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Wake Up Call Eastside Rail Now! … a response to Peak Oil Ron Swenson Director ASPO USA March 10, 2010 Spinning our Wheels Corn Ethanol Water Essential to make energy Leveling Appalachia The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining From GridLock to Gas Lines Are Cars our future? Good Day Sunshine! A Plan for a Sustainable Future by 2030 Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. Peak Solar San Jose’s Green Vision Silicon Valley: A dollar will get you 10! Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) www.SolarEvolution.com/PRT San José RFP: Automated Transit Network • Ensure that the ATN system is built … utilizing renewable energy • … maximize energy efficiency and potentially be powered in whole or part by renewable energy. • • • … and calculating carbon emissions reductions achievable through renewable energy • • • evaluate cost/benefits of using renewable energy to offset all or a portion of the energy requirements • Provide analysis of cost/savings and recommend Tonatiuh Solar Transport Solar Race Car and the Solar Highway 3m 2m Solar Race Car averages 90 km/hr with 6 m2 solar panel Knowing it can be done, let’s ramp onto the Solar Highway … 17 X 2 seconds apart @ 90 km/hr = 50 m … Podcars have 50 m ÷ 3 m = 17 X more collection area than solar race cars! How can solar do so much? Actually, fossil fuels do very little! 13% Most of the useful energy is used to move metal… Less than 1% of the total energy moves the driver! Accessories Idling Loss Drivetrain Aero Drag Rolling Braking Engine Loss 10 X When the going gets tough… USA as a Trading “Partner” imports 74% 57% 47% 37% 14% CIA Factbook 2004 Gap Mexico Canada Japan China Saudi Arabia exports Inequality Germany’s Success Half as much sun, 10 times more solar Public Service NJ "Absent a clear national commitment to renewable [energy] and to greenhouse gas limits, we will continue to see the supply chain shift overseas, and the promise of the green economy could slip away," said Ralph Izzo, president and chief executive of Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., a New Jersey utility that has invested aggressively in solar power. Council on Competitiveness …U.S. business leaders … disagree sharply over how to encourage renewable-energy investment without imposing higher costs on consumers or businesses that depend on fossil fuels. "This is probably one of the more difficult subjects we've ever had to deal with" … said Chad Holliday, who … leads the … Council on Competitiveness, a group pushing the government to overhaul energy policy. "Every country … wants … green jobs," Holliday said ... "If we move fast, we can get at least our share. But there's a downside. If we sit back and allow other countries to build that infrastructure . . . we're going to lose.” http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-energy24-2009oct24,0,3902427.story Buy America! J Y “Dave” Wang Two kinds of businessman: • Good businessman – Selling • Bad businessman – Buying 1975 Wake Up!!! … to the Power of Solar www.ecotopia.com/workshops