Replies to post #313818 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[tlc]

October 20, 2004

BROWN SEES SHORT PATH TO OIL INDEPENDENCE

"With the price of oil above $50 a barrel, with political
instability in the Middle East on the rise, and with little
slack in the world oil economy, we need a new energy strategy,"
says Lester R. Brown,
president of the Earth Policy Institute,
a Washington, DC-based research institute. "Fortunately, the
outline of a new strategy is emerging with two new technologies.


These technologies--gas-electric hybrid engines and
advanced-design wind turbines--offer a way to wean ourselves
from imported oil, says Brown. If over the next decade we
convert the U.S. automobile fleet to gas-electric hybrids having
the efficiency of today's Toyota Prius (55 miles per gallon
combined city/highway driving) we could cut our gasoline use in
half. No change in the number of vehicles, no change in miles
driven--just doing it more efficiently.

With gas-electric hybrid cars now on the market, the stage is
set for the second step to reduce oil dependence--the use of
wind-generated electricity to power automobiles. If we add to
the gas-electric hybrid a plug-in capacity and a second battery
to increase its electricity storage, says Brown, motorists could
then do their commuting, shopping and other short-distance
travel largely with electricity, saving gasoline for the
occasional long trip.

This could lop another 20 percent off gasoline use in addition
to the initial 50 percent cut from shifting to gas-electric
hybrids, for a total reduction in gasoline use of 70 percent.

Moving to the highly efficient gas-electric hybrids with a
plug-in capacity, combined with the construction of thousands of
wind farms across the country feeding electricity into a
national grid, will provide the energy security that has eluded
us for three decades, says Brown.

Brown points out that some 40 million consumers in Europe now
fill their residential electricity needs via wind energy, with
195 million (half the population of Western Europe) projected to
do so by 2020.

In the U.S., a 1991 Department of Energy study reported that
three states--Kansas, North Dakota and Texas--have enough
harnessable energy to meet all national electricity needs. Wind
turbine design has improved enormously since then, with
generating costs dropping from 38 cents per kilowatt-hour in the
1980s to 3 or 4 cents today.

This will also rejuvenate farm and ranch communities and shrink
the U.S. balance-of-trade deficit. Even more importantly, it
will dramatically cut carbon emissions, making the U.S. a model
in the climate-stabilization effort that other countries can
emulate..............................................

More on Brown...
http://www.earth-policy.org/About/Lester_bio.htm

[otraque]

Paula you and many many more have MUCH to learn about timelines and crisis.
Paula what you just said we have been saying for 50 YEARS and now Paula it is TOO late daned late; we BLEW IT when we had the chance.
The crisis timeline is FAR shorter than the the solution timeline---i just don't get why people can't calculate timelines.
If you can't pick up on what i am saying let's drop it---we have a HUGE difference of perception.
That sputnik matter has NO parallel with this, none.

[otraque]

o yes i add American public are fully capable of making the sacrifices needed to stave this crisis off BUT that would require pulling back on growth,growth, growth; the mantra of all U.S. Business.
They do NOT want any policy that would slow growth, the name of the game is greed rules at the top.

[brainlessone]

certain fuel cells do use alchohol or other alkane type hydrogen source to make hydrogen.

they are hydrogen producing

but dont make me have you beleive taht bush know this or doesnt know this

[timhyma]

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