Those of you who doubt renewable energy sources, are you aware of the Centre For Industrial Progress? It's run by a guy called Alex Epstein and provides some superb arguments for fossil fuels and against renewable sources.
If you search for them on youtube you can also find some great videos of Mr Epstein debating against hippies from the occupy movement... lets just say he tears them a new one
Tom,
thats all great. but no good when no one can afford it.
Alex Epstein wants to come across as a contrarian, but he can't manage to string together two coherent thoughts needed to present an alternate point of view...
Every legitimate scientific organization in the world agrees that the world will run out of fossil fuels and that the planet is heating up... so the idea that you, "Mr. Dumb Fuck No-Nothing, Get all my ideas from Sean Hannity" still need to be 'convinced' of the science behind this is simply ridiculous.
The only thing up for the debate is whether the first thing will happen quickly enough to prevent the second thing from proceeding to the point that life in Earth as we know it will become unsustainable. We do have massive reserves of natural gas, however, so it's likely our transportation base will move towards being powered in that manner, either directly or through gas-fired electrical plants... this will increase the need for electricity and with the price of solar and wind turbine technology plummeting, I can foresee a time over the next 20 years where every new house built in states like Arizona, Colorado etc will be required to have solar capacity. Of course they would have to get their head out of their rear end long enough to elect someone other than Jan Brewer as their political leader.
As to RA, I'm not sure why the wind turbine was located just 40 yards away from the green... we need to continue to trial new ways of powering our society, otherwise our capacity to innovate might come too late for us as a civilization, but putting this turbine so close to where people live and play is not the right way to proceed.. people are less likely to embrace new ideas for powering our society and saving our environment if the immediate results of these efforts get such a negative response.
Meanwhile we can all enjoy higher beef prices next year because the heat and droughts killed half the corn in the Midwest this summer...