Making the Best of a Bad Situation in the Extreme Heat States in the New Normal of Climate Change
For making the best of a bad situation in the states experiencing extreme heat this summer, where affordable, buildings should be solarized and air conditioners should be operated off of and electric vehicles should be charged on on-site solar generated electricity during the daylight hours to lower the potential and avoid the occasion for electrical-utility-company grid-demand overloads and failure (blackouts and brownouts), associated with exceptional mass air-conditioner usage for coping with such lethargizing and health- and life-threatening heat and to have a daytime unlimited supply of electricity for unlimited daytime air-conditioner usage. Religious entities might start extending the public righteous equity for the tithes, donations and exemption from taxation they receive by also solarizing and air conditioning their churches or houses of worship and other buildings and opening them up as cooling centers for those oppressed by the extreme heat who do not have air conditioning or cannot afford high utility bills for running air conditioning. The expectation should be that this heat situation will be the new normal, or norm, in spring and summer in the concerned states and that climate change is in place. In the near future, nighttime and localized 24-hour solar electricity may be available for these uses as the problem of clean, chemical-free solar-capture energy storage has been solved by a process of storage in and later extraction from molten salt, Arizona usesmolten salt for storage : Solar Power Engineering,www.solarpowerengineering.com/.../arizona-uses-molten-salt-for-st... -www.solarpowerengineering.com results, Feb 7, 2011 – 150-MW solarproject planned for Arizona will use molten salt for energy storage. Utility-scale developer SolarReserve has received its ...; GemasolarFinishes Building Molten Salt – Backed Solar Power Plant ...,www.greenoptimistic.com › Solar Power, Jul 7, 2011 – SolarReserveReceives Funding for CSP & Molten Salt Energy Storage in Nevada ...Solar Power Plant That Uses Molten Salts as Energy Storage ...;Solar Power for Vampires: MIT Team Invents 24-Hour SolarSystem, CleanTechnica - 1 day ago ... a concentrated solar power system with a molten salt heat storagesystem. ... the idea is to heat the salt with solar energy, then transfer theenergy ...
Like it or not, believe it or not, the new seasonally extreme heat norm, that is a circumstance of in-place and enduring climate change in many U.S. states, will compel offices and businesses in the affected states, as well as households that can afford them, to adopt on-site solar electric power systems and on-site chargeable plug-in all-electric vehicles (that are tune-up and oil-change free, low-cost for maintenance and insurance, and for which one does not have to wait in a petro-station gas-pump line when one recharges at home, especially with a high-speed charger, or at one's driveway solar charging station, for those able to afford either of the latter) (that are tune-up and oil-change free, low-cost for maintenance and insurance, and for which one does not have to wait in a petro-station gas-pump line when one recharges at home, especially with a high-speed, or at one's driveway solar charging station, for those able to afford either of the latter) and plug-in hybrid vehicles, as economically practical beneficiary side products of their solar electric power systems, for workers and people generally therein to function comfortably and financially efficiently and have affordable and undisrupted electric power during the extreme heat season.
Investment in Solar Electric Power Goes Mainstream: Chevron Oil, Bank of America, Total Oil (France's largest oil company), General Electric Corp., Pacific Gas & Electric Company (P.G.&E.), Google, IKEA.
Interestingly, toward the bottom of the right margin on an online news article on the new plug-in electric Ford Focus, coming to market in 2011, with an option to also buy 2 rooftop solar panels to recharge the car's battery for up to a 1,000 miles monthly, a natural gas ad was posted picturing a bus accompanied by words in gist saying "cleaner and all American," whereas natural gas vehicles have been found to emit 30% more greenhouse-gas pollutants into the atmosphere than even plug-in electric-gasoline hybrid vehicles, determined to be more polluting than these and all-electric vehicles even were they to be charged by electricity generated by 100% coal, whereas, in fact, coal-fired power plants account for a plunging 44.5% of all electricity generation in the U.S., followed by an increasing number of relatively environmentally friendly natural gas power plants (where the NG is isolated from contact with the atmosphere and natural environment), 23.3% (NG & all other renewable sources of fuel energy account for 33.9% of electricity production). Natural gas is most clean burning when sequestered in power plants for generating electricity but not in vehicles (although it is less dirty, or cleaner, than gasoline itself). Also the maximum speed and range of natural gas vehicles is drastically less than those of the current crop of plug-in all-electric and hybrid vehicles and they require tuneups, oil changes and expensive, normal internal-combustion-engine maintenance.
