Comments on: The Vacuous Mr. Boehner and the Energy Act http://one-blue-marble.com/blog/2009/04/01/the-vacuous-mr-boehner-and-the-energy-act/ Global warming, climate change, activism Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:03:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Richard Mercer http://one-blue-marble.com/blog/2009/04/01/the-vacuous-mr-boehner-and-the-energy-act/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Richard Mercer Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:52:07 +0000 http://one-blue-marble.com/blog/?p=348#comment-597 Why is it that so many on the right have a compulsion to distort, mistate, conflate facts and generally not tell the truth on so many issues? It's become pandemic. And the way they throw around labels like socialist, fascist etc., you'd think only the left can be extreme enough to bring about any kind of tyranny, with the right always patriotically protecting us from such excesses. Meanwhile, pretty much all the wingnut radio talk shows etc are on the right. What I remember in my life time, is that every new freedom was championed by the left, while conservatives fought against them tooth and nail. And that goes all the way back to abolition. Then they wave the flag and assure us that they are on the job, protecting our freedoms, which they fought against to begin with. The gun issue is the only exception where they have been on the forefront. Off topic, but whenever solar and wind potential are discussed, we are asked how the base load power from coal will be substituted for. Today there was an article at Alternative Energy Stocks.com that questioned the whole assumption that base load power has to be such a large percentage of the grid. "Why CSP Should Not Try to be Coal" http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2009/0 4/why_csp_should_not_try_to_be_coal.html He is essentially saying the same thing as Joe Romm, that solar thermal with heat storage is even better than base load, because it's dispatchable. The article shows that less base load in the grid would actually be better for balancing the grid's various sources of power. Why is it that so many on the right have a compulsion to distort, mistate, conflate facts and generally not tell the truth on so many issues? It’s become pandemic.
And the way they throw around labels like socialist, fascist etc., you’d think only the left can be extreme enough to bring about any kind of tyranny, with the right always patriotically protecting us from such excesses.
Meanwhile, pretty much all the wingnut radio talk shows etc are on the right. What I remember in my life time, is that every new freedom was championed by the left, while conservatives fought against them tooth and nail. And that goes all the way back to abolition. Then they wave the flag and assure us that they are on the job, protecting our freedoms, which they fought against to begin with.
The gun issue is the only exception where they have been on the forefront.

Off topic, but whenever solar and wind potential are discussed, we are asked how the base load power from coal will be substituted for. Today there was an article at Alternative Energy Stocks.com that questioned the whole assumption that base load power has to be such a large percentage of the grid.
“Why CSP Should Not Try to be Coal”

http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2009/0
4/why_csp_should_not_try_to_be_coal.html

He is essentially saying the same thing as Joe Romm, that solar thermal with heat storage is even better than base load, because it’s dispatchable. The article shows that less base load in the grid would actually be better for balancing the grid’s various sources of power.

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