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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

PS: Hopefully my aforemetntioned Figure appears here:


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What Does Obama's Cabinet Have in Store for Alternative Energy?

For what it's worth, it appears I have become a supporting Democrat based on my energy perspective (contrary to Kudlow's and the Republican's mantra of Drill, Drill, Drill).

So here's the plan given to the Obama team (and by the way, the basis for my plan, the Livermore National Labs and AIE's own data, is a familar source associated with the new energy czar, Steven Chu):

The attached figure (Livermore National Labs US Energy Consumption - 2002; EIA) is my basis for good energy planning for the US with the overall goals of:

I) eliminating wasted energy (56 of 97 Quads, or 58% of total US consumption is lost), and

II) leaving natural energy resources stored in the ground until we REALLY need them, while maximizing readily available and free forever solar and wind, and other alternatives (while eliminating trillions of foreign financial payments).

1. Reduce wasted energy in ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION (26 Quads or 68% of power generation energy is lost).

1.1. Promote Solar PV and Wind.

1.2. Promote pumped/stored hydro (and end-use storage technologies to handle the variability of 1.1. generation).

1.3. Permit steam-to-electricity generation in combined cycle plants only where low pressure steam is utilized (even if thermal solar; AND nuclear[?]. Nuclear is dense enough and safe enough to promote block heating in cities as in Europe, or process industrialized areas?)

1.4. Stop burning coal (and the networked supporting industries from mining, transportation, pollution, reclamation, maintenance, etc., without causing a depression - like, put the folks to work building solar and wind farms, and the new interstate power grid and electrified ferries of 1.7 below; same for the oil, gas and auto guys, etc.). Do 1.1. and 1.7.

1.5. Stop burning natural gas. Do 1.1. and 1.2.

1.6. Don't even think about processing any tar sands, oil shale, or coal gasification and liquefaction methods which are ultimately burned for POWER GENERATION or TRANSPORTATION after adding cost (not to mention all the networked industry complexities as mentioned above for coal). Consider these sources only "when there is no other way" situations: like we run out of crude oil and need plastics.

1.7. Construct the new upgraded electric power grid in, above, below, or alongside the existing interstate highway right-of-ways which lead to major cities (where energy is used while passing thru the hinterlands within 50-100 miles of future solar and wind power farms).

1.7.1. Integrate within these same interstate right-of-ways ELECTRIFIED FERRIES for cargo, vehicles and people, both two-way high speed interstate express and two-way local intrastate travel.

2. Reduce wasted energy in TRANSPORTATION (21 Quads or 80% of transportation energy is lost):

2.1. Do 1.7. and 1.7.1. for intra- and interstate travel.

2.2. Promote local transit systems within congested urban beltways, linked to the interstate highway system of 1.7.

2.3. Promote hybrid and electric vehicles for personal commuting, local fleet service and commercial delivery.

2.4 Promote biofuels for hybrids, ground, rail, air and water transportation.

Much of the above is currently valid for developing countries which are repeating the mistakes the US made which hopefully can be redirected - be it because of air pollution [China, India], government edict, new alternatives, etc.).

Much of the above already exists in Europe, Japan... So it can be done. It may take a permanent energy tax to fund the above; and as wasted energy is reduced, the tax goes away. A wonder we've not seen.