They can still use single use paper bags, but not plastic.
https://www.nj.gov/dep/get-past-plastic/
Camp
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I thought it was the entire LGBTQIRA+ and Green Climate agenda with a pandemic on the side…
Samm
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How is natural gas a “transition fuel”? The products of combustion (in addition to water vapor) emitted from natural gas-fired boilers and furnaces include nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), trace amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2), and particulate matter (PM).
Samm
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What’s being done to address the mounting problem of worn out wind turbine blades?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills
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Jezcoe
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Compared to other forms like coal… and this is only in comparison… the carbon footprint and pollution level is lower.
We would still need spot demand energy while the grid gets updated and knowledge base if how the sustainable power generation technologies work at larger and larger scale.
I am not an absolutist. We can’t abandon overnight, but we do need to move away from it sooner rather than later.
WuWei
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There’s nothing wrong with coal.
NJBob
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Cool article, thanks.
Perhaps some clever architect can find a way to use the worn out blades to build housing for the homeless.
Samm
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What you need is something like this, not the type that look like spotlights.
Or
Samm
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Or use them as corduroy to build roads across swampy ground.
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If you go to Walmart, take a glass bulb out from it’s package, and break the glass, what you will find are four glass-coated yellow rods. Those are LEDs that radiate light in all directions.
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Of the three states of matter fossil fuels come in:
- Coal produces the most CO2.
- Oil produces the median amount of CO2.
- Natural gas produces the least CO2.
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Samm
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Yes, but less “dirty” is still dirty, and electric vehicles are not completely “clean.” (Keeping in mind that CO2 is NOT dirt.)
Everyone understands that a small quantity is still a non-zero quantity, Samm. Are you expecting us to be deep greens?
Samm
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No, I’m expecting people to be fully informed as to the ramifications of what they promote before they force major changes onto the whole of this country.
WuWei
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Stick to your bags and bulbs! Don’t let them bully you! 
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Apparently so. I like the first one. I have 100W LED lights outside and none of them look like spotlights. They are all bulb shaped and do the job just fine.
LOL, I am bringing plastic bags to the supermarket. That’s a given. As far as the bulbs go, I’d rather a LED equivalent due to how long they last.
WuWei
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Use whatever bulb you want. Don’t let these yahoos tell you what you need.

It’s pretty dirty.
Although modern chemical scrubber technology helps out a lot. But it’s still dirtier than natural gas.
I’m a nuclear fan, so I’m rooting primarily for nuclear. Even though financially speaking it doesn’t make sense half of the time due to the enormous start up costs.
Which that part is improving thanks to new compact modular reactor designs.
I think it’ll take a combination of everything for the energy demands of the future. But I can see nuclear, hydro, and solar carrying the heaviest loads.
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