Here come the trouble makers, again!!!

Everyone knows that the planet is encountering a mass number of carbon dioxide emissions especially by industrialized nations. Yet to save some money countries like Germany and Italy are going to build more coal plants, which happen to be the biggest producers of coal emissions on the planet. The executives claim that these new factories are going to be “clean” factories but that is rarely the case with a coal plant. The plan is to not release carbon into the atmosphere but to capture it and store it underground, a method that has never been accomplished at such a grand scale. And, the method itself is too expensive, costing billions of dollars, unless this method is exercised there will not be “green coal plants”.

For example, the US was attempting to used the compress and store method in Illinois but the pilot project went over its budget of $950 million to $1.5 billion this year so the program was terminated. The problem is that if the storing of coal were ever possible than what would poor countries do, seeing that their government will not have enough money to pay for the extra ten to twenty percent increase in building the plant. And, for countries like India and China that have a new plant opening almost every week that would be impossible to afford. Another concern is how to store the coal, because if it were ever to leak it could be as catastrophic as a nuclear leak thus harming thousands or even millions of people. Second the Enel, the company who is building the plant, says that they will begin to work on a productive plan by 2015 and hope they will finish by 2020. But by then the plants would have produced thousand of tons of carbon to be released to our atmosphere.

There are some good things about the plants, like nitrous oxide that is converted into ammonia and coal ash and gypsum are sold to cement industries. But in the end there is more ill done than good, so on that token they should reconsider other method of developing energy. Because if they are doing this just to save a buck well I guess that buck is going to go a long way once there is no planet or people. 

A New Era

In regard to Brittany’s blog on the subject about Sen. Obama being more qualified than Sen. Clinton to be the future commander in chief I will have to agree with her because as qualified as Sen. Clinton may be I just think that most of the nation will be to preoccupied with a woman running the country as oppose to the president conducting federal politics. Also these are now times in which many groundbreaking events are happening. For example, these being the first election in which a white female and an African-American male are running for the democratic nomination and ultimately for the presidential election come November. So we should be able to see beyond the sex and color of the democratic nominee and just listen in on what issues concern each individual and be aware that they both seem to have a common feel on how to go about each issue, whether it be health care or the war in Iraq they share many similarities. I just feel that if Sen. Hillary does win then it would be easier for John McCain to “crush” if you will Sen. Clinton. Because if McCain has to go up against Sen. Obama than there might be a tighter race than most people think and it might be as close as the 2000 presidential election. And I don’t know about you but I’m still kind of skeptical about the result during that election. Also to agree with Brittany on the whole bid about Sen. Clinton having more experience than Sen. Obama, I don’t know why people think that she will be a better president than Sen. Obama because they will both face a new wave of question because of the fact that they are both minorities plus according to what I remember I think it was Bill Clinton who was president not Hillary. Furthermore, I just see it being easier for Sen. Obama because he would just be another one of the “fellas”. And, it sad to say but true that men really don’t take orders from women very well thus given Sen. Clinton a greater disadvantage if she were ever going to set foot in the oval office as the boss. Another thing is that the article in the New York Times does believe that Sen. Clinton will be a better president but it seems to me that Sen. Obama has conducted himself very eloquently in all of his speeches and on a personal note I really don’t care about his personal beliefs or what church he attends. So good luck to whom ever may win the bid.