Down sank the great red Sun, and in
golden shimmering vapors
Veiled light of his face, like the
Prophet descending from Sinai
Longfellow,
Evangeline
The United
States of America under the Obama Administration has
ambitious plans to ditch Fossil Fuels from Saudi Arabia and go Alternative
Energy both in terms of Domestic Fuel Supply as well as Electric Power which is
generated using Fossil Fuels.
Too bad the Democrats lost control
of the Senate to the Republicans as stated in the article “Republican Win to
hurt Obama's clean-Energy plans”, published Wednesday November 3 2010, CNET
News - Green Tech and confirmed in the article “US
Republicans seize Lower house”, published Wednesday November 3 2010, BBC News.
They are in effect, following the
IEA (International Energy Agency) and removing subsidies on Foreign Imported
Oil as stated in the article “IEA: To Promote efficiency,
cut fossil fuel subsidies”, published June 8, 2010 7:56 AM PDT by Martin
LaMonica, CNET News - Green Tech.
This is an excellent way to save
billions of Taxpayers dollars which may effectively be financing terrorism as
stated in the article as stated in the article “U.S.
Navy buys 20,000 gallons of algae fuel”, published September 15, 2010 10:36
AM PDT by Candace Lombardi, CNET News -
Green Tech.
Overall, an excellent strategy that
will save the Domestic Economy billions as well as remove the current Achilles
Heel of the American Army, that being their Dependence on Foreign Oil that
strategically can be choked off in a future WWIII, predicted to be a war
fermented by the Middle East, ironical sitting on nearly 90% of the Worlds Oil.
Peak Oil WILL occur in 2015 AD,
when prices for Black Gold will be high due to global demand outstripping
supply as stated in the article “IEA
official warns of shrinking oil supplies: Report”,
Sunday August 2nd, 9:04 pm ET, AFP, Yahoo!
News and backed up by the dire warning in statements
attributed to Sir Richard Branson of Virgin as stated in the article “World
faces Oil Crunch by 2015”, published Sunday 14 February 2010, AFP, The Jamaica Herald.
More reason to go Solar, on a large
scale, such as eSolar, a Solar Steam Plant capable of producing Power at prices
competitive to Fossil Fuel Power Utility Companies as stated in the article “eSolar plugs Solarplant
into California Grid”, published August 4, 2009 9:01 PM PDT by Martin
LaMonica, CNET News - Green Tech.
Possibly the largest installation
of Photovoltaic Panels in the United States of America is located in Blythe, in
the California Desert, consisting of four (4) massive installations costing
US$1 billion each as stated in the article “US
approves World's biggest Solar Energy Project”, published Monday October 25
2010, Yahoo! News.
Saudi Arabia also knows this and are
switching over to Nuclear Power and Solar Power as in the case of Brunei as
stated in the article “Oil-Rich
Brunei to have Solar Power plant”, published Thursday August 6, 3:33 am ET,
Yahoo! News,
AFP.
Meanwhile OPEC (Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries) reassures the World that they have up to two hundred
(200) years worth of Oil Reserves, as per their website. Most of this, however,
is estimates and is not based on Proven Oil Reserves.
Meanwhile
All-Electric Vehicle production is ramping up in the USA, EU and Japan to the
point that there is now a possibility of a Rare Earth Metals Crunch by 2012 AD,
as the Lithium-Ion batteries, the current technology used in making Lithium-Ion
Batteries used in All-Electric Vehicles
The 2011 Nissan Leaf uses Lithium-Ion
batteries as described in the article “Nissan Leaf projected
to be in the black”, published April 30, 2010 5:44 AM PDT by Reuters, CNET News - Green Tech and Hydrogen Fuel Cells
use Rare Earth Metals such as Platinum as well.
These Hydrogen fuel cells can be
used in place of batteries with the Hydrogen being sequestered from Diesel, E80
Gasoline or Kerosene, effectively a All-Electric Vehicle with batteries based
on Hydrogen Fuel Cell as stated in the article “Volvo developing a
hybrid hydrogen-electric vehicle”, published November 5, 2010 10:01 AM PDT
by Liane Yvkoff, CNET News - The Car Tech blog.
Jamaica
is affected as the switch to All-Electric Vehicles means that spare parts from Japan will soon
stop, as the Japanese change out vehicles older than four (4) years old to
avoid heavy taxes. Already there is a spare parts shortage in Jamaica as stated
in the article “Spare
Parts shortage hits used-car Trade”, published Friday October 22 2010, The Jamaica Gleaner.
All-Electric Vehicles coming to our
island is a SERIOUS possibility, contrary to the musings against such a
situation by Kent LaCroix, President of the Automobile Dealers Association
(ADA) as stated in the article “Is
Jamaica ready for Electric vehicles ?”, published Friday, October 01, 2010,
The Jamaica Observer.
Back up a second. Did I just say
“Hydrogen being sequestered from Diesel, E80 Gasoline or Kerosene”? Indeed I
did folks. So the Republicans can relax. Republicans can still collect your
“kickbacks” for lobbying on behalf of the Oil Industry, as although the Obama
Administration has been seeking to wean the United
States of America off a heavy diet of Oil and
irresponsible behaviour of Big Oil during the DeepWater Horizon Explosion off
the coast of Louisiana
on Tuesday April 20th 2010.
Senator Barack Obama, President of
the United States of America, has not completely gone Green, despite an imposed
six (6) month moratorium on Offshore Oil Exploration as stated in the article “Obama signals tough
stance on Oil Industry”, published Tuesday Jun 8, 11:25 am ET, By Russell
Blinch and Rick Cowan, Yahoo! News and signaling an end to a
dependence on Fossil Fuels as stated in the article “Obama: End
depedence on fossil fuels”, published Wednesday June 2010, By JULIE PACE,
Associated Press Writer, Yahoo! News.
People, read between the lines; the
Democrats are not anti-Oil Industry, just anti-Middle East and Foreign Oil.
BOTH the Democrats and Republicans agree that America’s dependence on Foreign
Oil is the main reason why their Economy cannot grow and be as competitive with
the People’s Republic of China and is in fact, the REAL reason why their
exports are uncompetitive, much as is the case in Jamaica.
It is not all about unfair pegs on
the Yuan as well as the People’s Republic of China blockade of their Food
Exports to that Far East Country. These are political talk shops to create a
scapegoat of the People’s Republic of China.
Politicians and policymakers on
Capitol Hill know high Energy prices are the main reason why they cannot
compete effectively against a country such as the People’s Republic of China,
which is building coal fired Power plants every two (2) weeks, putting in place
Hydro-Electric Power Plants to tame the Yellow River, constantly searching for
Rare Earth Metals and even Methane Hydrates at great ocean depths as stated in
the article “China
builds base to tap deep-sea Energy: State Media”, published Friday August
27 2010, 1:23 am ET, BEIJING (AFP), Yahoo! News.
China is now making gestures that
seem to be fuelling their ambitions to be kings in the All-Electric Vehicles
Category, as they control 97% of the World’s exports on Rare Earth Metals as
stated in the article “China clean tech's
rare-earth advantage”, published August 12, 2010 5:37 AM PDT by Reuters, CNET News - Green Tech, critical to making
All-Electric Vehicles, necessary for Gas guzzling America to wean themselves
from Foreign Imported Oil.
So the United States of America has
to get innovative as opposed to being worried or complaining along with the EU as
stated in the article “U.S. and E.U. grapple
with crunch in Rare Earth supplies”, published October 26, 2010 2:33 PM PDT
by Reuters.
The People’s Republic of China
cannot be trusted to fairly price Rare Earth Metals over which they clearly
have a monopoly in terms of supply as stated in the article “Premier:
China won't block rare earth exports”, published Friday October 8 2010 4:41
am ET, By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer, Yahoo! News, now with an impending
Rare Earth Metals Crunch in 2012 AD.
Instead, they need to join forces
with the Europeans and tap into the recently discovered equivalent of King
Solomon’s Mines in Afghanistan for Rare Earth Metals as stated in the article “U.S.
identifies vast mineral riches in Afghanistan”, published June 13, 2010 By
JAMES RISEN, The New York Times.
This would be a follow-on (excuse
the Cricket reference!) of the recent partnering of Japan and Vietnam to mine
Rare Earth Metals as stated in article “Vietnam and
Japan to mine Rare Earths together”, published Sunday October 31 2010 by
Reuters, key to making Lithium Ion batteries, after the People’s Republic of
China recently blocked exports of Rare Earth Metals to Japan as stated in the
article “Traders:
China halts Rare earth exports to Japan”, published Friday 24 September,
2010 by Associated Press.
Recycling Rare Earth Metals from
old electronics gadgets is a must as stated in the article “Rare-Earth metal
recycling needed to power Green Tech”, published May 17, 2010 7:31 AM PDT
by Martin LaMonica, CNET News - Green Tech
A fact that, ironically, the
Japanese have figured out, because wastewater coming out of the Japanese
Industrial area is rich in Gold in concentrations higher than being extracted
from their goldmines as stated in the article “Japan's
sewers paved with gold”, published 2:59AM GMT 02 Feb 2009 by Danielle
Demetriou in Tokyo, The Telegraph.
Within North America, Republicans,
long friends with the Domestic Oil Industry, can ensure that Department of Energy
and Department of Agriculture funding goes MAINLY to American Big Oil Companies
to encourage the development of technology that creates synthetic alternatives
to Foreign Imported Oil, such as the company Solazyme use of algae to process
organic material to make Jet fuel “U.S.
Navy buys 20,000 gallons of algae fuel”, published September 15, 2010 10:36
AM PDT by Candace Lombardi, CNET News -
Green Tech along with numerous examples.
Republicans can also ensure that
although new vehicles meet the EPA Standard of 62mpg (miles per gallon) as
stated in the article “Autos would have to
get 62mpg under new plan”, published October 2, 2010 6:00 AM PDT, by
Reuters, CNET News - Green Tech.
They must also ensure a guarantee
from the Automobile Industry and the Obama Administration that Motor Vehicles
manufactured will employ not only Americans but also technology that consumes
Oil produced by the Domestic Oil Industry, both Synthetic Oil produced from
digestion of Bio-Mass as well as Offshore and Onland Oil and Natural Gas.
This raises the possibility of
using Natural Gas for America Domestic Electricity Supply and in Flex Fuel
engines of Motor Vehicles thanks in part to its endorsement by none other than
Ernest Moniz, Director of the prestigious Engineering Institute, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently in Time Magazine, an American publication.
Ernest Moniz posits the fact that
LNG deposits accounts for only 24% of the Electricity Generation within the
United States of America, yet they possess 98% of the LNG that they use to
generate this 24% electricity demand as stated in the article “Fuel of
the Future ?”, published Sunday
July 4 2010 by Dwight Bellanfante, Gleaner Writer The Sunday Gleaner. Here too, the
Republicans and Democrats can find common ground.
This means that Motor Vehicles
produced by the Auto Industry, which owes the Government of the United States
of America nearly US$50 billion as stated in the article “GM
will repay US$50b - US Gov't”, published A Friday, November 05, 2010, AFP, The Jamaican Observer can be
stipulated to have automobiles made that are Range Extender Technology.
A technology where in which the
vehicle coasts on battery Power at speeds below 80km/h before it switches to a
silent Flex Fuel Generator that continues to Power the four (4) motors on each
wheel at speeds in excess of 80km/h or when the batteries run low as stated in
the article “Chevy
Volt's engine more than just a Generator”, published October 11, 2010 2:32
PM PDT, by Wayne Cunningham, CNET News -
The Car Tech blog.
This is akin to a Hybrid Vehicle,
except that in a Hybrid Vehicle, the Engine drives the vehicle directly,
instead of converting the mechanical motion of a fossil fuel based engine to
electricity to drive electrical motors, a process that is more efficient, as
the Power goes directly to the wheels, as opposed to being transferred by an
axel, effectively losing Power due to the vehicles weight, friction force both
with the road as well as internal mechanical and inertia when still or in
motion [Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion].
Converting the Chemical Energy of
Gasoline to Electrical Energy to Power the four (4) motors on each wheel is
more efficient, with the All-Electric Vehicle becoming inefficient at high
speeds, as the All-Electric Vehicle, under its own momentum, requires no more
extra force to keep it moving at constant velocity [Isaac Newton’s First Law of
Motion], the extra Energy causing heating in the electrical motors. Solar
panels on the sun roof of the All-Electric Vehicle, as in the case of the 2010
Nissan Leaf, take the load off the vehicles batteries and extend their charge
considerably.
As such, the Generator is best designed
to be a Flex Fuel Generator and the batteries can either be regular Lithium-Ion
batteries as in the case of the 2011 Chevy Volt with its mathematically correct
300mpg as stated in the article “EPA negs Volt's
230 mpg fuel economy formula”, published July 15, 2010 11:15 AM PDT by
Liane Yvkoff, CNET News - The Car Tech blog.
Or Hydrogen Fuel Cell based
Batteries as in the case of the All-Electric Vehicle concept by automaker Volvo
as stated in the article “Volvo developing a
hybrid hydrogen-electric vehicle”, published November 5, 2010 10:01 AM PDT
by Liane Yvkoff, CNET News - The Car Tech
blog, with the Hydrogen being sequestered either from brine (read Sea Water!)
or Gasoline via Dehydrogenation using a suitable catalyst.
Hybrid Vehicles would fill the rest
of the void, also compliant to the new 62mpg regulation, with a bit of good
advertising to shake off the so-called Sergei Brin Effect, wherein which
Americans perceive Hybrids as luxury vehicles being only affordable by
billionaires.
One thing is for certain, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) for
Big Oil in a World with All-Electric Vehicles that still have to consume Oil
produced by the Domestic Oil Industry, both Synthetic Oil produced from
digestion of Bio-Mass as well as Offshore and Onland Oil and Natural Gas.
Going the Natural Gas route for the
American Power Utility Grid would make America easily able to switch to
Hydrogen Gas extracted using Sea Water, with Potable Water, Table Salt and
trace minerals such as Manganese as saleable byproducts.
Effectively becoming an Electron
Economy powered by a Hydrogen Economy a modification of the published paper by
Dr. Ulf Bossel entitled “Why
a Hydrogen Economy doesn't make sense”, published December 11 2006, PhysOrg.com with Sea Water also being
supplied by Big Oil Companies, ensuring that they are always in the Renewable Energy
Framework, be it Fossil Fuels or Renewables.
Thus, this may be the basis of
technical arguments that can be used to sway the Republicans in the Senate, as
the move away from Fossil Fuels is not a complete cut from Fossil Fuels.
Rather, it is a move away from Importation of Foreign based Oil from Saudi
Arabia and the Middle East and a move towards a dependence on Domestic Fuel
Supply from Big Oil Companies
The missing supplies from the
Middle East being replaced by Alternative Energy in the form of large scale
Solar, Wind, Synthetic Oils from Bio-Mass in a Renewable Energy Framework
Partnership between Republican supported Big Oil and the Government of the
United States of America.
Democrats, desperate to not only
fix the American Economy and American employed and on the path towards
sustained growth, should acceded to the above Renewable Energy Framework
proposal as it ensures a win-win situation for all stakeholders.
As for the 2012 Elections, which
the Democrats may lose, IF Senator Sarah Palin decided to run for President on
the Republican Ballot, thus Republican support for this bipartisan issue will
little influence voters choice come Election Day. Truly, Politics is a
spectacle as we push towards a World where Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) for
the Hydrogen Economy-Electron Economy.
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