Comments about ‘Utah activist urges use of alternative energy’

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) can also store solar energy for use at night. It's great that Utah has these salt caverns for energy storage.

The arguments against global warming are mute points even if they were sincere. Eventually we need sustainable power and right now nuclear has many drawbacks including political hypocracy for our opposition to other countirs having them.

There are plenty of renewable resources and public unused land that can be used for solar. Just look at the huge spaces between highways. Rooftops are ideal because they reduce the load on the grid and will avoid costly grid overhauls. I have 4.2 KW on my roof.

Most americans are not being thoughtfull about these issues and instead rely on biased thought leading by corrupted news sources.

There are no salt caverns in Utah. There are, however, some salt domes that can be "mined" to produce a cavern. Lets not talk about the cost, or where all that salt water will be disposed of. I am sure they will be developed for Nat Gas storage before CAES.

Every power plant involves extensive planning. Wind Power can never generate enough electricity to pay for itself at current rates. Charge fifty cents a kilowatt hour and watch people abandon wind quickly. it is a losing proposition only built for carbon credits, tax credits and PR value.

for the person that doesn't have to do it themselves. Alternative energy is great until you actually try to use it. There is a place for it, but to think we can run our society on wind and solar power is ridiculous. Those who disagree are welcome to build alternative power plants and prove me wrong. The only non-carbon practical power source that exists now is nuclear, and this article and environmentalists in general have made their opinions clear on that. If they truly believe that anthropogenic global warming is the danger they claim, they would back nuclear power to the hilt.

Why don't the 'activists' build these neat power plants, instead of telling others what they should do?

If there's one thing this country needs it's self sufficiency and non-dependence on foreign oil. I hate seeing obama waste all this money on bailouts and payouts and road building when something as simple as creating jobs by putting money into something that will give us cheap energy that will also stimulate the economy as people don't pay out the nose for electricity and natural gas. T Boone Pickens has a great strategy for becoming energy independent and politicians need to embrace it.