We need to see real reform from Washington

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Permalink Reply by Jessee McBroom on January 31, 2009 at 11:16am

Hello Lawrence. Jessee here. I think the State of CA is actually doing quite a good job as a leader in energy efficiency with their PIER Program. They address and solicit innovation and invention in a number of areas and will be in the forefront in the development and applications of "Smart Building and Smart Grid Technology" as well as numerous other aspects of energy production. I lived there for 15 years plus; and do miss being a part of all the innovation and action towards rational approaches to this energy problem. If you are not familiar with the "Publiic Interest Energy Research" Program; just search it up on the Internet.

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Murray on March 13, 2009 at 5:59am

Thanks for the info Jessee

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Murray on March 13, 2009 at 5:58am

Finally some very good news
After a modest decline Monday, three days of buying, the markets are up almost 10 percent adding 1 trillion dollars back into the wealth that has shrank for over a year. The markets are seeing levels not seen since ‘97 or even 1996.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said it was considering reinstating the "Uptick Rule." The rule, eliminated in 2007, aimed at curbing short-selling by only allowing it when a stock edged higher. Investors are well aware of these rules and much of this week's rebound can be attributed to covering short positions as traders have been covering short bets by buying stocks.
The House Financial Services subcommittee on capital markets after much talk the past weeks over mark-to-market accounting rules announced that the independent Financial Accounting Standards Board "could have the guidance in three weeks".
As with most recessions with 6 months to a year to end, the Commerce Department said retail sales dipped by a modest 0.1 percent in February and the Labor Department reported that first time claims for unemployment benefits rose last week to 654,000 from 639,000 the week before.


We could see a retail sales number bigger than expected as consumers spend tax rebates and the economic stimulus kicks in.

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Murray on April 7, 2009 at 7:30am

And the markets went up 20%. That is a good year. We are starting to see money move and creditors taking shares in companies we thought were going out of business like Ford (F). The jobs picture is not improving, but some companies are hiring and the stimulus will put some to work very soon. But we have to see Washington DC make more changes. And keeping the pressure on them is what PickensPlan is about. Otherwise, we get the same result: no innovation, billions of dollars to prop up other governments, with the peak of oil globally prices will skyrocket once out of the recession.

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Murray on April 19, 2009 at 1:02pm

U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used to make ceramics and treat bipolar disorder; nitroglycerin is a heart drug and also used in explosives; copper shows up in everything from pipes to contraceptives.

Federal and industry officials say they don't know the extent to which pharmaceuticals are released by U.S. manufacturers because no one tracks them — as drugs. But a close analysis of 20 years of federal records found that, in fact, the government unintentionally keeps data on a few, allowing a glimpse of the pharmaceuticals coming from factories.

As part of its ongoing PharmaWater investigation about trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals in drinking water, AP identified 22 compounds that show up on two lists: the EPA monitors them as industrial chemicals that are released into rivers, lakes and other bodies of water under federal pollution laws, while the Food and Drug Administration classifies them as active pharmaceutical ingredients.

The data don't show precisely how much of the 271 million pounds comes from drugmakers versus other manufacturers; also, the figure is a massive undercount because of the limited federal government tracking.

To date, drugmakers have dismissed the suggestion that their manufacturing contributes significantly to what's being found in water. Federal drug and water regulators agree.

But some researchers say the lack of required testing amounts to a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy about whether drugmakers are contributing to water pollution.

"It doesn't pass the straight-face test to say pharmaceutical manufacturers are not emitting any of the compounds they're creating," said Kyla Bennett, who spent 10 years as an EPA enforcement officer before becoming an ecologist and environmental attorney.

Pilot studies in the U.S. and abroad are now confirming those doubts.

Last year, the AP reported that trace amounts of a wide range of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in American drinking water supplies. Including recent findings in Dallas, Cleveland and Maryland's Prince George's and Montgomery counties, pharmaceuticals have been detected in the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans.

Most cities and water providers still do not test. Some scientists say that wherever researchers look, they will find pharma-tainted water.

Consumers are considered the biggest contributors to the contamination. We consume drugs, then excrete what our bodies don't absorb. Other times, we flush unused drugs down toilets. The AP also found that an estimated 250 million pounds of pharmaceuticals and contaminated packaging are thrown away each year by hospitals and long-term care facilities.

Researchers have found that even extremely diluted concentrations of drugs harm fish, frogs and other aquatic species. Also, researchers report that human cells fail to grow normally in the laboratory when exposed to trace concentrations of certain drugs. Some scientists say they are increasingly concerned that the consumption of combinations of many drugs, even in small amounts, could harm humans over decades.

Utilities say the water is safe. Scientists, doctors and the EPA say there are no confirmed human risks associated with consuming minute concentrations of drugs. But those experts also agree that dangers cannot be ruled out, especially given the emerging research.

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Two common industrial chemicals that are also pharmaceuticals — the antiseptics phenol and hydrogen peroxide — account for 92 percent of the 271 million pounds identified as coming from drugmakers and other manufacturers. Both can be toxic and both are considered to be ubiquitous in the environment.

However, the list of 22 includes other troubling releases of chemicals that can be used to make drugs and other products: 8 million pounds of the skin bleaching cream hydroquinone, 3 million pounds of nicotine compounds that can be used in quit-smoking patches, 10,000 pounds of the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride. Others include treatments for head lice and worms.

Residues are often released into the environment when manufacturing equipment is cleaned.

A small fraction of pharmaceuticals also leach out of landfills where they are dumped. Pharmaceuticals released onto land include the chemo agent fluorouracil, the epilepsy medicine phenytoin and the sedative pentobarbital sodium. The overall amount may be considerable, given the volume of what has been buried — 572 million pounds of the 22 monitored drugs since 1988.

In one case, government data shows that in Columbus, Ohio, pharmaceutical maker Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc. discharged an estimated 2,285 pounds of lithium carbonate — which is considered slightly toxic to aquatic invertebrates and freshwater fish — to a local wastewater treatment plant between 1995 and 2006. Company spokeswoman Marybeth C. McGuire said the pharmaceutical plant, which uses lithium to make drugs for bipolar disorder, has violated no laws or regulations. McGuire said all the lithium discharged, an annual average of 190 pounds, was lost when residues stuck to mixing equipment were washed down the drain.

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Pharmaceutical company officials point out that active ingredients represent profits, so there's a huge incentive not to let any escape. They also say extremely strict manufacturing regulations — albeit aimed at other chemicals — help prevent leakage, and that whatever traces may get away are handled by onsite wastewater treatment.

"Manufacturers have to be in compliance with all relevant environmental laws," said Alan Goldhammer, a scientist and vice president at the industry trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

Goldhammer conceded some drug residues could be released in wastewater, but stressed "it would not cause any environmental issues because it was not a toxic substance at the level that it was being released at."

Several big drugmakers were asked this simple question: Have you tested wastewater from your plants to find out whether any active pharmaceuticals are escaping, and if so what have you found?

No drugmaker answered directly.

"Based on research that we have reviewed from the past 20 years, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities are not a significant source of pharmaceuticals that contribute to environmental risk," GlaxoSmithKline said in a statement.

AstraZeneca spokeswoman Kate Klemas said the company's manufacturing processes "are designed to avoid, or otherwise minimize the loss of product to the environment" and thus "ensure that any residual losses of pharmaceuticals to the environment that do occur are at levels that would be unlikely to pose a threat to human health or the environment."

One major manufacturer, Pfizer Inc., acknowledged that it tested some of its wastewater — but outside the United States.

The company's director of hazard communication and environmental toxicology, Frank Mastrocco, said Pfizer has sampled effluent from some of its foreign drug factories. Without disclosing details, he said the results left Pfizer "confident that the current controls and processes in place at these facilities are adequately protective of human health and the environment."

It's not just the industry that isn't testing.

FDA spokesman Christopher Kelly noted that his agency is not responsible for what comes out on the waste end of drug factories. At the EPA, acting assistant administrator for water Mike Shapiro — whose agency's Web site says pharmaceutical releases from manufacturing are "well defined and controlled" — did not mention factories as a source of pharmaceutical pollution when asked by the AP how drugs get into drinking water.

"Pharmaceuticals get into water in many ways," he said in a written statement. "It's commonly believed the majority come from human and animal excretion. A portion also comes from flushing unused drugs down the toilet or drain; a practice EPA generally discourages."

His position echoes that of a line of federal drug and water regulators as well as drugmakers, who concluded in the 1990s — before highly sensitive tests now used had been developed — that manufacturing is not a meaningful source of pharmaceuticals in the environment.

Pharmaceutical makers typically are excused from having to submit an environmental review for new products, and the FDA has never rejected a drug application based on potential environmental impact. Also at play are pressures not to delay potentially lifesaving drugs. What's more, because the EPA hasn't concluded at what level, if any, pharmaceuticals are bad for the environment or harmful to people, drugmakers almost never have to report the release of pharmaceuticals they produce.

"The government could get a national snapshot of the water if they chose to," said Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council, "and it seems logical that we would want to find out what's coming out of these plants."

Ajit Ghorpade, an environmental engineer who worked for several major pharmaceutical companies before his current job helping run a wastewater treatment plant, said drugmakers have no impetus to take measurements that the government doesn't require.

"Obviously nobody wants to spend the time or their dime to prove this," he said. "It's like asking me why I don't drive a hybrid car? Why should I? It's not required."

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After contacting the nation's leading drugmakers and filing public records requests, the AP found two federal agencies that have tested.

Both the EPA and the U.S. Geological Survey have studies under way comparing sewage at treatment plants that receive wastewater from drugmaking factories against sewage at treatment plants that do not.

Preliminary USGS results, slated for publication later this year, show that treated wastewater from sewage plants serving drug factories had significantly more medicine residues. Data from the EPA study show a disproportionate concentration in wastewater of an antibiotic that a major Michigan factory was producing at the time the samples were taken.

Meanwhile, other researchers recorded concentrations of codeine in the southern reaches of the Delaware River that were at least 10 times higher than the rest of the river.

The scientists from the Delaware River Basin Commission won't have to look far when they try to track down potential sources later this year. One mile from the sampling site, just off shore of Pennsville, N.J., there's a pipe that spits out treated wastewater from a municipal plant. The plant accepts sewage from a pharmaceutical factory owned by Siegfried Ltd. The factory makes codeine.

"We have implemented programs to not only reduce the volume of waste materials generated but to minimize the amount of pharmaceutical ingredients in the water," said Siegfried spokeswoman Rita van Eck.

Another codeine plant, run by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Noramco Inc., is about seven miles away. A Noramco spokesman acknowledged that the Wilmington, Del., factory had voluntarily tested its wastewater and found codeine in trace concentrations thousands of times greater than what was found in the Delaware River. "The amounts of codeine we measured in the wastewater, prior to releasing it to the City of Wilmington, are not considered to be hazardous to the environment," said a company spokesman.

In another instance, equipment-cleaning water sent down the drain of an Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. factory in Denver consistently contains traces of warfarin, a blood thinner, according to results obtained under a public records act request. Officials at the company and the Denver Metro Wastewater Reclamation District said they believe the concentrations are safe.

Warfarin, which also is a common rat poison and pesticide, is so effective at inhibiting growth of aquatic plants and animals it's actually deliberately introduced to clean plants and tiny aquatic animals from ballast water of ships.

"With regard to wastewater management we are subject to a variety of federal, state and local regulation and oversight," said Joel Green, Upsher-Smith's vice president and general counsel. "And we work hard to maintain systems to promote compliance."

Baylor University professor Bryan Brooks, who has published more than a dozen studies related to pharmaceuticals in the environment, said assurances that drugmakers run clean shops are not enough.

"I have no reason to believe them or not believe them," he said. "We don't have peer-reviewed studies to support or not support their claims."

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Murray on May 8, 2009 at 9:47pm

The USA created 4.5 million new jobs last month as the economy begins to shift from Bush's projects to Oboma's. But more than that we are see some real push toward energy indepandance. The problem is we lost 5 million jobs in the things we were known for like making - things the world wanted, before 1973 the world wanted our oil. Then it was our cars. Looks like we are not doing good in manufacturing what the world wants. THAT is why I am pushing for research money from Washington. We have to be productive- make things, and move forward. If we keep paying more for energy, more for health care, more for land, more for insurance, more for labor - we will be a third world nation by 2080. And bankrupt from not funding Social Security.

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Murray on June 30, 2009 at 5:20pm

Lets keep reminding Congress of what we want!
The United States of America Can Join the Revolution to Be Carbon Neutral
Continuing the worldwide climate change revolution!
Overture:
Congress has the opportunity, like California, to join the advantages of becoming carbon neutral advancing a worldwide revolution toward Cooling Earth. In some ways this new standard is superior to reducing passenger car emissions, setting renewable energy standards and starting a cap and trade system. However, as described herein, Carbon Neutral is an advanced idea achievable by stopping procrastination and making real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation plus reducing natural threats and mitigating numerous others. The proposed cap and trade systems like the one being debated by Congress similar to the Kyoto Protocols and the European System does not give customers choices like a pollution surcharge and progressive consumption tax. Congress must look at the desired outcome of a more stabilized cooler atmosphere yielding cooler ocean temperatures along with geo-engineering projects to remove greenhouse gasses.
Mankind needs energies and fuels that change the way we think and live with multiple beneficial outcomes and Congress needs to fund these types of research. Physics and chemistry can show that instead of burning fuel generating global heat, bold renewable energies are needed that have the potential to be massively produced at lower prices than fossil fuels. These needed energies, new fuels technologies, that will cool earth, will also create a whole new set of standards, new or renewed industries and a new and renewed international growing community.
The industrial revolution has put chemicals into the atmosphere like refrigerants, methane and carbon monoxide that are destroying Ozone. The sun emits UV radiation that would kill life on earth as we know it except Ozone blocks some of the UV radiation. Ozone also reflects sun energy back into space consequently reducing Ozone is one of the causes of global warming. Studies show that reducing these chemicals that deplete Ozone which is what the Montreal Protocol did is but a first step forward. CoolingEarth.org is proposing mining these chemicals out of the atmosphere yielding a double bang for our money. Yet with the peak of oil in the 1970’s, peak natural gas in the 1990’s, having mined cheep coal, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s and the peak of uranium in the 1990’s, we have no choice but to look into our past and dream of a new future. These changes will bring new jobs, new infrastructure and renewed commitments to make energy reliable and affordable.
Otherwise the exact disasters are only semi predictable. Our Nation must look beyond the big picture, beyond solar, wind, wave, small hydro-electric, geothermal, and beyond nuclear energy. Humans must understand many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endangered species, heat cities, and in some way cause more dramatic destruction: blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots-heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), dust storms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents, including benzene (destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates, cause air pollution), and plastics (clogging landfills, killing fish and birds) while most cars, airplanes, ships and electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases). Mankind has destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain and other forests, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases dust storms. Our determination to increase our fossil fuel production adds to this destruction. Fossil fuels are nonrenewable resource and with increasing demand over the next 30 years, gas will sell for $30 per gallon without major intervention.
To predict these disasters, climate models have been made. As the facts change these models have to be modified to go along with current evidence because there are so many variables. Here are some examples: adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming which is more prevalent at the poles. Humans are burning 85 million barrels of oil per day and want to burn more. Any physics student can tell you that once heat is made it can only be moved around. Thus the energy from 85 million barrels of oil adds to earths heat gain. Another variable is the amount of water in the atmosphere. Increase that amount of water and it warms earth’s surface, yet when clouds form that cools earth’s surface by reflecting sun energy back into space. But there are extremes of atmospheric water causing tornados, flooding, hurricanes or droughts. Even other natural events are warming earth adding to the destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes, volcanoes, sun spots and even lighting. A major lighting storm takes oxygen out of the atmosphere and the electric energy forms ozone which rapidly moves to the ozone layer but ozone near earth’s surface raises air pollution levels.
Humans are learning that to solve climate change including saving Earth’s Coral and the ice caps is going to cost a great deal of money, consume massive amounts of energy and take years. As with any investment the sooner we start the less the price tag will rise. Humans know what is cost effective and where better technologies are needed. Education is the first big step. Learning about energy conservation, the wise use of energy plus the right time of usage and energy efficiency, putting the right equipment in that uses the least amount of energy can change the debate. Efficiency is like buying a car that gets 60 miles per gallon, but still having to plan our trips and time of usage to conserve energy. Meanwhile, earth's resource of oil energy, estimated at 3 trillion barrels, is supplied by the Sun to Earth every 2 days. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of our fresh water. With 50 trillion dollars worth of stuff that needs oil, natural gas or coal to operate, it will take a generation to depreciate these assets and cause the shift humans demand for earth to continue to be a living planet. Estimates are that humans need 20 trillion dollars of renewable energy, conservation and new technologies by 2020. That puts our Nation’s share at 10 trillion dollars. Therefore, Congress has to put money where the best return on investments and where we get multiple beneficial outcomes.
Carbon Neutral Solution:
Carbon neutral technologies are being advanced and will continue to be a big part of this century’s greatest technological advancements. Some of these technological breakthroughs mean a new generation of concentrating solar power plants, hydro-electric power plants, wind turbines and wave power plants generators to dramatically increase supply efficiencies. With a new generation of geo-engineering projects combined with carbon neutral solutions, life on earth can continue but it will not be the same.
To give renewable energy, conservation and carbon neutral technologies a competitive advantage, we must have a pollution surcharge where we pay the real price (health effects, climate change and cleanup) for oil, natural gas, coal, bio-diesel, ethanol, cigarettes, cooling towers, and fossil fuel burning cars, electrical production (outside of renewable and hydro), trains and airplanes. New homes must meet high standards including evaporative cooling, rain water storage, solar heat and underground sinks. Commercial buildings must upgrade and new buildings meet new standards.
We can not reach stabilization without controlling flooding, and water usage. In fact, moving water and water heating are another part of climate change most people are not aware of. Heating water is the second largest portion of a residential energy bill. It represents roughly 38% of the natural gas used in both residential and commercial applications (in California). The importance of the water conservation is energy conservation. In California, roughly 19% of the state's electricity usage is to move water but more energy is needed from natural gas and diesel to move, treat, pressurize, and heat water. Many states need help in upgrade their water pumping stations to superconductor electric motors enabling a double the pumping capacity of state water works. Congress needs to help regulate ground water and all wells to remove some ground water in lean times and pump additional clean water in to help avoid flooding. Another flood prevention step is to upgrade sewage treatment plants to double storage capacity while mandating all treated water to be recycled keeping it out of ground water, the oceans, rivers and most lakes. Recycled water can be used to water lawns, golf courses, in cooling towers, agriculture and nonhuman consumption live stocks as this water contains ammonia fertilizer and is contaminated with many pharmaceuticals. In green houses this fertilized water plus carbon dioxide is a great way to sequester carbon. This will increase the yield of compost material which with water is the answer to desertification.
Our Nation has to meet the new electrical demands with conservation, new hydro projects, solar and to replace nuclear power plants. Estimates are that 40 gigawatts of concentrating solar steam turbine electric generating power plants are needed. Pushing the limits of heat transmission, new superconductor generators and using new heat recovery, are several breakthrough technologies that will improve solar concentrating power plants from 35 percent efficiencies up to 60 percent.
Hydro electric power plants including small seasonal ones are need all over the Nation. With over 1000 need by 2012; this put us far behind our needs as planning and construction can take 7 years. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy, flood control and cooling earth by evaporation. Our Rivers must be returned to living natural waterways and parks including new wetlands. A vital part of this plan to help earth be more sustainable is to return the water flow to the Colorado River and clean up the Mississippi River to bring life back in the gulfs.
Nationally, we have to move past the “turn it off mode” to conserve large amounts of energy. The debate has move to a smart grid and Energy Management Systems upgrades. Yet we still need to push for higher standards in appliances, new construction and in remodels. Programs like LEED are showing us a new way, but even they need better forecasting models.
One big advancement is a new comprehensive Energy Information Systems (EIS) that can monitor local weather, weather forecasts, building energy meters, and utility prices plus being capable of receiving demand response communications; load shed commands; and with the smart grid could signal in case of a power plant failure, brownout or planned blackout. With real time and forecast data, new systems are capable of saving as never before. And these systems will be available for home use as well as commercially. Your home computer will be able to talk to your programmable thermostat, refrigerator, electric meter, light switches, TV and any other device you want to add. Photo Voltaic (PV) with a small wind generator are being developed that will do real work like event your attic in the summer and run a small heater in the winter.
Compressed Liquefied Air (CLA) is a promising technology which has more potential energy per gallon than gasoline used by a car, but only because a car uses about 20 percent of the total energy from the gas to move. CLA is a viable form of power that allows the accumulation and transport of energy that can be made cheaper than fossil fuels. One CLA gas is liquid nitrogen; it is cold enough to improve our lives by allowing resistant free electron flow, also know as superconductors. Electric motors run better; generators produce more power, and transmission lines transfer more power. With superconductors supplying power, it is best to go to six phase power generation and transmitting system. CLA could power almost any device powered by gasoline today when used with other types of clean energy like batteries. Pneumatic electric superconductor car engines will end the fuel mileage standards debate.
Because not all good energy locations are good for electric production, CoolingEarth.org is advancing a new direct energy source to CLA. The technology is called Biosphere Cleanup MachinesTM (BCM). Where concentrating solar energy is available but high voltage transmission lines are unavailable, BCM’s can make CLA.
CoolingEarth.org is advancing new low altitude satellites, a cruse ships in the sky that sail endlessly in the jet-stream. These electric airplanes also known as Atmospheric Cleanup MachinesTM (ACM) will use PV Solar power to produce CLA. Beyond giving us laboratory in the sky, these airplanes remove Ozone depleting chemicals while releasing Ozone into the ozone layer. If you think the world is small, take a 7 day cruse around the northern hemisphere while using the jet fuel it would take you to fly from Seattle to LA.
Another CLA gas is hydrogen. If we can find a way to make or mine hydrogen, our lives will change for the better. Hydrogen can be used in a fuel cell for cars and trucks, provide electricity to homes, or generate power where it is needed. A hydrogen economy is one of the big ideas that can change our lives in was we have not thought of.
When CLA is then available, the USA must build a cross country superconductor electric high speed train capable of 250 MPH. CoolingEarth.org hopes California will work with Amtrak to build a high speed route from Mexico City to Anchorage, Alaska, starting with Los Angles to Stockton. Phase two will expand the route to Sacramento in the North and San Diego to the South. Incidentally, California must start by expanding the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) service to San Jose, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Stockton. The best way to take advantage of this extraordinary global warming solution by reducing fossil fuel burning is to expand BART from Sacramento to Monterey Bay through San Jose and link Sacramento Light Rail while expanding it to the Placerville, Roseville and Woodland. Congress must make clean transportation a cornerstone of reducing greenhouses gasses.
With so many good projects like wood recycling from old fences, counter-tops, cabinets, tree pruning, and construction materials, used lamp recycling, recycling concrete, and using engine oil, plastic, bio-waste, cosmetics, and used tires, sewage treatment floaters to make bio-fuels, synthetic gasoline or hydrogen, our problem is a lack of funding for all of them. That is why CoolingEarth.org is advancing a new cooperative where retirement systems, Social Security, Union funds, ETF’s and venture capitol groups can work together toward IPO’s. Profits and Wall Street will give investors a whole new array of stocks.
Conclusion:
With the peak of fossil fuel, natural events combined with a climate change depression not to mention the refugees, the world is headed for the worst economic downturn in recorded history, far beyond the dark ages and hundreds of times worse that the Great Depression. The bad news is we are using resources that do not yield productive results: America is investing in ethanol and clean coal; Indonesia is investing in palm oil; Canada is investing in tar sands. The plan to fix Social Security is to allow inflation to rise from two percent to four percent and more annually allowing gasoline to sell for $30 per gallon in 30 years.
All public schools must add online classes to conserve energy and many could add solar.
Congress has to have a plan to start the biggest cleanup in history: the atmospheric environment. For real climate change, look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. The good news is humans have started investing: Asia and North America are investing in nuclear; Europe, The Americas, Africa and Asia are investing in solar; China in hydro electric and world wide wind generation is expanding. The technology is available to create a new world with renewable energy, with the mess we made in the past in the atmosphere cleaned up and where we can control earth’s surface temperature. In this way oil could last for 1,000 years and gas will peak about $10 per gallon in 30 years. Clean air, clean water and clean earth are what we want with healthy humans and healthy biodiversity. California must plan where we are going and go where we plan. Humans can have control and can have economic growth.
Congress must give us the right regulations from good standards with excellent finance that advances new business associations with tax incentives and utility incentives including paying people for their intellectual property; moreover, we have the time to get this right, what we do not have is time to do it again. To help pay for these advances the USA needs a new progressive consumption National Sales Tax and a pollution surcharge. If you want to invest in environmental businesses, Congress must give us a tax break. This 10 year plan is comprehensive and one outcome is the USA ends our dependence on foreign oil partly by drilling for oil and natural gas which raises taxes and profits.
This is a grassroots movement that needs your help. CoolingEarth.org is the charity putting this information out. We need many helping minds and hands. We need business support teams and friends working on designs, patents and new technologies. We need help in getting the information out: to newspapers and politicians. We have to tell everyone. Please email me your ideas.
Lawrence Murray
Founder
CoolingEarth.org

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