The big problem is that practically nobody understands how electricity works. It is pathetic to see and hear the amount of misinformation being bandied about concerning the ideas for replacing crude oil and coal. The electric co-ops have tried for years to tactfully inform us that we have to use coal. People are apparently not listening.
The big problem is that practically nobody understands how electricity works. It is pathetic to see and hear the amount of misinformation being bandied about concerning the ideas for replacing crude oil and coal. The electric co-ops have tried for years to tactfully inform us that we have to use coal. People are apparently not listening.
The letter in the Dec. 11 issue ("What are energy alternatives?") is very much to the point. The big problem is that practically nobody understands how electricity works. It is pathetic to see and hear the amount of misinformation being bandied about concerning the ideas for replacing crude oil and coal.
The electric co-ops have tried for years to tactfully inform us that we have to use coal. People are apparently not listening.
Witness the fiasco the couple experienced near Mound City. (This was reported in the News-Press in April 2008 and again this March.) It is interesting that two professional adults believed that the sun alone could replace power lines. One wonders why they didn't ask what would happen when the sun goes down. …
... more [truncated due to possible copyright]The letter in the Dec. 11 issue ("What are energy alternatives?") is very much to the point. The big problem is that practically nobody understands how electricity works. It is pathetic to see and hear the amount of misinformation being bandied about concerning the ideas for replacing crude oil and coal.
The electric co-ops have tried for years to tactfully inform us that we have to use coal. People are apparently not listening.
Witness the fiasco the couple experienced near Mound City. (This was reported in the News-Press in April 2008 and again this March.) It is interesting that two professional adults believed that the sun alone could replace power lines. One wonders why they didn't ask what would happen when the sun goes down. Hmm ...
The irony of this particular incident is that the woman involved is a self-proclaimed activist who claimed (to me) she was largely the reason a proposed plan for a coal-fired facility was killed.
It is people like this who have captured the attention of the media and are having a field day talking about something they don't even begin to understand. The wind farm approach is pouring a vast amount of our resources into a questionable project. I would like to see a financial report of any of these operations.