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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:
- I don't have any notable experience. However, there are many different areas I could see as being useful to generate energy, including tidal energy, thermocouples, and others. I could see being able to generate hydrogen from rain water flowing through sewer systems or down drainpipes from the house gutter. I could see how an excercise bicycle might be used to charge batteries, or even run the TV while you're watching it. I don't know at this point what might be commercially viable. But I do think there are many ideas that could be investigated and, just by trial and error, if nothing else, some of them have to work.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Listen, I'm not your typical "green supporter". In fact, I'm not a green supporter at all. But I do see that energy generation is incredibly important for the USA. If this nation is going to succeed and continue to lead the world in the 21st century, sound energy policy is essential. The history of American industry shows over and over that it is not the items people want to buy that end up making money, but the byproducts. If you look at, for instance, beef production, there once were butchers on every corner. But then mass production of meat products became an industry that ended up being funded, not by people buying the meat, but by the byproducts in the slaughter houses. Nobody would pay for wind. But if you can harness the wind that blows every day to generate electricity, and produce it at a profit, you're making something out of "nothing". That is a good thing.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I don't yet know. I know I have I/T skills. I need to work for a living. But I'd be willing to consider working for an industry like this because it has a higher purpose than just doing a job.
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Your frustration is understandable. However, if you replace the word "green" with "clean" it could perhaps help you better understand what you seem to be considering at this point to be a lot of empty talk.
Green is both green (as in $$$) and clean, because of the ever depleting non-renewable energy sources for which geopolitical competition will only increase over time leading to more unnecessary destruction and destabilization.
The gist of PP is to divert natural gas for transportation from power generation and use wind and solar for power generation. This central idea has been critiqued both by members of PP (I am one of them) and by outsiders for good reasons.
It is likely that as the nation's power demands increase, natural gas along with other fossil fuels ( including coal) would continue to be used for power generation along with the non-fossil nuclear power, but more cleanly.
"Clean" is the keyword: fossil fuels burn producing a lot of pollution which is unhealthy (whatever your beliefs may be about climate change) and nuclear power generates radioactive waste which needs better disposal methods.
That said, T. Boone Pickens envisions, like many other wise people, a wind power corridor along the Great Plains, from north to south. A very sound idea to create millions of jobs, increase farm incomes and produce cleaner power in relation to both coal and oil, as a complement to natural gas itself, a clean but non-renewable resource, for use in power generation if not as a diversion.
Given that oil is depleting faster than natural gas, the world energy market and so are our oil companies transitioning as we speak to producing more natural gas to ease the world's and our country's dependence on oil, and the United States happens to be blessed with a large natural gas endowment.
At this point, the natural gas component of PP has emerged the winner primarily for medium to heavy duty natural gas-based transportation vehicles (NGV) for which electric or hybrid options are less attractive at this point. Without these vehicles commerce in the United States from coast-to-coast will come to a stand still.
Therefore, PP very tangibly contributes to easing the demands for energy in the form of diesel and gasoline by these vehicles if these fleets can be converted to natural gas at not a very high cost. It is an immediate term sound compromise to smoothly facilitate the nation's transition to more efficient use of energy (green IT being a major component of energy efficiency) and a more diverse production of it.
Two examples of green IT entrepreneurial initiatives are:
Enphase Energy at http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1730843_1730988,00.html and http://www.enphaseenergy.com/products/
eMeter at http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1730843_1730980,00.html and http://www.emeter.com/
What we, as members of PP, are trying to do through our legislative efforts is for the government to temporarily subsidize wind, solar and natural gas in its efforts to encourage the development of oil alternatives so that they are both produced and demanded more, domestically and perhaps eventually for export abroad, to move the country permanently away from the oil imports, which are costing us both in money and geopolitical leverage.
In summary, PP is about both creating and expanding the market for energy alternatives, primarily wind, solar and natural gas. And doing so happens through both sensible government action and individual entrepreneurial initiative which is what YOU and your participation in PP are about.
Thank you for speaking plainly and hope I was of help.
Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa
District Leader MD-08
Thanks for joining. IT is a significant player in energy efficiency. Green IT is something that you could be interested in.
Chandra
Kathy
There is a perfect storm of events happening right now that create the possibility of a paradigm shift that is urgently needed. We have an angry citizenry due to pain at the pump, a presidential election on the horizon, and a man with a plan to dramatically and imminently reduce our dependance on foreign oil, and provide a bridge to future solutions, who has the resources, contacts, knowledge, wealth and "will" to get it done.
Please share this plan with your circle of friends, family and associates. Urge them to JOIN. As you know, it is simply like signing a petition. With large numbers of supporters, we can put pressure to bear on Congress to incentivize alternative and renewable energies, and insure that our future president will be a leader that will push for domestic energy solutions. JFK once said. "in the next 10 years we will put a man on the moon". He got it done. We need that kind of leadership on energy.
Time is of the essence. If gas prices retreat the public will forget the pain, and our moment may be lost. How frightening to be looking back and apologizing to our children that we could not get this done when we had the chance.
For more information:
Check out an informative video "Topeka, Kansas Town Hall Meeting": http://www.pickensplan.com/news/2008/08/04/video-of-the-topeka-town-hall
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If you know someone in the press- get them to cover this.
If you know someone who blogs- get them to cover this.
If you can write to a Congressman/woman- get them to understand this. You can call them at (202)225-3121. Ask them if they support 100% clean electricity in the next 10 years.
If you know someone who is in the public eye- ask them to support this.
If you can write a letter to the editor of your local paper- please do.
If you want to print downloadable flyers and put them in your car and/or business window- please do.Go to Guides and materials Group and print.
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TODAY to ask 5 people to join this historical effort. Thanks again for support