As most intelligent citizens of Texas know, a light-bulb will not turn on without electricity. It just won't. Most people also understand the following equation:
More People + More Light-bulbs = More Energy used
Seems simple enough. The next part of the equation is what the eco-nuts can't grasp:
More energy used + More Power Plants = No problem
That also seems simple, but for those of you who can't follow, let me make it multiple choice. Please select the equation that will NOT plunge Texas into rolling blackouts in five years:
A) More Energy Used + Solar panels and magic heat generating gnomes = No problem
B) More Energy Used + Wind farms and beanies with propellers = No problem
C) Less Energy Used + Wishing in one and and crapping in the other = No problem
D) More Energy Used + More Power Plants = No problem
If you chose anything other than D please stop reading this blog. Don't tell me that there's another answer. Don't tell me that we can do without more energy. Save it. The bottom line is our population is growing exponentially, and without more power, we'll be in the same situation as California. TXU, the largest energy supplier in Texas, has asked to build several new Coal-Fire Power Plants. Hippies don't like it. they need more time to "evaluate the environmental impact" which is hippie speak for "need more time to cook up some hair-brained, half assed suggestion that will never work".
Is coal clean? It can be. Not cleaner than propane, butane, or unicorn tears, but it's OK. Hippies don't want nuclear power plants, because it contains the word NUCLEAR. No air pollution there...but no good. So, we're in a pickle, we need energy but we can't make it. What's the answer? Ignore the freakin hippies, build the plants, keep cranking out those sweet sweet megawatts, and life is good. You can't walk out your front door without impacting the environment in some way, shape, or form. If you don't like the thought of having to build new power plants, then pack up your hippie friends and move to a less populated state. That could solve the energy problem, and the smell (yes, I'm insinuating that hippies smell).
Had to say what was on my mind. Now back to it.
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I vote nuclear, I don't particularly care for coal plants either and nuclear is the way of the future anyway. So why not just go total nuclear?
If we're gonna tell the hippies to go to hell anyway, it might as well be for nuke power.
Yes, it is AMAZING how many people cannot get so simple an equations. The other equally amazing part is how little scientific/engineering understanding most people have when it comes to energy solutions. Now, everyone tries to act like they are an expert these days proposing all kinds of interesting "solutions", but too bad none of them are actually technically possible without spending ten times the money that coal or nuclear would cost. Its really easy to say "I support clean energy", or "I think solar is better than coal". OK, good for you, but when you ask them how we can actually make that work its just "oh some smart engineer will find a way to make it work". Well guess what, the smart engineers have already found ways to make this work, too bad everyone goes around protesting them! Nuclear power does everything that the hippies want in a power source and yet they hate is because the word "nuclear" is the same as in "nuclear bomb". Honestly, if we jsut called them "happy flower power plants" which were powered by "fairy dust" they would seem too good to be true, but the words "nuclear" and "radiation" are too scarry. Guess what people, solar plants are power by RADIATION!! from a NUCLEAR chain reaction!! If you want to look where most people get killed by radiations its those idiots who thing standing out in the suns rays (RADIATION!) will make them look good (tan = RADIATION BURNS!) and then get skin cancer.
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