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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Engineer
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Our countries future is at stake
- What do you want to do to help?
- I would like to see more solar energy and other alternatives to fossil fuels in addition to just Wind.
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The four eras of power
1000 years of energy eras and what it means to the 21st century:
The western world has gone through this same cycle twice before with wood and coal. Now we are at the end of the Oil era.
As demand for oil goes up the price will continue to skyrocket. Conservation, drilling and exploration, alternative fuels and other competing fuels will always sell at close to the current market price of oil. So this will will only delay the inevitable and cause more global instability. This is simple commodi… Continue
The western world has gone through this same cycle twice before with wood and coal. Now we are at the end of the Oil era.
As demand for oil goes up the price will continue to skyrocket. Conservation, drilling and exploration, alternative fuels and other competing fuels will always sell at close to the current market price of oil. So this will will only delay the inevitable and cause more global instability. This is simple commodi… Continue
Posted on July 23, 2008 at 11:48am —
Solar should be included
Wind cannot possibly supply all of our power. We need to develop Solar and other sustainable sources of energy. I would like to see more visibility of the breadth and depth of the problems we face on this site and others. Some of our leaders need to bring this issue to the people so they can understand what our research and infrastructure dollars should be spent on. this is truly a trillion dollar problem and the single biggest issue our generation will face. How about some Youtube videos so we… Continue
Posted on July 23, 2008 at 11:36am — 1 Comment
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Check out the biomass and algae groups here for info on those genre. They are all water-intensive, which does not do well where water is scarce, like most of the western US and the deserts.
Best bet for your area is massive reforestation and harvesting. Since the idea involves carbon sequestration with the trees, then burning the product is carbon neutral. If you use algae farms and capture the CO2 from burning the wood in greenhouses to increase the algae yield, you come out ahead on carbon reduction.
Space power is 100 times as expensive as terrestrial. Maybe 1000. It's a net energy loser by at least 10:1. Atomic Oxygen attack limits its life in space to less than a decade.
Seattle has other options. Its biomass potential in the region is exceptional, as well as the aquaculture and algae resource. You have water, which may become the future's most valuable commodity.
Wind has possibilities in the neighboring areas along mountain ridges in the Coastal ranges. Inland, you have areas that may provide diffuse solar resources, but not as valuable as those to your south. You already have the cheapest hydro power in the Nation.
Study the discussion "Global Warming Impacts and Solutions" and some of the other discussions I have commented upon, and check out the following link that describes some 25-year-old work on which I was the lead.
http://www.goldenstateenergy.com/about4.html
That's for starters.