tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088893.post113457433264887586..comments2023-10-18T07:02:57.612-04:00Comments on The Barking Dingo: A Democratic Agenda We Can All Get BehindDingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04386587646469853172noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088893.post-1134664232052091892005-12-15T11:30:00.000-05:002005-12-15T11:30:00.000-05:00you are correct Tommy about the support thing. It...you are correct Tommy about the support thing. It used to be big in the environmental movement to be against nuclear power. Now environmentalist are for it because it is better than the alternative fossil fuel. Windmills kill birds, damns kill fish. Everything has problems, but I am sure that we can find fixes to those problems also. Americans are pretty damn innovative. We just need a concerted effort to find the solutions.<BR/><BR/>the biggest issue is costs of alternative energy sources. LED lights use 10% the energy of regular bulbs, but because of the price, people don't buy them. Solar power is still really expensive, also. But MRI & CAT scan machines used to be prohibitively expensive, until there was a concerted effort between government researchers, universities and private entities to make them better and cheaper.<BR/><BR/>* on a completely tangential note - Americans and inventiveness - I have always believed that is one of the reasons other people don't always like us (or at least don't fully trust us). Before the Peloponnesian wars, Athens and Sparta were allies. Sparta called in Athens to help them in their long siege of a city north of Sparta. When the Spartans saw how inventive the Athenians were in their siege techniques, it scared the begeebers out of the Spartans because they knew that some day it could be used against them. That, it what I consider the beginning of the road to the Peloponnesian war.Dingohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386587646469853172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088893.post-1134661243148655142005-12-15T10:40:00.000-05:002005-12-15T10:40:00.000-05:00It's all a good idea, the problem is will there be...It's all a good idea, the problem is will there be any support for a particular idea when it comes forward. To date that has been what's killed everything. Nuclear, fuel additives, even windmills have been, perhaps ethanol is different, but everything else was highly touted until it wasn't.<BR/><BR/>There most likely isn't a solution without negative side effects, the desire for the perfect answer is part of why we are still in this predicament.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com