American Patriots Need To Take Action
Here’s a point I’ve made dozens of times: The U.S. is in the process of blowing its opportunity to participate in the $50 trillion clean energy revolution, simply because of its love affair with fossil fuels–or at least with the money and political clout associated with the fossil fuel industry.
The single most patriotic thing that people who love America can do is to push their country away from dirty, 20th Century energy into clean, 21st Century energy, creating jobs and growing our economy.
@Craig
Thanks for your observations and posting.
Craig said:
“The single most patriotic thing that people who love American can do is to push their country away from dirty, 20th Century energy into clean, 21st Century energy, creating jobs and growing our economy.”
Craig you have highlighted yet again the very well-known and universally accepted critical issue of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions through fossil fuel energy generation.
Most people on earth over primary school age; if requested could compose a similar themed paragraph to yours in about 1 minute without any prompting at all regarding content I suspect. So you have echoed a comment already very well entrenched in the minds of ordinary people everywhere.
Congratulations.
What most people on earth over primary school age could not do however is compose a follow on paragraph of what the world urgently needs to do NOW to move towards solving this issue permanently? That’s up to others better versed in the facts and who hold themselves out as commentators.
This is where those public commentators and authors amongst us (including your good self of course) who hold themselves out as having some authority to comment on the subject, have an obligation to step up to the plate and deliver, or stand aside and desist if incapable of delivering.
Are ordinary people asking too much of the self-styled experts, commentators and authors, to take them on an understandable journey, beyond the “baseline theoretical message”?
So what we would all like to now hear from you Craig is your important follow up message, because without that, many people would and should reasonably conclude that there is no more to the discussion. The commentator only exists in an echo chamber and has reached a brick wall.
So having got that well established and widely distributed “baseline theoretical message” out to the people of the world yet again; would you now care to follow up (with detail and clarity please) on the practical pathways; technology solutions, and time-frames, that the world should now be striving to implement to achieve the following:
1. Replace fossil fuel energy generation technologies with new age enduring generation technologies that will deliver abundant, clean, safe, and low cost energy for network reticulated distribution for the use of all people, including developing nations and energy deprived regions, and at the same time eliminate global energy generation greenhouse gas emissions to insignificant levels permanently.
How about inviting other commentators to have a go at this subject also?
Lawrence Coomber
Lawrence,
Well said !
Ah, how many high minded pontificating pronouncements are made without any explanation of how these noble sentiments are to be transformed into reality ?
Sadly, most proposals once examined in detail prove either deeply flawed, unrealistic, or just batshit crazy !
Like Beauty Contestants earnestly announcing a desire to “work for world peace”, a veritable plethora of schemes have been proposed, by eager idealists.
The reality is less exciting, it will involve a long, slow and hard evolution, not an exciting revolution. Adoption of Clean technology isn’t a matter of one grand crusade, but the culmination of thousands of smaller, more humble projects and improvements.
The era of idealistic rhetoric and activist advocates is over (although some don’t get it). The next few years will see a sorting out of clean tech. Technologies and environmental projects will become the subject of more objective economic and viability studies.
Realistic priorities and practical considerations will become common practice.
This focus on the practical and realistic is part of a more mature and industrious phase of the advancement of clean tech. The era of wild advocacy and politically motivated rhetoric has run it’s course.
Those wanting to evolve will find tremendous rewards in the new industries and technologies of the future.
@MarcoPolo
Haha.
MarcoPolo I see that you have already made 2 well considered and evocative postings on 2GreenEnergy today.
Heaven help me if they are a reliable guide to what you have in store for us for the remainder of 2017! I am going shopping right now to arm myself with a new pair of reading glasses; a thesaurus; and a large box of headache tablets to help get me through your 2017 catalogue relatively unscathed.
You have definitely hit the ground running mate!
Have you been over indulging in Xmas cheer and home-made rum soaked, brandy infused, wine dipped, plum puddings during the “silly season” by any chance?
Best wishes for an inspired 2017.
PS. I have spent 50 years (on and off) sailing, navigating and diving on the reef and doing short-handed blue water yacht deliveries. If you are ever in need of a first mate, call me.
LOL
Lawrence Coomber
Hi Lawrence,
I’ve always been a keen sailor, (I’ve held a masters certificate for over 40 years) but these days I’m more of a passenger as the vessel is too large (140 ft) for an inexperienced crew. Most of the year the vessel is chartered which allows me to engage a permanent, professional crew.
I’m very optimistic for 2017, since for merchant bankers uncertainly and fluctuating economic conditions provide great opportunities to increase profit. (Brexit was a once in a generation opportunity for those who got it right).
At the moment I’m stuck in the UK winter, remembering once again why I was glad to emigrate to sunshine of Australia.
This was the year we organized a gathering of our far flung relatives to a reunion of their ancestral home. One hundred and sixty two turned up, which made Christmas very exciting, but the excitement is beginning to pall and I think the caterers and villages will be glad to see the last leave.
Family reunions are curious affairs, a bit like a little micro-society. I guess with such a large group occupying every sort of social position and diversity it’s inevitable that divisions, jealousies and squabbles will appear.
So while Christmas has been joyful, the post new year period becomes a time of reflection, not helped by the appalling English weather.
@Marcopolo
I spent 20 years in the RAN as a weapons/missile engineer, mainly at sea. As an Aquarian I feel very comfortable ploughing through the briny.
I was very fortunate in enjoying exchange navies service throughout my career and served with the USN, RN, Malaysian Navy, Japanese Maritime Self Defence Service, Canadian Navy, and one very forgettable stint with the French Navy.
One of the highlights’ was service on the Britannia on two occasions with members of The Royal family on various trips to the ex-dominions. I enjoyed getting to know the Royal family and we did atypically share some funny banter together on occasions.
Family reunions are “interesting” aren’t they? My father was born in London and he had an amazing life. He adopted the perfect solution it seems to avoiding messy family reunions – after leaving home at 13 and running away to sea – he never went home ever again? He died at 93. Now that’s what some might label “affirmative action”.
I actually revel in family reunions. LOL
Have a great year Marcopolo.
Hi Lawrence,
What a fascinating life you’ve led and a remarkably varied service career ! Serving on the Britannia must have been a highlight as the Royal Family really loved the vessel, probably because it was a respite from the pressures and protocols of endless tedious tours and the media.
Your father sounds like an interesting man, and after this experience, I feel like following his example !
Have a great, and interesting year yourself, Lawrence.