Algae Energy: Get Ready for the Turnabout
15th October 2012
… keep in mind also Hayward’s First Law of Environmental Energy Politics: there is no source of energy, no matter how clean, that environmentalists won’t oppose if it becomes cheap and abundant. We’ve seen this turnabout on natural gas, but also see widespread environmentalist opposition to wind farms and solar power facilities. It will happen to algae if it becomes practical.
October 15th, 2012 at 13:44
Environmentalists have no problem with natural gas per se; they just have a problem with man-made earthquakes and poisoned aquifers. It’s not the item itself, but the methodology used to extract it.
I’m reminded of a story told about Don Drysdale, the pitcher. The manager walked out to the mound and instructed him to put the current batter on base and pitch to the on-deck guy. The very next pitch Drysdale clocked the batter with the ball. When the manager came out to dress him down, he reportedly said, “You said put him on base, and he’s on base. What’s your bitch?”
October 15th, 2012 at 16:16
And, indeed, the manager had no legitimate complaint.
Neither do the enviro-nazis, who have yet to come up with any credible evidence of ‘man-made earthquakes’ or ‘poisoned aquifers’. Like the Global Warming crowd, they’re running around saying the sky is falling without any actual fallen sky to show for it.
October 15th, 2012 at 19:56
And like the anti-global warming crowd, if a piece of the sky hit you you’d claim it was a socialist conspiracy aimed at taking over the world and destroying our Precious Freedom…
I guess water taps that can be ignited is not proof enough.
October 16th, 2012 at 07:58
As indeed it would be; there are many socialist conspiracies aimed at taking over the world and destroying our precious freedom, as the history of the world over the last hundred years makes plain, and I’m sure having pieces of sky fall on people has a part to play, along with pictures of lonely polar bears on ice floes and faked-up climate models.
‘Water taps that can be ignited’ is not proof enough … of what? That’s methane, and has nothing to do with fracking, but is the result of flawed pipes bringing the gas out of the ground — as you would know if you bothered to do any research beyond watching alarmist television. Pipes do go bad, as anybody who has had to deal with plumbing knows. That’s a good reason to get the company to fix the pipes, but it doesn’t mean the end of the world, no matter what the timid old ladies of the enviro-nazi movement may think.