By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:45:02 +0000

We need a good line of very cheap, highly efficient, very durable, domestic sized, windmills. Storage battery systems with electronics for over-charge protection must be built in, and the whole system automated, right down to the grid connection. These units for cost reasons will have to be manufactured in China and perhaps retailed by net directly from their to keep the meddlesome and very expensive American middleman out of the circuit. Larger installations require capital, and as most Americans have extensive personal debt, and huge credit card and bank overdrafts, are not likely feasible. Perhaps, government assistance from the (GRD) great republican depression in form of long term loans at lower interest rates will allow the purchase by a Village, Town, of County of a barrage of larger windmills, feeding overproduction to the grid, and providing a more energy conscious population the power they need. Combining a change in American energy consumption patterns and Wind and Solar power sources, we can avoid our enslavement to foreign oil, and huge dirty and dangerous, non-renewable nuclear involvements. A new LED light-bulb replacement from Cambridge University promises to give us lighting at a tenth the cost of CFL lighting, but most Americans, like the Brits, are a callous and wasteful lot and are yet to convert even to the CFLs, and deserve the crash they are experiencing! Somebody should tell the wastrels that the British Empire is over, and the American Empire is on the wane, and their sense of entitlement is no longer justified. Leave that to the politicians, the fact is we use too much for how much we produce and the end is in sight. Brownouts are just the “Canary in the coal mine”, signaling a complete and imminent breakdown, even massive nuclear development can’t keep up with. We are our own worst enemy, and until the sloth stops we are on a very slippery slope indeed! Post GRD society will be a “post-materialist” society, for those who survive the purge and the crash. Just check out the post U.S.S.R. situation, on the web, to see what can happen after a bust!

By: Anne Marie Biernacki

Anne Marie Biernacki — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:05:43 +0000

Why do we need to wait for a project to come into our towns to rally support? What about letter writing, online and phone campaigns to the towns or our utility providers to demand more or better renewable energy options or local energy independance efforts. As an NSTAR customer who recently opted for the NSTAR Green option on my account, I find it frustrating that while the effort is admirable, the energy is sourced from a windfarm in New York and from a pending project in Maine. What about opting in to local sources, or helping support their development?

By: Ken Smith

Ken Smith — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:03:47 +0000

As a renewable energy developer I find it interesting that opponents to wind/solar facilities are so well organized, but proponents are often not as well organized. In some locations like on the Cape there are now groups that have web sites, budgets, staff, etc. – but in a lot of places throughout the country the “build baby build” movement is still in its nascnet stages.

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