At 09:54 AM 12/8/2004, "Terry Blanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If this is the best a "panel of experts" can come up with, we're f*****:
http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/08/news/economy/energy_report.reut/index.htm
A plan for U.S. energy security?
Nation must diversify supplies, expand reserves, up fuel efficiency says panel of energy experts.
December 8, 2004: 6:52 AM EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States must diversify its global oil supplies, expand a world network of strategic petroleum reserves and raise fuel efficiency standards to ensure its energy security, a panel of experts will recommend Wednesday.
These are some of the findings from the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan group of energy experts, company executives and government officials, that will be released in Washington to attack major long-term energy challenges.
The recommendations could be used next year by lawmakers in the new Congress who will try to approve a bill to overhaul U.S. energy policy.
"Recent developments in world oil markets, including rapid growth in global demand and the emergence of terrorist threats to oil facilities, are bringing new urgency to perennial concerns about the nation's exposure to oil price shocks and supply disruptions," the panel's report said.
A copy of the report's executive summary was obtained by Reuters. The commission took over two years to come up with its findings.
While it calls for increased energy supplies, it also links energy production and the environment -- especially global climate change.
The commission suggests mandatory limits on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming that can be spewed by power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities.
To meet that goal, it recommends creating a trading program that would allow more polluting companies to buy permits to emit carbon dioxide emissions from cleaner firms.
President Bush withdrew the United States from the Kyoto international treaty that restricts greenhouse gas emissions, arguing it would hurt the economy. The White House instead wants companies to voluntarily cut emissions.
The commission also recommends the government provide support to build an Alaskan natural gas pipeline, one or two advanced nuclear power reactors, and take steps to protect critical energy infrastructure from "accidental failure and terrorist threats."
Exactly. It is as incredible that cold fusion (by any name) is ignored.
"For each gigawatt-day a city needs, a city must burn coal at a rate of 9,000 tons per day.
And in doing that, the pollution by this old technology will make 30,000 tons of
carbon dioxide (CO2), 600 tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2),
and 80 tons of (nitrogen dioxide) NO2, and tons of other contaminants,
each and every day. .. By contrast, with cold fusion producing the same amount of power ...
would produce only 4 pounds of helium exhaust."
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