National Cut Your Energy Costs Day 2025 is on Friday, January 10, 2025: Can national state and local governments use incentives for purchasing electrical micro-generation

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Can national state and local governments use incentives for purchasing electrical micro-generation

Typical lib! Where do you think the government gets the MONEY for picking up the tab? Why would you put a moratorium on building more nukes? We could cut greenhouese gases by 81%. To produce enough solar power you would have to cover Mass, TWICE, and that would only work during sunny days. What about those 2 week snow storms. Wind power? You would need to put up a windmill every 35' of the US coastline just to meet current capacity and of course the wind would always have to blow.

Get the facts, get realistic. We can dratically cut emissions, we can do it and stregthen our economy. BTW, a solar unit will cost 3X what a comparable nuclear unit costs and only takes up about 1/100 of the space.

how can i make a model on energy conservation saw me that in written?

how can i make a model on energy conservation saw me that in written?

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I stand in a cluttered room surrounded by the debris of electrical enthusiasm: wire peelings, snippets of copper, yellow connectors, insulated pliers. For me these are the tools of freedom. I have just installed a dozen solar panels on my roof, and they work. A meter shows that 1,285 watts of power are blasting straight from the sun into my system, charging my batteries, cooling my refrigerator, humming through my computer, liberating my life.

The euphoria of energy freedom is addictive. Don't get me wrong; I love fossil fuels. I live on an island that happens to have no utilities, but otherwise my wife and I have a normal American life. We don't want propane refrigerators, kerosene lamps, or composting toilets. We want a lot of electrical outlets and a cappuccino maker. But when I turn on those panels, wow!

Maybe that's because for me, as for most Americans, one energy crisis or another has shadowed most of the past three decades. From the OPEC crunch of the 1970s to the skyrocketing cost of oil and gasoline today, the world's concern over energy has haunted presidential speeches, congressional campaigns, disaster books, and my own sense of well-being with the same kind of gnawing unease that characterized the Cold War.

As NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC reported in June 2004, oil, no longer cheap, may soon decline. Instability where most oil is found, from the Persian Gulf to Nigeria to Venezuela, makes this lifeline fragile. Natural gas can be hard to transport and is prone to shortages. We won't run out of coal anytime soon, or the largely untapped deposits of tar sands and oil shale. But it's clear that the carbon dioxide spewed by coal and other fossil fuels is warming the planet, as this magazine reported last September.

Cutting loose from that worry is enticing. With my new panels, nothing stands between me and limitless energy—no foreign nation, no power company, no carbon-emission guilt. I'm free!

Well, almost. Here conies a cloud.

Shade steals across my panels and over my heart. The meter shows only 120 watts. I'm going to have to start the generator and burn some more gasoline. This isn't going to be easy after all.

The trouble with energy freedom is that it's addictive; when you get a little, you want a lot. In microcosm I'm like people in government, industry, and private life all over the world, who have tasted a bit of this curious and compelling kind of liberty and are determined to find more.

Some experts think this pursuit is even more important than the war on terrorism. "Terrorism doesn't threaten the viability of the heart of our high-technology lifestyle," says Martin Hoffert, a professor of physics at New York University. "But energy really does."

Energy conservation can stave off the day of reckoning, but in the end you can't conserve what you don't have. So Hoffert and others have no doubt: It's time to step up the search for the next great fuel for the hungry engine of humankind.

Is there such a fuel? The short answer is no. Experts say it like a mantra: "There is no silver bullet." Though a few true believers claim that only vast conspiracies or lack of funds stand between us and endless energy from the vacuum of space or the core of the Earth, the truth is that there's no single great new fuel waiting in the heart of an equation or at the end of a drill bit.

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UK politics. Should we renationalise the energy and train companies?

UK politics. Should we renationalise the energy and train companies?

Not until we have a coherent, costed and funded national energy and transport strategy in place and ready to take over.

Remember it was under public ownership that Beeching did his worst. It was also under public ownership that we got the Three Day Week and scheduled power cuts.

Could we consider mutualisation as an alternative - whereby the profits are retained by the customers and reinvested in the industry, rather than sent to the Cayman Islands?

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