November 22, 2008 at 3:04 pm (Cost of green)
Tags: alternative energy, American spirit, life
I keep here hearing that alternative energy won’t work on a large national scale because it is just going to be to hard and to expensive to make the changes.
When I hear things like that I have to wonder where the American spirit has gone. Are we the decedents of the same people that sailed oceans in wooden ships to get to this country and a few generations later walked over the Rocky Mountains to reach the west coast?
Are we related to the same people that went whale hunting with little more than a sharpened stick to kill it with so they could use the oil to light their homes? Or what about digging hundreds of feet down into a mountain with a shovel to bring coal out? Now that was hard and dangerous.
I do still believe we are capable of doing anything we set our minds to. Maybe that is the problem, we don’t want to figure out alternative energy. It will most definitely be expensive in the beginning. It will be a lot of work (and a lot of jobs) but not always in the popular and chic big cities.
We need to get back our spirit and our belief that we can do anything or our grand kids will be sitting around in the dark.
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November 7, 2008 at 4:58 pm (Cost of green, good things)
Tags: alternative energy, Colorado, Danish, New Mexico, power, sun, Vestas, wind
Every timee I travel along the edge of the Plains in Colorado and New Mexico I am struck by three things.
First, the amount of wide open nothing. For a far as a person can see there is nothing. Just mile upon mile of open land.
Second, the wind. I have yet to make the trip between Denver, Colorado and Albuquerque, New Mexico and NOT experience the wind. Sometimes wind so strong you think it is going to pull your arms out the sockets just trying to stay on the road. Sometimes just a breeze, but always wind.
Third, the sun. I’ve traveled in the dead of winter and you know it’s only about 20 degrees outside, but the sun is shinning away brightly. Even mild temps of 60 or outside and the sun is baking the inside of the car.
So put the three together, open land, wind and sun, and what do you have? Well Lucy, you have one of the best places in world for wind and solar power.
And apparently I’m not the only one that thinks so. Vestas a Danish wind company is building a new plant in Brighton Colorado to manufacture wind turbine blades.
Thank God somebody finally put the three together. And the Danish do have a long history of using wind power. But come on people, while we Americans are trying to figure out how to get more oil out of the Middle East here comes somebody else to our own backyard to tap into what has been here are along.
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October 18, 2008 at 11:56 pm (general)
Tags: alternative energy, city planning, energy, fuel, population control
I’ve been reading “A Citizen’s Guide To Ecology”. This afternoon I got to the section on global warming. The author promised some simple no nonsense solutions that would reduce if not solve the problem.
He wrote about alternative energy, better city planning and insulating homes. There was one suggestion that I don’t remember hearing about before, population control. This made a lot of sense to me. Basicaly the less people on the planet the less fuel and energy used. While this idea makes to complete sense to be and the author I can understand that it would not be widely accepted around the world.
I admit that this idea is one of the least likely to make it into a world treaty on global warming. Just the suggestion would have religions around the world calling foul. Others would have some very valid concerns about mandatory birth caps like China.
I will admit that I am past being able to reproduce. However I helped with global warming about 20 years before I even knew about it. I only had one child.
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October 17, 2008 at 1:17 pm (general)
Tags: alternative energy, Colorado, green, Mother Nature, open prairie land, solar panels, sunshine, wind, wind mills
Blue skies and wind could make Colorado a lot of green. It seems like the State of Colorado is getting ready to become a world player in the alternative energy game. Some well know economists have said that in the next year or so some major green and alternative energy companies with be setting up not only wind mills and solar panels but also company headquarters here.
I certainly hope it happens. Anyone who has lived in Colorado for more than 30 days knows that we have a lot of sunshine and wind. We already have some large wind mill and solar panel “farms”, but there is certainly room for more. Yes we have mountains and snow, but we also have hundreds of miles of open prairie land that is just perfect for collecting the energy of Mother Nature.
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October 16, 2008 at 11:15 pm (general)
Tags: alternative energy, radical statement, regular gas price
This afternoon I stopped in at our local gas and convenience store. The price of regular gas was hard to ignore, $2.99 per gallon. Like everyone else I know that means that I’ll be having a little more money each week and that is a good thing.
What I worry about though is if gas prices drop too low all the talk about alternative energy could be just that, all talk and no follow through to make it reality. Its seems like we are creatures with very little forward thinking. For the most part if gas remains under $3 for long we will forget that it could go back up at anytime and that is still in limited supply.
Yes there will always be the green nerds, like myself, but we are not enough to get all the different types of alternative energy out of the labs and into the real world. I know this is considered a radical statement, but I’d rather have $5 a gallon gas short term if it means real alternative energy long term.
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I keep here hearing that alternative energy won’t work on a large national scale because it is just going to be to hard and to expensive to make the changes.
