Over night, T. Boone Pickens perfected his glad machine that turns wind and sun light into electrical power. Now what?
Do I have to buy and attach a wind turbine and solar panel to my cars? How does the glad machine integrate into the existing power grid or will a new one have to be developed? Does it replace ALL power – even during those unpredictably cloudy and calm day or that totally predictable period of darkness called night – or will there have to be a RELIABLE nuclear and fossil fuel electrical back up?
It would seem as if, even if T. Boone is successful with his glad machine technology, we’re at least 10 years away from reaping any of the benefits. Holy Cow! That’s the same thing Libs say about drilling for more oil – except we know oil works.
T. Boone is a smart guy and I’d never bet against him. Go get ‘em T. Boone. But I’d also never bet the farm that he’s going to lead us to energy independence based solely on wind and sun power.
Dems say Reps only want to drill, drill, drill. No! We need to do all of it - sun, wind, oil, natural gas, nuclear, even President Bush’s famous switch grass. Nothing is going to replace all of the hundreds of millions of gas powered autos in the next 10 years. Airplanes will probably be powered by oil for the rest of our days. We will need ever increasing amounts of oil even when the glad machine comes on line just to allow time – oh I don’t know 10 years or so - to convert to the new energy source.
Let’s get on with it.
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