The State of the Union Address and GE Ecomagination

Folks,

I confess that I neither watched nor read Obama's State of the Union address. Frankly, the man is an egotistical idiot. That alone disqualifies him as being THE antichrist. But with his promotion of baby murdering, sodomy and the rest of the immoral filth of this wicked generation, he is certainly AN antichrist in the tradition of 1st John 2:18-23.

As usual, Dr. Pournelle of the Chaos Manor web site has excellent commentary at the following web pages:

State of the Union
State of the Union: Education: Path to Nowhere
Green Energy and Ham

A few excerpts from Dr. Pournelle's analysis of Obama's green energy policy are in order:

Now if Green Energy meant a real campaign to build nuclear power plants -- even a Federal nuclear TVA rather than a reform of the red tape bureaucracy that prevents any actual construction -- we might be able to swallow the high speed rails as the Cold Warriors swallowed much of the Great Society as the price for being allowed to fight the USSR. That, however, doesn't seem to be the process. Green Energy will always end up meaning wind, bio, and solar, none of which are going to produce low cost energy to spark a new industrial revolution. So it goes...

...The end of this game is loss for the Republicans. Obama is hoping to rope in enough Republicans to give a national unity face to his plans for Green Energy and high speed trains; and Green Energy always means solar, bio, and wind, with perhaps a soupcon of tide, along with endless studies of nuclear. All told it will not produce enough energy to run a first world economy in your lifetime, but it will redistribute wealth, and not in any equalitarian way. The end result will be a new class structure, with enormously wealthy and powerful on top, civil servants in the middle, and everyone else much worse off. Equal, but not doing so well.  Big central planning ventures always end that way.

It is interesting to note that now we are seeing an increase in all sorts of General Electric commercials on the television about its greatest, technological prowess and green energy "ecomagination" ideas. This is to be expected given the fact that Obama has rewarded GE CEO Jeff Immelt with an economic advisory position in his Administration for the fine service rendered by GE's MS NBC in promoting the godless liberal progressive agenda of utter wickedness. In the meantime, while GE promotes wind power, its initiatives to build "ecofriendly" Advanced and Economically Simplified Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR and ESBWR) in the United States are stalled in neutral. Twenty year investments that benefit the country are of no interest to Jeff Immelt whose concern lies with next calendar quarter's profit and how much political power he can obtain by ingratiating himself with that antichrist in the Whitehouse. Oh yes, GE is resubmitting its ABWR certification to the US NRC, only after Toshiba submitted its certification (what an embarrassment that is!).

No, folks, all of the following information is freely available in the public domain (e.g., US NRC, GE's public web site, news media releases, etc.) GE in the 1990s came up with this concept of an Advanced Boiling Water Reactor. Instead of having external Reactor Water Recirculating Pumps, then were put internal into the reactor vessel, obviating the need for jet pumps in the annular region and all the problems they cause. The US NRC certified the design, but none were built in the US. Instead, they were built in Japan and Taiwan. Toshiba helped with the building in Japan. Then as GE saw natural gas rise in ascendancy in the 90s, and lack of sufficient revenue from nuclear, it sold the rights to the ABWR design to Toshiba. No one ever thought that a few years later Toshiba would buy GE's competitor, Westinghouse, and nobody thought that a US nuclear utility would every have Toshiba and Westinghouse build a Boiling Water Reactor. Yet that's exactly what happened. The South Texas Project will be a GE ABWR built by GE's competitor. So when Toshiba and Westinghouse recently submitted the ABWR design for re-certification, that took GE by surprise caused much embarrassment. Thus, GE had to submit its own bid for recertification. In the meantime, GE is all so concerned with protecting its proprietary intellectual information.

While this is all going on, GE came up with a rehash of its old Simplified Boiling Water Reactor idea that it called "Economical" - hence ESBWR. The idea was reliance on natural circulation (obviating the need for forced Reactor Water Recirculation flow via pumps), and use of complete passive safety systems. It truly is an excellent idea and a great design. So some utilities signed up for it: Dominion, Entergy and Exelon. But when they requested GE to give them a fix price, GE couldn't asked them to pay to design the idea. That's like you or me going into the Toyota dealer and asking for a new car and him telling us we have to first pay him to design it. What horse manure! Of course the utilities backed out! Now ESBWR is stalled in neutral and going nowhere fast.

We can see from history that GE and more recently its current leader Jeff Immelt is just as clueless as that jerk in the Whitehouse. Thus, we have pontification on green energy and ecomagination commercials. Jeff can keep his ecomagination and shove it where sodomists love to go.

By the way, let's not forget that in the 50s, 60s and 70s GE was one of the biggest environmental polluters around. For example, it had a huge facility in Pittsfield, MA that freely dumped PCBs and all manner of other toxins into the ecosystem. Then  after it got all it could out of Pittsfield, having made that town utterly reliant on GE, it moved out, leaving the place economically and environmentally devastated. Now GE wants us to believe that it is environmentally friendly while it currently performs embryonic stem cell research with a firm in Britain (baby murdering), funds as charity social service organizations that provide abortion services (more baby murdering) and promotes the wickedness of same sex relationships as equality in marriage (sodomy). Instead of polluting the environment of the planet, GE now pollutes the environment of the soul. And this is all in line with Obama's State of the Union address. Free energy without resources (we call that ecomagination) and free sex without consequence (we call that diversity and tolerance) are both the hallmarks of Barack Hussein Obama and his lacky Jeff Immelt.