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Comment by Jay Rosenberg on October 7, 2009 at 11:10pm: Bad News is both Healthcare and Energy in US private industry hands is a backwards, costly, debilitating blemish, Implementing some high effiency renewable systems, engines, powerblocks (e.g., RETs), we could return approximately $1 Trillion to the US Public. (not to mention the costs of its protection, militarily), Of course, it would be a paradigm shift for transportation, automobiles etc. WIth Healthcare, at least $500 Billion/ year can wrung out using technology.Ever hear of Moore's Law, computers, databases, real time, telemedicine, telehealth.. Example, I got a lab bill for a blood work up. The local lab charged the Doc $25. The Doc charged us $500+. What he do for that $. He read the results, which listed 15 items given as Low - High and your scores. If something was out of range it stated it. So for reading scrap of paper, the cost was over $475! Why? And, guess who tried to shut down the NP (Nurse Practictioners) writing RX's and having their own patients, GOD FORBID, with out a white coat looking over their shoulders, or his/ her scribble on a Pad. Sannerwind@gmail.com

Comment by Robert Schultz on October 7, 2009 at 9:37am: Chandrashekar,
I especially liked the closing paragraphs...

"Proclaiming the disabilities and energy awareness month at the same time, highlighting sustainability and efficiency at the same time, the government wants us to change light bulbs and inflate tires and vote to pass health care reform. To it, insurance and oil and coal give-aways save more lives than harnessing the sun. The struggle for the black by creatures of light could doom us in darkness.

Our death dance with the already sustainable nature of which we are a part seems to not have lit any light bulbs in our heads. Nature is as energy efficient as it can get, by putting in as little as possible to get out as much as is (literally) physically possible as a matter of iterative engineering over eons. We happened as a happenstance somewhere along the way. Others had come and gone and so could we, if it means efficiency in the perpetuation of systemic survival.

The best celebration of our energy awareness, of our emergence from the cave into the light, of our enlightenment, would be to pass an energy bill by Halloween that aligns us with nature to be able to continue to survive."

You are absolutely right. We need to be working with Nature and developing sustainability in our energy policy, not destroying nature by removing mountaintops to extract coal, polluting water supplies with chemicals trying to extract oil and gas, or spreading radioactive materials by mining uranium. There are countless ways to reduce our energy usage to match what can be obtained from sustainable sources like sun, wind, and water.