Thread: Steven Chu's Science Magazine Editorial: Carbon Capture and Sequestration

That's my cue…

I've taken the time to write broad answers to your flighty comments, and frankly it is a waste of time. Instead of directing your reply at the meat of the arguments I've been making you opt to select one TANGENTIAL point (that is true) and attempt to split hairs and trot off to tilt at yet another windmill. My only ideal is what works best. And to understand that I've spent years studying human culture as it relates to energy,...

the whole notion of climate change and given the deep pockets they have, they can make it drag out for a long, long time.

invest in renewable technologies. I think they see it as a necessary "pay-off" which will in time probalby result in something. Whether or not it's cost effective remains to be seen.

when was the last time an American Government Secretary actually used and referenced real science?

Edited on Tue Oct-06-09 06:29 PM by NNadir Every single, without exception, person who spends his or her time in this forum advancing stupid Rube Goldberg Schemes to save his or her car CULTure life style with so called "renewable" energy - some of which consist entirely of strip mining the soil, for instance, opposes the world's largest, by far, form of climate change gas free energy, the only scalable form of energy that has...

> The pledge is purposely vague , though it is clearly directed at tax > breaks and government assistance for oil, coal and other fossil fuels. > It does not set a date for subsidy phase-outs, nor does it specify > what would count as a subsidy or how countries would police compliance . Not quite what one would hope for if people were taking the problem seriously.