Your Questions About Geothermal Energy Plants In The Us

What do you think of this plan to solve the US energy problem with solar power?

Construct a 30,000 square mile array of solar panels in the Southwest along with concentrated solar power arrays and a massive direct-current power transmission backbone to distribute electricity throughout the country. Excess power produced by the photovoltaic arrays would be distributed and stored as compressed air in below-ground caverns.

With a massive investment in solar power plants and infrastructure, solar could provide 69% of US electricity and 35% of total energy (including transportation) by 2050.
If wind, biomass, and geothermal power sources were also developed, the US could produce 100% of its electricity and 90% of its transportation energy from renewable sources. To make this happen, the US would have to invest $10 billion per year for the next 40 years. For comparison, the US is now spending $12 billion per month for military involvement Iraq and Afghanistan

http://gas2.org/2008/03/25/how-solar-panels-could-power-90-of-us-transportation/

What do you think?
If you’re just going to dismiss the suggestion off-hand with no good reason, don’t bother to answer the question.

For those saying nuclear is the only solution, I suggest you read the best answer to this question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvbtgI1im3pK.PoH1Qb02YkAAAAA;_ylv=3?qid=20080528094715AAcnVM3
The full plan is available here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan

Some other key points:

“the land required for each gigawatt-hour of solar energy produced in the Southwest is less than that needed for a coal-powered plant when factoring in land for coal mining.”

“To meet the 2050 projection, 46,000 square miles of land would be needed for photovoltaic and concentrated solar power installations. That area is large, and yet it covers just 19 percent of the suitable Southwest land. Most of that land is barren; there is no competing use value. And the land will not be polluted. We have assumed that only 10 percent of the solar capacity in 2050 will come from distributed photovoltaic installations—those on rooftops or commercial lots throughout the country. But as prices drop, these applications could play a bigger role”

Is this What I Wanted for the $5 Trillion Spent by Pelosi?

1. Iraq war ended, drop off the key lee, get on a bus gus, let USA go.

2. Afghanistan war ewnded, drop off the key lee, get on a bus gus, let USA go.

3. Coast to Coast high speed rail powered by Hythane, down the median strip of Route 80, with hydrogen plants on Iceland and in Hawaii, so the shipping conduit could be extended from London to Tokyo, mostly hydrogen powered, and a lot of it on US soil.

4. Breakthrough in algae or switchgrass technology to provide extremely cheap liquid fuel so we can tell all Arabs and all moslems to kiss off on a global basis.

5. Geothermal technology breakthrough with a major plant near Old Faithful, and several in Hawai’i. US become global leader in geothermal energy.

6. Total refom of trade policy — free trade is gone — new idea is fair trade — which means authentic trade. We get to sell $1 in their country for every $1 they sell here. Fair trade = actual trade not one-way access to US markets so Wal-Mart can buy inventory in China and kill US GDP for pennies on the dollar.

7. Maths and science education returns to K-12 schools via a massive Federal Cash Prizes program for actual (not ficticious crony-based or political) achievers. Kids who actually do score highest on genuine authentic tests given by reliable (not lying scum) organizations (not their lying scum teachers) get genuine cash New $100 bills in theri hands right here right now, no kidding.

8. Federal healthcare clinics for the very poor but actual factual USA citizens (not citizens of other countries). These clinics in 2000 US cities provide decent primary care and total pharmacy for free. Decent primary care is given by USPHSC people and Red Cross volunteers who are actually paid by Federal benefits like tuition grants.

9. National Prizes for Breakthrough Techology Project, run by a panel of 5 Commissioned Officers named by Congress. They award 10 prizes per year of about $1 Billion per prize for major technology breakthroughs. They obtain 75% interest in the patent rights and total control. They then license the technologies such that the maximum number of USA jobs in the USA for USA citizens are created (it’s not a crime for USA people to be loyal to other USA people — although we seem to want to make it a crime).

10. Another nine Federal prisons like Allenwood are built and then filled up with Wall Street Bankers and Hedge Fund Managers. This would make about a 3% dent in our national problem, but it’s at least some progress.

There’s room on this list for a few things you might like to add.

Keep in mind that we actually got ZERO for the money spent. Zilch, nothing nada, nihil.

Something is better than nothing.

What would you like to have gotten in exchange for burdening the next 20 generations with interest payments taken out of their taxes so they have no flexibility to address any of THEIR problems?

Or maybe you LOVE Pelosi and Reid think they spent the money just right — glad for what you got out of it — maybe that Census Taker job, or that ACORN job, eh?

Is this why you voted democrat? We needed to save the economy and the planet. Stimulus and Green jobs …?

… that is what it was all about in late 2008. We were ruining our environment and we were in a melt down in our economy so Obama’s solution seemed like a no brainer. We need to create jobs and while we are at it lets make them Green jobs. Like alternative energy wind plants, solar cells, geothermal, etc etc.

Now what happened as a result of us voting in Obama and the super majority Democrat Congress?

Here’s an ABC news link in case you would like to check out how it all worked out.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/green-stimulus-jobs-china-9791423

btw… I am all for alternative energy. In fact I make my own bio fuel which I burn in my truck and I save 1000′s of trees every year but I take issue with sending our stimulus money to China. It was supposed to stimulate our economy, not China’s. Are the Democrats in power really that poor at thinking things through or do they just not care?
edit to Brandon S…
I looked at your first link and did not see a chart anywhere.
I looked at your second link which was a choice for a bunch of other links and one of them said in the first paragraph that Bush was the first president since H. Hoover to preside over a decline in employment. I guess they forgot to look at the presidency of Jimmy Carter. I think there were also a few others inbetween Hoover and Bush to see employment decline. Where do you get these sources.
one more comment.
did you check out the link? This was from ABC news, not Fox or some Conservative Blog. But it seems only one or two watched the report anchored by Diane Sawyer, also not a Conservative pundint by any means.

Do you support nuclear energy?

I’m a liberal democrat and i actually do. i actually support nuclear energy as a medium term (aka not short term nor long term) solution to cleaner energy. in a dream world we would use only wind, solar, water, geothermal, and other completely renewable (non radioactive) resources. in all reality though, it would probably take at least 2 or 3 decades to completely supply the country with those resources. nuclear plants on the other hand would only take 3-5 years to construct and they would supply us with a tremendous amount of energy (look at europe). then we have to deal with the problem of waste, but i figure if we can end their use by 30 or 40 years from now we’ll be ok. what do you think.

Homework help, Easy 10 points!?

Can you answer any of these? If you dont know please dont answer.

1.The process of coal formation began in ancient_____
2.Crude oil is an important source of_____
3.What percentage of petrolium in the US had been discovered___
4.Strip mining causes harm by exposing________-
5.Poweplants using geothermal energy are used extensively in______
6.What percentage of the electricity used in the US comes from hydroelectric plants

These are multiple choice so if you get them right I will give you your ten points

What do objective economic studies tell us about cap and trade legislation?

EPA analysis:

“[The bill would] create strong demand for a domestic manufacturing market for these next generation technologies that will enable American workers to serve in a central role in our clean energy transformation;

”
[It would] play a critical role in the American economic recovery and job growth – from retooling shuttered manufacturing plants to make wind turbines, to using equipment and expertise in drilling for oil to develop clean energy from underground geothermal sources, to tapping into American ingenuity to engineer coal-fired power plants that do not contribute to climate change. ”

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/economics/economicanalyses.html

http://climateprogress.org/2009/04/21/waxman-markey-epa-analysis/