Michael says "Lead, follow, or get out of the way" and git er done

China is building a solar plant for 30K homes
BEIJING (UPI) -- China will start construction as early as next month on an experimental solar thermal plant capable of powering at least 30,000 homes, officials say.

China Daily reported Thursday that Asia's first 1.5-megawatt solar thermal power station will be built in a Beijing suburb at a cost of $14.7 million and start operating next year.

Wang Zhifeng -- who is heading up the project and is the solar thermal power laboratory director for the… Continue

Lobbyists are paying $25,000 to join U.S. Republican House members at a retreat where they will be able to talk about business interests, lawmakers say. "It's not like they're sitting there plugging their corporate issues -- but as with anything, their clients' interests inevitably come up," an unidentified official who has attended the retreats told a Washington political newspaper. The Congressional Institute conducts research and hosts seminars on topics including healthcare, taxes, energy an… Continue

I have been out pounding the bricks and pressing the flesh so to speak. I e-mailed my first petition into myenergy this week and I must say it wasn't that hard to do. Some people are very negative and feel like nothing they do or say will make a difference. I have told them that if they are a mushroom on the sidelines doing nothing that they are in fact part of the problem. Now if they get up off their butts and participate in change they will in fact become part of the solution. There is streng… Continue

GEOTHERMAL SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THE WAYS TO GO

1979 Partial meltdown of nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, Pennsyvania

1980 Solar One proves that solar thermal power for electricity is feasible

1980 Geothermal power plants established in a number of western U.S. locations

1981 Hawaii's geothermal plant at Puna goes on line

1983 Three out of every four power plants in U.S. burn fossil fuels

1984 Mushroom growing using geothermal begins in Oregon

1985 Geothermal power plants produce about… Continue

It is all about the money.

I am suspicious that the Saudis may have actually temporarily lowered the world price of oil recently to slow or defer our exploration efforts for energy alternatives. The Saudis are not our friends they do not like us. We are infidels in their opinion. They do like our money. As a nation the USA still controls a great portion of the world wealth. If the Saudis can wreck us economically and get rich doing it they will do so asap.

The Saudis already have more money th… Continue