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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 07:10 PM
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18. Unfortunately, EU is not a major contributor, so their efforts won't help us globally.
The US needs to tax carbon, including import/export, and that will affect those countries we do business with, and force us as a global entity, to be CO2 reducers.

This ain't happening, so even if EU reduces its emissions, it won't affect China or India nor would it compel them to do the same. (Ignore the green-washing on this forum saying China is a bastion of green energy.)
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  -Wind farms produced 'practically no electricity' during Britain's cold snap. NNadir  Mar-11-10 01:13 PM   #0 
  - My prediction is UK will start construction of a nuclear reactor within a decade.  Statistical   Mar-11-10 01:55 PM   #1 
  - They will need more than "a reactor," though. They have a wonderful record though. Calder Hall  NNadir   Mar-11-10 02:12 PM   #2 
  - Baby steps.  Statistical   Mar-11-10 02:14 PM   #3 
  - One part of me understands this approach, but China and India will build like France, the UK and  NNadir   Mar-11-10 02:57 PM   #8 
  - "wonderful"? Windscale anyone?  truebrit71   Mar-12-10 11:50 AM   #11 
     - Apples & Oranges. Windscale was a weapon's plutonium pile. n/t  Statistical   Mar-12-10 01:02 PM   #12 
        - Oh..so that means that Windscale wasn't a nuclear power plant?  truebrit71   Mar-12-10 01:56 PM   #13 
           - No. It wasn't a power plant becuase IT WASN'T A POWER PLANT.  Statistical   Mar-12-10 02:08 PM   #14 
              - Windscale/Sellafield/Calder Hill  truebrit71   Mar-12-10 03:18 PM   #15 
                 - They were on adjacent sites, and were separate reactors  NickB79   Mar-12-10 03:34 PM   #16 
                 - Yup the power reactor operated FLAWLESSLY.  Statistical   Mar-12-10 03:50 PM   #17 
  - Carbon legislation ain't happening any time soon.  joshcryer   Mar-11-10 02:40 PM   #6 
     - In the US I agree. In Europe I am not so sure.  Statistical   Mar-11-10 02:42 PM   #7 
        - Unfortunately, EU is not a major contributor, so their efforts won't help us globally.  joshcryer   Mar-12-10 07:10 PM   #18 
  - Wind Power Myths Debunked  kristopher   Mar-11-10 02:28 PM   #4 
  - Once weather patterns change so that most of the civilized world is living in heat...  joshcryer   Mar-11-10 02:39 PM   #5 
     - Actually, a study on the effects of global warming on wind speed was released last year  NickB79   Mar-11-10 06:35 PM   #9 
        - Thank you very much for posting that. It is as I suspected.  joshcryer   Mar-11-10 10:55 PM   #10 
 

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