Comments on: BREAKING: Pelosi/Reid call to switch Capitol Power Plant off of coal!

By: najdorf

najdorf — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:31:27 +0000

NG is enormously cleaner than coal, cheap, and abundant right in the U.S. and Canada (as is coal, but not easily extractable oil). Korea just cut a deal with Encana, a Canadian NG company, to bring NG to Korea, because it’s so much cheaper in North America than in Korea. If you care about rational, local use of resources and modern standards of living while we work out more efficient renewable energy, using North American NG for U.S. power needs is an obvious aid to your goals. Also nuclear, but of course misguided environmentalists of the past did a lot of damage to that source. I’d rather have nuclear waste stored in a containment facility than smog in the air that I breathe, but I guess progress is scary and so maybe we should just keep burning organic material and releasing huge clouds of pollutants in close proximity to all our major cities.

By: Beyond the Capitol Climate Action « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Beyond the Capitol Climate Action « It’s Getting Hot In Here — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:01:59 +0000

[...] previous week, our mass organizing led to Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid to try and pre-empt our action by calling for a removal of coal from fuel mix of the plant (NOT good enough, natural gas is still [...]

By: Our Capitol Climate Action Victory: in context « praxis makes perfect.

Our Capitol Climate Action Victory: in context « praxis makes perfect. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:06:08 +0000

[...] to change the national conversation around the climate crisis and get bold policy in 2009. The announcement three days prior to our action that the Capitol Power Plant would be switched off coal validates [...]

By: The Understory » IN CONTEXT - capitol climate action victory

The Understory » IN CONTEXT - capitol climate action victory — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:58:37 +0000

By: IN CONTEXT - capitol climate action victory « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:46:30 +0000

[...] political will, and urgency to change the national conversation around the climate crisis. The announcement three days prior to our action that the Capitol Power Plant would be switched off coal validates [...]

By: Victory at Capitol Climate Action! « Southern Energy Network’s Blog

Victory at Capitol Climate Action! « Southern Energy Network’s Blog — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:23:54 +0000

[...] Watch, Ketuckians for the Commonwealth and more! Many were excited by the announcement last week by Pelosi & Reid to switch the plant from coal to natural gas as a first step, but we know natural gas isn’t clean and we need to switch away from fossil [...]

By: Victory at Capitol Climate Action! « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Victory at Capitol Climate Action! « It’s Getting Hot In Here — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:27:25 +0000

By: Dare

Dare — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:50:04 +0000

Some good points hsr0601. I work part time with a friend who designs and builds off-grid energy efficient houses. I remember one job we were building a solar powered house, and the owner wanted to hook up to the grid to put his excess power back into the grid. He had a tough time trying to convince the power company. They made all types of excuses and tried to convince him otherwise. When the job was finished, he still was trying to convince them. That was four or five years ago. To this day I don’t think he managed to convince them. I think he just gave up and and got tired of wasting his time. The power companies want to keep their monopoly on controlling the grid. They do not like the idea of people becoming self-sufficient or selling energy back to the grid. When we construct the houses we emphasize on making it energy efficient to begin with thus you need less panels. Solar and or wind are great but when the house uses less power not as many panels are needed. We can build affordable off-grid homes. Imagine thousands of homes with panels putting power back into the grid system. I don’t believe solar or wind are going to save us from our problems. It will a combination of technologies. Also, we cannot blame it all on gov’t and corporations, we too need to be responsible energy consumers.

By: hsr0601

hsr0601 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:57:00 +0000

Down the road, buildings also can become power plants, which leads them to being both self-sufficient and profitable via selling surplus, and those are what the power companies fear as this can reduce electricity cost considerably in the region as well, better still, it can give a building industry a boost at the same time, according to the research.
With the promsing digital revolution, smart grid, the controversial, unpopular clean coal, nuclea energy issues are not so sigtnificant any longer, I think.

By: Update: March 2 « WASHINGTONS YOUNG ARE MOBILIZED

Update: March 2 « WASHINGTONS YOUNG ARE MOBILIZED — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:22:47 +0000

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