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Tennessee for Sustainable Infrastructure and an Energy Independence Plan

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Tennessee for Sustainable Infrastructure and an Energy Independence Plan

Focus for local action and implementation strategies for building sustainable infrastructure

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee a designated Solar American City
Members: 109
Latest Activity: Oct. 21, 2009

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Discussion Forum

Eric Lykins

Your Home 8 Replies

Energy efficient Knoxville homes first in the country Knoxville homebuyers are getting a chance to buy the first affordable LEED houses in the country. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design,…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Apr. 10, 2009.

Eric Lykins

City and State Initiatives, TVA, ORNL 16 Replies

What is Tennessee doing?

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Feb. 28, 2009.

Eric Lykins

Wind 17 Replies

Small Wind Electric Systems: A U.S. Consumer's Guide produced for the Tennessee Valley Authority We in East Tennessee aren't exactly in the wind corridor, are we? Wind activities in Tennessee Small…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Feb. 24, 2009.

Eric Lykins

Batteries, Cars, Power Assisted Bicycles 19 Replies

A little research into batteries will tell you that the problem is not power but storage, and there has been a lot of experimentation with capacitors. A small Texas company called Eestor claims to ha…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Feb. 19, 2009.

Eric Lykins

LED lighting

Last week, the collective wires at Energy Industry Today began buzzing about an LED breakthrough at University of Cambridge. In a nutshell, from Treehugger: Colin Humphries' team at Cambridge Univer…

Started by Eric Lykins Feb. 3, 2009.

Eric Lykins

Hydrogen 5 Replies

I would like to welcome and encourage Greg Blencoe, CEO of Hydrogen Discoveries, Inc. (http://www.hydrogendiscoveries.com), which is a hydrogen pipeline start-up company that is based in Oak Ridge, T…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Jan. 14, 2009.

Eric Lykins

Coal - It's cheap and we can't get enough of it.

There is a lot of talk about coal in Tennessee since the Harriman incident A [URL="http://yosemite.epa.gov/oa/EAB_Web_Docket.ns issued last month[/URL] by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)…

Started by Eric Lykins Dec. 28, 2008.

Eric Lykins

Solar 19 Replies

Potentially the largest investment ever in the state of Tennessee, Clarksville selected for solar industry plant Knoxville designated a Solar American CIty For the first post, an attention grabber…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Dec. 14, 2008.

Eric Lykins

Supply and Demand: Make Demands at Change.gov 1 Reply

Change.gov is a unique new chapter of American history that you can be a part of. In addition to a weekly address with a user comment section, Obama's team provides a blog outlining meetings in the i…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Dec. 10, 2008.

Eric Lykins

Natural Gas 13 Replies

Natural gas has a friend in the White House, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel LNG/CNG got it's first big push for use as a vehicle fuel with the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan developed by the…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Nov. 13, 2008.

Eric Lykins

America's 53 Trillion Dollar Hole

53 Trillion Dollars That is the sum of the government's current liabilities and unfunded entitlement promises. It translates to $455,000 per American household - about 10 times the median annual inco…

Started by Eric Lykins Nov. 3, 2008.

Eric Lykins

The Grid 14 Replies

FREEDM Systems Center The Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center, headquartered on NC State University's Centennial Campus, is one of the latest Gen-III Engi…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Nov. 3, 2008.

Eric Lykins

Biodiesel / Ethanol / Alcohol / Methane 7 Replies

Home-Brewed Biodiesel Goes Prime-Time: article from Wired Magazine Do It Yourself Guide Liberty Agrifuels, Inc. "American Made, Local, Sustainable" Vehicle Conversions Restaurant Grease Removal Dr…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by KnoxBioBenz Oct. 20, 2008.

Eric Lykins

Legislation 29 Replies

Boone claims he’s been trying to get politicians to listen to him about energy since 1996, when he was asked to be the Texas chairman of Bob Dole’s presidential campaign. During a meeting with the ca…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Oct. 17, 2008.

Eric Lykins

OPB (Other People's Blogs) 1 Reply

If you find some good work, post a reply with a link. For starters, read Ron A. Rhodes An Empowered Organization to Fight America's Greatest Challenge - Complacency: July 16, 2008. I am reminded by…

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Oct. 9, 2008.

Danny Tran

What we can do to proliferate CNG

Here's a suggestion. Maybe it's a dumb idea, maybe not. Major companies in America like Coca Cola, Walmart, McDonalds, etc ... all have truck fleets. I'm not sure if they own their own truck fleets…

Started by Danny Tran Oct. 8, 2008.

Eric Lykins

Google

Clean Energy 2030

Started by Eric Lykins Oct. 6, 2008.

John Moats

New Wind and Solar web store

Hi all, My name is John Moats. My friends call me Turtle John. We've just opened a brand new web store. It is dedicated to low cost wind and solar equipment. Please give us a visit if you like what…

Started by John Moats Oct. 2, 2008.

Eric Lykins

CURRENT TENNESSEE GASOLINE SHORTAGE!!!!!! 2 Replies

Started by Eric Lykins. Last reply by Eric Lykins Oct. 1, 2008.

Jeff Thilking

E85 and other Bio Fuels: The pro's don't seem to outweigh the cons.

I was wanting some input on the subject of biofuels. I came across an interesting article that leads me to believe that besides lower emissions, which indeed are important, soy bean and corn based fu…

Started by Jeff Thilking Sep. 25, 2008.

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Richard Scott Barden Comment by Richard Scott Barden on April 27, 2009 at 1:20pm
Subject : Green Power Switch Program for Residential and Commercial customers of mlgw and tva

Date : Sun, Apr 26, 2009 05:45 PM





i have investigated the green power switch program with mlgw and TVA from which we
get all of our electricity. please if you get a chance go to www.tva.com and click on
the green power switch program tab and check out residential or commercial if applicable
and see if this is something you may want to add to your utility bill each month. the
only benefit is that you support our power generating giant to build more solar, wind,
methane,
and other renewable energy platforms to produce electricity.

TVA has built 12 wind turbines over in east Tennessee where there is an abundance of wind
which is confirmed on t.Boone pickens wind chart for the united states. we have a several
solar installations with one in Memphis at the bridge builders building next to st. Jude
hospital downtown.(i plan on attending a open house with a guided tour on may 28th in the
late afternoon and check it out, anyone interested in going with me and c.j. let me know)


by the way Linda and i were listening to the 102.3 FM oldies station out of Arkansas and
on the hourly news report the reporter announced a 300 million dollar wind turbine engine
plant in jonesboro, Arkansas. just announced on Friday.

i would think as the aged hydroelectric which the web site says is no longer reliable for
our long term needs that they (t.v.a.) start thinking researching and developing a bigger
position with wind and solar and go and talk to the people whom are already doing this
now not later but right now today in our country.

Linda and i recently attended the first downtown Memphis farmers market
and while i was standing back out of the crowd another guy was doing the same and we
struck up a conversation and i found out he his working on his p.h.d. in flood control
with the Army Corps of Engineers and while talking to him i pitched the idea of floating
hydroelectric barge's that would move up and down with the river stage and actually be a
two-fold generating platform for hydro electric and wind. he thought that it was a good
idea and said there are literally hundreds of locations along the river close to existing
power infrastructure to plug into. they also could be moved into different area's as
dictated by the corps.

he thought they would be interested in harnessing the mighty Mississippi for electric
power. (note: he said 90 million cubic feet of water pass Memphis every second.)

write me back if you like the green power switch program.

Richard
Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. Comment by Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. on February 17, 2009 at 1:51am
Wise words from a Friend.
This says it all.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and then the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

We need to stop giving our Money to the self righteous Government. We the people need to take charge and take our Country back. this what I would like to accomplish.

Mike
Eric Lykins Comment by Eric Lykins on February 16, 2009 at 6:46am
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Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. Comment by Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. on February 5, 2009 at 1:52am
Richard Scott Barden Comment by Richard Scott Barden on January 5, 2009 at 6:47pm
new videos on ev cars and solar ink at my page
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Michael Comment by Michael on December 6, 2008 at 12:21am
Hello Eric
Thanks for your good work.
I would like to invite the members of your group to join the group Wanted Patents, New products and stay informed in all the new developments in Green Energy.
Hope to see you all there. Let's all continue to work together on PickensPlan.
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Eric Lykins Comment by Eric Lykins on November 3, 2008 at 4:13pm
53 TRILLION DOLLARS
That is the sum of the government's current liabilities and unfunded entitlement promises. It translates to $455,000 per American household - about 10 times the median annual income of these same households. As that number continues to grow, it means fewer tax dollars going to other services we need. It means much higher taxes in the future. It means mounting debt and interest payments many Americans will not be able to afford.

Some say we can grow our way out of this potential crisis. They're wrong. History and basic math tell us that would require real economic growth in double digits for the next several decades. Even during the buoyant 1990s, the economy only grew at an average rate of 3.2% per year.

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is providing some resources with which to Get Involved with dealing with this problem.

See The State of The Union's Finances: A Citizen's Guide and sign the petition
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