a rant about clean energy
Posted on March 30, 2008 - Filed Under general
speaking of good air, i just saw an article in time talking about how biofuels aren’t the clean solution they’re being sold as. i’m glad to see this story coming out more. i’ve been saying for a long time now that ethanol isn’t the way to go. you just don’t get enough out for what you put in. and perhaps even more importantly, it’s having a drastic effect on the price of food. i HAVE to eat. i CHOOSE to drive. well to a certain extent anyway. i mean, i do have to get to work. but i have choices on how to get there and there is car pooling. there is public transportation. there is the system math of figuring out with my wife what is the most efficient way to organize the weekend.
i think that burning things isn’t really the way to go. i’m not a scientist. i just think that more people need to be thinking critically and questioning things rather than getting snowed by the media. speaking of which, there’s a great conference coming up in minneapolis this summer put on by freepress.net. check it out. however, what i was getting at is that burning doesn’t seem to get us anywhere. though maybe burning garbage would be cool if we could find a clean way to do it.
no, i’ve always been a solar/wind kind of a guy. hard to fight against that. the technology has come a long way with not much in the way of funding. think of what we could do with the money for just one week in iraq. it’s crazy. right now i can’t afford it but i’d love to get solar on my roof. there’s so much that needs to improve still. we’d need to make it easier for people to upgrade the efficiency of their homes, while were at it. i live in the city where it’s not really windy enough and i couldn’t get a permit anyway but there are a lot of locations where we could really get ahead with wind.
basically what it comes down to is this. there is a ton of free energy out there. we just need the start up costs. and we need to make sure that what we’re getting really is clean.
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