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Comment from mercury
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
The re-establishment of our economy requires plans for development. This can run in tandem with securing our sources of energy and the prevention of global warming:
The prevention of global warming, energy independence, and freedom from fossil fuels will need ALL of the following:
Portugal has led the way to the future in which we will need NO fossil fuels, coal (whether dirty clean coal or dirty dirty coal), gas, or nuclear power.
THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!!
The following needs to be more widely known:
The MOST important actions on prevention of global warming are STILL NOT being done:
1. Research into TIDAL POWER stations: America's Eastern and Western seaboards offer almost unlimited tidal power over 6000 miles.
The only such station in the Western Hemisphere is in Nova Scotia and that province already produces 12% of its electric power from renewable sources.
Hardly anything is being done in this direction in the USA.
2. Portugal has pioneered the way toward COMPLETE freedom from fossil fuels, using a combination of dams for hydro-electric power, solar farms, wind farms and harnessing WAVE POWER with "SEA SNAKES" (Pelamis). These ingenious scavengers of wave power, invented in Scotland, measure 150 metres in length and 3.5 metres in diameter. They each produce enough power to supply about 1500 HOMES, generating electricity by movement of their 4 sections about hinges. A cable along the seabed carries the energy to a substation on the shore.
Portugal had a goal to produce 30% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2010. Two years ahead of schedule it is at 42% !
[CBC news.ca Oct.22,2008. - Also reported in UN Wire of Oct. 24th.]
America needs to catch up, and to catch up fast !
We need to change the mantra from "Drill baby Drill" to "Snake baby Snake"
WHERE ARE OUR SEA SNAKES? WHY ARE WE WAITING?
3. Research into low cost electric cars and high speed rechargeable batteries. Tesla has already an excellent vehicle, but at too high a cost. We need cheap electric cars and these could easily be made, and would TOTALLY eliminate greenhouse gases from cars.
Any bail out or better, a loan, should be only for the manufacture of electric cars - Now is the time! There are already many different electric vehicles on the market. An additional advantage of an electric car is that no one is going to burn to death trapped in the car.
4. Prepare for recharge stations at service stations and in shopping centre parking lots. Consider an electric pickup through a groove in the main streets of cities. (Like the old trams).
5. Put an immediate ban on all new coal powered power stations, and phase out all of the old ones. Put an immediate ban on all mountain top blast mining for coal and on all industrial river pollution.
6. Put an immediate ban on any new nuclear power stations, and nuclear weapons.
Start to research better ways of disposing of nuclear waste The cost needed for nuclear power construction is staggering and far exceeds the cost of creating wind power and tidal power.
We certainly do not need any more Chernobyls or Three Mile Islands, and nuclear waste will not go away because we want it to. It is well known that the transport of nuclear waste is hazardous, and subject to accidents! The horror of ongoing irradiation of the inhabitants in the Marshall Islands and the innumerable deaths and devastating sickness following nuclear bomb testing many miles away, and the far from reassuring recognition that the ground will remain radioactive for 1500 years does not provide any reason for complacency regarding accidents in transport, at waste dumps in volcanic areas, or at power plants, themselves! Recently revelations from the nuclear reactor in Virginia, detailed multiple accidents and problems, including the release of radioactive waste from a storage tank with radiation into the ground and air. Such accidents are often concealed by corporations.
7. Start the construction of large wind farms and solar farms. (The latter are best located in the southern desert states).
Denmark has shown the feasibility of building wind farms over the sea with turbines supported by pylons driven into the seabed. Even now, very little is being done in this direction in the USA.
8. Careful construction of dams for hydro power using technology to prevent a harmful impact on wildlife and drinkable water supply.
9. Accelerating the date requiring increased mileage rules for gas powered vehicles. The meeting of the "Big Three" showed a move in the right direction but fell short of the previously determined target of 35 miles per gallon.
10.Planting new forests and cutting back on lumber industry deforestation. Revelation that most of the Southern forests are in private hands suggests the need for some negotiation for protecting these forests.
11.Aid to foreign nations in need to achieve the above goals.
Cap and trade has done nothing to reduce greenhouse gases, and is merely an easy way out for the coal and fossil fuel industries.
We need action now! Global warming is here and now! The threat of inadequate water supplies is here and now!
Do not let as much as a single attempt at drilling to take place. The Republicans know how to obstruct and block. It is time for Democrats to take up the cudgel, and accuse, accuse, accuse!.
Big Oil is holding us back and dragging us down! We have lost our power of innovation!
Can we do this? Yes we can! Si se puede!
All of the above will provide abundant employment and will
be more than adequate to jumpstart the economy.
For 8 years we have been running an upside down economy which has built up a horrendous national and international debt.
Recent attempts to restart the economy by uncontrolled bail outs have resulted in inevitable failure and highly predictable consequences: The hoarding of donations of taxpayers' money. This has been a back to front effort.
To restore the economy, the FIRST OBJECTIVE MUST BE THE CREATION OF JOBS: Jobs produce products and earn money. To produce products, materials must be bought and transported, thus creating more jobs. Transportation requires fuelling, oiling, maintenance and repairs of trucks, wagons, trains, rails and roads. Wages from all of these workers pays for food from stores and farmers - more workers and more wages to spend on rentals and ultra low interest mortgages on properties with depleted prices. Purchase of properties requires agents and attorneys. Thus the cycle is restarted. An initial impetus stimulus may be needed to start the creation of these jobs and may require an initial addition to the national debt.
The massive blunder of allowing the Bush Administration to have total and secret control of the bank bail out, which should have been under the absolute control of a Board appointed by, and supervised by Congress, resulted in the money being dropped into a black hole.
By contrast, using a bail out or loan to create jobs would produce cash flow. Once the cash flow is started it accelerates and hoarded assets become released to pay for employees, and products. The release of hoarded assets stimulates investment and increases in the value of shares in the stock market.
New businesses are opened. Electric cars are made and sold.
Once the economy is restored, the debt can be gradually paid off.
The predicted hoarding by banks, predictably continues, while Congress sits lamely by as if there were nothing that it could do!!!
All that is needed is a little spine! Provide bail outs in monthly sums. Before the next month's payment require a certificate that the previous month's payment has been given to X for Y:
Where X equals a list of home mortgages at their reduced prices, and at a reduced interest rate of 1.9% to 2.9%. The home owner then refunds the Bail out account.
Y equals the Home owners and their addresses.
The mortgage is gradually paid off in small sums over a lengthy period.
Some properties can be rented out at extremely low rentals, with the option to buy, giving preference to the former owners. This is far better for all concerned than allowing foreclosed properties to remain empty and deteriorate or be vandalized.
WHY IN THE WORLD IS THIS NOT BEING DONE?????
The same measures can be applied to restoring corporate businesses such as the auto industry. It is simply a method of forcing the banks to open their vaults and put useless money into circulation.
Banks must be forced to release their stored assets by any number of ways, such as placing a ceiling on hoarded assets. (Operation "Tight Fist")
Banks which do not respect workers' rights or try to obstruct unions would not be given bail outs.
How think you?
Sincerely,
Ian Campbell Cree, MB(Hons.), MS, FRCS(Eng. & C.), FACS, LRCP
http://blogs.edf.org/greenroom/2009/03/02/mapping-the-green-economy/
Comment from Susan von Borstel
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
My studies show me that there is only one workable, affordable solution to climate change and a clean environment, that is ready now. That is a new technology at GE called the S-PRISM reactor that turns our dirty spent nuclear fuel into power. It is clean, can't melt down, can't be made into weapons and can also be used to desalinate water and make viable several new forms of clean technology to run cars. There is enough spent fuel on earth to last many centuries. Other countries are doing it. It's the future. For more see www.prescriptionfortheplanet.com
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