GOOD NEWS! As I am entering this blog into the virtual world from McCarron Airport (access to wireless is free here) in Las Vegas, the price of oil precipitously dropped. Yes, still above $130/barrel, but only barely.
Simple Solutions for Black Energy
As fast as possible, eliminate all forms of fossil fuel and fission energy. Easy to say, but how? For coal, as an example, just a $50/ton carbon tax (or $13.50/ton of carbon dioxide) would raise coal-powered electricity from 4.2 cents/kWh to 5.4 cents/kWh. There are advocates for a carbon tax of $200/ton, which would bring coal electricity up to 9 cents/kWh (and natural gas electricity, at $7 per million BTU, to about 8 cents/kWh). Later it will be seen that wind power is already in the 3 to 5 cents/kWh range, so just something so simple as a severe carbon tax could well be the solution.
I would advocate a $1000/ton carbon tax. Well, let me amend that suggestion for public relations purposes. Instead, a 10 cents / pound carbon dioxide tax appears to be less frightening. That drops the $1000/ton carbon tax by about 25%. Yes, but the key question is how. Who will take charge? The G8 nations? United Nations? Sorry to say that that is the fatal flaw of our current society: we cannot make critical decisions in a timely manner on issues like Peak Oil and Global Warming. “Capping limits and trading carbon dioxide credits” is the best our decision-makers can offer, which attempts to maintain a free enterprise spirit. While this is better than nothing, the problem is that the mechanism just allows polluting nations to continue adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere while stifling the potential of developing countries. Ah, but we can then proudly boast that with these extra revenuee those pioneering nations can jump to a sustainable energy mode and maybe even prevail, oh, a century from now.
In the meantime, we need to dramatically expand our efforts at Green Energy and continue to push forth on White Energy, explained yesterday as fusion. How much should be expended each year? No one will really know regarding fusion until perhap 2016 when the $13 billion international fusion experiment in France is expected to attain net positive, but a minimum Department of Energy budget of $10 billion/per year (ten times current support) for the renewables, plus monumental incentives for industry to take the lead. are bare minimums. The problem, of course, is that effective commercialization of those sustainable options will take a generation (about 21 years) to develop and the global economy could well crash by 2012.
As fast as possible, eliminate all forms of fossil fuel and fission energy. Easy to say, but how? For coal, as an example, just a $50/ton carbon tax (or $13.50/ton of carbon dioxide) would raise coal-powered electricity from 4.2 cents/kWh to 5.4 cents/kWh. There are advocates for a carbon tax of $200/ton, which would bring coal electricity up to 9 cents/kWh (and natural gas electricity, at $7 per million BTU, to about 8 cents/kWh). Later it will be seen that wind power is already in the 3 to 5 cents/kWh range, so just something so simple as a severe carbon tax could well be the solution.
I would advocate a $1000/ton carbon tax. Well, let me amend that suggestion for public relations purposes. Instead, a 10 cents / pound carbon dioxide tax appears to be less frightening. That drops the $1000/ton carbon tax by about 25%. Yes, but the key question is how. Who will take charge? The G8 nations? United Nations? Sorry to say that that is the fatal flaw of our current society: we cannot make critical decisions in a timely manner on issues like Peak Oil and Global Warming. “Capping limits and trading carbon dioxide credits” is the best our decision-makers can offer, which attempts to maintain a free enterprise spirit. While this is better than nothing, the problem is that the mechanism just allows polluting nations to continue adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere while stifling the potential of developing countries. Ah, but we can then proudly boast that with these extra revenuee those pioneering nations can jump to a sustainable energy mode and maybe even prevail, oh, a century from now.
In the meantime, we need to dramatically expand our efforts at Green Energy and continue to push forth on White Energy, explained yesterday as fusion. How much should be expended each year? No one will really know regarding fusion until perhap 2016 when the $13 billion international fusion experiment in France is expected to attain net positive, but a minimum Department of Energy budget of $10 billion/per year (ten times current support) for the renewables, plus monumental incentives for industry to take the lead. are bare minimums. The problem, of course, is that effective commercialization of those sustainable options will take a generation (about 21 years) to develop and the global economy could well crash by 2012.
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So what is the solution? Go to the answers provided in SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth (http://simplesolutionsbook1.com/). One magic bullet will not suffice. A range of super solutions must be integrated following the new will of the people. But you say, the old will was a disaster. What hope can there be for a new will. Well, if we all can make that crucial difference following those proferred Rainbow Vision, there can be hope.
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