Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Time:America's Untapped Energy Resource!!!!

January 1, 2009

Michael Grunwald - Time Magazine

Wasting Our Watts - "We don't need drilling or new power Plants. We need to get efficient."

This may sound too good to be true, but the U.S. has a renewable-energy resource that is perfectly clean, remarkably cheap, surprisingly abundant and immediately available. It has astounding potential to reduce the carbon emissions that threaten our planet, the dependence on foreign oil that threatens our security and the energy costs that threaten our wallets. Unlike coal and petroleum, it doesn't pollute; unlike solar and wind, it doesn't depend on the weather; unlike ethanol, it doesn't accelerate deforestation or inflate food prices; unlike nuclear plants, it doesn't raise uncomfortable questions about meltdowns or terrorist attacks or radioactive-waste storage, and it doesn't take a decade to build. It isn't what-if like hydrogen, clean coal and tidal power; it's already proven to be workable, scalable and cost-effective. And we don't need to import it.

What's it called?

"Energy Efficiency"

For complete article click on link below

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1869224,00.html

4 comments:

g said...

that article is anti american.

it is my american right to load up the suburban and go camping whenever i darn well want to.

after all, that is what it comes down to isn't it?

Patrick McGee said...

And nothing at the moment says you cannot but you.

g said...

so i'm either popeye or Nietzsche.

Patrick McGee said...

We'll, there you go, yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk!!!!!