
>
> >>>> Ya know what chafes my ass?
> >>>> As bad an opinion as I have of the French, they have nuclear power
> >>>> 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 regulations!
>
> >>>> technomaNge
> >>>> --
>
> >>> I think the US generates about 20% of its electricity from nuclear po=
wer,
> >>> while it may pale in comparison to France's 75%, I'm not sure I would=
 call
> >>> it a "token presence"
>
> >>> Doug
>
> >> The French are smart enough to recycle and reuse spent fuel rods, whil=
e
> >> we here in the good ole USA stand around with our fingers up our asses
> >> 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 & Nova Scotia run entirely on Geothermal
> energy. We can do it, we just need all the oil to get used up to take
> 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 before
> anything really changes.
>
> Brazil no longer uses crude oil to run the majority of their vehicles.
> They use ethanol, which they grow crops and process themselves. Ethanol
> 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 doomed to
> repeat their mistakes over, and over again...until it takes a national
> 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 ethanol
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 the
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  and 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