We already know that utlity scale wind and solar power can achieve all of america's energy needs but suburban and urban green energy systems not only advance our total energy production, it also creates additional jobs in manufacturing, construction, and maintenance.
Both utility scale and suburban/urban green energy developement provides immediate jobs in the U.S. and world wide. It remains to be seen if green energy jobs absorb all of the jobs vacated by an archival and mothballing of fossil fuels, but it is likely that by harnessing abundant renewable energy that everyone would be able to work less and enjoy life more.
Investing in and developing green energy on a global scale is necessary and inevitable for survival, but the first step is changing the way we live. This can be best illustrated by the following poster. Please copy it and share it.
The land owner royalty payments for wind farms (currently ranging from $3500 to $5000 per installed megawatt per year.) A typical Texas ranch could have as many as 50 turbines on the propertry. This sure beats the heck out of leasing your land for oil and gas wells and all the risk that goes along with them.
Both utility scale and suburban/urban green energy developement provides immediate jobs in the U.S. and world wide. It remains to be seen if green energy jobs absorb all of the jobs vacated by an archival and mothballing of fossil fuels, but it is likely that by harnessing abundant renewable energy that everyone would be able to work less and enjoy life more.
Investing in and developing green energy on a global scale is necessary and inevitable for survival, but the first step is changing the way we live. This can be best illustrated by the following poster. Please copy it and share it.
It seems that virtually every U.S. politician is an oil and fossil fuel man or woman except (on the surface anyway) Barack Obama. Unfortunately Obama signed the NDAA which allows the U.S. to ignore the Constitution and arrest and detain indefinately anyone without trial, made it a felony to protests "too close" to politicians, and supports the illegal Bush/Cheney/Rice "Patriot Act." so he has lost all credibility as a proponent of societal advancement.
You may be wondering why politics is my introduction to modern wind turbine technology. The answer is in the State of Texas and Ron Paul. Texas was born as cattle country that resisted last centuries industrial revolution of oil invading it's soil. Today cattle graze under wind turbines and these turbines are resisted by some residents who grew up with texas oil. None the less, Texas is the world's 4th largest wind power energy producer in the world behind Germany, India, and China.
Each utility scale wind turbine averages 1.5 megawatts. This is enough to power 300 or more homes each, and there are tens of thousands in Texas, California, Wyoming, Washington and the world already.
Ron Paul who is from Texas, and who wants our troops off of foreign soil, and who is the only true Constitutionalist running for president, and the only candidate who doesn't say one thing and then do another, and who's actions actually back up his promises, must admit that a "green energy resolution" is a logical and necessary part of U.S. strength and societal advancement.
Here are a few links about the Texas Wind Industry:
Reuter News: Texas sets wind power records with new grid analysis
Utility Scale Magnetic Levitation (Mag Lev) Wind Turbines:
Suburban and Urban Vertical Axis (VAWT) Wind Turbines :
Lamp Post Highway and Parking Lot VAWT's
6 AND 5 kw Urban Designed VAWT's
Mag Lev and VAWT's are considered bird and bat safe as compared to "bladed" wind turbines which birds fly into and the bats radar are attracted to (mistaking heat from the turbine as body heat from insects which are bat food.)
Birds and bats may or may not adapt to the presence of wind turbines, trooth be told, nothing can adapt to toxins in our environment except cockroaches. If we use the immediate safety of birds and bats as an excuse not to utilize wind energy, we may as well make window glass illegal too.
I live in a coastal community and there is always wind here. I have been through Wyoming where wind farms are constructed in 100MPH winds. Even if you do not believe in Climate Change or Global Warming the wind always blows, often to hurricane and tornado force. If you do believe in climate change and global warming then the model predicts higher wind speeds more often.
I suggest that we shelve the terms "climate change and global warming" and get back to the basics we have all known since grade school, which is that the burning of fossil fuels ie. fire of any sort creates a by product called pollution and with 7 Billion people on the planet, the less we burn the better.
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