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Renewable Energy
Technologies
www.RenewableEnergyTechnologies.com
What are "Renewable Energy
Technologies?"
Renewable Energy
Technologies include Any technology that exclusively relies on an energy source that is naturally regenerated over a short time and derived directly from the sun, indirectly from the sun, or from moving water or other natural movements and mechanisms of the environment.
Renewable Energy
Technologies do not rely on energy resources derived from fossil fuels, or waste products from inorganic sources.
Renewable Energy
Technologies include; Bioenergy (such as biomethane recovery from, landfills, animal operations and POTW's), Geothermal, Hydrogen, Hydropower, Ocean, Solar, and Wind power generation technologies. More information about these renewable energy technologies follows below beginning with the paragraph on "Bioenergy."
We provide Renewable Energy
Technologies engineering and project development services. We incorporate many energy-saving technologies, products and services into our renewable energy power and energy projects
on a vendor-neutral basis, seeking the optimum renewable energy solution for
each renewable energy project.
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About
us:
We
provide engineering and renewable energy consulting and project development services;
Our work is
performed on a strict adherence to "vendor-neutrality" and seek to maximize
our client's "triple bottom line" returns: people, planet and
profits.
To
receive a preliminary, no obligation consult, email us a summary or overview of your
project to:
info@RenewableEnergyTechnologies.com
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What
is the Graz Cycle?
The
Graz Cycle
is the only thermodynamic combustion cycle that allows for the retention and
capture of carbon
dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels.
The
Graz Cycle
burns fossil fuel along with pure oxygen thereby enabling for the
cost-effective separation of the carbon
dioxide emissions from the combustion
process through condensation. The additional expense for supplying the oxygen
for the combustion process - and requirements for an air separation unit, are
compensated, in part, through the increase in cycle efficiencies that exceed
65%. The combined efficiency of the Graz
Cycle equals of exceeds the
thermodynamic performance of other serious contenders in Carbon
Capture and Sequestration (CCS).
The
Graz Cycle
is the thermodynamic cycle that provides for a "zero emission power
plant" which also has the highest available efficiencies using gas
turbines. The Graz
Cycle has also been heralded as a "zero emission" power
plant.
In
practice, net electrical cycle efficiencies for Graz
Cycle power plants have exceeded 65% -
which is far higher than typical of state-of-the-art combined cycle plants.
According
to the DOE web site, the Graz
Cycle consists of a high temperature Brayton
cycle and a low temperature Rankine
cycle with a Heat
Recovery Steam Generator. The Graz
Cycle is an oxy-fuel power cycle with the capability of retaining all
the combustion generated CO2 for further use. Its cycle configuration aims at
highest efficiency by reducing the heat extraction in the condenser to a
minimum. A thermodynamic investigation of the Graz
Cycle fired with natural gas (CH4) shows a net efficiency of 52.5%,
if the efforts for oxygen supply and CO2 compression to liquefaction are
considered. If synthesis
gas can be used from an external synthesis
gas plant at 500°C, efficiencies can rise up to 56%. Studies
indicate that further efficiency improvements and simplification of the cycle
are possible.
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What
is the Organic
Rankine Cycle?
A
Rankine cycle
is a closed circuit steam cycle. (see www.RankineCycle.com
for more information).
An
Organic
Rankine Cycle uses a heated chemical instead of steam as found in the
Rankine Cycle.
Chemicals used in the Organic
Rankine Cycle include freon, butane,
propane, ammonia, and the new environmentally-friendly" refrigerants.
Why use a chemical refrigerant?
A refrigerant boils at a temperature below the temperature of frozen ice. Solar
heat, for example, of only 150 degrees Fahrenheit from a typical rooftop solar
hot water heater, will furiously boil a refrigerant. The resulting high-pressure
refrigerant vapor is then piped to an organic Rankine
cycle engine.
Why is it called "organic"?
"Organic" is a term used in chemistry to describe a class of chemicals
that includes Freon and most of the other common refrigerants.
What is
Waste
Heat Recovery?
Many
processes, especially in industrial applications, produce large amounts of
excess heat – i.e., heat beyond what can be efficiently used in the process. Waste
Heat Recovery methods
attempt to extract some of the energy as work that otherwise would be wasted.
Typical
methods of recovering heat in industrial applications include direct heat
recovery to the process itself, recuperators, regenerators, and waste heat
boilers. In many applications – especially those with low-temperature waste
heat streams, such as automotive applications – the economic benefits of waste
heat recovery do not justify the cost of the recovery systems. Innovative,
affordable methods that are highly efficient, applicable to low-temperature
streams, and/or suitable for use with corrosive or “dirty” wastes could
expand the number of viable applications of waste heat recovery, as well as
improve the performance of existing applications. Our focus is on the
development of innovative Waste
Heat Recovery processes
and techniques that are (1) more efficient than conventional methods, yet still
cost-effective; and (2) applicable to waste streams from which heat cannot be
recovered easily with conventional methods.
Turning
to cooling, air conditioning systems consume approximately 10% of the energy
used in U.S. buildings and are key contributors to peak demand. Consequently,
improving the energy efficiency of air conditioning systems would substantially
reduce overall energy consumption and enhance grid reliability. For example,
compressors require cooling to dissipate the heat produced during compression
and could benefit from improved surface heat transfer – innovative designs
could increase the available heat-transfer area or materials enhancement could
increase the heat flux between the hot and cool sides of a heat exchanger.
Similarly, a reduction in the requirement for condenser cooling could provide
significant energy savings if more-efficient, cost-effective technologies were
developed.
This
is where we believe waste heat recovery integrated with our Solar
Cogeneration and Solar
Trigeneration
energy systems represents a unique opportunity for commercial and industrial
clients.
Industrial
Waste
Heat Recovery
Waste
Heat Recovery from
exit gases can significantly increase the energy efficiency of industrial
processes. Energy can be recovered from flue and stack gases, vent gases, and
combustion gases at a variety of temperatures at large-scale industrial plants
(chemical plants, petroleum refineries, biorefineries, pulp and paper mills,
etc.).
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What
is the "Unified
Smart Grid"?
The
Unified
Smart Grid is the name used for the future
transmission power lines that would carry green electricity from the many solar
power plants and solar power
parks and wind farms that generate the power, typically in remote areas, to
the "load centers" or major cities that would use the green
power.
Quite
simply, our country's out-dated and inefficient National Electric Grid, lacks the ability
to carry all the new green electricity being planned from hundreds of new solar power
parks and
wind power
generation facilities.
The
Unified
Smart Grid will be a national interconnected network relying on a high capacity backbone of electric power transmission lines linking all the nation's local electrical networks that have been upgraded to smart grids. Europe's analogous project is sometimes referred to as the SuperSmart Grid, a term that also appears in the literature describing the
Unified
Smart Grid.
Cost estimates to rebuild the nation's electric grid as a
Unified
Smart Grid have ranged from $350 billion to $450 billion.
Support for
the unified smart grid came with passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of
2007. Title 13 of this Act invested $100 million in funding for the
years 2008 – 2012 and establishes a matching program to states, utilities and consumers to build
unified smart grid capabilities. It also creates a Grid Modernization Commission to assess the benefits of demand response
and automated demand response and recommended a set of system protocols and
standards to be led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology which
would coordinate the development of smart grid standards. FERC would then promulgate
these standards and protocols for the unified smart grid through its official
rulemaking capabilities.
The Unified
Smart Grid received further support with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009 that set aside $11 billion for the creation of a smart grid.
Building
a Unified
Smart Grid
would
help jump-start the renewable
energy investments in solar power
parks. Thousands of megawatts of new solar
power parks (both Concentrating
Solar Power plants and Photovoltaic Power Plants) are being planned. Most
are located in the desert Southwest due to the solar energy resource. A Unified
Smart Grid
is
needed to move the large amount of power, which is fairly concentrated, to the
rest of the nation. Without the new Unified
Smart Grid, it
would be impossible to distribute the green power to the nation.
The
new Unified
Smart Grid is
significantly more efficient than the present, nearly 100 year old technology
that makes up our nation's present transmission
and distribution network of how we get the power from central
power plants to customers and major load centers.
Much
of the new Unified
Smart Grid will be
comprised of "High
Voltage Direct Current" transmission lines which is significantly more
efficient than the present high voltage alternating current transmission
lines.
The
new Unified
Smart Grid will provide economic
development, thousands of new jobs, and significantly reduce greenhouse
gas emissions.
What
would the new Unified
Smart Grid look like?
Source:
American Electric Power
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For
more information on the Unified
Smart Grid, visit one of the following sites:
Central Power
Plant
www.CentralPowerPlant.com
Electric Power
Generation
www.ElectricPowerGeneration.net
High
Voltage Direct Current
www.HighVoltageDirectCurrent.com
National
Electric Grid
www.NationalElectricGrid.com
Transmission
and Distribution
www.TransmissionAndDistribution.net
Unified Smart
Grid
www.UnifiedSmartGrid.com
Wind
Power Generation
www.WindPowerGeneration.com
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You Can't
Have a Unified
Smart Grid Without:
Advanced
Metering System * Advanced Meters
* Automated
Demand Response * Automated
Energy Management
Battery
Energy Storage *
Building
Automation Systems * Carbon
Free Energy *
Clean
Power Generation *
Cogeneration
Compressed
Air Energy Storage
* Decentralized
Energy *
Demand Side Management *
Dispersed
Generation
Distributed
Energy Resources *
Distributed
Generation * Distributed
PV *
EcoGeneration *
High
Voltage Direct Current
Load
Leveling *
Locational
Marginal Pricing
* Micro-Grid
* Net
Zero Energy * Net
Zero Energy Buildings
Nodal
Pricing *
Onsite
Power Generation *
Pollution
Free Power *
Plug
In Electric Vehicles *
Renewable
Energy Parks
Rooftop
PV *
Solar
Cogeneration *
Solar
Power Parks *
Trigeneration
* Virtual
Power Plants *
Waste
Heat Recovery
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What is Battery
Energy Storage?
Battery
Energy Storage, and
Battery
Energy Storage
systems, use stored electrical power in batteries, and feed
this energy to the electric grid (building, or facility) at times when it makes
economic sense. For a "Net
Zero Energy" building or facility, a
Solar
Cogeneration, or Solar
Trigeneration
energy system is used that stores excess solar power in the Battery
Energy Storage system during the daytime, for use when the sun goes down,
and during inclement weather.
Battery
Energy Storage
is an ideal solution for utility-scale wind farms, particularly in Texas, when
most of the renewable energy is generated at night when the power isn't
needed.
Battery
Energy Storage is
also an ideal demand
side management or
load
leveling
solution.
What are Flywheel
Energy Storage systems?
Flywheel
Energy Storage systems act as
mechanical batteries that store power kinetically in the form of a rotating
mass, or "flywheel."
When
the grid goes down, the power stored by the rotating flywheel is converted to
electrical energy through the flywheel’s integrated electric generator. The
system provides the DC energy to the Uninterruptible
Power Supplies system until grid power is restored or the facility's back-up
power generator can be started. Once either the utility is restored or the
genset provides power to the input of the Uninterruptible
Power Supplies, the Flywheel
Energy Storage system will be re-charged by taking some current from
the DC bus of the Flywheel
Energy Storage until it is back up to full speed.
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Diagram
from the Dept of Energy
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What
is Biomethane?
Biomethane
is "renewable natural gas" made from organic sources - which starts
out as "biogas" but then is cleaned up in a process called
"Biogas to Biomethane" which removes the impurities in biogas such as carbon dioxide,
siloxanes and hydrogen sulfides (H2S).
Biomethane
is soon to be re-classified from the category of "Low Carbon Fuels" to
"Super Low Carbon Fuel" due to it being the greenest of all biofuels!
"Cleaned-up"
and ready for use in an onsite cogeneration or
trigeneration power plant, the Biomethane
could also be sold to a pipeline company and completely replace the
"natural gas" that is typically transported to markets via the vast
underground pipeline system.
Biomethane will some day replace the "methane" that is sold by natural
gas utility companies.
Biomethane
has an unlimited supply, whereas the methane sold by gas companies has a limited
supply. Biomethane
is renewable, whereas the methane sold by your gas
utility company is not renewable. Biomethane
recovery, use and production
generates "Greentags" or a "Renewable Energy Credit" for the
owners and is GOOD for our environment.
Biomethane
is "naturally" produced from organic
materials as they decay. Sources of Biomethane
include; landfills, POTW's/Wastewaster
Treatment Systems, and every tree or agricultural product that is no longer
living. Biomethane
is also generated from animal operations where manure
can be collected and the Biomethane
is generated from
anaerobic digesters where
the manure decomposes.
Biomethane,
after installation of the Biomethane
equipment is essentially free, as opposed
to buying natural gas, presently costing around $10.00/mmbtu.
Methanogenesis
is the production of CH4 and CO2 by biological processes that are carried out by
methanogens.
Unlike the price of natural gas, which
has been very unstable, and wildly fluctuating from $5.50 to as much as $17.00/mmbtu
in recent years, Biomethane
prices will tend to be more
stable over the years. As more and more Biomethane
is produced, and produced in
reliable and sustainable methods that can fuel our energy needs now and for.
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What
is "Cogeneration"?
Did
you know that 10% of our nation's electricity now comes from "cogeneration"
plants?
And
because cogeneration is so efficient,
it saves its customers up to 40% on their energy expenses, and provides even
greater savings to our environment through significant reductions in fuel usage
and much lower greenhouse gas
emissions.
Cogeneration - also known as “combined
heat and power” (CHP), cogen, district energy, total energy, and combined
cycle, is the simultaneous production of heat (usually in the form of hot water
and/or steam) and power, utilizing one primary fuel such as natural gas, or a
renewable fuel, such as Biomethane, B100
Biodiesel, or Synthesis Gas.
Cogeneration
technology is not the latest industry
buzz-word being touted as the solution to our nation's energy woes. Cogeneration
is a proven technology that has been around for over 120 years!
Our
nation's first commercial power plant was a cogeneration
plant that was designed and built by Thomas Edison in 1882 in New York. Our
nation's first commercial power plant was called the "Pearl Street
Station."
What is "Trigeneration"?
Trigeneration
takes cogeneration
one additional step. Trigeneration is
defined as the simultaneous production of three forms of energy - typically, Cooling,
Heating and Power - from only one fuel input. Put another way, our trigeneration
energy systems produce three different types of energy for the price of one.
Our
Trigeneration energy systems overall
system efficiencies have exceeded 85% efficiency.
Typical
"central" power plants that electric utility companies own and operate
normally do not use the heat generated from the combustion and power generation
process. Therefore, they are only about 30% to 35% efficient, wasting 65% to 70%
of the available energy, that is simply wasted, and lost, with the heat going up
their smokestacks.
Here
is a trigeneration diagram that better reflects the trigeneration process:
Trigeneration Diagram & Description
Trigeneration Power Plants' Have the Highest System
Efficiencies and are
About 300 % More Efficient than Typical Central
Power Plants
Trigeneration plants are installed
at locations that can benefit from all three forms of energy. These types of
installations that install Trigeneration
power plants are called "onsite
power generation" also referred to as "decentralized
energy."
One
of our company's principal's first experience with the design and development of
a Trigeneration power plant was the trigeneration
power plant installation at Rice University in 1987 where our trigeneration
development team started out by conducting a "cogeneration"
feasibility study. The trigeneration
plant's primary power plant was a 4.0 MW gas turbine manufactured by Ruston Gas
Turbines.
An
EPC (Engineering
Procurement Construction) company that installed the trigeneration
power plant, along with waste
heat recovery boilers and absorption
chillers.
A
"waste heat recovery
boiler" captures the heat from the exhaust of the gas turbine. From
there, the recovered energy was converted to chilled water - originally from (3)
Hitachi absorption chillers - 2
were rated at 1,000 tons each, and the third Hitachi Absorption Chiller was
rated at 1,500 tons. However, all three Hitachi absorption
chillers were replaced shortly after their installation by the EPC company.
The
first trigeneration plant at Rice
University was so successful, they added a second 5.0 MW trigeneration
plant so today, Rice University is now generating about 9.0 MW of electricity,
and also producing the cooling and heating the university needs from the trigeneration
plant and circulating the trigeneration
power and energy around its campus.
Trigeneration
Chart
Trigeneration's "Super-Efficiency" compared with
other
competing power and energy technologies - Trigeneration
energy systems have No Competition!
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What is "Decentralized Energy"?
Decentralized
Energy is the opposite of "centralized energy."
Decentralized
Energy energy generates the power and energy that a residential, commercial or
industrial customer needs, onsite. Examples of decentralized energy production
are solar energy systems and solar
trigeneration energy systems.
Today's
electric utility industry was "born" in the 1930's, when fossil fuel
prices were cheap, and the cost of wheeling the electricity via transmission
power lines, was also cheap. "Central" power plants could be
located hundreds of miles from the load centers, or cities, where the
electricity was needed. These extreme inefficiencies and cheap fossil fuel
prices have added a considerable economic and environmental burden to the
consumers and the planet.
Centralized
energy is found in the form of electric utility companies that generate power
from "central" power plants. Central power plants are highly
inefficient, averaging only 33% net system efficiency. This means that the
power coming to your home or business - including the line losses and
transmission inefficiencies of moving the power - has lost 75% to as much as 80%
energy it started with at the "central" power plant. These
losses and inefficiencies translate into significantly increased energy expenses
by the residential and commercial consumers.
Decentralized Energy
is the Best Way to Generate Clean and Green Energy!
How
we make and distribute electricity is changing!
The
electric power
generation, transmission and distribution system (the electric
"grid") is changing and evolving from the electric grid of the
19th and 20th centuries, which was inefficient, highly-polluting, very
expensive and
“dumb.”
The "old" way of generating and distributing
energy resembles this slide:
The electric grid of the 21st century (see slide below)
will be
Decentralized, Smart, Efficient and provide "carbon
free energy" and “pollution
free power” to customers who remain on the
electric grid. The electric grid of the future will be comprised of
both Onsite Power
Generation plants and "utility
scale power plants" that are fueled/powered with Biomass
Gasification, Biomethane, Concentrating
Solar Power, B100 Biodiesel, Distributed
PV, EcoGeneration Systems, Geothermal
Power Plants, Synthesis
Gas, Rooftop PV, Solar
Cogeneration, Solar Energy
Systems, Solar Power Parks, Solar
Trigeneration and Wind Power
Generation - located at Residential, Commercial, Industrial
and City/Municipal Locations. Some customers will choose to dis-connect from the
grid entirely.
(Electric grid represented by the small light blue circles in the slide below.)
The
transmission grid will be upgraded to a "Unified
Smart Grid"
with green electrons now being wheeled via "High
Voltage Direct Current."
Typical
"central" power plants and the electric utility companies
that own them will either be shut-down, closed or go out of business due
to one or more of the following: failed business model, inordinate
expenses related to central power plants that are inefficient, excessive
pollution/emissions, high costs, continued reliance on the use of fossil
fuels to generate energy, and the failure to provide efficient, carbon
free energy and pollution free
power.
Carbon
free energy and pollution free
power reduces our dependence on foreign oil and makes us Energy
Independent while reducing and eliminating Greenhouse
Gas Emissions.
* Some of the above information from the Department
of Energy website with permission.
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Amazing
Solar Fact!
Did you know
that the silicon
contained in only one ton of sand,
and used in;
Distributed
PV
Distributed
Solar PV
Distributed
Solar Generation
and
Rooftop
PV
produces as much electricity as burning 500,000 tons
of coal?
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Since the year 1750
World Carbon Dioxide Emissions since 1750 (cubic feet)
The
carbon clock tracks total carbon dioxide emissions in metric tons since 1750.
Since 1750, humans have emitted over 5 trillion pounds of carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere. Roughly half of this has ended up in the oceans where it is
beginning to damage the coral reefs. The other half is still in the atmosphere
and causing global warming. Each pound of CO2 takes up as much space as a 500
pound person.
The formula (which should be good for a year or two) is:
C(t) = 2.58 ×1012 + 1240×t, where t is seconds since the start of 2007.
C is tonnes (metric tons) of carbon dioxide emissions.
2205 x C gives pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.
That comes to over 43 billion tons/year or over 86 trillion pounds/year.
Carbon dioxide (2) = 1 carbon atom with 2 oxygen atoms.
Carbon has relative weight 12 and Oxygen 16.
So it takes only 12 pounds of carbon to make 12+16+16 = 44 pounds of CO2.
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Greenhouse Gas
Emissions
Linked to
the Loss of Polar Bears
Photo courtesy of Alaska Image Library. U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service
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America's
"Clear and Present Danger"
America
Has INCREASED its' Dependence on Foreign
Sources of Energy by 50% Since 1973.
America
is even more "addicted" to foreign oil today, than we were in 1973 -
1974 when OPEC, Saudi Arabia and other suppliers from the Middle-East
stopped selling us their fossil fuels, and created a significant blow to our
economy.
According
to the CIA Fact Book, Every Day, the U.S.
:
PRODUCES:
7,460,000 bbls of oil
CONSUMES:
20,800,000 bbls of oil
This
Means that 65% of America's Energy Supplies are Now Imported from Suppliers
from Foreign Countries.
Simply
put, about 65% of the gasoline in your car's gas tank, comes from a foreign
country.
EVERY
day, the U.S. must IMPORT over 13 million bbls of oil from foreign
countries and foreign suppliers to meet demand.
At
$80/barrel of oil, this also means that $1,040,000,000.00 American Dollars leave
our country, EVERY DAY, to foreign countries/suppliers of our fossil fuels, to
pay for the energy we need.
That's
$1 Billion EVERY day leaving our economy, and going to support a foreign
country's economy.
Talk
about our foreign trade deficit..... nearly $400 Billion each year, leaves our
country to pay for our oil addiction and the energy we need. To be exact,
that's $379,600,000,000.00 American Dollars.
This
is NOT acceptable.
America
needs to quickly transition to Energy Independence.
Renewable
Energy is the Only Way America Can Achieve Energy Independence.
Millions
of new and sustainable American jobs would be created here at home, if we would
end our addiction to foreign fossil fuels, and quickly transition to an economy
based on renewable energy and renewable fuels, produced here in the U.S.A.
The good news is that today,
America already has all of the Renewable
Energy Resources and Renewable
Energy Technologies needed to make American Energy Independence a
reality.
Green Energy
According
to Monty Goodell, Founder and Chairman of the Renewable
Energy Institute, "our increased dependence and reliance on foreign
energy supplies represents a Clear
and Present Danger to our national security, our economy, and the lives and
livelihood of every American. Energy - including the energy we use from
imported fossil fuels, is the very "lifeblood" of the American economy
as it is for every industrialized country. An economy dies without it's
lifeblood of energy. This Clear
and Present Danger we face is far more serious than the problems related to greenhouse
gas emissions. And while greenhouse
gas emissions are very serious issue, in the long-term, pales in comparison
to America's vital national security interests and America's economic stability
in the short term. For this reason alone, America needs to transition away
from its addiction to foreign energy supplies. And America's abundant renewable energy
resources such as the energy we receive from the sun, and renewable
energy technologies such as concentrated
solar power (CSP) plants - can supply 100% of America's power
requirements with a concentrating solar
power plant measuring 75 miles by 75 miles, located in the Southwest
U.S. By generating America's power from concentrating
solar power plants, America resolves its' short-term Clear
and Present Danger as it relates to importing its energy from foreign
countries, and the long-term problems relating to greenhouse
gas emissions."
Continuing,
Mr. Goodell states that "too many Americans have forgotten what happened to
us in
1973, when the Arabs and OPEC brought the United States economy to a screeching halt
during the OPEC Oil Embargo. This happened because they (mainly the
country of Saudi Arabia)
disagreed with our foreign policy and is the reason why they "turned off the tap" of
our need for their oil supplies. When Saudi Arabia and OPEC
stopped the vital flow of oil to our country in 1973, they caused an "oil shock"
that severely and negatively impacted our economy.
Mr.
Goodell's question for us to ponder is, "do these countries who sell us 60%
of our daily energy requirements, like us and our foreign policy, or might they
leverage our addiction to their fossil fuels, and turn off the tap to make us
adjust or revise our foreign policy?? Like any addict, America's foreign
policy may be held hostage to its addiction, and in this case, our addiction to
foreign oil, may over-ride our national interests."
Have
American's forgotten the gas shortages and long lines at
their gas stations to get
gas during the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973?
"Apparently
so." Mr. Goodell states that "in 1973, America was 'addicted'
and 'over the barrel' of foreign oil to the amount of 40%. Forty percent
of our energy 'needs' in 1973 came from countries - many of which didn't like us
then, and I'm afraid, many of them still don't. The difference between
1973 and today - is that today we receive 50% MORE foreign oil now than we did
in 1973. And now we know about the problems relating to greenhouse
gas emissions that we didn't know then. America needs to change
course, and change course now, in terms of its' energy supplies and how we keep
America's economy strong, without the threat of being held hostage to a
middle-east tyrant or regime, that could once again, turn on us, and turn off
our supply of foreign oil."
Remember
????
"Sadly,
most Americans have forgotten the long lines of people waiting in their cars
- lined up and waiting
for gasoline at their nearby gas station, with lines that were many blocks
long. And, after waiting 4-5 hours, many even waiting overnight in many places, to
finally take their turn to fill up their car with gasoline, only to find that
the gas station
had run out of gas."
"Let
me Repeat.... That
was 1973 when we imported 40% of our daily energy requirements in the form of
crude oil from overseas, and from foreign countries - and many of these from
countries that don't like us.
Today,
over 35 years later, America has yet to learn the lesson. We cannot
continue our reliance on energy from foreign countries that supply us with
60% of the crude oil that our refineries use as a feedstock for producing
gasoline and diesel fuel for our cars and trucks comes from overseas.
America
is "over the barrel" and it's not our barrel, but the barrels of oil
that we are addicted by and owned by other countries. Why have we not
learned the lessons we needed to learn in 1973 when we were cut-off from the
vital energy supplies we need?
Countries
like China, are growing rapidly, and have an insatiable need for crude oil.
China, with their booming economy, is increasingly growing in its clout and
control over international supplies of crude oil - whether they do this through
their ability to buy as much oil as they need on a daily basis, or whether they
simply but American drilling rigs, technology, and explore and produce oil and gas from their own fields. China, is buying large amounts of oil for their country, and causing
upward pricing on declining supplies. What happens if Russia, with all of their
oil and natural gas, along with China and Venezuela, with or without the help of
OPEC, decided to NOT sell oil to us????
To
be sure, greenhouse
gas emissions are a problem, and to some, greenhouse
gas emissions are also a Clear
and Present Danger, but not to the extent that it presents an imminent Clear
and Present Danger.
America's
reliance for 60% of our energy "needs" coming from foreign suppliers
is un-acceptable.
The
"driver" to get America to begin reducing and eliminating fossil fuel
use should be our nation's national security and the welfare and safety of its
citizens. And this can all begin with developing and investing in our own renewable energy
resources and renewable
energy technologies, let's start by putting solar on every rooftop that has
a clear and unobstructed view of the Southern sky. See www.RooftopPV.com
or www.DistributedPV.com
for more information. Let's create incentives begin with adopting a
national "Feed In Tariff" as
Germany did in 1990.
We simply do NOT have the luxury of time on our hands. We need to end our
dependence and reliance on foreign fossil fuels, especially from countries that
don't like us! We need to rapidly begin expanding renewable energy
resources and renewable
energy technologies from our vast and abundant renewable energy resources,
such as; solar, solar energy
systems, solar cogeneration,
solar trigeneration,
"solar on every roof," along with; Biomass
Gasification, B100 Biodiesel, Biomethane,
E100
Ethanol (from cellulosic, agricultural waste, sugar cane, etc., and NOT from
corn), Geothermal Power Plants,
Natural Wastewater Treatment,
Synthesis Gas, Waste
To Energy, Waste To Fuel and Wind
Power Generation where it makes economic and environmental sense."
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