I'd Say We Already Have the Ham...
and he’s plenty cheezy
[George Will:] ...Obama’s rhetorical extravagances are inversely proportional to his details, as when he promises “nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy” in order to “end the age of oil.” The diminished enthusiasm of some voters hitherto receptive to his appeals might have something to do with the seepage of reality from his rhetoric. Voters understand that neither the “transformation” nor the “end” will or should occur. His dreamy certitude that “alternative” fuels will quickly become real alternatives is an energy policy akin to an old vaudeville joke: “If we had some eggs, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some ham.” ...
Yep. This’ll “restore America’s image” in the eyes of the oh-so-sophisticated EUs…
The problem wih alternative fuels is that they are not currently able to match “fossil"fuels unless you count nuclear power as an alternative.
For example, German company E.On is being picketed in the UK at one of its sites, where it is starting to build a bigger coal-power plant to replace the ld one. But why is it building a coal plant? Well, it is also where they have a major wind farm and as stated by E.On in 2004 they have to build new fossil-fuel plants because wind-power is unstable.
Then, there is the infrastructure problem, which affects current suppliers and new ones both. A wind farm in New York State actually can generate (sometimes...) a decent amount of power - which means it actually has to shut down much of the time it could produce power because the local grid can neither absorb so much nor off-load it to the wider grid[s] fast enough. Proposed expansion of power-line distribution is expected to be in the courts for several years responding to suits by environmenmentally concerned groups.Posted by on 08/28/08 at 11:04 AM
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