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Clean Energy
North America must commence an immdeiate move to clean (non carbon) energy. To name to obviousl sources we have wind, solar, waste-to-energy, geothermal, bio-fuels. There is building popular and governmental support to accomplish this in the US and Canada. To a large extent europe is somewhat ahead of us. However with our capacity there is no reason that the US and Canada could not be leading the non carbon energy drive within the next 10 years, but must start now.
We need to harness nature using natural gas, wind, solar, geothermal, wave and hydro sources in an integrated fashion in order to make regions of the continent reasonably energy independent. The use of waste-to-energy can not only produce electricity, but reduce dependence on land fills and produce clean water, gas and construction products. Yes some of these approaches are in their early technology stages, but need will drive research to produce more and more efficiency in these resources andwider use will reduce the cost.
We need public education to begin to have the general population on side, to accept these energes, especially for homes and cars as well as commercial undertakings.
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Couldn't agree with you more Bill. I really like the use of converting methane from landfills to energy and also bio fuels (specifically algae farms) for clean fuel for cars. Natural gas could be a nearly immediate transition as we already have the means for extraction, production and distribution. Of course nuclear fusion is being touted as the end all be all for energy production in the future, however everything I read says we are 30 to 50 years away at best... Take a look at this link that talks about algae for fuel. I would love to know your thoughts. http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/exploring-algae-as-fuel/
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