USE – coal black market
July 3, 2009
Unintended secondary effects.
Obama desires to tax coal out of existence. Google [Obama coal “out of business”]
Coal is the base of all electric energy used in the world. What happens when the price doubles overnight?
Nevermind that millions of jobs wiped out, and new “Enrons” trading funny paper called carbon credits. That is f&(ing infuriating enough.
Nopherhole has three main choice as an electric utility.
- Take it up the a$$.
- Buy alternative energy that is priced at the second highest cost price, that is coal. [which has doubled in price]
- Think outside the buns.
Three is the USE space.
Three includes fibbing on the amount of coal used. The average Joe Wacko doesn’t realize that coal comes in different flavors. Some coal is just barely beyond disintegrating vegetable matter. At the other end of the scale is super hard, high carbon coal. The energy content is doubled for the hard carbon coal, typically from the Eastern US coal mines and higher in sulphur. A large proportion of utilities have switched [because of environmental regulation] to Western Coals, which have down to half the energy in them per ton.
Long story short, sneak some Eastern coal into the mix, but count it as Western Coal. All those heavily laden trains descending from Wyoming Western Coal mines go east will have return traffic loaded with some counterfeit coal from the East.
Three also includes buying coal energy from Canada and Mexico. A little wallet grease will go a long way toward having the source for the energy labeled as wind, solar, biomass, and burning SUV’s.
Getting that energy to the United States may involve [and it must if something is really flowing], huge, million volt direct current transmission lines going north and south. These will be built through areas that have less than one person per square mile. Won’t that be lovely.
Aha you say, nopherhole forgets that North Dakota can build huge wind farms and hook those up to the huge, million volt direct current transmission lines. Wrong you wacko. If nopherhole builds a coal plant in Canada and then builds huge, million volt direct current transmission lines, nopherhole builds those lines to carry its energy only. Why? to add one more kilowatt to a huge, million Volt direct current transmission line traversing land with one person per square mile involves building huge facilities that cost $millions. Well, you say, the wind energy can pay to hook up. Wrong! Wackos complain that wind farms paying their fair share is wrong. It should be FREEEEE.
Three also includes doing stuff to the coal that some might consider “Thinking outside the buns.” Coal comes with water in it. Boiling off the water in the fire sucks up energy. So nopherhole dries his coal more to get more energy with the same amount of carbon. Nopherhole can’t think of an easy way to do this. Western coal, if it contacts too much air, spontaneously bursts into flame. And it’s a Hydrogen flame which is hard to detect. The first fatality is on Obama’s train ticket to hell.
Three also includes throwing other stuff into the fire. Mostly money, but tires, mulch and the morgue’s John Does come to mind.
Time to Drill – Clean the Environment
June 19, 2009
With friends we now have in the Arab world and South American commie states, it is now safe to undertake the largest oil spill cleanup on the planet. Within 200 miles of the shores of America lies an oil spill numbering in the billions, no trillions, of barrels.
We can clean it up. It lies in pools below the surface of the planet, but if we can transfer it through some process that makes it into something else, like polyethylene water bottles, we can protect the world for at least seven hundred years.
While the process may have to be repeated as these pools have been proven to refill as tests of available molecules in presently tapped pools have proven, we must start now. By sequestering carbonated water in the polyethylene bottles, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could be reduced for at least seven hundred years, AND, give us the ability to fine tune the global climate by shaking up some bottles occasionally.
Finally, the climate would never change, it would stay a constant seventy two degrees with rain only at night, in Camelot! Those are the legal laws!
nopherhole
Pious Black Chick Visits Church
June 9, 2009
Here emerging from the Westminster Abbey.
New Court Requirement – Know how to Salsa dance.
June 1, 2009
MLK got it right. These god-damned democrats are a disgrace.
Content of the shoe closet more important that content of character. After all, it is the background of the first Europeans in America, rather than the great melting pot that is important. America is the most welcoming country in the world. And Hispanics make up a big portion of it. But it is not a qualification for the Supreme Court.
Well, maybe Nopherhole has that wrong. The new Justice may use Colombian law to interpret her Constitutional oath.
Nopherhole.com
Havana in the USA
May 22, 2009
The only thing cool about Cuba are the cars left over from the Gambling Gangs still being driven.
Think about that when Obama shuts down automobile factories. People keep their cars longer, no new cars are made, and parts have to be improvised because the manufacturing has disappeared.
nopherhole.com
Unintended secondary effects – Closing dealerships is like Government Health Insurance Coverage.
May 21, 2009
Kansas City, where nopherhole lives, was home to thirty dealerships, which, with Obama as GM, will close. This leaves, nopherhole has been told, that about four or five dealerships will survive.
Nothing the federal government is going to do reduces the number of car problems people are going to experience. Now think of what happens here. Thousands of car repairs are still going to occur, but the number of dealership mechanics will decline markedly. Then tie that with the superguarantees that promise auto maker maintenance for some number of extended years.
Will the customer go without a car while waiting for a multimonth waiting line to clear? Remember, if the customer goes to the dealership, the fix is “free” – covered by warrantee. Go to an independent mechanic or shop and the repair will cost something more than nothing.
And many mechanics are going to be thrown into the independent mechanic shop work force. What happens to those folks?
Pray that something happens to Obama’s policy?
nopherhole.com
Nopherhole – blog why?
May 21, 2009
Nopherhole is sort of a more sarcastic version of me. But come back and find the speck of truth in some of the sarcasm, and you will occasionally be pleased.
Nopherhole doesn’t know who you are, so throw some comments my way.
Most recent posts point toward “what happens when you have a politically driven car company?”
What happens when that same company has no dealers in your town? Does a political agenda drive what cars models are maintained? Nopherhole has tied the announcement of Chicago as the Olympics game site tied to Obama firing GM’s GM in concert with the siting committee visiting Chicago on the same day. The siting committee has members from countries world wide. Obama has the strength to ruin each country’s economy by no longer making GM parts there.
The announcement of the site is to be in the Fall. Anybody out there think Obama will be portrayed in a positive light because of the choice? But the Chicago hard political arm will be flexed now for the result then.