Discussions on the Trade-Offs Between Renewables and Fossil Fuels Shows Galactic Level of Stupidity
Here’s an excerpt article published last week by Reuters that illustrates how galactically stupid the debate on energy has become. Please read along and see where you think this goes completely off the rails for anyone with an IQ over that of a stalk of celery:
Wear-and-tear costs on coal and natural gas power plants from adding high levels of wind and solar energy in the U.S. West is small compared with the benefits of generating less power using fossil fuels, a federal study said Tuesday. (more…)
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Going green is more than installing compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Teaching kids about 
I mentioned a few months ago that I’m making real progress towards putting together a fairly large (nine-figure) waste-to-energy deal in a developing but extremely stable and business-friendly country in Central America. My trip back East enabled me to have lunch with the deal’s principle, a fellow I’ve come to know and respect from our numerous phone and email chats over the last few months. 
The nationwide distribution of goods, which occurs mostly through commercial trucking on the interstate system, consumes an enormous amount of energy. That’s why any discussion of making the world a more energy efficient place should include talk of green logistics. 
I had a terrific meeting this afternoon with some very bright and progressive people at Lockheed Martin. They hope to be huge contributors to the development of a number of different flavors of renewable energy, and I, of course, am going to do everything I can to help bring that to fruition.
Humankind is watching the “train-wreck in slow motion” that is the decline of the Earth’s natural environment at the hands of our civilization’s reckless energy policy. And we all know that we will one day acquire the ability to harvest the measly fraction of the energy we receive from the sun (1/6000th) necessary to turn off all other sources of power. Even 
I’m proud to be a co-founder of a new website: EmpowerTheOcean, a repository for educational and inspirational content on ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), a technology that provides great promise for the low-cost and eco-friendly provision of electricity to the approximately one billion of us who live near tropical oceans. I hope you’ll check it out and contribute your own thoughts – recognizing that it is, for now at least, brand new. Consider yourself a pioneer!
