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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 was involved with a group that developed a workable solar energy system over 30 yrs. ago. While marketing the system we encountered all the problems that have created the situation we are facing today.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- It is at least a start and if we as a country do not act immeadiately we will not be a country much longer.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Anything I can is the short answer.
I am 59 yrs of age and been involved and owned businesses since I was 17. My education background is sci. and psych. My experience and knowledge may be helpful. There are some specific problems that this plan has not addressed and I can at the very least raise these issues and assist addressing them.
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Problems that must be addressed before any real results can be accomplished
Recently I recievied a email that was titled "re-elect nobody". To parapharse this email sated that politicans have created the problems that they then campaign to fix. Second; it also stated the only reason we have these issues today is the people who are supposed to be running this country want it that way.
My experience has taught me that these are two accuarate statements. Every citizen must tell their elected officals to do their jobs or get out. Special interest lobbyists have to be stopp… Continue
My experience has taught me that these are two accuarate statements. Every citizen must tell their elected officals to do their jobs or get out. Special interest lobbyists have to be stopp… Continue
Posted on July 12, 2008 at 11:36am —
Problems that must be addressed before any real results can be accomplished
Recently I recievied a email that was titled "re-elect nobody". To parapharse this email sated that politicans have created the problems that they then campaign to fix. Second; it also stated the only reason we have these issues today is the people who are supposed to be running this country want it that way.
My experience has taught me that these are two accuarate statements. Every citizen must tell their elected officals to do their jobs or get out. Special interest lobbyists have to be stopp… Continue
My experience has taught me that these are two accuarate statements. Every citizen must tell their elected officals to do their jobs or get out. Special interest lobbyists have to be stopp… Continue
Posted on July 12, 2008 at 11:35am —
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Last December, Congress amended the national Renewable Fuel Standard, setting a goal that the U.S. will produce a whopping 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022. It's no surprise that much of this renewable fuel will be ethanol.
Given the rapid industrialization of Asia, global demand for fuel ethanol is steeply increasing and is expected to do so in the foreseeable future. In order to satisfy this big demand, let alone meet the Renewable Fuel Standard, there is a growing concern that the standard U.S. practice of mass producing fuel ethanol from corn won't be feasible. There simply isn't enough corn acreage available in America to meet the future domestic and international demands for fuel ethanol.
Scientists contend that the answer to this problem is cellulosic ethanol, a technology that is now under furious research and development at many universities, national labs, and private industries across the globe.
This is an interesting technology, because it makes ethanol from cellulose feedstocks such as ordinary trees, perennial grass and cropland residues instead of food crops such as corn or sugar cane.
Scientists contend that cellulosic ethanol, once it is perfected, can significantly reduce America's imports of foreign oil, while creating a big variety of "green collar" jobs including farmers, truck drivers, business professionals, engineers, and scientists.
Before cellulosic ethanol becomes a commercial reality, there are many technology hurdles to overcome. Crop scientists and chemical engineers are furiously studying the genetics, the molecular structure, and other biological aspects of trees and plants in order to improve the efficiency of cellulosic ethanol production.
Last year, our country embarked on a once-in-a-generation effort to study the underlying science needed to improve processing efficiency. In the meantime, scientists are making great headway. For example, the U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $125 million to establish the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, a partnership between Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin, to study the science of processing cellulosic ethanol.
Also, Michigan State University and Michigan Technological University recently partnered with the Mascoma Corp. (a Massachusetts company), to build a cellulosic ethanol plant in the Michigan Upper Peninsula.
Last May, at a scientific lecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Dr. Niels Lagvad of Danish Biogasol Corp. (www.biogasol.com). It was revealed that this company now has a proven, turnkey system to mass produce ethanol from a big range of perennial grasses and hemicellulosic feedstocks. He referred to the process as a "bolt-on, second-generation ethanol plant" which, in essence, attaches to the back end of a conventional plant making ethanol from food crops. "Second generation ethanol" refers to the use of non-food feedstocks to make ethanol, whereas, "first generation ethanol" refers to traditional methods that use food crops such as corn and sugar cane.
The immediate U.S. market for this Danish technology is to retrofit American corn-to-ethanol plants. In this concept, corn stover (corn leaves, stalks, and cobs) and distillers' grain (a voluminous, natural by-product of the corn-to-ethanol process) would be used as inexpensive feedstocks for ethanol production. The technology is now in the demonstration phase; a full-scale plant is planned for 2010 in Boardman, Ore., as part of a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Pacific Ethanol Corp.
Danish Biogasol also markets the same technology to electric power plants, regardless of whether the electric plant is fueled by coal, nuclear, natural gas or oil. Why this terrific market? Electric plants routinely produce massive amounts of waste heat. This waste heat is harnessed by the ethanol plant, which in turn greatly reduces the cost of ethanol processing. Imagine a line of semi-trucks, all loaded with massive bales of locally grown perennial grass, driving to the local electric plant - which makes fuel ethanol too.
I am excited to imagine where this technology is headed because America is blessed with abundant trees and native grass. I believe we're in for some hopeful times ahead: new jobs from locally made auto fuel with no imported oil.
I can agree with that, provided the new entrants to political office understand they must operate within the body of law our country is founded on.
I am in a group that is into small to large ethanol production, with emphasis on using waste feed stocks. for very little money, one can build their own still and the permit from ATF is free for fuel use.
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I didn't get the email you quote but I have read the sentiments quoted other places and agree with the thesis.
We are of an age, sort of, I'm 66 and one of the working poor (very small SS check won't go far, must be supplemented). Be sure you get with the Seniors group be formed out of Springfield, I think you could help each other. I am also a member of that group and will shortly try to see where the thing is going and how I can help. It may be that it will be the oldsters who make this happen...all we have is time.
Good luck and keep in touch.
Luane Todd
luanetodd@yahoo.com
My experience has taught me that these are two accuarate statements. Every citizen must tell their elected officals to do their jobs or get out. Special interest lobbyists have to be stopped. This last winter I searched the Catalog of federal domestic assistence (CFDA.gov) for programs that would help our situation. The only programs funded by our federal government for implementing alternate energy sources are aimed at large energy corps. Further research indicates that lobbyists for these major corp(s) have convinced our legislators to pass laws that have increased the cost of hooking up to the nat'l grid so as to make it economically unfeaseable for less then a multi-million dollar project. Approximately 30 + years ago I believe it was Buckminster Fuller who stated in a class lecture that "soon the technology will exist for every individual in this county to own their on energy source. This will not happen because the sole purpose of govenment is to control monoploies and the government is not about to let itself be put out of business."
This same research yielded the following. There was over 100 million dollars earmarked for assisting and relovating political refugees from Kenya and $0.00 for wind energy.
We have the technology. We don't have federal support for the individual. Since I will soon be forced into bankruptcy by the current oil crisis I will have plenty of time available. This is my application to become a lobbyist, publisist, or researcher for this group. We must educate the public as to what our Senators and Representatives are doing to us in favor of large corporate interests. Feel free to tell me if I am wrong.
Ron S