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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (22937)	7/6/2006 11:15:14 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541358

"Those are all good things and we do a lot of them ourselves, but my real question is, even if everybody did those things, would it make any more difference than all holding hands and singing songs?" The last part is a pet peeve. Went to too many meetings in the next town down where they did that. I started bitching at the members of our local steering committee proactively, so WE don't sing songs :>) Forgot to mention I have one of these for hot water. (And my folks put in solar thermal for their swimming pool about 15 years ago.) With 4 of us, we probably filled our propane tank 2 or 3 times a year. By mice elf, probably every 6 months. After this heater, I got billed double for my tank rental,as inactive, because I hadn't called for a refill in 18 months :>) tanklesswaterheatersdirect.com If everybody did it... Well, this is from 8/05, so it's a bit out of date, since panel efficiency has increased...http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0508/feature1/index.html It will take 10,000 square miles of solar panels to provide all our electricity. Sounds like a lot, eh? Bigger than Vermont. But, all those panels could fit on less than one quarter of the roofs and pavement space in cities and suburbs. So, if 1/4 of y'all did it, and 1/4 of business did it, and 1/4 of the government did it, viola. Will everybody using compact fluroscents make any difference? Only about 500 pounds of coal over the life of the bulb. One bulb. 5 or 6 dollar bulb. pbase.com Europe is so far ahead of us it ain't even funny (cuz they had the political will). A year ago, they were getting 35,000 megawatts of juice from wind; we were getting 7,000 MW. (I'll make about 2 MW, over an entire year; these guys do their MWs in an hour) And if everybody did like me,and pushed renewables...well, I know at least 4 people who went solar over the last year. One was off the grid to begin with. Forget them. One is on the sustainable committee, and ready had it at home, so forget the realty office. The other 2 may have gotten theirs because of me :>) Kumbaya :>)