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Dear PJM folks,

Don’t get so excited about the collapse of Spain’s green bubble. First, GW is real and here to stay. That little graph at the weather station atop Mt Mauna Kea has shown a steady increase in C02 ppm since the 1950s, and C02 will trap heat and cause the temperature to rise. Whatever natural mechanism is slowing down (IPCC and CRU morons aside) the process is likely to be eventually b overwhelmed by continued CO2 dumping into the atmosphere on our part. Personally, I like the green tech part of Obambi’s “stimulus” package. Not because of any green tech power plants that might be built, but because of the large amount of R&D money that’s being thrown at alt energy tech. Check out places like MIT’s Technology review and Wired.com. Sooner or later, somebody or a lot of somebodies in the USA , Japan, China, India, Germany, etc, are going to make the breakthroughs that will make a lot of alt energy tech feasible, and you want the USA to be well-positioned to take advantage of the situation WHEN it happens, so spend the money on R&D. However, a better way to have spent the stimulus cash would have been a steady amount of money poured into alt energy, instead of this one big burst of money. Eight, ten billion a year over a period of years like Bill Gates recently suggested. I agree with Benton, though nukes have to be a big part of our energy future. They’re the only clean, steady mega-level power source we have. My favorite scenario is nukes and some alt-tech for electricity, combined with plug-in hybrid cars using algae-derived biofuel. Finally, I live an work in S. Korea. Samsung just announced a $20 billion green tech program. There aren’t a lot of unrequited socialists here in Seoul. The main problem with Obambi’s energy policy is that producing new energy for the the USA was only one of its two primary goals: the other was to increase the Dems economic and social control over the life of every American.