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1Sky Rally for Clean Energy Bill - Federal Plaza Chicago at Chicago Federal Plaza
August 31, 2009 from 12pm to 1:30pm
Groups that plan to attend, please contact Paul Safyan, 1 Sky Chicago rally coordinator 847-485-4775. We are looking for broad support from unions, Greens, environmentalists, general public, elected officials, business people, teachers, seniors, dis…
Hi Missy,
I'm just getting the word out since we got the date confirmed yesterday, I hope that we get all the DL's involved!
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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- My experience with alternative energy is limited to what I know about ethanol produced from corn and biodiesel from soybeans. I believe biofuels as we produce them now are not good replacements for regular oil since the programs use farm subsidies to support production and also lead to higher food prices. I believe wind energy and using natural gas to power automobiles are excellent applications of new alternative energy strategies.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- I am excited that someone of Mr. Pickens stature is bold enough to come out and challenge Congress and the powers that be to make radical changes. Mr. Pickens has been "long" oil as long as I can remember from my childhood and if he says we have reached a tipping point then I think it is a big turning point in the fight to get ahead against our problem of being so dependent on foreign oil for our energy needs.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I am open to learning more about the plan and finding out what needs to be done and how I can help in my area.
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Visit to Invenergy, LLC Wind Farm in Marseilles, IL
I visited a wind farm in Marseilles, IL on 7/14/09 and enjoyed it so much I thought I'd write a blog post about it. Marseilles is a small town in Illinois located about 75 miles southwest of Chicago. The sign at the edge of town said the population is 4,800. Small towns in rural America have been decimated by the exodus of manufacturing jobs over the last 20 years and the renewable energy industry is a prime opportunity to create new jobs in these areas. The EPW hearing on 7/7/09 included witnes… Continue
Posted on July 31, 2009 at 9:24am —
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- At 1:44pm on December 4, 2009,
John Wesley Nobles said…
Hi David,
Would like to produce a show featuring you and other Eastern State Leaders, and possibly members of congress. Recently we did a show with the Ohio Group and Congressman Tim Ryan promoting the Nat Gas Act, Pickens Plan, and a salute to cosponsors. Wednesday we did a similar show in California, and it was well received, think we will stay with the same format for awhile. If you can help us please call me; 760-961-1312, or jwnobles1@verizon.net. As always, time is of the essence.
Thanks,
John
- At 2:58pm on January 29, 2009,
Michael Shawn Kendall said… - Hi David, Here is a tool for all of us to get RE projects started by selling of US Treasury "Energy Independence Savings Bonds". Savings bonds are normally purchased in $25 increments. This gives a way for just about any American to tighten their belts just a bit by skipping a meal at McDonalds or Pizza Hut and buying a RE savings bond to support a renewable energy project and save money at the same time for themselves. I need help pushing this project, I've faxed and emailed many in Congress/Senate already.If you agree with this plan please consider passing to other people in your district as it will be a great tool to get funding for PickensPlan projects. This is a way to help and give tools to all of us for getting more RE projects started. My email is ke6cvh@yahoo.com. Here is a copy of a fax sent to Nancy Pelosi the other day:
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27FEB09
Honorable Speaker of the House Congresswoman Pelosi,
I am an Electronic Technician Chief in the US Navy with 27 years service stationed overseas. I’m outlying an idea to assist and work with current plans for achieving energy independence. I urge you, as speaker of the house and the driving force to form the select committee on energy independence and global warming, consider for discussion and introduction into the house US Treasury Savings Bonds for Energy Independance.
In WWII America sold war bonds supporting the war effort. When young, my mother told me her primary school raised enough money through bonds to build a tank to support troops. I am impressed with the patriotism and purpose of our greatest generation that accomplished so much.
Selling energy bonds for RE (Renewable Energy) development would lower foreign oil imports and assist with the complex problem of funding. Bonds sold as “Energy S” could support new solar trough plants, “Energy W” to support wind farms, Energy “H” to support hydroelectric plants, Energy “T” to support RE transportation such as electric bullet train routes powered by RE, Energy "C" COOPS for small communities only needing a small quantity of turbines, and Energy “I” for needed infrastructure high voltage power lines to the RE site. Bonds will have the project name and include an artist’s perspective of the project and an American flag. President Obama had great success with the internet during his campaign. In a similar manner, using the internet, energy bonds could have a website listing current projects and an “electronic checkout” could purchase a bond $25 or higher. Simpler methods of payment such as “PAYPAL” and credit cards would be available and after an electronic purchase is complete a color print out of the bond is available with a follow up of the bond in the mail. The website would limit quantity of projects for each category until funding is complete. After a project becomes funded, a new project will be available. A tab on the site will show history and status of previous projects. Purchasers may take great pride in “collecting” and displaying bonds of various RE projects and participating at different levels of financial support. Solar trough plants in the multi-hundred MW size capacity with molten salt energy storage in California, Arizona, and West Texas can provide a major portion of electric needs. North Dakota has potential to support 1/3 of our nations electric needs in it’s class 4 wind zone areas. There are plenty of suitable proposed wind turbine farms now around the nation to significantly increase our RE if funded. Mid sized hydro-electric has not been used in America to it’s full potential. Following the example of our neighbor, Canada, it would provide a significant increase in percentage of electric production. Developing all three we could provide the majority of our electric and heating needs through renewable energy in a "New New Deal" fashion allowing natural gas for transportation as T. Boone Pickens is working for. Bullet train routes have proven a viable alternative to commercial domestic air service and when powered by electricity provided by RE suppliers America would be in the forefront of world technology. Example, I heard of discussion for a commuter train from Denver to Colorado Springs. Such a route built as a renewable energy project with charter requirement legally requiring to only purchase electricity from available renewable energy sources would be a model example. There are many train routes, city bus systems, and government vehicles that can be converted to run from alternative energy sources and fuels. Jobs created would bolster the economy, lower trade deficit, and strengthen national security. I would take great pride in print outs of bonds with graphics of each project I supported and many other Americans would also. The energy bonds could have tax breaks. BLM lands may be a viable place to start for some projects.
I contacted the US treasury department and was told that the marketing department for savings bonds closed several years ago. I was told there would be problems because savings bonds are at the federal level while the projects will be at the state and local level. I disagree and believe that these can easily be figured out in the way of grants to the state and local level using money from the bonds for those specific projects. I was told to check out auctions on the www.treasurydirect.gov website and found them to not apply to citizens wanting to buy savings bonds to support a cause such as energy independance. I was told by the treasury department to look into CREB (Clean Renewable Energy Bonds). I found CREB to be large scale funding that a citizen would not be able to participate in as a US Treasury Energy Independance Bond would provide. If given the tools to participate directly, the power of the citizens of the United States to help achieve energy independance could not be denied. Americans mean well and the Energy Independance Savings bond program will give citizens the power at their level to make it happen. If marketed through a web page, commercials, and to federal employees the word would get out and participation would spread like wildfire.
Mr. Paul Gipe, a resident of Bakersfield CA, an author of several books about wind energy, and recipient of multiple awards as a pioneer in the industry since the 1970's has put a letter I wrote to Senator Dorgan on this subject as well as an older letter I wrote on wind COOP in JAN07. These websites are:
http://www.wind-works.org/coopwind/RenewableEnergyBondsforEnergyIndependence.html
and
http://www.wind-works.org/articles/AmericanEnergyIndependencethroughCooperativeInvestmentinWindEnergy.html
Sincerely and very respectfully,
ETC(SW/AW) Mike Kendall USN
Mailing address: PSC 476, Box 879, FPO AP, 96322 USA
Telephone (803) 265-4756, Email: ke6cvh@yahoo.com
- At 8:43am on January 28, 2009,
Glen Kilgour said… - Hello, I use CNG as opposed to LNG in my truck. As it is directly fuel injected and uses the OEM comupter to reset the spark advance and fuel mixture to use this higher octane fuel, I get the same mileage as gasoiline. I can tell a difference in power with it and I find it better to not use the electronic cruise control. When towing anything I switch over to gasoiline. Thanks for yorue interest, Glen
- At 6:13pm on September 11, 2008,
Glen Kilgour said…
- Hello David,
I am actually using CNG, compressed natural gas that is in a gseous state but compressed to 3,000-3,500 psi. LNG is a more complex system that has the fuel as a liquied, and would convert it back to a gas prior to combustion. It is also used to ship Natural Gas in LNG tankers to areas without pipelines or even across the seas.
This fuel is directly injected into the cylanders and uses a computer module that is linked ot the factory system. I get the same fuel mileage as gasoiline. Running empty its peppy too! I can tell some power loss on hills against the wind. My truck gets 17-20 mpg the way I drive it, and I pay $1.14 per gallon currently. If I multiplied my worst mileage x 3 and the price of the fuel by 3, this means I can go 51 miles on $3.42 cents and have a full size truck to enjoy and carry my hobby gear as the bed is fully carpeted and has a fiberglass lid. Better then the FIT, Prius, anything else they sell in the US. I still have gasoiline capability and need it ,as stations are few and far betwwen when I get out of my local area. The truck starts on gasoiline than when it warms up automaticly switches over to CNG and passengers usually don't feel a thing. I have an indicator light that also functions as a fuel gauge for the CNG system mounted low on the dash. I can turn it off and save the CNG for later if I want to take the maximum fuel load into the boonies. CNG burns cleaner, the oil stays cleaner longer and I have 130k on the truck now, at leaast 75k is using cng because I did not convert it untill my factory warrenty expired. Its a great fuel. I am shopping for a 4x4 Avalanche and plan to move the kit over to it when the current truck wears out, if I am lucky, perhaps GM will produce the duel fuel pickups they made in 2005 and part of 2006 and let me get a factory system. They made a few Chevy Caveleirs than too. Than Congress incentivised E85 vehicles, this way you can pay as much or more for it as you do for gasoiline. Smooth move. Hope the Pickens Plan gains more ground and make it more practical for more private citezens to use less of their paycheck for transpertation. CNG is not just for government or big business fleets, it will work for the private citizen too. Different solutions for different regions, biodiesel or e85 made from somthing that is not in our food supplly sounds like a better path than burning our corn. Solor and wind are dominant in certain regions, a national government coordination of our domestic resources that would reduce the expense on the american economy for energy as well as reduce our dependance on imported oil from politcly unstable or from goverments who are not our allies, is the path we need our political leaders to seek. A long term energy pan that is longer than the election cycles. Glen
- At 10:10am on August 16, 2008,
Brad Joesten said… - My son is looking into a job in the E85 industry in Rochelle IL. I believe we are heading in the right path. As long as we keep the momentum going we can make a difference.
Brad and Tina
- At 9:12pm on August 14, 2008,
Bruce Eric Montgomery said… - 'Green-collar' jobs a growth area, U.S. group says
Companies are stepping up their environmental initiatives, and that may mean a boom in "green-collar" jobs.
A recent forecast by the American Solar Energy Society found that renewable energy and energy-efficient industries were responsible for the creation of nearly 8.5 million jobs in 2006, and by 2030 that number is expected to reach 40 million.
Colleges and universities are taking notice, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a job placement consulting group.
Many have introduced specialized degree programs in eco-commerce, environmental accounting, green and social marketing, and ecological economics.
"The demand for 'green-collar' jobs is really exploding, especially as the cost of energy continues to climb," said John Challenger, the group's chief executive. "Students need to start thinking about developing skills that will give them an edge for these types of careers that did not even exist until recently."
Popular jobs include urban planners, forestry professionals and environmental lawyers, Challenger said. There is also a growing demand for architects and engineers with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit.
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- At 6:08am on July 26, 2008,
Glen Kilgour said…
- Dave, The CNG (LNG is liquified natural gas) sytem is directly injected in the cylenders, a computer module plugs directly in the OEM electrical system and automaticly sets up the timing for the higher octane fuel, I get the same mileage with the small v8 (4.8?) as with gasoiline, 17.5 on my normal commute and 20 on interstate trips. My cost per mile beats any other vehicle that is current ly marketed in the US including some large motercycles at current prices. It starts on gasoiline than when the engine tempurature is in operationg range it automaticly switches over to CNG. I have a small lighted button mounted low on the bottom of the dash that changes color from red to green and it has a bar to indicate the fuel level. I have a pressure guage mounted under the hood near the radiator by the nipple I connect to to fill at a CNG station, it takes about 10 min to fill and I use a debit or credit card, 24/7. I know its not a solution for the whole country, nothing is, but promoting it as a vehicle fuel in the areas where it is economicly viable and using windpower to in place of it to produce electric power will help all of us in the longer term by reducing crude oil imports. GK
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