Protecting ourselves requires focused resources against ground based terrorists. These kind of systems need to be deployed quickly and without delay to prevent the next most obvious attacks.
Skyguard Laser Defense System
Ground Based
Airborne Laser
Models fostering renewable energy can pave the way for energy autonomy with Hermann Scheer
More info see Nanosolar blog producing the world’s first
1GW solar production tool. Breakthrough in the production of solar electricity cells: Simply printed (using ink with semiconductor nanoparticles).
Six-point plan for Energy Plan
Obama’s energy transition team and Dan Reicher, and
U.S. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y, Woolsey (Ex-CIA Chief) and others:
1. Generate ‘negawatts‘
as Amory Lovins coined the term
patch up the gaps in today’s energy infrastructure
home weatherization
better insulation
rooftop solar cells
adding a coat of reflective paint to the roofs
mass transit projects
smart-metering systems – make the electric grid more efficient
“game-changer” in energy policy
* A cap-and-trade system
shift money from carbon-emitting to carbon-saving activities with
sulfur dioxide and with chlorofluorocarbons
* Renewable portfolio standards
require utilities to get a specified proportion of their energy from renewable sources.
* Long-term tax incentives for the renewable-energy industry.
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (or PHEVs)
RechargeIT at Google’s philanthropic arm
What about biofuels? if fuel prices stay below $2 a gallon is a bust that hit the synthetic-fuel market when oil prices fell in the 1980s.
electricity is 2 cents a mile, gasoline does not compete with that
Hybrids may be more cost-effective than plug-ins for reducing CO2 emissions (unless gasoline rises to $6 a gallon).
Obama’s team wants to make the electric grid greener – and smarter.
Use software to manage the flow of power more efficiently
Go to time-of-day pricing to encourage people to use timers have their dryers operate in off-peak times
Future electrical grids could allow solar panels to feed their surplus power into the grid
plug-in hybrid that’s attached to solar panels completely off-grid
designing better batteries
transform electrical power into more easily stored form of energy
Compressed-air energy storage
Offer a $300 million prize program to encourage the development of advanced batteries
accelerated construction of next-generation nuclear plants
building mini-nuclear reactors for remote areas
nuclear fusion
space-based solar power
incentivize everybody and diversify our portfolio
use green energy as the next bubble, and sustain it for the next several decades.”
carbon sequestration
cleaner coal-fired plants
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