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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:
- Burning wood is the only alternative experience I have so far...25 years...enough to know it is hard work and uses a lot of gas for the saw and the truck to haul it. I am interested in and have studied a lot of potential alternatives...geothermal(my personal favorite), solar, wind, bio-gas, on-site hydro, methane capture. It would seem to me that various combinations, tailored to the locale, will be needed in the long run to reach true freedom from energy giants or current suppliers. I think that an alternate source of gas to replace natural gas is putting a lid on landfills...they are everywhere! Produced at the local level, the distribution system is not a particular factor.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Someone with the money and the will to pursue alternatives has finally come out of the closet and is willing to buck the naysayers. If Pickens can jump start the change we must make I think he deserves to benefit financially...after all he is at liberty to spend his money as he sees fit. Wouldn't it be delightful if his move created more interest in investing in renewables at the highest levels in the financial industry. When the money moves, things can be accomplished.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I'll have to think about that. For the moment I like the idea of being part of progress .
Luane Todd's Blog
TAXES: "The price we pay to live in a civilized society"
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Taxes: ‘The price we pay to live in a civilized society’
Two members of Wealth for the Common Good spoke out today about the role our nation’s infrastructure plays in creating indivi… Continue
Posted on August 3, 2009 at 2:18pm — 2 Comments
THE CHINESE COME CALLING...Creditors get to make that kind of call
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Published on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 by TruthDig.com
The Chinese Come Calling
by Robert Scheer
What a hoot. The Chinese Communists invaded Washington on Monday demanding not that we sacrifice our freedoms but rather that we balance our budget. Creditors get to make that kind of call.
And the Marxists of Beijing, who have turned out to be the… Continue
Posted on July 29, 2009 at 11:55am —
Japan Plans to Make Solar Energy Cheap
This piece focuses on solar but wind, geothermal and other technologies would benefit from the mindset described by Mr. Swezey.
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Published on Thursday, July 23, 2009 by Breakthrough.org
Japan Pl… Continue
Posted on July 23, 2009 at 10:05pm —
When They Say Government They Mean YOU
Posted: July 22, 2009 12:36 PM
When They Say Government They Mean You
I'd like to talk about government. The conservative/corporate propaganda machine has turned "government" into a bad word. Conservatives portray our government as some kind of enemy of the public. We have all heard the scare stories about the harm done by meddlesome regulations from intrusive big government programs run by gove… Continue
Posted on July 23, 2009 at 12:15pm — 3 Comments
Getting Mad At The Fed—And Getting Even
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Published on OurFuture.org (http://www.ourfuture.org)
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Getting Mad At The Fed—And Getting Even
By Isaiah J. Poole
Created 07/22/2009 - 10:44am
Normally, working-class people don't think much about the Federal Reserve and, as a recent article in The New… Continue
Posted on July 23, 2009 at 11:30am —
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Been busy creating a DIY solar collector to stick on the wall of a house to heat it. It's like a thin scaffolding that is wrapped in clear vinyl. Small blower moves air in and draws off heated air at top when the sun warms the air in the big plastic bag.
Also acts as an extra skin over wall of home.
Things are looking up Luane.
Most new homes are built with ridge vent systems. Sealing (closing off) these? Added information on solar systems.
JULY 22, 2009—10:32 PM. Luane Todd: Are the attic vents reopened during the hotter months to allow hot air release? Most new homes are built with ridge vent systems. Sealing (closing off) these vents. (The example of how my system functions answers your question)
Hi Tom, The climate where you live will determine how you handle the ridge venting. In a “combination” passive heat/cooling system there are specific aspects of “AIR MOVEMENT” that actually have to occur and enable the system to operate as a passive system. Passive means to react by the natural laws of air movement. If you have watched the smoke rise from a chimney and you lived inside said home you remember the action you had to do to allow the fire to work? The fire went out if you closed the draft and no smoke came out of the stovepipe.
The same principle applies to “Passive Solar heating and cooling”. Your passive solar heating system is operating and you are drawing air into your to be heated by the captive heat generated by the “Energy” captured from solar radiation.
IF you need this heat you simply “SUCK” this heated air into the building living area. The sucking of the attic air from the attic into your living space creates a “POSITIVE” drop in attic pressure which continues pulling outside air into the attic space and continues to pull heat from the inside chamber/roof inside surface and blowing it inside your living area.
Now we address how you cool your passively heated home. When you have warm/heated air in your attic and you now need to cool your inside living area, specific conditions must be present. In the Vancouver project I installed a temperature sensor at the outside of the building near the intake vent to tell the system that there was outside air suitable to “cool” the interior temperature to a pre-established threshold.
This sensor was located 10 inches below the air intake into the attic passive solar heating system. When the pre-established “coolness” was achieved, the system opens the 24” vent in the upper most position on the roof and in the middle of the roof and by this action the attic HOT air rises out through this opening and by that action “SUCKS” in the cool outside air into the attic space. Another sensor in the attic space reacts, when it meets the conditions determined, and “TURNS ON” the suction fan and “SUCKS” the cool air into your home.
You can also have a second sensor in your system which will open the roof vent and simply let fresh air flow in the lower vent and flow out through the top opening. This keeps your attic cool when you don’t require either heat or cooling and keeps any potential heat buildup that could force heat into your living space.
My system is totally passive, no compressors or other means to either heat or cool the air before entering the attic space. My first project in Burlington, Wash. in 1983 first produced “SOLAR HEAT” on Dec 23 rd at 3:00 in the afternoon. I went outside to check the temperature and it was “23” degrees and when I looked at my roof, it was snowing and three inches of snow had collected on my black composition roof!
On this day the attic was producing “65” degree heat and blowing it into my storage building.
Final note: MY solar heating system can produce “HOT” air approaching 100 degrees.
Now you must decide if you want to heat and cool your home, shop or business using electric baseboards, gas furnaces, oil furnaces or those cheap to operate “HEAT PUMPS" that cost thousands to install and last a few years with their added electrical bills?
The process is smooth and requires simply seeing through a different set of ideas and the opportunity was available by my realizing what was missing to allow these 15 platted waterfront-building lots to be used. IF interested I can pass on the information and the legal documents created which through an ability to see thing differently, opportunities arise that simply did not exist prior to your seeing it differently.
I agree that small and distributed power generation is crucial for security and sustainability. Of course the big utilities will continue to demand large systems, because that's their current business model - and many industrial customers will continue to buy from them. But change is not impossible. Maybe they could start renting generation equipment to consumers which allows them to afford new tech innovations... Well, just thinking out loud...
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