Slow come back

OK, so I know it has been a long time. A very long time but I am wrapping up my first draft of my book. I can afford to focus energy elsewhere and I am happy with some of the changes I am seeing around the world. It appears that some are taking the energy issue to heart. Car sales, for what they are, have changed to reasonable sized cars. Green jobs have gotten a good strong boost from the stimulus package and the grid is getting a good look at by those who can change it.

All in all I have to say that the world feels like it is moving in the right direction. Not as fast as I would hope, but it is moving. So am I. Like have said in the past, I am spending time on working on a fiction novel that takes place in the future by about 200 years. A large focus is how we would have a different future with out fossil fuels. Naturally, this can't be the plot of the book, but through some basic story telling, I am hoping to get people thinking about the abundance we live in as a result of the massive amount of energy each and everyone of us are beneficiaries of. I have written about the massive amount of hidden energy we live off of. I will do so more in the future.

I guess I am saying, I am back. I hope to contribute to the discussion again and help, if I might be so bold to say, guide it some. Maybe that is a little egotistical but I like to think that each one of use helps guide the others. I like to think what is so special about the Pickens site, we are a open community that listen and share and through that we have become better people when it comes to the issue that is most pressing for our generation, Energy.

So in that spirit, I offer the following link. Check it out and think about it. Talk with you again soon.
Dan

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/05/07/1925350.aspx

Suppose you take an acre's worth of switchgrass and turn it into ethanol for your flex-fuel car, while your neighbors take their acre's worth and burn it in a power plant to generate electricity for their plug-in hybrid. Which car would go farther?

If you guessed that your car would, you'd be way off. About 7,000 miles off, in fact.

In a study published online today by the journal Science, researchers say using biomass to generate electricity is more efficient for transportation than making biofuels - and might actually do more to cut CO2 emissions as well.