Solar Panel Airplanes?
Was Charlie, I think, who brought this one up - just a great line.
He was watching a show called The O’reilly Factor, but it was by a guest host, a woman named Laura, filling in. The topic was “energy”.
Charlie:
“the guest was pitching, you know, the usual Democrat line (I’m paraphrasing Charlie, here, of course) ’It’ll take too long to get more oil into production, we need instead to develop (and deploy, I assume…) new technologies, and … well, you know, stop global warming, save the planet, make amends for our (the US of A) overconsumption and excessive success, etc., etc.”
Well, this chick, this Laura whatever (her name is Ingram, btw) says to this guy:
“Would you really wanna fly to New York on a solar-panel airplane?”.
I tell you, I almost died laughing! Solar powered airplane. Really, that’s what it comes down to. Like, what if they run into a cloudy day? That is so right on!
He’s got one heck of a point, eh? Let’s see: We don’t need oil or gas (actually, most planes use diesel) but “alternatives”! After all, the best we could hope for is more oil in ten years (truth is, two to five, really, but…) so instead, let the prices go to hell, cuz the real answer is “alternatives”. So WHAT alternatives? Especially for such as airplanes? Even if we could erase our existing airplane inventory and build something else (in less than 10 years???), what would it be? Solar? I think not. Nuclear? “Excuuuuuse me!” the greenies would say. Wind? Uh, that’s sorta backward. And certainly not coal (ah yes, the good “steamer” version of a 737…). Oh yes, there is ethanol. Our foodstuffs sacrificed for the LA to NY flight… Or solar?
Well, Charlie took the lady’s point well. And had quite a laught. EVERY time he repeated it with someone else.
