Know Coal…or NO COAL!
There was a Know Coal Meeting at the Palmer Depot today.
I had wanted to attend to find out more about their goals but I was at a Board of Equalization meeting. I stopped by and talked to Penny Nixon above and fellow Realtor Reggie Belden below who were with a group picketing outside.
I don’t know if it was overtly political, but there was obviously a different crowd inside as opposed to outside as was evident from more than a few bumper stickers.
I’m really not up on this subject and I’m certainly not opposed to alternative energy as evident by my previous post here. But also, I am open to all energy alternatives, even coal.
Someone once told me that the stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. The hydro-carbon age won’t end because we run out of oil, either. It will end because we find a better way to produce and use energy. We should all keep open minds about energy…use it, but also think of ways to produce cheaper, cleaner energy.
If alternative energy isn’t cheaper, it isn’t going to be used. Sometimes I wonder if the alternative energy zealots want to make it relatively less expensive by driving up the cost of conventional energy production. Coal is obviously an inexpensive way to produce and store energy, but it may have other expenses that are too costly. I’m still in open-mind mode on this question.
Coal is abundant, but burning coal puts tons of radation and other really bad things into the air… If you are concerned about Greenhouse gasses and pollution.
Wind power is to expensive for the return… Lots of mantainence little power (and think about the poor birds).
Solar power, at least solar electric panels not very effecient for the cost… The elements required for higher efficiencies are rare on the earth.
Then nuclear power is the way to go… In the past the technology behind nuclear power is prone to disaster, if not managed properly. Since then, research has shown that it is possible to build a meltdown proof reactor…
Not to be to critical, but… To make a statement about the stone age ending and there was stones…
With all due respect… If you use up all the hydro-carbons… The hydro-carbon age WILL END…
Go Nuclear!!! Go Electric!