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Sarah Palin’s All of the above energy strategy!

Dear Evoke Agents,


Please have a look at my new Evidence; Sarah Palin’s All of the above energy strategy!


Sarah Palin may not be the One person you want to follow in all subjects, but I think that on energy, her All of the above approach is very much what is needed in the US, and globally.


http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=364728493434


The difficulties created by the unbalanced between supply and demand in the global oil market, please review my Evidence: Peak oil, or Houston we have a problem! and the severe implications on security, independence of countries and global warming, provide an obligation to consider all possibilities.


As it will take time to implement a truly efficient alternative energy policy, here is a list of different options to consider:


Oil: There are still important reserves of oil, some already discovered and in need of new technology for extraction, and others to be discovered with offshore drilling,


Natural gas: Important new discoveries of natural gas may be the solution to US energy problems; I will write more on that next,


Coal: New technologies have created a Clean Coal industry, where reserves for centuries already exists,


Nuclear: This industry is already very important in many countries, France for example,


Wind: An already established solution, that will that a larger part of the energy pie, with declining marginal costs,


Solar: A very logical process, with a free input, will also take more importance with declining costs,


Hydroelectricity: For the regions with adequate geography and access to water, a Green solution,


Thermal energy: Using difference of temperature in land or in water,


Many other smaller solutions on a one-by-one basis, that could make a change, on a combine way,


Some solutions already exist, even if only for a portion of the problem.


I will be back later with more ideas to help reducing the negative impacts of peak oil!


Please take a moment to comment and support!





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Comment by D Rubinos on March 21, 2010 at 7:48pm
Hi there. One of the major issue right now in the Philippines is whether or not to pursue nuclear energy. Our country once put up a nuclear power plant, but I understand it was never fully operational. Many were against it since the people feared that it might be use to exterminate people, or that uneducated administration of the plant might lead thereto. Do you have any material that will discuss how this is safe, so I could read them? Thank you!
Comment by Jen Shaffer on March 21, 2010 at 7:53pm
While I recognize that using a multitude of SUSTAINABLE and RENEWABLE energy sources is the way to go, I cannot agree with Palin's ideas about drilling in the Arctic. We need to get off our fossil fuel addictions. They are killing the planet.

I would direct you to take a look at what coal mining has done to the Appalachians and what it is doing in China and other parts of the world. Oil is at the root of the conflicts going on now in the Middle East. And methane, i.e. natural gas, is one of THE worst greenhouse gases. We need alternatives to fossil fuels and soon. In the meantime, we should be looking at how to reduce energy consumption so that we can wean ourselves off this crap.
Comment by Rahul Dewanjee on March 21, 2010 at 8:07pm
there is a great need to ensure that we gravitate towards building solar energy infrastructure universally. nothing can be cleaner than that. But we would never be able to solve this energy crisis unless we fundamentally alter who we are and understand that our actions have consequences for everyone else in this planet.
Comment by Michal Kliger-Spatz on March 21, 2010 at 8:30pm
The situation is quite complicated.
On one hand we all wish to protect our planet and still to enjoy all oil's benefits including working places for many people. While on the other hand, alternative energy requires huge amount of money efforts, sophisticated technologies and people without work. Thus what is the ideal solution?
Comment by Rahul Dewanjee on March 21, 2010 at 8:40pm
It is commendable to see Michal raising the right questions.
Comment by Michael A Brito on March 21, 2010 at 10:48pm
Sarah Palin, really..That brainless twit didn't come up with that. She doesn't even read a newspaper on a daily basis, much less books of any sort. It's wrong anyway. Who ever thought of it for her is strategically challenged and in collusion with big oil .If you guys in Canada want her please take her, please. We have enough numb nuts here already.Sorry no points for you!!
Comment by Sylvain Ratelle on March 21, 2010 at 11:31pm
I guys, Nice to create a debate, some of the points to consider: It will take time for us and the world to arrive at a solution that will be workable in a scale large enough to compensate for the loss of energy coming from decline in oil production, oil being the most efficient source of energy out there, for the cost, we have to consider a way to reduce the negative impacts during the transition period, oil prices went to $147 per barrell in 2008, helping creating the global economic slowdown that we are seing now, we have to avoid these dislocations. Who want to create a global depression, for some years, waiting for Solar and others to be ready. By the way, can we create enough solar pannels to satisfy all the world energy needs? Thanks
Comment by Shakwei Mbindyo on March 22, 2010 at 11:54am
+1KS. We need to find smart alternatives that are not manufactured using petroleum and petroleum derived resources.
Comment by Thomas Pinkerton on March 22, 2010 at 2:32pm
I agree with most of these, but I want to address one in particular: coal.

In Kentucky, they say, coal is king. We have a good percentage of the US's coal under our soil, but there's a major problem with not only how we get it, but what we do with it.

I've posted an image of "mountain topping" or the number one way we access coal, which has destroyed the Appalachians. There are better ways to get to coal, but no company will use them unless they are forced to.

As for "clean coal", well, there really is no such thing. I understand that there are methods fo scrubbing carbon from coal emissions, but they are nowhere near good enough. Add to that that a good deal of midwestern coal is the sulphurous kind, and you see that even worse emissions are created.

See, everyone says, "We have these reserves, and we can plan to use them as we wean ourselves off of fossil fuels." The thing about climate change -- if you believe in it -- is that it relies on carbon being trapped. How is it trapped? fossil fuels. If we burn through all of our fossil fuels, we're burning millenia of carbon that should be kept out of the atmosphere. Even if you don't, you should realize that added chemicals, even from clean coal (and what do we do with used carbon-scrubbers, anyhow?), are harmful for local environments.

If there needs to be a weaning, so be it. The first fuel to go /has/ to be coal. It is simply too destructive.
Comment by Sylvain Ratelle on March 22, 2010 at 3:08pm
Hello Thomas, thanks for sharing, it will take time to have The permanent solution, but at least there are some options to improve,

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