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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Beginning with US Navy nuclear program and evolving through state-of-the-art independent power projects (development, construction and operations management) in conventional and renewable energy.
Leveraging the skills, tactics and resources employed successfully in, and refined by, leading actors the conventional space in order to bring best practices to renewable energy deployment.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- The scale of the Pickens vision will be a real game-changer in improving investment economics for renewables.
The social and geopolitical importance of fully exploiting our domestic energy resources including fossil and nuclear augmented by renewables.
The massive potential for CNG and electricity to transform America's transportation sector.
The potential to leverage the grandiose scale of the Pickens Plan into a far wider sustainable development agenda for America.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Regional project development and implementation. Public policy and regulatory leadership.
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FYI, we are in the paradigm to patent stages of a simple plan based on very broadly existing technology to eliminate the battery roadblock to EVs. Cars would take their electric from smart road electric grids equipped with multiple sensors to assure electric.
No more difficult to install than building out the national broadband network. Hybrids won't need batteries; and first generation smart electric cars will still have IC engines so consumers aren't afraid they'd be stranded.
Our approach deals with snow, sleet, rain, re-paving, the whole nine yards. We look for the 1 million Iraq/Afghan war vets to have priority on employment and local contracting...they have a vast store of goodwill banked with the public. They and their spouses give us a citizen army to fight at every town hall and congressional district...and it gives them the basis for launching political careers of their own a well as green-collar real-tech businesses.
The Northeast would be the sensible first region to adopt this: heaviest traffic density in the nation.
Popping your idea for decentralized nukes right into cars and houses sounds pretty good. The beauty of getting cars on the grid is the flexibility for future energy sources to shift quickly without then requiring consumer car changes. So load up the kids for that roadtrip to LA, with not a single fueling stop.
Done and done.
The Northeast corridor
Thank you for the links. I really appreciate your help.
TRANSPORTATION is the master key to basic survival, and the cornerstone of the economy. We all know that transportation presently depends on oil production, and oil production is peaking. We must focus first on transportation – it is the highest priority. The PickensPlan to transition vehicles to natural gas is a great start toward 100% energy independence, but is a stop-gap measure till we can transition to all electric transportation. Electric energy is strained without adding transportation demands; so we must drastically improve efficiency .
Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”); ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh (or carbon credit) than electric cars or trains. ETT is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, and is electric so it can make maximum use of wind or PV power. I invite you to visit my page to learn more about ETT
Ever since the dot-com bust, scads of venture capitalists are looking for--and have found--the next big thing: carbon. Is it any wonder why so many "clean tech" startups are rooted in Silicon Valley? The sector that is perhaps singularly most responsible for the up-tick in per capita electric consumption by bringing all manner of new, power gobbling appliances to homes (and server farms) across America.
...ah, I digress...
The Green Movement has become the ultimate "special interest" and these days it seems EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN AMERICA is pandering and throwing potentially trillions of dollars to their cause. Peek behind the curtain of the green sales pitch of "climate change" "hurricanes like Katrina more frequently" and "what if we're wrong about climate change?" and you glimpse the financial stakes.
By ascribing a dollar value to CO2 and commoditizing allowances for each ton of CO2 emitted creates an overnight financial boon for down-trodden Wall Street--traders will by low and sell higher and manipulate the cost. The cost of these allowances industry is required to purchase will be a tax on the consumer...every consumer, even the organic off-the-grid crowd.
The world emits, from measured sources, over 27 billion tons per year at present (and still growing). Slap a $10 charge and the world is looking at a new tax regime of a QUARTER TRILLION DOLLARS. However, as any good enviro-lobbyist will tell you, $10 is not enough to close the gap (neutralize the cost difference) between wind or solar power and conventional, primarily coal (but also nuclear). To put wind energy on par with coal, some estimates are in excess of $50 per ton. That's $1.35 trillion dollars.
Alarming? Is it any wonder why this tsunami has swept across our nation's political and corporate landscape so precipitously?
Carbon trading will become the largest commodity market on the planet if/when fully implemented. When emissions caps begin to ratchet down, it will intentionally create a scarcity of allowances until, one day, we will have no choice but to shut off our fossil energy resources. Where will all those CO2 allowance revenues go? Well, they are being steered exclusively to Clean-Tech. Good for them (and their investors). But it's stealing from the bad petro-era guys (pinching it from you and I, really) and giving to the new "elite" class driving in hybrid Hummers and biodiesel private jets.
Speaking of which, the mercury is just now heading past 90 here. I think I'll shut my computer off now and contribute my unused 130 watts to humanity. I'll go fire-up the two-stroke lawnmower and, later, light the barbecue ('cause that's what we're supposed to do in summertime, right?). I wonder what the carbon tax on a bag of charcoal will be? This simple summer staple may soon become a luxury.
Rima Katz
Your posting hit a cord with me. I am a suburban Mom driving an SUV. My son-in-law is serving in Iraq so I can continue to dirve that SUV( although he would not agree that is the reason he's there).
I have since changed jobs to shorten my commute (can't afford to sell the SUV at a loss, although I've become embarrassed to drive it))and I'm working on getting a bumber sticker that says It's patriotic to conserve gas...Bring the troops home!
I got your name from the "slow down to save gas and money" group. (a group I joined recently)
I've been doing a bunch of reading online, and have found out that there are a bunch of ways we can all reduce our energy use (and therefore oil consumption) on an individual level. Smarter (and slower) use of your car is only the start.
I wrote a little blog entry on the subject... If you have the time, check it out... http://push.pickensplan.com/forum/topic/show?id=2187034%3ATopic%3A193424 Drop me a line and let me know what you think.
I'm trying to talk to as many people as I can in order to continue to add to my list of ideas as far as how to conserve more in my daily life (and also share what I've learned)... I believe that while we build and invest in large-scale solutions, we can also do a bunch of little things in the process.
Thanks for listening.