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2004-11-29 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by tipper 2004-11-29 9:00:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'd love to live off the grid... just as long as it's near the 270 Corridor...

Posted by eLarson 2004-11-29 9:41:28 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-11-29 9:41:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll believe it when the ROP'ers put a contract out on him. When the Fraudis and their death cult brethren feel threatened by alt-energy theories, then we'll know we're on to something.

Posted by BH 2004-11-29 10:13:21 AM|| 2004-11-29 10:13:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 To make it happen, he says the government should spend more on research into fuel efficient technology, advanced materials and alternative fuels; charge fees for inefficient vehicles while offering rebates for efficient vehicles; scrap inefficient vehicles; and help low-income Americans buy or lease efficient ones.

And there's the plan: the government is going to do everything.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-29 11:09:16 AM|| 2004-11-29 11:09:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Run cars on snake oil. Now, why didn't I think of that.

Posted by phil_b 2004-11-29 2:11:09 PM|| 2004-11-29 2:11:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Nuclear power. Faster, please.

Posted by lex 2004-11-29 4:27:18 PM|| 2004-11-29 4:27:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 why sneer at this man. The war on terror will never be over until we end our dependence on foreign oil and the middle eastern countries can go back to farming dirt.

Posted by 2b 2004-11-29 4:40:10 PM|| 2004-11-29 4:40:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Without resorting to nuclear weapons this is the absolute best way to defeat radical Islam. Cut-off their oil exports and you cut-off their money. Sooner or later we're going to have to do it anyway. If we wait for Detriot and the oil companies it will never happen

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-11-29 4:51:55 PM|| 2004-11-29 4:51:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Seriously, why is nuclear power not the logical route forward out of our predicament?

Posted by lex 2004-11-29 5:06:05 PM|| 2004-11-29 5:06:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Nukes are expensive and have gotten a bad press? Also, they're not much for transportation. Shame how that nuclear-powered train never really got out of the station...

But yeah, this guy seems to be the exact sort of ripe ex-hippie moonbat which made growing up in the back-wash of the Sixties so tedious and disillusioning.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-11-29 5:15:32 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-11-29 5:15:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The current best bet for a revived nuclear industry is of course the Pebble Bed http://web.mit.edu/pebble-bed/ while the possibility of Fusion is at least 20 years away, just like it has been for the last 50. I think the only way to see if Fusion is possible is take the project away from the Dept of Energy and give it to the Navy with the stipulation that they work on designs that could fit inside a Los Angelos or Virginia class sub. The current machines that Princeton and the DOE have built are more suited for producing PHDs than energy.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-11-29 5:58:10 PM|| 2004-11-29 5:58:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 http://web.mit.edu/pebble-bed/

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-11-29 5:58:40 PM|| 2004-11-29 5:58:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 turkey gutz + seaweed + wave action/ethanol_methanol transduction used with

excess baby karma and wishful thinking will lead automatically to justrightfusion.

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-29 7:04:32 PM|| 2004-11-29 7:04:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Lovins is one of those 'elite scientific' types who thinks his years of Literature criticism and pure feelings make for expertise in energy science. The guy's a major socialist and anything he proposes probably 1)costs a lot of taxpayer money, 2)will never, never ever turn a profit, and 3)probably involves some sort of suppression of freedoms such as property rights. If Lovins is for it, it's probably a really bad method of doing it.

Dave

Posted by davemac 2004-11-29 8:28:29 PM|| 2004-11-29 8:28:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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