It is okay to call a skeptic a denier (”Denier, denier, planet’s on fire!”) as in Holocost Denier, but you seem to take offense at calling a Believer a watermellon?

i don’t take offense. i point out that when you randomly accuse people of being mass murderers because they’ve called you a giant partisan idiot, it makes you look like a giant partisan idiot.

Thin skin?

of course. poke your own. very thin.

The moon controls our tides and many of the natural cycles on our planet. Turning it into a radioactive second sun might not be the best idea.

If solar were competitive today, that would be good news – I’d hang out my shingle again, if I can find it (Its been 20+ years). Do I tell my clients to see Al Gore to collect the carbon credits? How exactly do those credits put bread on my table?

In all honesty, my only bitch about nuclear power, and has been for most of my adult life, is the waste. If the waste could be cheaply transported to a lunar dump site, then I could support replacing all our oil and coal fired electric generating plants with nuclear. It would be as a very expensive insurance policy, just in case there were actually anything to the CO2 hysterics.

Right now I’m trying to figure out a way to capture all the C02 that escapes when I drink my Miller Lite. After that, I’ll work on the lunar dump problem.

The price of oil doesn’t affect the competitiveness of solar — the two are not currently fungible.

The good news is that solar is competitive now, either with a carbon price or subsidies comparable in value to that given to all other energy sources.

And “solar’s close”? It was “close” back in the early 80’s when I was a partner in Applied Solar Engineering Inc. We designed and built quite a few systems in Texas, including several in oil fields.
Check out http://www.wikipatents.com/4479486.html for one of my patents. When Reagan ended the solar subsidies our firm went belly up.

If solar cannot compete without subsidies, with oil at $135/barrel, it will never be “close”.

Some time ago, the republican party used to be the one people love and trust more in. The thing is, the amount of difference only shows how unscientific this whole global warming debate is, from both sides…

The science is already politized enough without the people taking part in it. Just let it be and concentrate on the science please. Also get Al Gore out of all this if you can.