Comments on: State Retirement Funds For Energy?

By: Zippo

Zippo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:50:56 +0000

1% and then only when it’s warm. LOL

http://www.startribune.com/local/north/83506647.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMcyaL_nDaycUiacyKUHDYaGEP7eyckcUs

By: Zippo

Zippo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:20:38 +0000

Nuke: The French are dumping spent fuel in a very deep Atlantic trench. The Russians where dumping in the not so deep Baltic until someone noticed the tropical fish in the area. We are dumping, but don’t know where yet. We could sell it to China but they would sent it back to us in kids toys and chemical hand-warmers.

I like Nuke too, but we need to buy a little island that wants the spent fuel. We had several but the Navy blew them up in the 1950’s.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:42:43 +0000

What I can’t seem to understand is why we aren’t seeing more Nuclear Power generation in this country. It seems to work in other parts of the world just fine. The numbers floating around for France is 90% Nuclear. It does not depend on the wind or sun, the fuels can now be reprocessed into new fuel.

I will admit I know little about how much radioactive waste is generated and how it is currently dealt with but there are no greenhouse gases emitted by Nukes.

The one reason I have heard about Nuclear Power generation in the USA going nowhere is funding is hard to obtain due to all the politics and unknown challenges not a problem elsewhere.

Anyone out there have any solid info on this subject?

By: Nemo

Nemo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:20:42 +0000

So let me get this straight, you want a goverment employee to voluntarily decrease his/her retirement PENSION (not a 401K)for what ammounts to a 3-5% CD (one time pay out?)?

Talk about short sighted.

By: Cecil

Cecil — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:35:13 +0000

Dumbest idea I’ve seen this week. Ick! Encourage retirement investing on a dying horse (global warming alarm-ism). Brilliant.

I doubt this could possibly happen in a 401K/503. A loan on a 401K to invest in green somethings. They can’t be serious.

Then again, if you want to buy a green trolley for retirement… I’ll take the other side of the trade, once I figure out how to sell you one.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:01:56 +0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/02/hacked-climate-emails-flaws-peer-review

EDITOR NOTE–This link is mostly old news and not part of THE Guardian in Boise we we all know and love.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:54:36 +0000

While I like the idea and think it could work in the private sector as well. I would have to question if now is the right time.

PERSI has gone from being 113% over funded to 25% under funded in the past in less than ten years. Effective July 1, 2011, employee/employer contribution rates will increase by 5.31% over a 3 year period.

PERSI is having problems paying out current retirees so more cash taken from the system could be disasterous at this time.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:42:32 +0000

Spend now and hope for welfare money in retirement is never a good idea. Turn the heat down a bit and drive a little slower is the cheapest green you can have right now.

The big AlGore hoax has finally been exposed and published by the “credible” media outlets that tried so hard for so long to propagate the unbelievable. Now that the crooks are hanging their pals out to dry, it will clear the way for real climate science. In a few years we’ll have real data that says the temperatures go up and down in numerous intermeshed cycles long and short and a bunch in between. We will hear about factors like instability of our orbit, changes of solar output, volcanic activity, and minor man made issues too. Most importantly, the focus can be on pollution and the worst polluters on the globe; who are also the same countries that we gave our best core jobs to by the way. Also the same countries who’ve been bankrolling the big lie and demanding immunity from the impending restrictions too.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:38:34 +0000

Bob, when you use the term “retirement funds”, are we talking 401 (k) funds or otherwise? Some 401 (k)’s allow for loans of an employee’s 401 (k) money for home purchase or college tuition for the employee’s kids. The employee then pays himself back by making extra payments into the 401 (k). Such loans for renewable energy purposes sounds like a good idea.