Green People

Little green people


I don't mean Martians, but the little green people are out of this world.
I mean green environmentalist. Don't get me wrong, I and just about
everyone else wants a clean environment.
It's just that Greenies get carried away.

"Physics professor Peter Blunden at the University of Manitoba

said CFL(compact fluorescent bulbs) bulbs are certainly more energy efficient than older incandescent bulbs.

But in cold-weather climates such as Canada’s, Blunden said older incandescent bulbs do more than just light our homes. During the long winter months, they also generate heat. The new CFL bulbs on the other hand produce minimal heat so the loss has to be made up by fossil-fuel burning gas, oil or wood to heat your home.

“To some extent, the case [in favour of CFL bulbs] has been oversold” because of the offset in higher heating costs, he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/03/04/mb-light-bulbs.html?ref=rss

And you don't want to break a CFL, The 5 mg of mercury in an energy-conserving CFL is enough to fill an average size room (100 cubic meters volume) with the 0.05 mg/cubic meter vapor concentration that is considered hazardous for long term chronic exposure.

Maybe Sheryl Crow(who?)was not joking when she said to use only
one square of toilet paper per sitting.
Now we have Washable toilet paper:The latest eco-friendly home trend involves "family cloth" – a term for machine washable-fabric instead of toilet paper.

Americans like their toilet tissue soft: exotic confections that are silken, thick and hot-air-fluffed.
But fluffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin American countries, including some percentage of trees from rare old-growth forests in Canada.
http://my.packexpo.com/NST-6-50196804/Plush-Toilet-Paper-Wipes-Out-Millions-of-Trees.aspx
I say do like they do in other parts of the world, use your hand.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Hand-vs-Toilet-Paper

Wind turbines cause bats' lungs to explode. More specifically, a sudden drop in air pressure created by the blades can cause fatal internal hemorrhaging, researchers at the University of Calgary said in a study. Some of the best sources of wind—coastlines and mountaintops—also happen to be in the path of migratory birds. Wind farms installed on mountain ridges also have triggered fears over soil erosion, and some environmental groups—citing land use laws designed to keep Mother Nature unspoiled—have fought proposed wind farms.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-exploding-bats-bd01-mar01,0,6899974.story
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and former broadcaster Walter Cronkite both of whom opposed wind turbines five miles off the coast of Cape Cod because it would ruin their view and spoil the value of their waterfront properties.


A non-profit group in San Jose, Calif., found that the solar energy industry is facing the same issue as electronics manufacturers: how to dispose of the products once they've outlasted their usefulness.
Though solar energy currently produces less than 1 percent of the nation's electricity, the most popular solar photovoltaic panels could create "a huge new wave of electronic waste once they are discarded," according to the report by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. The panels have an estimated life span of 20 to 25 years.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/environmentalists_eating_their.html

Corn based Ethanol fuel takes more fuel (and cost) to make than you get back.

kansascity.com — "Mileage can suffer by about 25 percent with E-85, according to AAA. Over the course of a year, that amounts to an extra 300 gallons of E-85 to go the same distance as when using conventional gas. That means an average household, when the total cost of conventional gas and E-85 are compared, would spend nearly $100 more per year for E-85."

The US takes down more Hydro dam's than we build for Hydroelectricity.

Since 1999, more than 200 dams in the U.S. have been removed.

Maybe electric cars are the way to go.

But the life span for batteries is six years.

What do you do with the dead batteries?

And what will the cost be for replacement? Expensive!

And the cars are more expensive to buy.

Everyone wants the US to be energy independent.
But some are more serious than others.
Others don't want us using petroleum based products at any cost.

Has Obama killed nuclear power?

It looks like Obama's budget intends to give up on implementing the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. (Congratulations, Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV).

So, nuclear waste would continue to sit around nuclear power plants. Which means nobody is going to build anymore nuclear power plants in the U.S. ever. And since we'll be cutting back on carbon emissions, that will leave, uh, wind and solar power. And don't forget tidal power. Or maybe photosynthesizing bacteria.

Factor that into your long range economic growth projections, then see where the Dow should be.

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/03/has-obama-killed-nuclear-power.html

I am still waiting for "Clean Coal" that Obama said would give us energy and jobs.

I gave up on drilling the outer Continental Shelf and ANWR.
Most people don't know where either one of them are located.
The people that live in Alaska and ANWR want oil drilling.
But the "Greenies" don't.
Most of the "Greenies" don't live nor have ever
been to Alaska!

We will never be energy independent.

But you will be "forced" to drive a small car.
The tax price for gas will go up.
The car companies will be "forced" to build "environmentally friendly" cars.
No matter what the cost.

I do know one thing, people deserve what they get.
Weak

Obama:This is the man who told ABC's Charlie Gibson that "I would look at raising the capital-gains tax for purposes of fairness," even if hiking the tax would ultimately result in shrinking federal revenues.