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Comment by Markie on July 15, 2008 at 9:28am

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Comment by Markie on July 15, 2008 at 9:25am

Thanks for the invite.... :o)

Comment by Supra on July 14, 2008 at 8:24am

im very glad to see that solar panels are being used, in time they will pay for them selves u wont have a big bill when it comes to the power. pg&e will be buying the power from you and that will help the dam out that u are building it next to. great job and ideas.

Comment by Nick Signore on July 13, 2008 at 1:51pm

This is a reply to some sentiments in the recent post of William Javier Nelson.

We can't be discouraged by the % of Americans who don't believe in global warming. There are many reasons to take action in energy: economic sustainability/growth, economic independence, national security, air quality, etc. The individual facts are obvious, the average American just needs help to add it all up.

Something else that brings hope is the change in generations. Kids these days don't doubt the energy crisis because this is what they know, and those baby-boomers (ex-hippies) are starting to feel guilty about what they've left behind (or so I like to think).

The interest/motivation is there, we just need to organize & channel this and keep it going in the right direction. We can't let what happened to Organic happen to energy - we need the government, or some higher authority, to keep big business working on honest complete solutions. That's what I worry about :)

Comment by Mike Johnston on July 13, 2008 at 10:14am

I am definitely a believer in hydro systems since gristmills worked so well on them in the past for so long.

Also passive solar heating and using trees for summer cooling are easy, inexpensive things that everyone can do.

The main thing is to make electrical and fuel production into a local thing instead of a vast corporate monopoly. This will give a huge boost to the economy in the form of jobs and in creating economic competition in areas where none existed before.

Comment by Mike McCarthy on July 12, 2008 at 10:36am

We also must consider the Cecil Report Findings in our plans to locate production facilities in town.

Comment by Mike McCarthy on July 12, 2008 at 10:24am

Beginning here... All Roads Lead Home we have to address the immediate needs of the community. It is unfortunate that we begin with a city that has had massive sections of it torn down in the name of urban renewal. We now are left with a pocketed, fragmented city that somehow must get re-connected with itself.

Comment by Mike McCarthy on July 11, 2008 at 7:47pm

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Comment by Mike McCarthy on July 11, 2008 at 9:11am

We have the Canals of Holyoke with differential height from Chicopee Falls/Holyoke Hydro Dam.

Holyoke has 31.5 MW Hydro Dam already in place. Our locations on the canals lends itself to being able to install more, smaller convential Hydro_electric Genrating Units. Somewhere in the 200 KW region.

Comment by DAVID GEARY on July 11, 2008 at 9:03am

Mike,
Sounds like a very exciting project and I would be interested in participating.

I do not know much about small scale hydo. I assume the local landscape must be condusive or a large water tank involved.

I know of some other technologies that would be very condusive for large scale energy storage, which in my mind, is a key ingrediant to successfull alternative energy initiatives.

Thank you,
David Geary, PE
DIRECT POWER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
VP of Engineering
dgeary@directpowertech.com
240.542.1080

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