The myth of renewable energy

[gremlin]

this is a cool artical on green power.

http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/colu ... ble-energy

Clean." "Green." What do those words mean? When President Obama talks about "clean energy," some people think of "clean coal" and low-carbon nuclear power, while others envision shiny solar panels and wind turbines. And when politicians tout "green jobs," they might just as easily be talking about employment at General Motors as at Greenpeace. "Clean" and "green" are wide open to interpretation and misappropriation; that's why they're so often mentioned in quotation marks. Not so for renewable energy, however.

Somehow, people across the entire enviro-political spectrum seem to have reached a tacit, near-unanimous agreement about what renewable means: It's an energy category that includes solar, wind, water, biomass, and geothermal power. As the US Energy Department explains it to kids: "Renewable energy comes from things that won't run out -- wind, water, sunlight, plants, and more. These are things we can reuse over and over again. … Non-renewable energy comes from things that will run out one day -- oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium."

[russau]

it appears to me that just putting the stamp of "green" on something gives it a O.K. to go ahead nomatter waht it is! maybe i should paint my dredge green and lable it a "enviromental cleanup device."

[gremlin]

russau you do not need to put a green label on it. the enviros all ready used dredges and have been using them for the last 15 years or so. but we do not pump the river clean up out of the river bed and dump it a mile or more inland, with all the trash, fish eggs and invertebrates. they do it to "help" the fish. its all to make them deep cool pools for the fish to settle in on there trip to the sponing grounds. you know the stuff we do and must pay the states to do. well its better if the state pays out tax dollars to do it.