rdmilhollin said: "This all smell like a plan of, by, and for the big corporate energy providers." What I'd like to know is who besides "big corporate energy providers" is going to provide power and energy to this country? We can't get it from the little mill down by the old mill stream. Too many people in this country, too few ways to provide big amounts of energy economically. So tell me, who else is going to provide energy for this energy-hungry country? Most people don't have the expertise, desire or resources to provide energy for themselves, much less a whole country. So tell me, what is the alternative? It's easy to criticize, but do you have a better plan?
From: [email protected]: [email protected]; [email protected]: [email protected] Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:48:05 -0500Subject: RE: [ot_caving] Texas solar power This all smell like a plan of, by, and for the big corporate energy providers. What about using all the empty roof-top space INSIDE the cities, such as the roofs of malls, Walmarts, grocery stores, car lots, parking lots, strip-centers, individual homes, apartment buildings etc. I can see this as a job opportunity for the Barnett Shale “landmen” once all the drillable real-estate is leased up. They could go from roof-owner to roof-owner negotiating for “roof-rights” to set up solar panels for set amounts of time. Shrewd building owners could bargain for a certain amount of “free” electricity, since the juice coming off the roof is much more consumer-friendly than crude oil or natural gas brought up by wells on people’s property. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:41 AMTo: [email protected]: [ot_caving] Texas solar power Well this is some info I found today pasted below. It comes from http://environmenttexas.org/action/clean-energy/transmission?id4=ES I was interested in the numbers they say would power all of Texas. Just FYI. Quinta Texas is the national leader in wind power and we have the potential to meet the rest of our energy needs with solar power. In fact, if we put solar panels on an area thirty miles by thirty miles in west Texas, we could generate enough electricity to power the entire state at prices competitive with new nuclear plants! But to bring all that clean wind and solar power from west Texas, we need to invest in our transmission grid. Right now, the Public Utilities Commission is deciding how much renewable energy transmission to build. The most ambitious plan they're looking at would create transmission capacity for almost an additional 18,000 megawatts of wind and solar power, which would reduce smog pollution from power plants by 13% and global warming pollution by 16%.
