I have thought for a long time that centralized green energy is the wrong approach.
I think de-centralized green energy is the right approach.
I mean, lookit. Have every household in america make or buy a bicycle alternating current generator and hook it up to the grid.
At 5pm every day until 9pm every day 1/2 of america will hop on their generator and pedal their ass for all it's worth. The other 1/2 of americans can live their daily life that day. The next day they alternate, with 1/2 pedaling ass and the other half living large.
What could be more green than that?
Me, lucky and blessed to finally make it out of the sheethole L.A.. And land in small town AZ. None the less, I see oodles of peeps on 49cc two stroke bicycles. Or high voltage electric bicycles. I don't get it. The town is three miles wide, and six miles long. You can't manage to actually pedal one yourself? WTF ... Signed 300-400 miles a week when I was doing triathlons (a loong time ago). Blah, blah ...ymmv (snarf)
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I live about a 4 hour drive north of LA. There are enough people here to make me want to move to small town AZ, I can' t imagine being in LA.
DeleteThe local economy, is also s m a l l. And it revolves around different demand items. Rents are brutal. Available housing is non-existent (no sympathy ploy, but I will actually be homeless in three days. Twenty unit building, sold a month ago. Every tenant was evicted. A few units have already been remodeled. New rent is exactly DOUBLE).
DeleteI'm not going anywhere. Home is where the heart lies.
I drove by a Texas wind farm last week. There were probably two or three dozen of the turbines and less than half were turning. Why? I have no idea, but maintenance is probably the official reason. You can't get more money, unless you create a problem, and capitalize on the panic.
ReplyDeleteMuch of the time here the turbines are off, the reason frequently given is so they don't kill the damn birds.
DeleteMy luck, the dweebs supposed to be pedaling on my day off is in the kiddie pool with Cervantes...
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a good plan to me. I don't like pedaling nohow.
DeleteI think a permanent cadre of the dedicated green types (every climate, anti-oil, etc. activist) should do the trick, especially since they specifically don't want any of the power or products produced from all those icky fossil fuels themselves (what do you mean they only want 'everyone else' to do without?).
ReplyDeleteShackle them to the bike-generators, feed them only locally grown, organic (that means covered in their own sewage) tofu, arugula and nut cutlets and with a little self-flagellation (or, here's an idea, charge other people a $ strike to 'help the environment' by flagellating them - it would not only be self-funding, but could probably pay of the national debt in a ... week or so).
That's a hell of an idea!
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