Saturday, June 19, 2010

Energy Use

I just read that 93% of our energy comes from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear. That leaves 7% for everything else including hydro(36% of the 7%), geothermal (5%), solar (1%), biofuel (53%)and wind (5%). My question is this... If we refuse to permit coal mines, oil rigs and nuclear power plants where is the energy going to come from? Can we build enough windmills and solar plants? What happens when the wind doesn't blow or the sun isn't shining? Laws of economics tell us that as materials become less available their prices go up. Why don't we let economics dictate our power supplies. As certain energy becomes more expensive the alternatives look that much better. So we have no alternative than to support the coal miners, oil and gas drillers and the existing nuclear facilities for now and work toward more efficient energy use. There is no alternative.

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