So where are we going? I like bold plans, so I am attracted to "Repower America"
www.repoweramerica.org.
What are your favorite plans? Is Repower America a crazy idea? Take a minute and share your thoughts.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Analysis of National Sustainable Energy Plans
Depending on your position on climate and energy issues, your views on the proper timetable and level for actions will vary widely. We all see this play out on the national scale in our daily newspapers and magazines with energy issues lurking within seemingly unrelated stories. In fact it is hard to imagine any national or international issue that is not connected in some way to energy policy. By and large, US energy policy has been left to Adam Smiths invisible guiding hand of the all knowing market. This is the same hand that gave us real-estate bubblenomics and Credit Default Swaps. I don't want to get to political here, I just kinda gotta agree with Yogi Berra, "You gotta be careful if you don't know where you are going, otherwise you might not get there."
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Here is a very sober view on alternative energy policy:
ReplyDeletehttp://climateprogress.org/2009/04/06/breakthrough-technology-illusion-global-warming-solution/#more-5305
Basically, he says that it is not worthwhile to develop new technologies. It is far more important to implement the technologies we have now, and to concentrate on efficiencies and reductions in use. The time scale for commercial utilization of brand new technologies is just too long. We don't have the time.