tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835312936831625445.post7716126777967536743..comments2023-03-29T16:28:33.039-05:00Comments on YOU GO LIVE IN UTAH: THIS F'ing Guy...amandacobrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09661751706283603488noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835312936831625445.post-16631282869672209552010-06-11T10:16:47.886-05:002010-06-11T10:16:47.886-05:00You may believe the problem is political, but we w...You may believe the problem is political, but we will power a global 21st Century industrial economy only when alternatives to fossil fuels, perhaps such sources as fission or fusion, meet or exceed the energy densities our current economy demands and fossil fuels now predominantly supply.<br /><br />We seldom hear of what currently popular alternative energy sources with their lower energy densities most certainly promise to yield us economically, namely non-fossil fuel economies on the order of those of the 19th Century, but this time without the historical options of burning wood or whale oil.<br /><br />This is entirely acceptable and doable, so long as we shed that portion of the current population worldwide unable to adapt to the new, simpler world and which those more simple economies could no longer support. As long as they lasted, though, we could still cheer ourselves by thinking of them as useful green biomass instead.<br /><br />What will be impossible to achieve, though, will be both powering the world on the alternative energy sources we currently cry for most loudly <i>and</i> retaining almost every aspect of the lifestyle we currently take for granted, including those odd surplus human beings someone somewhere may be fond of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835312936831625445.post-34043101477195462902010-06-08T20:07:40.129-05:002010-06-08T20:07:40.129-05:00i have to confess that is part of the reason why i...i have to confess that is part of the reason why i wrote this post. my family has always gone to panama city beach each year. i haven't been in a while and this was supposed to be the first year that i went and revisited the old haunts. <br /><br />that family vacation, for the first time in decades, has been cancelled. even my super conservative family members have finally understood the importance of oil dependance because of this disaster now that our yearly family tradition has been disrupted. <br /><br />maybe it takes something as shallow and personal as that to get everyone's attention.amandacobrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09661751706283603488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835312936831625445.post-10029085999108681652010-06-08T20:00:03.850-05:002010-06-08T20:00:03.850-05:00Two years ago October, with the surf flattened by ...Two years ago October, with the surf flattened by a north wind under a cloudless blue sky, I had the privilege of swimming briefly with a young loggerhead turtle in a Sargassum patch off that deserted stretch between Pensacola Beach and Navarre, before he finally spotted me and took out to sea like a rocket.<br /><br />Lesson to you. Whatever it is, do it now. It may not be there later when you finally get around to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835312936831625445.post-30442751280904433982010-06-08T16:35:57.941-05:002010-06-08T16:35:57.941-05:00The problem is we're seeing the knowledge base...The problem is we're seeing the knowledge base (KB) for drilling operations a mile underwater not being misread, but only now really being written.<br /><br />Methane gas...ice...yeah, okay, THAT'S why we studied Boyle's Law back in high school. Yeah, I know the greenies fuss about global warming melting the hydrates, and I know we've already thought about mining the stuff, but who'da ever thunk we'd really make it freeze ourselves inside a top hat. You did? Awesome! Make a note of that. Okay, what?<br /><br />As these two kids, government and BP, sprawl in front of the TV filling in the Deepwater KB coloring book (Look! A whale! Cool!) for the first time, who do you really spank first? The older, smarter one, or the younger, more energetic one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835312936831625445.post-44901076762974879572010-06-08T16:11:31.024-05:002010-06-08T16:11:31.024-05:00Well for one, state officials in Louisiana request...Well for one, state officials in Louisiana requested federal permission multiple times to build sand barriers to protect fragile coastal wetlands from the oil. It took 3 weeks to get a response.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835312936831625445.post-29050241797615815752010-06-08T14:27:10.691-05:002010-06-08T14:27:10.691-05:00I made it clear that the fact that he said "a...I made it clear that the fact that he said "ass" and "kick" doesn't make me think he's all on top of it. <br /><br />But my question is, how exactly is a president supposed to force a corporation to do what they SHOULD be doing? Not really a rhetorical question. Arrest engineers? Arrest executives? <br /><br />Imagine if Obama had immediately released billions in government aid? "See, there's your answer on where he stands on corporate responsibility! Another bailout! Why should we taxpayers have to pay to clean up BP's mess when they make billions in profit?!?! Typical Obama, just spending us all into a hole we will never climb out of!"<br /><br />But he doesn't and it's, "Where's Obama helping out these people in the Gulf who need help?!?!" So he should simultaneously approve government aid and somehow ask BP to pretty, pretty please pay for it themselves if they could?<br /><br />Again, legally what recourse does the administration have that they are not exploring? Detain the oil at the border?amandacobrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09661751706283603488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835312936831625445.post-20246944728010941592010-06-08T14:20:19.912-05:002010-06-08T14:20:19.912-05:00Obama has been utterly clueless the entire time si...Obama has been utterly clueless the entire time since this disaster started almost two months ago. Are you seriously falling for this ass-kicking rhetoric? Please. Just a desperate political move because people are seeing how weak his response has been. If Bush had said the same thing, he'd be ridiculed, and rightly so. Obama has been such a massive disappointment. Nothing but empty promises from the guy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com