"Seven Myths About Alternative Energy"

if you want to be taken seriously ... ditch the shirt.

OK pretend I am an alien with a far advanced intelligence beyond humans and have come to your planet. - The Earth gets it's energy from the sun, all life forms have evolved to harness this power source. The base of the food chain is plants, which we evolved to eat all powered by the sun.

Logical conclusion the Sun has more power it 1 hour that the Earth would need in a year. We have figured out a crude method for converting it to electro-magnetic energy which will work for now. We will evolve the technology, and in hundreds of years from now will look back and think people today were idiots for even thinking about using non-renewable technologies when our planet and it's evolution and all life in the cosmos uses the sun. Yes the sun, the most efficient power plant ever created.

Let science determine the fate of our power needs not Corporation who will derail the human advancement.

lookatmypix, check this out.

http://current.com/search.htm?q=+parabolic+mirror+solar+power&loc=group__758...

From article: "Atomic energy is emissions free"

This is a most dangerous misnomer that is driven into the public's mind by pro-nuclear advocates. All nuke plants routinely give off radioactive gases during operation and all radiation gives off radioactive gases as it decays. There is a constant stream of radioactive gases released into our air which is why zero release is never attainable (they also dump radioactivity directly into our water supply). Emissions travel through the air directly to our lungs, or fall to the ground. Rainfall usually brings the particles back to land. This may be land in use for agriculture, where green leafy and other vegetables absorb the radiation and are then sold in stores, leading to eventual consumption by humans. the land may be used for grazing cattle. the grass absorbs the radiation, which is consumed by the cattle. Radioactive iodine-131 and iodine-129 is concentrated in the cow's milk. the milk is then sold at the store. Pregnant and nursing mothers consuming the milk endanger the fetus or baby as the radioactive Iodine eventually deposits into their thyroids. There it can disrupt the production of growth hormone, causing spontaneous abortions, hyaline membrane disease, low birth rate babies and poor growth and development. Deposits in the brain lead to mental retardation, etc. the fetus and the growing child are much more susceptible to the effects of radiation than is the adult.

This is something I came across:

"Why have we been kept in the dark about concentrated solar power which can make coal&Nuclear = History"

"Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), a cheap, simple, safe and clean parabolic, mirror-based technology that is capable of replacing and outlasting oil, gas, coal and nuclear.
The basic technology is extremely simple. The Ancient Greeks used it to try to set fire to enemy warships. Concentrated Solar Power uses parabolic mirrors to concentrate the suns heat (not to be confused with PV Photovoltaic which uses the suns light to generate electricity). It is quite possible using even a small parabolic reflector to have a point at the centre hot enough to melt metal. One sq. mile of Concentrated Solar Power mirror field can generate the same amount of energy as one hundred sq. miles of the best growing biomass crop."

"We have 100,000 terra watts beaming down on us and human beings might only use 15 terra watts. In fact we have so much solar sunlight that it would be the equivalent of an 8-inch deep layer of oil everywhere on the planet annually (Khosla, 2006)."

More at the link:

http://www.katharinehamnett.com/Campaigns/Concentrated-Solar-Power/REPORT

I'm glad to see Amory Lovins made it into this article.
"Nuke plants are supposed to be expensive to build but cheap to operate. Unfortunately, they're turning out to be really, really expensive to build; their cost estimates have quadrupled in less than a decade. Energy guru Amory Lovins has calculated that new nukes will cost nearly three times as much as wind -- and that was before their construction costs exploded for a variety of reasons, including the global credit crunch, the atrophying of the nuclear labor force, and a supplier squeeze symbolized by a Japanese company's worldwide monopoly on steel-forging for reactors. A new reactor in Finland that was supposed to showcase the global renaissance is already way behind schedule and way, way over budget. This is why plans for new plants were recently shelved in Canada and several U.S. states, why Moody's just warned utilities they'll risk ratings downgrades if they seek new reactors, and why renewables attracted $71 billion in worldwide private capital in 2007 -- while nukes attracted zero."

The Republicans say they hate "socialism" but they sure want those government handouts for their nuke plants don't they. They are still trying to subsidize coal and nuclear - no change.

From article: "Even if the United States switched its entire grain crop to ethanol, it would only replace one fifth of U.S. gasoline consumption." This is a totally untrue statement. America could produce enough alcohol for the whole world's needs if our leaders would consult David Blume. He already has the plan but is being stifled. He knows how to feed the world with food and supply their energy needs sustainably, without genetic alterations and without poison.

The midwest is aware of David Blume's work but the corporations block any progress. David says all cars should be run on 100% ethanol (the feds require an additive so people won't drink it. David is working on a non-poisoning additive). Even diesel's can be converted to run on alcohol. David states the yields per plant is greater with alcohol than biodiesel (I.e. extracting the starch yields more than extracting the oil). You can produce all heat and electricity needs for a house using a car engine in your basement run on alcohol. That's why this cash for clunkers program was so bad. And I'll dare say Ray LaHood did it on purpose. All those engines could have been used to produce electricity. But the electric companies want to keep you dependent on them and their coal/nuclear and spying smart grid.

Nuke is the only way.

You should really look up compressed air powered cars, I remember reading an article years ago that described how in France, these cars could be our answer to daily commuting, and were more efficient than electric cars.

I felt the need to address this in the Organic group as I take biofuel from corn ethanol a dangerous, alarming threat to our Nature. If it becomes reality, this would contaminate our soil and water more than we could ever imagine, also creating more deforestation, desertification,water scarcity,wild life extinction and future disease.
This is the antithesis of an Organic thinking, an Organic solution that is allied with our Nature.