If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does the Gulf oil spill say about the need for alternative energy?

green.yahoo.com/news/livescience/2010061.... Asked by rhine44 19 months ago Similar questions: picture worth thousand words Gulf oil spill alternative energy Environment > Energy.

Similar questions: picture worth thousand words Gulf oil spill alternative energy.

Very little Pictures of the Gulf say a lot about mismanagement and bad decisions at BP and the federal government, but they say nothing about alternative energy. All energies, even solar or wind, have pluses and minuses. Petroleum energy has lots of pluses and minuses too; right now we are upset about the oil spill, but it is simply the case that NO other means of energy can replace it now.So we're stuck with it for another generation or more.

Coal is a great alterative; but the environmentalists don't like it. Nuclear is a fine option, but there are wackos who don't like that - and so on. Unless we simply decide to go back living as stoneage man (and kill off the population while doing so) we're stuck with oil.

So pictures of dead ducks are disturbing, but so is mass hunger and living in caves.

We have "needed" energy from other sources than oil for decades. Rather, what this says is that, so far, we have destroyed an entire GULF in our efforts to avoid switching from oil to solar/wind/geothermal/nuclear/wave or whatever else our many smart people invent. That this Gulf is all but destroyed and we don't hear demands for alternatives says a lot about how thick-headed and lazy human beings can be about doing the right thing the right way..

1 Actually a lot of alternative energy is harmful for the environment too. This whole Gulf spill thing could have been avoided if someone was awake at the Minerals and Mining Service. All they needed was a regulation, like they have in Canada, that you have to drill the relief well at the same time you drill the main well.It avoids the whole problem.

Yeah, it costs a little more money, but we have seen the results with this disaster.

Actually a lot of alternative energy is harmful for the environment too. This whole Gulf spill thing could have been avoided if someone was awake at the Minerals and Mining Service. All they needed was a regulation, like they have in Canada, that you have to drill the relief well at the same time you drill the main well.It avoids the whole problem.

Yeah, it costs a little more money, but we have seen the results with this disaster.

But yet our power bills in the summer are over $300 for a 1-bedroom apartment. Why are some places suitable for "alternative energy" left behind? Not doing anything?

In the 80s we went on a field trip to "solar" homes...these homes had solar panels and tiles on the floor that retained heat - no need for heat in your house...floor did it. Keep the house cool in the summer in Vegas - aka desert? The windows filled up with styrofoam - keep out the sunlight.

No pool heaters - solar panels on the roof of your house took care of that. The walls were extra insulated to keep cool in - heat out.HMM...What happened to these homes? Why did they disappear?

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But yet our power bills in the summer are over $300 for a 1-bedroom apartment. Why are some places suitable for "alternative energy" left behind? Not doing anything?

In the 80s we went on a field trip to "solar" homes...these homes had solar panels and tiles on the floor that retained heat - no need for heat in your house...floor did it. Keep the house cool in the summer in Vegas - aka desert? The windows filled up with styrofoam - keep out the sunlight.

No pool heaters - solar panels on the roof of your house took care of that. The walls were extra insulated to keep cool in - heat out.HMM...What happened to these homes? Why did they disappear?

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But yet our power bills in the summer are over $300 for a 1-bedroom apartment. Why are some places suitable for "alternative energy" left behind? Not doing anything?

In the 80s we went on a field trip to "solar" homes...these homes had solar panels and tiles on the floor that retained heat - no need for heat in your house...floor did it. Keep the house cool in the summer in Vegas - aka desert? The windows filled up with styrofoam - keep out the sunlight.

No pool heaters - solar panels on the roof of your house took care of that. The walls were extra insulated to keep cool in - heat out.HMM...What happened to these homes? Why did they disappear?

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.