What a wonderful idea. I can't see any problem with this. Just think about it. Hundreds or thousands of nuclear power plants the size of a hot tub all over the country. What could possibly go wrong?

No terrorist groups would ever think to raid them for their radioactive fuel or waste. Noone could possibly make a dirty bomb out of that material. Who would think to grind it in to a powder and disperse it from a private plane over populated areas, effectively poisoning millions of people and contaminating thousands of square miles of property and water supplies.

Are these people morons or is it intentional destruction of the human race? Are these the same idiots that scream about national security while they rape other countries for profit and foment terrorist organization? WHEN WILL WE WAKE UP? None of the problems we face occur in a vacuum. As long as we continue with these self-destructive policies we are threatened with annihilation.

Al, I am sorry that you still buy into a centralized electrical energy system. It is disappointing when someone with such good intentions, education, and voice still advocates for big utilities and corporations instead of a real solution. Why did you limit your comments to a 100 by 100 mile photovoltaic collection site? Especially, when you pointed out one of its fatal flaws, transmission to the sites of use. By the way. another fatal flaw is that this approach leaves us at the mercy of the utility companies.

A better solution is to promote the incorporation of photovoltaic collectors into building materials such as: siding and roofing. This technology exists today and could be substituted for conventional shingles, metal roofing, and aluminum siding. In essence, every building in the world could help to solve the energy problem. How much electricity could we generate if installed this technology on every building in and around Atlanta, New York City, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Dallas, etc? Generating electricity at the site of use in this way nearly eliminates the need for long distance transmission.

Wind can be added simply to this system using small sinusoidal wind turbines, about 6 feet in size, that can be mounted on roofs and on the sides of skyscrapers. These turbines are not susceptible to damage by high wind like the mega turbines. They look more like ornamental wind mobiles and don't have the aesthetic obstacles that large wind farms have. They are relatively cheap and can help bridge the gap during low sunlight.

Yes, we need a smart grid. We do need to transmit excess electricity to industry and areas experiencing low production. What we don't need is the means of production in a few corporate hands remotely located away from the areas of use. We need to require that the grid buy the excess electrical production at fair market price like they do from conventional generators. We need a system for powering long distance travel on our roads using electric vehicles. My suggestion for this is a system using short distance wireless electricity transmission built into the interstate highway system based on Tesla's proposal at the turn of the last century. Cars and cargo haulers would run off this system saving their batteries for local roads. A device like EasyPass could track their energy usage.

I am disappointed that Al and this site seem to be so set on centralized renewable energy instead of a small "d" democratic approach. The sun shines everywhere. The wind blows everywhere. Geothermal energy radiates out from the earths core everywhere. Why limit ourselves to isolated areas of use? Why maintain our dependence on the whims of large corporations? Why continue the insecurity of our economic stability on the good intentions of the same corporate executives that got us into the current crisis out of greed? Let's push for a real long term solution to these issues.

I reside in the NYS 127th District. The district includes parts of Greene, Otsego, Deleware, Schoharie, Columbia and Chenango counties.

Pete Lopez is our Assemblyman who is supporting a bunch of bills for alternative energy. I have sent corospondence to him with some questions regarding how we can support his efforts in Albany.

The email that was sent on July, 19th is at the end of this post!
Pleae read it!

Lets see what kind of reply we get from our Assemblyman! I beleive it will be a positive one?

Regards

Big Dom



Dear Assemblyman:

I am a member of former V.P. Al Gores group We Can Solve It. I am trying to help the cause and want to know if i could post the bills you are supporting on my WE blog. I would also like to know how we can help you support the pending bills for alternative energy.

Would it help the cause for us to start a signature drive for you to present to the house to show how many NYS residents support these efforts?

Please reply with comments to our concerns for alternative energy solutions for NYS.

Regards


Big Dom

First I would like to thank Mr. Gore for all that he has done to bring this issue to the for front.

I don't know where this blog will take all of us who read it but, I hope it will be a small piece of the overall pie that allows the issue of global warming to become more mainstream.

I am looking for some guidence with some issues that concern all of us in the Southern Tier (NYS) I will begin with some research on the net that will help me inform all of us on what is going on with regards to enviormental issues.

I will first check into what our state government leaders are doing.

I thank everyone in advance for allowing me to be a small part of a really important issue.

Big Dom