All Blog Posts Tagged 'alternatives' (5)

II attended a sparsely attended meeting regarding the possibility of drilling for NG in the Marcellus Shale region last night, sponsored by local Community Board 8 in Manhattan. The Marcellus Shale is home to 90% of New York City's drinking water. Although there were only about a dozen audience members, some of whom served on the community board, those who were there knew what they were talking about, and about the dangers of commercial fracturing to obtain Natural Gas (NG). There comments are p… Continue

I don't usually post links to other articles - Pickens' people are already so well informed! But in this case, I am making an exception. The referred article shows how some pretty terrific alternative energy technologies are being suppressed and gobbled up by big oil in order to suppress them. Now that we are entering a depression, it will be even harder for small, startup companies to resist the takeover efforts of Big Oil and Big Coal (these companies lose money too in a downturn, but not near… Continue

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Do you know someone who is truly poor? Do you know anyone who has to choose between driving to work and eating lunch? Do you know anyone who has to choose between driving to work and paying a babysitter to watch the kids while at work? Those people are more likely to use inefficient kerosene or fuel oil to heat their homes. These same people can't afford to go out and get a new CNG car and drive it. They can't even afford the hybrid to save a little cash. The point is someone has to think of the… Continue

I have been pushing the idea of backing this plan while working at our own level, our homes, businesses and communities, while the wind farm is being built. For example, here is good old Dover, DE, the local power plant burns fuel oil to make electric. That means constant rate hikes and pollution. In my community, we need to do something like solar on every roof to get off foreign oil. Up the road a ways, they use power from a nuclear plant in Jersey. Their efforts could be first geared towards… Continue