Green Energy | Earth Day - Ghosts Of Green Energy

Born on the emotions of the day. Students have rallied against the war in Vietnam. The project was in full swing. Oil spills, polluting factories, pesticides, sprawling highways, toxic dumps, smog - are all the rags of a hexagon governmental, industrial and military. Earth Day organized around the same values and concerns of students of the time - today 's baby-boomers.
E 'was 41 years ago. Rachel Carson "Silent Spring" was far-reaching for the chemical impact on the ecosystem. Paul Ehrlich is "The Population Bomb" unsustainable land provided apocalyptic proportions. On reflection, both have their flaws. Ehrlich has flirted with contraceptives? All food products from the United States. It has promoted the direct sterilization in most third world countries. Carson had good intentions, but simply ignorant of the facts.
But one fact stands out. Billions have been spent at risk imagination. Today, descendants of the environmental movement are four decades under his belt. What bothers me is that we still see ghosts - again. Now you 're driving a green energy economy. It 's show?

Be careful. As a recent Forbes article by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, he says, will be expensive and unrealistic. Remember Al Gore? About the inconvenient truth of nirvana has proposed a 'renewable energy to replace fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Today, biomass energy accounts for 3.6 percent of our consumption. Gore wants to do another 96.4 percent in a decade at a mere cost of $ 4 billion. The last time I checked, you 're a bit' short of money.
And we should invest the energy of the thirteenth century? Must hunks huge tracts of land and equipment for power generation. E 'expensive. earth wind (less expensive) will cost electricity 80 percent more than the combined cycle gas. This is the second Obama 's own Energy Information Administration. It will take hundreds of millions to build transmission systems for wind and solar for taxpayers where they live. Wind and sun are frequent. But tn 'always blow the time when you need it. You can use it or lose it.
On the other hand, fossil fuels can be stored until you need it. They are relatively inexpensive and reliable. The batteries have a tendency to flow downward. By their very nature need to be recharged.
So if we can put a man on the moon, we can build a better battery. OK, but we weren t 'groped to make a profit by putting a man on the moon. We, the taxpayers, subsidize the production costs of wind and solar today. If this is a good investment - so why subsidize it? If it is economically rational investors in the interests of all the hungry. Or there are the ghosts green? E 'Day the Earth. We have come a long way since 1970. But few of the energy realities of the earth today.

Clark Gallagher is the editor of the Hillsboro Argus.