Free Trade for CLEAN Energy !!!

Its not that I don't agree with Picken's Plan, but it glosses over how we got here in the first place. Too much centralized , non-specific objective for the benefit of the control structure (regardless). I think we would do better with the wind resource conversion by local more available recovery, 5 HP wind conversion (on freeway lights sized posts, collapsible to ground for servicing) x 5-10 machines each (for benefit specially of small farms) as opposed to large 10 story "Clipper Ships" that are more difficult to accept, develop service, and profit (monetarily) only a very few.

Free housing = -negative- carbon footprint ; yes it is profitable...*

Free Trade for CLEAN Energy = $1,500 income per home ($.05 / KWH) each month!
Isn't -accurate- free trade a right in a healthy community?

What other free society foundation definitions have been marginalized in the past 50 years?

Basically, if a person can get a (reasonably) guaranteed price of $.05 / KWH for energy that they generate, (20 HP @ $.05 = $1,500/mth per home, & $7,000,000/mth per 5,000 homes, for watching the windmills go round) then people can profit in finding ways to make the machinery to do so.

Once that is done, 20 HP energy generation (that results in $1,500 / month in return) will allow banks to be comfortable in lending the money for the solar-home / car-convertors (whatever) that do this. With a car payment of $300, and a mortgage payment of $800 (possibly distributed automatically), that still leaves $300 for taxes, and insurance, and food. All this without being any burden on the State.The figures are ballpark, but I would expect the banks to adjust the levels to provide a better level of food / personal income for the kind of return this represents.

* One example:

The LP gas utility increases production of thawing methane resources to capture the gas before it can escape to the atmosphere. It sells the gas to the home owner who can turn the gas into heat and electricity for the home, (plus 2 HP constant extra), using a auto engine equipped with an extra catalytic converter that turns the carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate (this is effective for this range of engine conversion size to 40(?) HP constant). for a check from the utility company of $150 each month (about the cost of the LP gas bill, plus that much more for the pocket). -No changes required to utility infrastructure, and the utility doesn't have to build, man, or maintain the energy generation source; they become a _more profitable_ broker.-

If larger generation capacity is wanted, (20 HP for $1,500 return), a larger monthly connection fee is billed the location, for the upgrade in the wire, equipment, and transformer size, and the LP gas bill would be about $750, with a balance of $700 for profit each month. Any windmills or solar would result in reducing the LP gas bill, making small farms more secure in growing food/energy crops instead of some of the crap they now -have to- sell.
Once that is done, 20 HP energy generation (that results in $1,500 / month in return) will allow banks to be comfortable in lending the money for the solar-home / car-convertors (whatever) that do this. With a car payment of $300, and a mortgage payment of $800 (possibly distributed automatically), that still leaves $300 for taxes, and insurance, and food. All this without being any burden on the State.The figures are ballpark, but I would expect the banks to adjust the levels to provide a better level of food / personal income for the kind of return this represents.

More than that; correct type of homes built / upgraded get more jobs, in the local area. Energy costs for manufacturing and transportation go down -and remain low-. Labor benefits improve for workers, because they don't need a job , absolutely, right away, and small business will have more money to move around.

Free home, security, transportation, food, and insurance,... and all a person has to do is sign a paper (and maybe get a vasectomy in the dangerously over populated parts of the world).
edit. note.;)

I got ya beat, I moved to New Mexico, expecting the government to be responsible an move in a direction of efficient home construction, energy wise. Boy was I dumb.

I built a energy efficient prototype home (for my retirement) out of used ocean cargo shipping containers, (to be able to export constructed American -MATERIAL- and energy/water machinery to anywhere in the world) as the primary structural element. After rebuilding some mistakes, and living off my saving for 7 years, I had to sell the project short, because the local finance company would only refinance the house if I put it up for sale, not for equity refi.

Still. The cost of a Bachelor Degree would be about the same (if they taught the kind of things I learned there) and that house will (in some form) be out there for the next 1,000 years, long after any of the results of these "management" will have long gone by the wind, and from what I learned, I can construct a self sufficient home on some property I have now for about $20,000 (to be earned in the next 5-10? years).


Point being, You get out what you put into it....

To that end, I will be posting (in the next week or so) how to build one of these homes, with the new information I learned from the process, for -about- $20,000 (plus land, connection fees, energy equipment, and similar options). POSSIBLY, NO FINANCING REQUIRED! Pay as you go, with on-sight security as part of the construction.

It seems that the pictures posting, on the Picken's Plan website isn't very "user freindly". So, here are some pics of the existing construction to give you an idea of the competed prodject(s).

I would expect a lot of changes happening before anything like my particular concepts are promoted on any vast scale, but let's get the stuff moving. "copy share, repeat". Then, get your friends together and sue the local utility for the right to sell CLEAN energy on the free -retail- market price (minus any "handling/ISP" charges that the utility company seems it can't do without).

As for the small, farm owned "off the shelf", 5 HP windmills; they may even provide enough protection from crop loss from birds/deer, in the form of a high tech strobe/anti avoidance sound scarecrow, to pay for themselves in that way alone in a couple of areas. ;").

So, what does home construction have to do with wind energy generation, and the picken's plan? GLOBALIZATION If small energy independent machinery can be sent to the "third world" in configurations that will allow the 'investors' to live on sight to make sure the machinery keeps working, the better off we all are. (in more ways than I care to list here)

OH;BTW
1 / the posting about the home will now have been moved to the second (or third) page by now, due to responce, and
2 / Please excuse Robert Ware's statements here, they are left on the blog as an example of an inadequate and short sighted thought process.