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We’ve been told that US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, is a genius. An absolute genius. The smartest man alive other than President Obama.
Chu’s latest brainstorm would have us combat global warming by painting everything white – roofs, roads, sidewalks, everything gets a coat of white paint.
Unfortunately, the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair did the math on this brilliant strategy:
The total area of the U.S. (50 states + D.C.) equals 9,826,630 km^2.
According to a 2004 study by the U.S. Geophysical Union, all constructed so-called “impervious surfaces” (buildings, roads, parking lots, roofs, etc.) in the USA total a combined 112,610 km^2. Which is a bit less than the total area of Ohio, a bit more than Virginia.
That means we’ve got about 1.14% for Dr. Chu to paint.
That should make a big difference.
This isn’t Chu’s idea. It was actually proposed last year by Hashem Akbari, a scientist based at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
Eco wackos assume the entire world looks like Manhattan. As anyone who’s ever flown over the country knows, it’s mostly empty. 98.86% empty, in fact.
Blair points out that Chu accentuated his hypocrisy by travelling to and from the meeting in a jet-black SUV.
Someone needs to find out if Chu owns stock in a paint company.
Source: Tim Blair/SyndeyDailyTelegraph
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This is stupid. He was advocating painting *roofs* white. Not everything. And painting a roof white can result in significant energy savings, simply because the house is being heated less by the sun.
STFU
Won’t all that paint put a bunch of chemicals in the air?
Damn, when it snows, the snow pile man won’t know what he’s plowing over.
wackyvorlon
Smart guy, and when it’s cold, since most of the US has cold seasons, it will cost a hell of a lot more energy to heat…oh, wait, you mean we didn’t get that far along the logic path? Ooops.
How about the environmental foot print of the paint, the paint cannisters, their costs of manufacture, transportation and removal? The chemicals given off while the paint flakes, heats and corrodes and then the constant need to reapply….we didn’t get that far in our analysis either, did we? Ooops again.
This is why the Left makes one mockery of it’s stupidity after another, it never thinks, it reacts on feelings, like a child with a temper tantrum and ADD.
Aww, crap, I wish this information was available earlier. I just got finished painting my roof white. It looks great…but now its raining and the paint is barely dry. The chemicals in the paint are now going down the roof, through the gutters and into the drain. Hopefully fish and frogs and birds and insects dont mind all the chemicals I just put into the environment.