http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2008/12/15/text-obama-speech-announcing-environment-energy-key-personnel/ News, Politics, and Society: Ohio and the World Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:19:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2008/12/15/text-obama-speech-announcing-environment-energy-key-personnel/comment-page-1/#comment-7509 Fred Green Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:26:24 +0000 http://www.clipsandcomment.com/?p=2294#comment-7509 One Biosphere is an alliance of people and organizations who are united to preserve the quality of our American and the global environment through our forum and publications, education, advocacy, research and communications among our members and partners. One Biosphere is an alliance of people and organizations who are united to preserve the quality of our American and the global environment through our forum and publications, education, advocacy, research and communications among our members and partners.

]]> http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2008/12/15/text-obama-speech-announcing-environment-energy-key-personnel/comment-page-1/#comment-4998 Adam Slingpore Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:38:15 +0000 http://www.clipsandcomment.com/?p=2294#comment-4998 If we make these commitments, we should be able to produce the bulk of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10-20 years. At the same time, this action plan would offer solutions to our global warming, climate crisis as well as our economic crisis by creating a million or more new jobs that will not be outsourced. The concerns over climate change and President elect Obama's policies are described at http://www.onebiosphere.com President-elect Obama and the new Congress should offer substantial incentives for investment in construction of concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas and geothermal plants in thermal locations that could generate substantial electricity. At the same time, we should encourage the development and use of small solar systems. We should plan and construction a unified, national smart grid for the transfer of renewable electricity from rural areas to urban areas where it is needed. New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines should be designed with smart attributes that provide consumers with sophisticated information and easy-to-use tools for conserving electricity, eliminating inefficiency and reducing their energy bills. The costs of this modern network grid would be in the order of several hundred billion over 10 years, but this is less than the continuing losses of American business of hundreds of billions due to the rolling failures endemic to our current fragmented and antiquated electricity lines. If we make these commitments, we should be able to produce the bulk of our electricity from carbon-free sources within 10-20 years. At the same time, this action plan would offer solutions to our global warming, climate crisis as well as our economic crisis by creating a million or more new jobs that will not be outsourced. The concerns over climate change and President elect Obama’s policies are described at http://www.onebiosphere.com
President-elect Obama and the new Congress should offer substantial incentives for investment in construction of concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas and geothermal plants in thermal locations that could generate substantial electricity. At the same time, we should encourage the development and use of small solar systems.
We should plan and construction a unified, national smart grid for the transfer of renewable electricity from rural areas to urban areas where it is needed. New high-voltage, low-loss underground lines should be designed with smart attributes that provide consumers with sophisticated information and easy-to-use tools for conserving electricity, eliminating inefficiency and reducing their energy bills. The costs of this modern network grid would be in the order of several hundred billion over 10 years, but this is less than the continuing losses of American business of hundreds of billions due to the rolling failures endemic to our current fragmented and antiquated electricity lines.

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