Coal-Cap Disaster

[Terri]

By Lawrence Kudlow
May 29, 2008

Tuesday's Wall Street Journal strongly editorializes against the Warner-Lieberman cap-and-trade plan that allegedly will solve our alleged problem with global warming -- now called climate change.

This plan is very similar to the one Sen. John McCain announced two weeks ago. The Journal argues that cap-and-trade "would impose the most extensive government reorganization of the American economy since the 1930s," including a huge tax increase, higher prices across-the-board and significant losses to economic growth in the decades ahead.

But why do we need a planned economy for energy or anything else? Why not a fully deregulated free market for energy where prices allocate production and consumption?

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[thomas]

These guys won't be happy until they totally $%^# up our country. I'd pull my hair out but I only have a couple of strands left. My God, these people make me want to cry! This country has an absolute paucity of leadership who understand, support and govern according to our Constitution. They (all members of congress) know global warming is A TOTAL FABRRICATION yet are shoving it down our throats, using it to destroy our standard of living and we do nothing, not an outcry, not a rally (or a riot), nothing.
The Old Chief

[Charie]

If a private company (Rentech) thinks this is a viable energy source (making gas from coal), chances are it is. If this were a government project I'd say

Everyone keeps saying we should build nuclear energy plants but as far as I can ascertain, no method of disposing of spent fuel rods has yet been developed. This has been a problem since the beginning. If this could be conquered I doubt anyone would have much against building new nuclear plants.

[SomeDude]

Everyone keeps saying we should build nuclear energy plants but as far as I can ascertain, no method of disposing of spent fuel rods has yet been developed.

Spent fuel can be recycled to be re-used, but this process creates weapons grade plutonium, which can also be used in nuclear reactors, until nothing is left but lead and whiny environmentalists.

At one time, the United States planned to use a plutonium-uranium extraction (PUREX) process to for this separation. But no spent fuel from nuclear power plants has been reprocessed in the US. In 1977 President Carter established national policy that prohibited reprocessing based on the premise that limiting plutonium would limit the spread of nuclear weapons around the world. Although President Reagan reversed this policy, reprocessing has never been initiated in the US.

hehe.

http://www.chemcases.com/nuclear/nc-13.htm







Actually just diluting the radioactive elements and dumping it into the ocean wouldn't hurt anyone. This stuff was dug out of the ground in the first place, and concentrated, so diluting it and putting it back into the ground doesn't harm anyone. It would actually do Mother Gaia a favor by removing radioactivity from Mother Gaia's bosom.

The stuff should be diluted. All hail the Goddess Gaia, haha. God. I am living in the twilight zone. And I blame Republican leadership for driving voters away AND GETTING DEMOCRATS ELECTED!!!!!!!!