Why doesnt the US get serious about global warming and start using solar powered electric chairs to off thier?

Question

scumbags?
Best answer wins a dolphin fishing holiday off the coast of Iran protected by the UK navy.

Answer 1

*sighs* The US is working on everything you just said. But were kind of busy with the "War in Iraq" "illegal immigration" etc.........................

Answer 2

Every time something big is proposed, you have politicians going into NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) mode.

There was a move to put windmills in a high wind area on the East Coast. The only problem was that the best spot was off Massachusetts and Ted Kennedy is one of its senators. He blocked all legislature on the subject because he wanted to "protect" the view from the shore. Many of the California windmills were taken out of service when their tax breaks stopped.

Garbage dumps will produce methane from rotting organics. An attempt to "mine" that methane about 20 years ago was approved in theory but blocked in practice by the people who lived near the facility that was to be used in this effort.

Nuclear plants are almost totally neutral with respect to global warming (no greenhouse emissions). Yet the fear mongers try to scare the general public on its radiation effect. In truth, one year of watching television for a few hours a night will give you as much radiation as living at the border of a nuclear site for the same year. Even the people who lived in the town nearest the Three Mile Island nuclear accident got a dose that was too low to measure. In addition, the claim that "spent" fuel is deadly for 250,000 years is true only because the same politicians object to cutting costs and reducing the radiation time by reprocessing the fuel to recover uranium and plutonium for new fuel.

Some forty hydroelectric dams were destroyed over the last ten years to make it easier for certain fish to go upstream. Again, a political non-solution to make a vocal group happy.

As for the solar power, it has about the same death rate (deaths per megawatt-hour produced) as coal. Coal deaths are mainly from cave-ins. Solar deaths are mainly from accidents in installing the units on roofs and going up to those roofs to keep the panels clean. (A solar panel looses a lot of effectiveness after it has been used by a flock of seagulls for bombing practice).

This all sums up to the simple truth that while most people view fighting global warming as a good thing, many others do not want the effort to be in their area.

As an aside, in the mid-1970's the worry was about global cooling and the fear of a new ice age because the Earth's temperature was dropping.

Answer 3

Because money makes the world go 'round. Most questions of this nature can be explained by MONEY.

It's a proven fact that cars can be made to run on things other than gasoline or diesel. Thousands of people will be put out of work, including politicians, if there were no more cars to run on these fuels. Do you have any idea that things that can be fixed, are not fixed simply because politicians are backed financially by companies such as these? Politicians receive campaign funds from companies trying to ensure their own survival, they are basically paying for the politician to vote against one bill or another that would put a company out of business.

The same works with drug companies. Many diseases are preventable or curable. But they remain treatable by drugs because there is money in it. Show me a drug company like Phizer who sells natural remedies. Do you know why they don't? Because "natural" remedies are just that, natural, so therefore you cannot get a patent. Which means that any old joe can sell a natural remedy and make money.

Answer 4

The US doesn't get serious about global warming, because the majority of the US believes in a God and does not need a false religion. And, most states don't use the electric chair any more, most use an injection, similar to what killed all the people in Jamestown, the first and (hopeful last) American socialist experiment.

Answer 5

Your solar powered car will go about 30MPH for about 20 miles before the batteries run out. And it will take all day to charge up for another 20 mile drive with any solar panel small enough to fit on the roof of a car. Cheaper and almost as fast to ride a bicycle, if you are in shape. But if you have the money to spend on such a car, you can buy one. But they are hard to find because there is no market for such a poor car.

Answer 6

I would like to warm up the planet a little by dropping about 60 megatons on Iran

Answer 7

Actually EV's (electric vehicles) have come a long, long way. With the new Lithium battery's these cars are running faster, further and take much less time to fully charge.

Answer 8

I love how everyone thinks they could run the government better than those in office, but they do not participate in the governmental process.

Answer 9

Because solar powered cars are impractical.

Answer 10

Or they could use huge running mills powered by prisoners themselves!!