nakedjaybird

Keeping Alternate Energy In Perspective

This is the energy chart we should be examining:

static.seekingalpha.co...

Here we can see that almost 60% of all that oil, gas, and coal is absolutely waste. That's right, only 40% of the author's beautiful chart actually turns into useable energy.

That being the case, capturing and converting any free solar and wind energy at whatever conversion efficiency looks mighty inviting.

That's right, if today we capture and convert only 20% of the sun's free solar energy as Photovoltaic, it immediately becomes 100% useable with nowhere near the mess and complications of oil, gas, coal, and all their supporting spiderwebed complex industries.

And, if you want to say we are going to lose some 1/5th of that free solar photovoltaic energy in transmission and distribution, fine: that still makes 16% of what we capture 100% useable and free......... duh!!.

I vote for a no-holds-barred, "time-is-of-the-essens... Manhattan Project/Moon Program on solar photovoltaic to produce the electricity needed that will essentially eliminate all the hydrocarbon consumption in moving goods and people around the USA; and do it within 10 years - as quickly as we could bring any new oil source to use.

All we need is good leadership and sand for the silicon and glass. That's the supply side.


For the use side, we need to electrify the rails (get rid of the diesel) and electrify the interstate hiways/biways/beltways and push hybrids. Things we are already capable of doing - as simple as building a fence (ya right!!).

Are some of you getting tired of hearing me? Good. I heard enough about the other sides of the arguments for 40 years. Maybe someone with vision and might will hear me and do what I say to make me go away. And then, we all have won.

You know what - I'll bet Obama and some of the Democratic and Republican people could go for this program. The Republicans and Democrats in Congress and the big oil and auto majority certainly have not. Well, if they wanted to, they were just not the little red engine, were they.

Here you go Dems. Run with it.