Dispatches from Poznań: Green Economy Provides Solutions to Climate Change and Economic Crisis

Americans are facing a severe economic crisis. Having lost more than a million jobs in the first ten months of the year, creating jobs is the top priority for our nation.

And at the same time, government leaders throughout the world have come together this week in Poznań, Poland for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This conference marks the half-way point in two-year negotiations to reach a critical climate change agreement next year in Copenhagen.

As we face multiple challenges with creating jobs, fighting global warming and gaining energy independence, we must find solutions that move us forward simultaneously on all fronts. The answer to our persistent economic and climate challenges is mobilizing government and the private sector to invest in the green economy.

Changing the way we produce and consume energy in the United States -- building a market for renewable energy and making our homes more energy efficient -- will not only create good jobs, it will reduce global warming pollution and help the U.S. to gain its independence from foreign oil.

We can create jobs in a multitude of industries -- including construction, manufacturing, agriculture and transportation -- by investing in a green economy. These are jobs that people already work in today. With investments in wind and solar power, building retrofits, mass transit, biofuels and smart grid transmission systems, we are putting people back to work, creating new jobs and rebuilding the energy infrastructure in the United States.

So as it turns out, the answers to our economic and climate challenges are interdependent. And unlikely allies are advocating for the green economy. The Blue Green Alliance -- a unique coalition of U.S. labor unions and environmental organizations -- was founded on the mission that investing in clean energy creates new jobs and helps preserve the environment for future generations.

As government leaders from around the world convene at the United Nations conference this week and next, they will be discussing strategies to deal with the challenges that accompany climate change. As the U.S. continues to debate its economic recovery, our answer must include solutions that both create good jobs and protect the environment. Our future -- our economy and our planet -- depends on it.

Comments

[Overtone]

The earth is always immersed in an extremely dense sea of energy. We are developing revolutionary new technology that may prove to be tapping this "space energy" resource. Ambient heat surrounds us at all times. It is another huge untapped energy reservoir. When it is utilized on a very large scale, it can help resolve our energy problems. Those who doubt this is possible may find the two papers dealing with Maxwell at the following link of interest: http://arxiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+Fu_X/0/1/0/all/0/1

Unconventional energy conversion systems are under development in several countries. Those inventions that become practical products may prove to be tapping one or the other of these never previously commercialized, renewable, abundant sources of energy. They will make practical cars, trucks, buses, ships and eventually aircraft that need no engines, batteries, or any variety of conventional fuel or recharge.

One Proof-of-Concept prototype was to be analogous to the early work on the transistor, which eventually led to a Nobel Prize and the creation of Silicon Valley.

Generators will demonstrate replacement of the plug needed by a plug-in hybrid car, within a year. This will be a harbinger of automobiles that need no conventional fuel - new automotive power plants. Vehicles powered by these technologies will never require conventional fuel of any kind. Cars powered by these revolutionary systems can become power plants when parked - selling substantial amounts of electricity to the local utility.

[Penny Gruber]

For over 20 years Mark Goldes has claimed his company MPI has been developing machines that generate energy for free. In over 20 years his company has not presented one shred of evidence that they can build such machines.
The cited papers at that link describe experiments that have never been independently reproduced.
"Unconventional energy conversion systems" is code speak for perpetual motion claims. Every year at least a dozen new perpetual motion claimants publically assert they have free energy devices. In at least seven hundred years of documented efforts none ever has. If the laws of thermodynamics are correct as experience so far tells us they are, none ever will.
The "Proof-of-Concept" device cited did not generate any free energy and in fact by MPI's own accounts exhibited only low efficiency. The transistor comments were made by an observer who failed to recognize the very ordinary behavior of the device. The device operates similar to a speed control that regulates using a brake.
For the past five years Mark Goldes has been promising generators "next year". He has never delivered. Like "Alice in Wonderland" there will always be jam tomorrow, but never jam today.
In June 2008 investors filed complaints with the SEC. The SEC file number is HO1281623.

[BrianJDonovan]

Louisiana Enacts the Most Comprehensive Advanced Biofuel Legislation in the Nation

Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to develop a statewide advanced biofuel industry. Louisiana is the first state to enact alternative transportation fuel legislation that includes a variable blending pump pilot program and a hydrous ethanol pilot program.

The legislature found that the proper development of an advanced biofuel industry in Louisiana requires implementation of the comprehensive "field-to-pump" strategy developed by Renergie, Inc.:

(1) Feedstock Other Than Corn
(a) derived solely from Louisiana harvested crops;
(b) capable of an annual yield of at least 600 gallons of ethanol per acre;
(c) requiring no more than one-half of the water required to grow corn;
(d) tolerant to high temperature and waterlogging;
(e) resistant to drought and saline-alkaline soils;
(f) capable of being grown in marginal soils, ranging from heavy clay to light sand;
(g) requiring no more than one-third of the nitrogen required to grow corn, thereby reducing the risk of contamination of the waters of the state; and
(h) requiring no more than one-half of the energy necessary to convert corn into ethanol.

(2) Decentralized Network of Small Advanced Biofuel Manufacturing Facilities

(3) Variable blending pumps shall offer the consumer E10, E20, E30 and E85.

Please feel free to visit Renergie"s weblog (www.renergie.wordpress.com) for more information.

[brassminnie]

Beautiful! What's the point in creating jobs working with obsolete technology? Upgrade America.