Comments on: Outside the Beltway: Austin Electricity Consumers Paying More for Renewable Energy http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: John Burdick, Glendo http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-43711 John Burdick, Glendo Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:20:21 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-43711 I have solar on two homes and it works great for me......unfortunately, it is very expensive and the much ballyhooed stimulus money is nothing more than bogus puffery. If the politicians want to do something they can offer real incentives, including the requiirement that utilities buy excess energy produced at wholesale from the homeowner/producer. I have solar on two homes and it works great for me……unfortunately, it is very expensive and the much ballyhooed stimulus money is nothing more than bogus puffery. If the politicians want to do something they can offer real incentives, including the requiirement that utilities buy excess energy produced at wholesale from the homeowner/producer.

]]> By: Marshall Hill MI. http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-42674 Marshall Hill MI. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:50:43 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-42674 FACTS! FACTS!

]]> By: Dusty, TX http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-42647 Dusty, TX Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:29:45 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-42647 Yeah, go ahead and spread the misery to everyone. After all, it's only Austin. Yeah, go ahead and spread the misery to everyone. After all, it's only Austin.

]]> By: Jack, AK http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-42435 Jack, AK Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:42:38 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-42435 Yet, if the government was truly interested in "green energy" they would use nuclear.. Here is some thoughts about why nuclear is a good idea. First, it has an enourmous potential fuel source. Fast neutron, or breeder, reactors can utilize about 99% of the potential energy in nuclear fuel. Given the current efficiency of the light water reactors of 5%, that alone should show the increase in fuel availiability. Second, the feared plutonium could be used as fuel. The plutonium and the tranuranics would be burned away. Third, the amount of radioactive waste and the storage time would be reduced. Burning most of the material with long half-lives reduces the amount of time that the nuclear waste would be dangerous to only 500 years. The waste itself from a fast reactor would be about 1% that of a thermal reactor. Yet, if the government was truly interested in "green energy" they would use nuclear.. Here is some thoughts about why nuclear is a good idea.

First, it has an enourmous potential fuel source. Fast neutron, or breeder, reactors can utilize about 99% of the potential energy in nuclear fuel. Given the current efficiency of the light water reactors of 5%, that alone should show the increase in fuel availiability.

Second, the feared plutonium could be used as fuel. The plutonium and the tranuranics would be burned away.

Third, the amount of radioactive waste and the storage time would be reduced. Burning most of the material with long half-lives reduces the amount of time that the nuclear waste would be dangerous to only 500 years. The waste itself from a fast reactor would be about 1% that of a thermal reactor.

]]> By: Dan - York, SC http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-42391 Dan - York, SC Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:53:13 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-42391 As I ask my high school honor students in replying to their questions about "green energy", What happens when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine? You can't make a river and geothermal energy is not available everywhere. We are crossing the threshold to the absurd and surreal! As I ask my high school honor students in replying to their questions about "green energy", What happens when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine? You can't make a river and geothermal energy is not available everywhere. We are crossing the threshold to the absurd and surreal!

]]> By: Lynn B. DeSpain http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-42326 Lynn B. DeSpain Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:06:19 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-42326 Of course it costs more! it takes more energy to produce it, store it, and to manufacture the geration process than any other systems we have been using for over one hundred years! Water is much more dynamically powerful than wind! It is a constant flow, whereas wind varies. Hydroelectric creates dams for faming irrigation and lakes for recreation and for city water consumption, that would otherwise be seasonal. Wind is seasonal ond only generates electricity! Fission type Nuclear energy requires enriched uranium and only makes two things, electricity and Plutonium. Plutonium is only good for bombs and is really hard to story, since its half life is around fifty thousand years or so. No one every speack or tries Fussion type Nuclear energy, because it only requires simple atomes, say Hydogen. The only byproduck, outside of Einstiens true E=MC(2), most efficient, is helium! Of course, sooner or later the world will run out of its only source of hydrogen, water. Keep in mind that we have the same amount of water on Earth as we did at the time of Moses. Mankind should stick to what it knows and does best, and that is using the natural flow of free energy the cheapest way available. This includes Natural Gas, and Natural Oil, Coal turned into Charcoal, and Water! Hozro Of course it costs more! it takes more energy to produce it, store it, and to manufacture the geration process than any other systems we have been using for over one hundred years! Water is much more dynamically powerful than wind! It is a constant flow, whereas wind varies. Hydroelectric creates dams for faming irrigation and lakes for recreation and for city water consumption, that would otherwise be seasonal. Wind is seasonal ond only generates electricity!

Fission type Nuclear energy requires enriched uranium and only makes two things, electricity and Plutonium. Plutonium is only good for bombs and is really hard to story, since its half life is around fifty thousand years or so.

No one every speack or tries Fussion type Nuclear energy, because it only requires simple atomes, say Hydogen. The only byproduck, outside of Einstiens true E=MC(2), most efficient, is helium! Of course, sooner or later the world will run out of its only source of hydrogen, water. Keep in mind that we have the same amount of water on Earth as we did at the time of Moses.

Mankind should stick to what it knows and does best, and that is using the natural flow of free energy the cheapest way available. This includes Natural Gas, and Natural Oil, Coal turned into Charcoal, and Water!

Hozro

]]> By: Ken St Louis http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-42255 Ken St Louis Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:02:07 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-42255 Ah, GREEN I was watching Bill Oreilly last nite and heard him say that he believes in global warming! I wonder if he still believes in the tooth fairy too!! I am 70 years old, I can still remember playing outside on Xmas day when I was 11 or 12 in a T shirt it was so warm in St Louis. So much for global warming. ( Its just another halfway hidden tax )! Ah, GREEN I was watching Bill Oreilly last nite and heard him say that he believes in global warming! I wonder if he still believes in the tooth fairy too!! I am 70 years old, I can still remember playing outside on Xmas day when I was 11 or 12 in a T shirt it was so warm in St Louis. So much for global warming. ( Its just another halfway hidden tax )!

]]> By: Jerry, Indiana http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-42237 Jerry, Indiana Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:38:29 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-42237 As Mike mentioned, the consumer is the one who, in the end, gets the raw deal. I'm beginning to think that the "green" movement won't be content until even the blue in the American flag gets changed to green. As Mike mentioned, the consumer is the one who, in the end, gets the raw deal. I'm beginning to think that the "green" movement won't be content until even the blue in the American flag gets changed to green.

]]> By: Jeff, Cincinnati http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/14/outside-the-beltway-austin-electricity-consumers-paying-more-for-renewable-energy/#comment-42233 Jeff, Cincinnati Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:33:55 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=10659#comment-42233 Nuclear power needs to be looked at again. All of the fear mongering from the sixties and seventies needs to be dispelled by scientific facts. Properly built and maintained nuclear reactors would be a very efficient source of electric power. Nuclear power needs to be looked at again. All of the fear mongering from the sixties and seventies needs to be dispelled by scientific facts. Properly built and maintained nuclear reactors would be a very efficient source of electric power.

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