BeanMan
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The thread on gas prices got me thinking.
Here's one farmers idea's for making American strong and keeping it that way. Add to it, pick it apart, cut off the Middle East.
BeanMan's energy platform.
1. Drill here, drill now including ANWAR. Environmental laws still apply.
2. Build Nuclear power plants to generate electricity which can provide power for many things including new processes for cracking Oil Shale (more appropriately called Keragen instead of oil).
3. Biomass energy/Cellulosic ethanol. The technology is ready to be tested in large scale plants, it will need to be done initially with Government help. Biomass energy should not be confused with fermenting alcohol from grains.
4. Dramatically increase funding for research on Hydrogen fuel cells, cheaper and more efficient solar, fusion and etc.
5. Build vehicles that are increasingly more fuel efficient. When my current truck wears out in ten or so years I hope I can replace it with one that gets more MPG without a huge price tag.
6. Utilize as much wind power as is possible. We need to upgrade our national electrical grid.
7. New homes should be built with the latest and best technology to conserve energy, take advantage of passive solar.
I'm probably missing something here and some of these items will prove to be unworkable. Even if purchasing energy created here in the USA is more expensive it should prove to be valuble to our economy (buy American) since the money and jobs will stay here. If we cut off the Middle East from our money they will be less of a threat to us.
Bean
Here's one farmers idea's for making American strong and keeping it that way. Add to it, pick it apart, cut off the Middle East.
BeanMan's energy platform.
1. Drill here, drill now including ANWAR. Environmental laws still apply.
2. Build Nuclear power plants to generate electricity which can provide power for many things including new processes for cracking Oil Shale (more appropriately called Keragen instead of oil).
3. Biomass energy/Cellulosic ethanol. The technology is ready to be tested in large scale plants, it will need to be done initially with Government help. Biomass energy should not be confused with fermenting alcohol from grains.
4. Dramatically increase funding for research on Hydrogen fuel cells, cheaper and more efficient solar, fusion and etc.
5. Build vehicles that are increasingly more fuel efficient. When my current truck wears out in ten or so years I hope I can replace it with one that gets more MPG without a huge price tag.
6. Utilize as much wind power as is possible. We need to upgrade our national electrical grid.
7. New homes should be built with the latest and best technology to conserve energy, take advantage of passive solar.
I'm probably missing something here and some of these items will prove to be unworkable. Even if purchasing energy created here in the USA is more expensive it should prove to be valuble to our economy (buy American) since the money and jobs will stay here. If we cut off the Middle East from our money they will be less of a threat to us.
Bean
