Totally Stunned

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You hear about the new Japanese windpower breakthrough that will make windpower cheaper than nuclear energy?
 
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So they got a $535 million loan guarantee? What does that mean? Later in the article it implies it's a subsidy. What is it, exactly?
 
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Wait, sounds like they get a loan from a private financial institution that the energy department guarantees. Is that right?
 
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Literally if Obama speaks at your company, you better find a new job because he is cursed. This isnt even the 2nd or 3rd time a company he has visited went under
 
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VolsNSkinsFan said:
Literally if Obama speaks at your company, you better find a new job because he is cursed. This isnt even the 2nd or 3rd time a company he has visited went under
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Apparently Biden spoke there too - said something about "now these are jobs that won't be going to China". Oopsies.
 
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More GE Energy jobs created by Obama... in Mexico.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Ilk1Tlfj8[/youtube]
 
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Geez... Obama may really be job repellent.

Romney Allentown | Mitt Romney uses closed Allentown shop to hit Obama - Los Angeles Times

"This president came here and called this a symbol of hope,” Romney said, standing before the overgrown lot dressed in jeans and a plaid shirt. “It is a symbol of failure, failure of his economic policy. He’s out of his depth. When it comes to getting the economy going, it’s just not something he understands.”
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Workers at Obama's suit factory in Chicago area fear factory's closure - NYPOST.com
 
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I guess volatile means merge left.

This just one example of how the Obama administration
wasted nearly a trillion dollars that my grandchildren
are expected to pay back.

Seatle received $20 million in stimulus money that
created only 14, mostly administrative, jobs and
a total of three houses were weatherized, not that
homes in Seatle really need a lot of weatherization
to begin with.

Here is another example of this ongoing fiasco, much
of which is based on the erroneous assumption that
humans are causing global warming.

GM Continues Chevy Volt Folly at Taxpayers’ Expense (Excellent piece)

The lack of demand for the Chevy Volt is not a well
kept secret. The all-electric Nissan Leaf outsold the
Volt by a margin of over 4-1 as it appears that GM
overestimated the importance of curing "range anxiety."

Reports are surfacing that confirm the fact that the
Volt is not going over well with the average consumer .

This has not influenced the tone of GM's rhetoric. It
seems that the philosophy of the leaders at GM is to
fool the majority of Americans, which are not paying
attention, into believing that the Chevy Volt is a huge
success. If they can do this, friends at the Obama
Administration can benefit politically and taxpayer
funds can continue to be used to produce so-called
green vehicles.

The situation would be laughable if billions of taxpayer
dollars were not being wasted to support an unwanted,
over-priced vehicle that has no measurable benefit to
the environment or foreign fuel dependence.

GM has not only denied the weakness of demand for
the Volt, they now have decided to proceed with plans
to make gourmet lemonade out of the lemons they were
handed. The plans for a Cadillac version of the Volt have
been given the go-ahead. What makes GM want to offer
a more expensive version of a vehicle that has little
demand as it is? More importantly, how much more
taxpayer money is going to be plundered by GM to
produce the new version?
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VOLatile said:
Japanese Innovation Makes Wind Power Cheaper Than Nuclear | Geekosystem
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If you want a really good idea of how far-reaching and revolutionary this power might be, let’s look at the potential for wind farm development in the U.S. Using standard turbines, we could produce about a third of the nation’s power by utilizing about 170,000 square miles of high yield wind areas. For scale, that’s about 1/4th of the size of Alaska. With conventional technology, it might be prohibitive to extend wind farms beyond that size and scope. After all, wind turbines need to be constructed and maintained and as the number grows, the problems of space, manpower and construction resources become increasingly prohibitive.

The use of wind lenses, however, could blow this out of the water. Wind lens construction and installation, compared to constructing additional pylons windmills, is trivial, and while the extra toll on turbines could require more maintenance, it is again trivial compared to building more windmills. In short, wind lenses could make wind energy a possible alternative to traditional power sources instead of just a supplement like it is today.
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I love how they go into detail and scale in regards to conventional windmills, but neglect to give the reader a scale to compare how these new wind generators will use up land/resources.

I also love how they down play the higher maintenance issues with these wind lenses. Conventional windmills are already maintenance nightmares. Now this article says that the wind lenses "could require more maintenance". The only variable they used to justify this alternative is money, not down time. As we know, time is money... Every hour that a wind lens is not generating is another hour of lost revenue and/or power needed to come from some other source.
 
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The fail out of this guy has gotten to a comical stage. Cue gs and some of those cartoons.
 
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