GP: RE: RE: Re: Time is running out!

["Tom Gray" <tomgray@igc.org>]

So, I hope everyone on this list is buying green tags or green power . . .
www.greentagsusa.com or www.newwindenergy.com or
www.greenmountain.com , among others.

Here's a little piece I wrote on this.

Tom

A DIME A DAY

At this writing (July, 2002), the U.S. Congress is considering a national
energy bill.  The version of the bill that has been
approved by the Senate includes a proposed "Renewables Portfolio Standard,"
or RPS, which would require every electricity
supplier in the U.S. to obtain at least 10% of its electricity from
renewable energy sources (solar, wind, geothermal, biomass,
hydro) by the year 2020.

There is great debate over this provision, which would, however slowly,
start the United States on the path to clean energy
after years of dithering.  In particular, there is concern about its cost,
with supporters and opponents offering widely differing
estimates.

However, there can be no debating the following fact:  It is possible,
today, for the average American household to support a
10% renewable electricity standard at a cost of just over a dime a day, well
within most family budgets.  Here's how:

The Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) sells a product called a
"green tag," which certifies the production of a
certain amount of electricity from renewable resources such as solar and
wind.  When the electricity is generated, the tag is
created.  The generator can then sell the electricity to a utility at the
market price, and can also sell the tag to a buyer who is
willing to pay to support renewable energy.  (For a complete explanation,
see the BEF Web site at
http://www.greentagsusa.org .)

Each BEF tag represents the generation of 1,000 kilowatt-hours of
electricity from renewables, and costs $20.  There is a
minimum purchase requirement of two tags, for a total cost of $40.

The average American household uses about 10,000 kilowatt-hours of
electricity each year.  Two BEF tags, at a cost of
$40/year, will pay for the generation of 2,000 kilowatt-hours, or about 20%
of a household's use.  $40 a year, in turn, amounts
to just under 11 cents a day.

What this means is that by buying two BEF tags each year, you can support
the generation of enough clean electricity from
renewable energy sources to double the proposed 10% national standard--and
not in 2020, but right now.

Green tags are a simple, affordable way to substitute clean energy sources
for dirty ones, clearing the air we breathe and
fighting the increasing threat of global warming.  Find out more about them,
today.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kirk [mailto:kirk@3rivers.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:57 PM
> To: green-power@crest.org
> Subject: GP: RE: Re: Time is running out!
>
>
> Fun begins in 5 years. Nope. Why the present scramble to control Middle
> East?
> Oil and gas. There is a lot more oil than the public knows but it doesn't
> matter.
> Still a finite resource.
>
> I don't agree with him (Morton)on several points -- but-- we better take
> care of business and soon.
> The quickest step to implement on the path is raise efficiency of our
> structures. In 1 year we could accomplish a lot just changing
> light sources.
>
> A year ago a friend of mine installed a small windmill. It
> generated 60% of
> the power he used in the last 12 months.
> But he and another person are the only two I know of in the whole county.
>
> Until the controllers of society get their mind right nothing will happen.
> Most of society are sheeple and have to be led.
> The controllers have to overcome their centralized power paradigm and do
> what makes engineering sense, not business sense.
>
> Kirk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Byrd [mailto:byrdelc@directcon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:36 PM
> To: kirk
> Cc: green-power@crest.org
> Subject: GP: Re: Time is running out!
>
>
> kirk that is a big parameter.
> http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/Future_oil_supply.htm
>
> kirk wrote:
>
> > Decline of oil production is inevitable. The only arguable parameter is
> > time. Even if it were 100 years that is far too near.
> > The replacement paradigm has to be online within whatever
> timeframe. Doing
> > it the way the enrgy companies want it done means the poor get
> screwed as
> > usual. People will not object to nukes if it is that or no electricity.
> They
> > are banking on this.
> >
> > Kirk
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Byrd [mailto:byrdelc@directcon.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 10:56 AM
> > To: be2@egroups.com; Greenbuilding; 'green-power@crest.org'
> > Subject: GP: Time is running out!
> >
> > Every week I read more and more about the pending decline of oil
> > production. This week I found the conclusion of Dr. Colin Campbell's
> > report to Uppsala at
> > http://www.evworld.com/databases/storybuilder.cfm?storyid=424 Still most
> > people I talk to are not taking this subject seriously enough. Will it
> > mean an end to mankind altogether? Can we make the transition to a
> > different source of energy in time?
> >
> > Here are some interesting abstracts from a resent workshop held in
> > Sweden. Most interesting is Matthew Simmons comments about natural gas
> > in the USA. http://www.isv.uu.se/IWOOD2002/welcome.html
> >
> > Am I just another chicken little or is the sky really falling this time?
> >
> > --
> > Ron Byrd
> > Vice President
> > Sunstar Precision Energy Corporation
> > http://www.specenergy.com
> > " We turn SUNLIGHT into ELECTRICITY "
> >
> >
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