We need a category called "THE WATER BOILER"

[DwayneGorniak]

This would be a great topic for a Water Boiler Category: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-po...-172311637.html

[lmorris]

http://voices.yahoo.com/five-disadvantages-wind-power-407926.html

 

No matter where we get our energy, there are going to be disadvantages and issues that others will try to exploit, and shun those who use it. The rest of the world needs to buck up and realize we humans have become dependent on this energy to get through the day. We didn't start the trend, but as a result we need to continue it.

[Jim Warman]

There are more "special interests" than you can shake a stick at. That guy doesn't want wind farms because he makes his money off fossil fuels. The other guy doesn't like tidal generators. Another guy says that making hybrid batteries causes more pollution than burning fossil fuels. Some guys defeat emissions controls thinking that reduced mileage is a sign of more pollutants.... and on and on and on.

 

We are gonna be swamped with opinions of all sorts and, unless we search for the facts for ourselves (it MUST be true - I saw it on the internet)- and even then we may cloud our own judgement with our pet picks.

 

Having said that, I can remember the 50s. When we landed in Canada at Quebec City, we boarded a train bound for Ontario. Now, I cannot remember all the details, nor can I imagine the time frame... but there are those things that stand out in a young childs memory.

 

I can remember getting a needle in my bum in an English hospital and I can remember little "flashes" of being on the rolling deck of a steamship in the mid-Atlantic... And I can certainly remember the train passing through a tunnel and the burning, choking smoke that somehow made it's way into the train car. I can remember the smog warnings on the evening news in the 50s and 60s. Los Angeles, Tokyo and other large cities had smog advisories and would even recommend that people stay indoors or wear masks.

 

Thanks to the efforts of scientists, engineers and designers, we are in a far better place than we once were and things will only improve if all of us, ALL of us, endeavour to reduce the size of our "footprint", carbon or otherwise.

 

Removing EGRs and DPFs are NOT the way we accomplish this end....

 

One thing that we do have to remember is that many of these are new technologies using new processes and new materials - there are bound to be some failures and there are bound to be some dead end streets.

 

All we can do is to be vocal about our preferences. Contact your politician. Ask tough questions. Don't accept non-answers.

 

The world is heading to be a better place and science is going to show us the way.