Halt that Scam! Book that Man!, By Order of Chief of the Green Police
Alert, All Points Bulletin:
I'm writing to share an issue of potential considerable concern with you. It seems to me that there may be cognitive infiltration of the green energy movement by perhaps the nuclear and fossil fuels industries to disparage and discredit particularly most viable solar and wind technology electricity-generating-competition. The same strategy has been used in past decades and the first decade of this century -- respectively, against the civil-rights, black-protest and antiwar Vietnam War movements (particularly the student organizations SNCC and SDS) and the Iraq antiwar movement. A most recent high-profile example of this kind of thing, exploiting sympathy in this instance rather than the typical purveying of disinformation and absolutist hypercritical zealotry, was the private-party conservative-politics operation successfully conducted against the once widely respected, socially progressive public-service nonprofit organization ACORN, publicly and politically embarrassed and cut off from most of its funding by donor patrons, including the federal government, as a consequence. Both educated, socially-polished, articulate and grunge, crude-image double dealers matriculate, earn the sympathy, respect and/or confidence of target organizations' leaders and/or memberships, and in the guise of righteous zealotry, indignation toward and hypercriticism of other targeted or falsified imperfection in others that they point out, they lead, sway or try to sway the organizations to behave in such a manner as to discredit and destroy themselves ideologically, with regard to public perception and their public appeal and support, or legally. I heard one such bright, polished and articulate person, Paul Hawken, CEO of OneSunSolar.org, a professional investor, environmental activist and author, with a duped but apparently sincere Methodist Sunday School teacher, author, environmentalist and activist, Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, on KQED radio 88.5 FM's Michael Krazny's Forum show on 09-08-2011 in expressing their appropriate protest of the proposed tars-sands oil Keystone XL 1,700-mile pipeline to go from Canada to Texas, turn to using the show to also summarily condemn solar technology, declaring it to be the most inefficient and dirtiest fuel-energy technology and concluding, in correct paraphrase, that it is “a failed technology with markets primarily (60%) in Germany and Italy,” but amending this conclusion by saying that because of Italy's troubled economy, Italy can’t continue to pursue its interest in solar. Apparently to justify having an organization with the name OneSunSolar while being a intemperate critic of solar technology, he was sure to say that in concept the limitless sun energy of photons into electrons was the perfect energy source but added that presently, given the most-polluting materials of all of which solar panels were made and given their indisposability or unrecyclability upon their disuse, solar energy technology was not ready. By implication, he sounds like a camouflaged advocate for nuclear and fossil-fuels energy by default, by suggestion that the alternatives to these are worse in meeting, or are not ready or are insufficient for meeting societal and market fuel-energy demands. His rhetoric comes at a time when Google, Apple Computer, P.G.&E., G.E., Chevron Oil, Total Oil of France, Bank of America, FaceBook, the U.S. Defense Department and Ikea are investing heavily in solar, and solar is proliferating sizably in or to California, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece (pending), Canada, China, India, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and in at least one Sub-Saharan African nation, Tanzania, among other domestic states and foreign nations. To witness a sample of universities across the U.S. and world engaged in serious work on solar technology, check out the DOE article 'U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 Set to Begin' at
Commercialization: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon ...
www1.eere.energy.gov › Commercialization › News. A caller to the show, the first to the best of my recall, right on cue, a shill to my mind, inquired to the effect "Are you saying that for solar we're barking up the wrong tree? Can you clarify and expand on what you said about solar?," which the fake green, charismatic, eloquent alpha guest speaker did. Go to the online audio archives for this show and hear it for yourself:
Bill McKibben and Paul Hawken
Bill McKibben and Paul Hawkenforum@kqed.org (KQED Public Radio)Author: KQED Public Radio
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
Author and climate activist Bill McKibben was among hundreds arrested at the White House recently at an environmental protest over a proposed Canada-U.S. oil pipeline. McKibben joins us in the studio -- along with veteran environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken -- to talk about approaches to tackling climate change.
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In the early afternoon of 09-09-2011 I listened to the KPFA Radio 94.1 FM show ‘Terra Verde explores the lifecycle impacts of solar energy, from raw materials extraction to disposal," on the pluses and minuses of solar technology by professionally much better informed guest speakers who pointed out that there are manufacturers of relatively clean solar panels (with few toxins) to quite dirty solar panels, and that no electronic technology, or maybe no technology, is toxin free. They suggested solar-panel manufacturers needed to be pressured by the market for solar products -- by vendors, contractors and consumers -- to uniformly produce clean or cleanest possible solar panels now, while the solar industry is in its infancy, to keep and make this technology clean and green in practice and image all the way:
Making solar truly clean and green - September 9, 2011 at 1:00 pm, Terra Verde explores the lifecycle impacts of solar energy, from raw materials extraction to disposal.
On 09-16-2011 this Hawken-McKibben pair was hosted on radio again, by the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, in a broadcast presentation and question-and-answer show on KQED Radio 88.5 FM at 8 p.m. This time Paul Hawken took the opportunity to make the categorical assertion that solar panels are made by China, an unchallenged demagogic and dishonest charge quashed by the fact that solar panels are also manufactured in the U.S. and in many locations outside of China. The purpose of such a canard can only be to invoke nationalistic prejudice toward a product falsely categorically claimed suggestively to be exclusively produced in a foreign economic competitor nation that is widely complained about in the U.S. to be overwhelming our nation with its products and undercutting our nation in the low cost of labor, by paying poverty wages, for producing the products, thereby under-pricing U.S. competitor products to the resentment of the U.S. production labor force: the strategy of stigmatization and demagogic prejudice for competitor product rejection, using finesse. If one can kill demand for a product, one can kill the market for the product and thus kill the product and industry -- in this case, kill the viable and growing competitor replacement for fossil and nuclear fuel energy, being the solar fuel-energy industry. If one can discourage investment in and thereby capitalization or sufficient capitalization of a product and its producer industry, one can simultaneously doubly kill or abort it. The adoption or use of the target’s identity to operate undercover to destroy the target is commonplace and standard operating procedure in the psyops politics of confusion and deception: hence, Paul Hawken’s attention-getting environmentalist organization name ‘One Sun Solar’ behind and from which to attack, demean and discredit categorically current solar technology. His primary focus in both broadcast shows was to speak about and against solar panels and technology, making unchallenged and wrong categorical (all encompassing) and overly broad statements adverse to solar panels and solar technology, while conceding that in concept and ultimately solar power could make for an or the ideal source of fuel energy for generating electricity. Proof that solar panels and technology are appreciably manufactured outside of China is the following:
Ten Top Solar Panel Manufacturers in the USA Listed at diysolarhomes.com
GreenBrilliance
Blue Square Energy
Suniva
Advent Solar
Innovalight
SunPower
Miasole
DayStar Technologies
ASE Americas, Inc.
Kyocera Solar
Sample of Other USA Solar Panel Manufacturers Listed at Alibaba.com
SUNRISCO Industries Inc.
NEXTEK Power Systems, Inc.
Solar Panel United Inc.
Green Capital Group International, LLC
UL Solar Inc.
WSL Solar
California Global Export
Worldwide Energy and Manufacturing USA, Inc.
Quantus Energy
Crinko
ITEK Co.
JPO Solar Solutions
Stockwell Enterprises
Prefer Solar
Solargy Systems Inc.
Everbright Solar
Solarize It Now
Franck
Power Production Management, Inc.
Solar Enertec Inc.
Solex Energies
Boost Inverters and Controllers
Hot Box Solar
Bing Technologies LLC
Auxin Solar
HighPoint Inc.
SunHome Newenergy Trading Co., Ltd.
Chicon Solar Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
Ca Solar
Jacobsen Lenticular Tool & Cylinder Engraving Tech Co. (Jaco Tech)
Sample of Global Solar Products Manufacturer Directories on Internet
With these kinds of information and research resources immediately available to everybody by internet search engines, why would Paul Hawken speak so ignorantly and cavalierly in wrongful contradiction to them? In this second radio show on KQED 88.5 FM, a purportedly noncommercial radio station with frequent Shell Oil and Chevron Oil sponsorship ads, Hawken refrains from calling solar panels and current solar technology a failed technology, an assertion he made about solar technology in a previous KQED show approximately a week prior, but otherwise repeats the other categorical negative talking points. By the way, PBS-KQED have been accused and admonished by credible and respected news and mass-media watch and review sources (like solon.com and abundant others) of broadcasting as documentaries what are really or strongly appear to be infomercials in disguise, possibly for pay. Listen to Paul Hawken again yourself in this second show, to verify my account of him, in his appearance as a co-guest speaker before the Commonwealth Club on 08-16-2011 at 8 p.m., by mouse clicking on the audio archive of this KQED 88.5 FM radio show:
Step 1, click on brown-colored link
Step 2, click on “media” caption near top of Commonwealth Club Website Page
Step 3, click on “audio” caption in left margin of media page
Step 4, click on “play now” of show listed below once it posts and listen – it has not posted yet
Civil Disobedience vs Working Within the System
The programs guests are Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest, and Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org. McKibben says the climate crisis is getting so severe that civil disobedience is justified to compel the federal government to confront the fossil fuel lobby. Hawken, who worked on Martin Luther King's famed march on Montgomery, is now helping develop new standards to rate corporate, social and environmental behavior. How do those approaches to change relate to each other? What types of corporations are positive change agents and what types are defenders of the status quo? Where do these two compelling authors agree and disagree?
Because Hawken was once associated with Martin Luther King does not negate his personal wrongful and prejudicial assertions about solar technology and does not confer upon him an unquestionable and unaccountable credential of absolute integrity, licensing him to make misrepresentations to be accepted as unchallengeable truth.
This refutation of his assertions brings into question his other “categorical” adverse talking points against the environmental cleanliness and efficiency of solar panels and current solar technology, which in paraphrase are that:
solar panels are made of coal product and other very toxic materials that combined are circa 5,000 times more toxic than CO2-emitting fossil fuels;
while they operate, solar panels emit gaseous toxins several thousands of times more toxic and polluting than those emitted by fossil fuels;
solar energy is the most inefficient fuel energy source (for generating electricity) in terms of units of energy returned per unit of energy expended to produce it. He says that fossil fuels have 100 units of energy returned for each unit of energy expended for their fuel-energy production compared to 3 to 5 units of energy returned on a unit of energy expended to produce solar energy. (If this is a fact, it would be more of a concern to solar electricity power plants [which it does not appear to be as these plants are proliferating in the U.S., parts of Europe and in Australia lately] and not retail consumers of rooftop solar panels [especially with the arrival of solar energy storage in molten salt], solar calculators, radios, street lamps and personal night lamps, cookers, water heaters, cell-phone and computer battery chargers, cars, airplanes, private car-battery charging stations, etc., which serve these customers perfectly well with, after the often modest and low and declining cost of the solar capture technology itself, a supply of unlimited, free sunlight and mere daylight, even moonlight for some solar devices, and artificial indoor light for some of these, on which to operate or charge for an indefinite number of many years. No other energy technology can do this.).
In response to the interviewer’s question as to whether he has any investments in solar, Hawken disclosed that he does not, and would not invest in solar. Numerous people listening to the standard talking points and this response from a seeming leading environmentalist would probably take them as product-avoidance ethics and investment advice.
The Lesson to Be Learned from Legitimate, Constructive Criticism:
On a professional basis, just, honest, constructive, medicinal criticism (warranted such criticism) as a form of instructive feedback about one’s professionalism and ethical standards, one’s product or one’s service that can lead to improvements in these should always be judiciously welcomed and evaluated for its merits. Coincidentally, in this regard, a rampage by villagers in China against Jinko Solar Holding, a photovoltaics solar-panel manufacturer in Haining, Zhejiang Province, a company accused of releasing toxins into the local river, was reported on and as occurring on 09-18-2011 by the Guardian, U.K. -- the article asserts that China controls 70% of the world market in the manufacture of solar panels. This event points out that evidentially there is a serious toxicity problem with and/or in the manufacture of at least some, or maybe many or all, solar panels made in China, but this does not indeed mean that there is a serious toxicity problem with or in the manufacture of all solar panels and solar technology manufactured by all solar panel and technology companies throughout the world, the U.S. or even in China. The lesson to be taken from this incident and Hawken’s sweeping generalizations is that the solar industry needs to establish an independent, expert clean-certified (environmentally acceptable and maximally-possible clean) rating service for solar panels and solar technology and tag-certify by ranking those that meet its standards. Clean-casing or composition for solar technology should be a feature of competition among solar technology manufacturing companies. In addition, the solar industry and local government building-permit offices need to establish clearance-center and interdiction controls over unscrupulous and/or unlicensed contractors and freelance, unlicensed laborers and handymen, like those chronically besmirching the traditional construction market, doing incomplete and deficient rooftop solar installation work and running off with consumers' money. Also, all on-site private solar and wind-turbine electrical systems need to include standardized, maybe multiple, shutoff mechanisms accessible by and for the protection and minimizing of dangers in disaster and fire situations to site occupants and firefighter, police and emergency-medical-technician first responders. Lastly, municipalities must make the permits process for solar-panel, wind-turbine and other clean-electricity-generation installation systems for homes and private establishments simple, minimal and fast, and permit licensing fees for these nominal for both households and establishments to spur their proliferation and attract home purchases and business and nonprofit entity startups and secure their long-term retention as well as to promote mass-scale general real estate improvements in their locales. Such permitting will, in significant part, make their environs community development and improvement prosperity-magnets. They must not set permit fees that in the least negatively tilt the cost-versus-benefits scale for the adoption of on-site, personal solar, wind-turbine or other clean-electricity generation systems on the side of cost to little or no financial saving gain or benefit to the potential installation purchaser or lessor, levying a purchase-discouraging and proliferation burden on these clean-electricity production systems.
The looming big scare for the fossil-fuels and nuclear energy industries is the coming to market, starting this year of 2011, of a lineup of plug-in all-electric and hybrid electric-gasoline-powered vehicles that can drive long distances and required local, work-related and shopping- and errand-related distances, driving on home and office electricity charges of their batteries and on infrequent fill-ups of their gas tanks, as applicable, at gas stations, eliminating and minimizing the need for fossil fuel energy and dependence on the utility companies power grid, when one’s home or facilities is/are supplied with on-site molten-salt storable solar or wind-turbine electricity. With recent applied advances in on-site and power-plant solar-fuel-energy storage (yes, solar electricity power plants and such with solar molten storage are cropping up in the U.S. and in major industrialized nations worldwide), along with wind-turbine and hydro fuel-energy storage, self-sufficient and power-plant solar-plus generated electricity is/are now poised with certainty to be able to displace and supplant particularly environmentally-hazardous coal and nuclear-power electricity generation and minimize the demand for vehicle gasoline -- not only are there plug-in chargeable electric vehicles as well as nascent solar aircraft and vehicles independent of fossil fuels for their powering but the starter of plug-in chargeable electric airplanes has joined these, as of October 4th of 2011, to the chagrin of the fossil-fuels and nuclear fuel-energy industries and their lobbyists broadcasters, politician whores and puppets, etc.:
Electric Plane Wows NASA | NBC Bay Area www.nbcbayarea.com/.../Electric-Plane-Wows-NASA-131038118.ht... – "Two years ago, the thought of flying 200 miles at 100 miles per hour in an electric aircraft was pure science fiction," (www.treehugger.com suggests this successful flight prototype is already, or is the forerunner of, a plug-in chargeable e-plane, NASA-Approved Electric Airplane Flies 200 Miles in 2 Hours ...
www.treehugger.com › Cars & Transportation). Note that the mainstream first of these news sources does not make clear that two individuals flew together in the said electric plane for 200 hundred miles at more than 100 miles per hour "at explicitly the electric-energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline," being at the fuel energy expense of a half a gallon of gasoline per individual for 200 miles. It won't be long before the Defense Department and the major airlines (as well as even electric automobile makers) adopt this technology, thankfully for the atmospheric and ecological health of our planet, as a side benefit, but for them to their maximized performance and cost efficiency!
(In an 10-23-2011, 10-p.m. radio broadcast interview on KQED 88.5 FM's program TechNation, renown economist and author Jeremy Rifkin disclosed that an electric-vehicle charging plate has been invented and is in use that is installed or mounted on the ground so far for electric buses to park over it and battery recharge, charging plates that can be installed or mounted at parking meters to charge EVs of all types, to supplement the growing public infrastructure of EV high-speed charges and those being privately installed for public use in early adopter Best Buy, Walmart and Walgreens parking lots.)
Both the nuclear and fossil-fuels fuel energy industries are on the defensive socially as never before, with the stark, publicly widespread experiences and witnessing of extreme weather events and the reality of climate change caused in major part by fossil-fuels CO2-emissions heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorbed by and heating the oceans, seas and hydrosphere in general, which in turn give rise to the extreme and radical weather events and climate change (not counting public displeasure with constant oil-industry oil spills and major leak problems and NG explosions and hydraulic-fracking water-table and community as well as ecological contamination and pollution); and with 3 nuclear reactor meltdowns of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plants in Japan (MSNBC.ms.com, 03-14-2011, articles.cnn.com, 06-06-2011), the 48 nuclear power plants found to be leaking radioactive tritium in the U.S. presently (Today.MSNBC, 06-21-2011) and close-call flood threats to 2 U.S. nuclear power plants (the Fort Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Power Plants in Nebraska, May of 2011, Thom Hartmann) and a drought-related wildfire close-call threat to another (the Los Alamos Nuclear Lab in New Mexico, in June 2011) as well as an explosion at the EDF Tricastin Power Plant in Drome, France, on July 4, 2011, 2 days after inspectors found 32 safety issues there (guardian.co.uk) and another explosion at the Marcoule Nuclear Plant near Avignon, France, on 09-12-2011 (Mother Jones).
Since the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disasters and the rethinking by major industrialized nations about nuclear-power-plant safety (and their renunciation of nuclear power plants), as well as closer public and governmental attention to scares and structural deficiencies with nuclear power plants and the unsolvable problem of its ever accumulating, dangerous, radioactive nuclear waste, the nuclear energy industry is in a state of panic and psychotic hysteria and lying and lashing out every which way in a fit to survive, no matter the hazard to anything and everyone else, at taxpayer disaster insurance and loan-repayment-default liability. As leaders of major industrial nations have announced their commitment to abandon nuclear electrical power and replace it with renewable fuel-energy sources to meet their energy needs, it should come as no surprise that such an investor and investment adviser as Paul Hawken is using his cachet as a high-profile environmentalist, as well as his public-speaking touring association with more highly regarded and credible environmentalist Bill McKibben, riding on his cachet, too, to most persuasively bad talk and denigrate state-of-arts solar technology now able to store and retrieve solar energy for on-demand electricity in and from molten salt, especially valuable, in conjunction with NG in hybrid NG-Solar, plus, power plants to supply 24/7, around-the-clock clean-made electricity:
“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 uses molten salt for storage :Solar Power Engineering, www.solarpowerengineering.com/.../arizona-uses-molten-salt-for-st... - www.solarpowerengineering.com results, Feb 7, 2011 – 150-MW solar project planned for Arizona will use molten salt for energy storage. Utility-scale developer SolarReserve has received its ...; Gemasolar Finishes Building Molten Salt – Backed Solar Power Plant ..., www.greenoptimistic.com › Solar Power, Jul 7, 2011 – Solar Reserve Receives 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 Solar System, CleanTechnica - 1 day ago ... a concentrated solar power system with a molten salt heat storage system. ... the idea is to heat the salt with solar energy, then transfer the energy …,” The Fast Lane to Clean Fuel Energy Independence: the lead & bridge fuel to total clean renewable fuel-energy dominance http://powerticspowerpolitics.blog.com/2011/04/21/fast-lane-to-clean-energy-independence/.
According to the Brookings Institute, clean, alternative-energy-industry jobs, numbering 2.7-million at recent count, already exceed those of the fossil fuels industry:
Sizing the Clean Economy: A Green Jobs ... - Brookings Institution
www.brookings.edu/reports/2011/0713_clean_economy.aspx. Do not be surprised if you have not read or heard about these facts in the bulk of the mainstream news or communications media, under concentrated big-money control that is vested -- by umbrella-corporate-ownership, investment-relations or major-advertiser-revenue influence -- in the lucrative status-quo fossil-fuels and nuclear energy industrial paradigm, and, if, when you do read or hear about alternative fuel energy, you also read or hear accompanying outdated, obsolete and ignorant editorial comments about its handicaps and insufficiency or that the fuel energy of solar and wind sources is unreliably intermittent and still cannot be stored for later retrieval on demand.
Now that plug-in electric vehicles can be charged on-site by rooftop solar panels, a solar charging station, or on-site wind turbines (businesses that can afford them can have their own on-site mini wind farms or wind-turbine parks), competitor detractors of plug-in electric vehicles can no longer criticize them for depending on filthy coal-sourced electrical power plants, where coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, is far more dirty than either of the other two fossil fuels, fossil oil and natural gas (NG). Their criticism had no true worth in the past, nevertheless, since coal-fired power plants in the past decade produced less than 50% of the nation’s electricity with the remainder, until recent years, produced by NG, nuclear, hydro and the renewables of wind, solar, geothermal and biofuels, in that order. Once the high-speed-charger 1/2-charge time for plug-in EVs is reduced from 10 minutes for the cira 160-mile-range BYD and from 20 minutes for cira the optional 150- versus 300-mile-range Tesla Models S EVs to 5 minutes, and hopefully such becomes the standard for all EVs, with their purchase prices matching those of gas vehicles, the automobile industry and retail car-lot dealerships will be buzzing wildly again with business. In recent years, NG, hydro and the renewables sources for electricity generation have gained market share and coal and nuclear sources have lost market share in demand and production, with coal‘s diminishing dominant market share having declined to 41.5% at the last energy market assessment by the Department of Energy, ended in year 2009. This criticism has been just anti-clean-tech, adversarial propaganda by the competitor, notorious-polluter fossil fuels industry and public-insurance and tax-trough leech, radioactive and mishap-coverup nuclear industry and their broadcast apologists, lobbyists, advocates and investment promoters. They have also tried to vilify the wind-turbine industry by exploiting the problem of this technology in being a source of bird deaths, where some birds fly into the turbine blades and kill themselves -- a problem the wind-turbine industry has undertaken to remedy. They have yelped out “They kill birds! They kill birds!,” as though they really care about this but don’t care about and deny the air, water, plant and animal pollution, illness, disease and death fossil fuels emission and nuclear accidents, hazardous waste and critical-dosage radiation cause, in addition to the environmental destruction wrecked in the extraction and mining of their ore. What they want is for solar, wind and the other renewable sources of fuel energy, and technologies that use them (plug-in electric and hybrid cars), to go away. In essence, they want the new kids on the block competitors, that threaten their economics and possibly their existence, to go away. So far, the Nissan Leaf, the first plug-in all electric vehicle by a major auto manufacturer to be sold in the U.S., has sold 15,000 of these cars in the U.S. as of 10-10-2011, an impressive sales number for a debut car according to historical sales data on Nissan, http://green.autoblog.com/2011/10/10/nissan-leaf-sales-eclipse-15-000/ (a report whose numbers are inconsistent with the following report); the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car, the first plug-in hybrid to be sold in the U.S., after GMC recently lifted a hold on the sale of Volts by its dealerships, experienced a year-to-date sales leap past 5,000 in October of 2011, Chevrolet Volt debuts in Arizona, Bizjournals.com - Cathy Luebke - 3 days ago Chevrolet Volt has arrived in Arizona, part of a second-wave introduction of General Motors ... Its 2011 sales total 8048 to date, with 849 sold in October. ..; and Tesla Motors has pre-sold its entire scheduled production of 2012 Model S plug-in all electric sedans, Tesla 'Sold Out' For 2012 | Fox News www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/10/31/tesla-sold-out-for-2012/5 days ago – Want a Model S next year? ... The Journal Editorial Report ... road until the middle of 2012, but the automaker's CEO says it is already 'sold out. ...They want our society to be technologically backward and stagnant in permanent dependence on and support of their old-fashion and dangerous technology and industries, and to keep that revenue and those profits, dividends and capital gains coming to them and their investors.
Now that plug-in electric vehicles can be charged on-site by rooftop solar panels, a solar charging station, or on-site wind turbines (businesses that can afford them can have their own on-site mini wind farms or wind-turbine parks), competitor detractors of plug-in electric vehicles can no longer criticize them for depending on filthy coal-sourced electrical power plants, where coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, is far more dirty than either of the other two fossil fuels, fossil oil and natural gas (NG). Their criticism had no true worth in the past, nevertheless, since coal-fired power plants in the past decade produced less than 50% of the nation’s electricity with the remainder, until recent years, produced by NG, nuclear, hydro and the renewables of wind, solar, geothermal and biofuels, in that order. Once the high-speed-charger 1/2-charge time for plug-in EVs is reduced from 10 minutes for the cira 160-mile-range BYD and from 20 minutes for cira the optional 150- versus 300-mile-range Tesla Models S EVs to 5 minutes, and hopefully such becomes the standard for all EVs, with their purchase prices matching those of gas vehicles, the automobile industry and retail car-lot dealerships will be buzzing wildly again with business. In recent years, NG, hydro and the renewables sources for electricity generation have gained market share and coal and nuclear sources have lost market share in demand and production, with coal‘s diminishing dominant market share having declined to 41.5% at the last energy market assessment by the Department of Energy, ended in year 2009. This criticism has been just anti-clean-tech, adversarial propaganda by the competitor, notorious-polluter fossil fuels industry and public-insurance and tax-trough leech, radioactive and mishap-coverup nuclear industry and their broadcast apologists, lobbyists, advocates and investment promoters. They have also tried to vilify the wind-turbine industry by exploiting the problem of this technology in being a source of bird deaths, where some birds fly into the turbine blades and kill themselves -- a problem the wind-turbine industry has undertaken to remedy. They have yelped out “They kill birds! They kill birds!,” as though they really care about this but don’t care about and deny the air, water, plant and animal pollution, illness, disease and death fossil fuels emission and nuclear accidents, hazardous waste and critical-dosage radiation cause, in addition to the environmental destruction wrecked in the extraction and mining of their ore. What they want is for solar, wind and the other renewable sources of fuel energy, and technologies that use them (plug-in electric and hybrid cars), to go away. In essence, they want the new kids on the block competitors, that threaten their economics and possibly their existence, to go away. So far, the Nissan Leaf, the first plug-in all electric vehicle by a major auto manufacturer to be sold in the U.S., has sold 15,000 of these cars in the U.S. as of 10-10-2011, an impressive sales number for a debut car according to historical sales data on Nissan, http://green.autoblog.com/2011/10/10/nissan-leaf-sales-eclipse-15-000/ (a report whose numbers are inconsistent with the following report); the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car, the first plug-in hybrid to be sold in the U.S., after GMC recently lifted a hold on the sale of Volts by its dealerships, experienced a year-to-date sales leap past 5,000 in October of 2011, Chevrolet Volt debuts in Arizona, Bizjournals.com - Cathy Luebke - 3 days ago Chevrolet Volt has arrived in Arizona, part of a second-wave introduction of General Motors ... Its 2011 sales total 8048 to date, with 849 sold in October. ..; and Tesla Motors has pre-sold its entire scheduled production of 2012 Model S plug-in all electric sedans, Tesla 'Sold Out' For 2012 | Fox News www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/10/31/tesla-sold-out-for-2012/5 days ago – Want a Model S next year? ... The Journal Editorial Report ... road until the middle of 2012, but the automaker's CEO says it is already 'sold out. ...They want our society to be technologically backward and stagnant in permanent dependence on and support of their old-fashion and dangerous technology and industries, and to keep that revenue and those profits, dividends and capital gains coming to them and their investors.
KGO News-Talk Radio 810 AM has each a weekend nuclear-engineering professor and an investment market analyst and adviser who evangelize for “a nuclear Manhattan program” of the mass construction of nuclear power plants across the U.S., at taxpayer calamity and general insurance and loan guarantee (privatization of profit and socialization of liability and risk) as well as for replacing the federal nationwide fleet of vehicles with natural-gas powered cars (more accurately viewed as “putt-putt, nasty-butt stinky fart car,” giving off 30% more CO2 emissions than simple electric-gasoline hybrid vehicles and dirtier than either plug-in all-electric or hybrid vehicles, if their batteries were charged by 100% coal-sourced electricity, according to studies, which is not the case, and whose driving range is less than mid-range and above new plug-in all-electric and all hybrid vehicles and having a fueling time far greater than public and home fast-charger times for these), to the exclusion of even plug-in all-electric vehicles (which entail neither oil changes nor tune ups, no smog-control test and certification, require minimal maintenance, cost the least of all vehicles to insure and are emancipated from creeping [of the average] and fluctuating fossil-fuels, especially gasoline, prices) and hybrid vehicles; however, from a practical standpoint, NG, the least dirty fossil fuel, is desirable and necessary for supplying the necessary fuel energy safely and cleanly in power plants in combination with renewable energy sources to supplant most dangerous coal, fossil oil and nuclear sources and a plug-in hybrid electric-NG vehicle, if created, would be a cleaner-running vehicle than a hybrid-gasoline vehicle of any kind. They also advocate for drilling for oil and NG in all wildlife preserves protected from industry and commercial or human development, although the oil from all of these, on their own, without foreign oil, could meet the U.S. oil demand for no more than 7 years (as of 2008) at the current rate of oil consumptions by the U.S.; however, the profits and returns to investors from this totality oil drilling and extraction would be possibly in the hundreds of billions of dollars in total, and many times more if the U.S. transportation economy remains dependent on fossil oil until it is essentially depleted. They ignore or minimize the importance of global warming and climate change and the connection of these to atmospheric heat-trapping greenhouse gases from industrial and vehicle fossil-fuels pollution emissions and the dangers and time and financial burdens in the construction of nuclear power plants. The professor has even said that climate change has extended the European planting and/or harvesting season, and asked “Isn’t that a good thing?,” paying no mind to the unprecedented heat waves, droughts, wildfires, tropical storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, floods, dry storms, snow storms, deep freezes, etc., striking the U.S. and variously elsewhere throughout the world. His response to BP Oil’s 2010 Deepwater-Horizon mammoth, months-long disastrous, accidental man-made oil geyser and resultant oil flood of the Gulf of Mexico was to the effect that “Oil naturally oozes (seeps) up from oceans floors and it regularly washes up on beaches as tar balls (where in fact it may ooze up in miniscule amounts relative to any ocean’s or sea’s water volume and not in extensive, concentrated and venue-saturation amounts poisoning, sickening, incapacitating and killing en masse marine life and water fowl and blanketing marine surfaces and beaches with oil-slick blight, all together destroying human marine-related livelihoods, and undermining scenic and family beach enjoyment and coastal hotel-and-restaurant-industry patronage and financial stability).” The professor refers derisively to environmentalists as “greenies” and “eco frauds.” The hidden agenda of his gospel of stay the course with fossil fuels and nuclear power plants becomes clear when he says that cars of the proposed federal fleet of all NG putt-putt, nasty-butt stinky fart cars could easily have a switch on them for them to also operate on gasoline. Their professed rationale for the changing of the federal vehicle fleet over to exclusively NG vehicles is that this would jump start and prop up the market for NG (of which the U.S. is estimated to have enough NG to supply all domestic energy needs for at least 100 years, a shortsighted and short-term-thinking frame of mind, and stop-gap fuel-energy supply strategy, not in the long-term interest of our fuel-energy economy and posterity ) and NG vehicles and the domestic transportation market to fuel energy independence from foreign oil and immediately frighten the foreign oil producer nations into dramatically lowering the price of their oil, from which gasoline is made. However, the decisive domestic effect of this implementation would be for it establish a federal monopoly market niche for all-around inferior NG vehicles to artificially promote and support preservation of the atmospherically and environmentally dirty and hazardous fossil-fuels automotive and status-quo, traditional fossil-fuels and nuclear power-plant industries to the disadvantage of the nascent but superior plug-in all-electric and hybrid automobiles and clean, unlimited alternative, renewable fuel-energy-sources industries, shutting them out of the federal government market, the largest fleet purchaser of automobiles, and perhaps leading to their embargo by conservative-technologist and industry controlled state governments also giving preference to problematic traditional dirty fossil-fuels technology, not based on competitive performance and environmental friendliness criteria and merit. (The nuclear-engineering professor was relieved of his job, as were other high-profile KGO talk-show hosts and staff, and the investment adviser was fittingly shifted to KGO's substantially right-wing oriented sister radio station KSFO 560 AM in December of 2011 following the purchase of these radio stations by their new owner Cumulus Media.).
Though NG is the least dirty of the fossil fuels, nevertheless it is critically dirty and a serious source of atmospheric polluting greenhouse gases unless it is sequestered and cleanly burned and/or converted in NG power plants for generating electricity, electricity that is safely and cleanly distributed to homes, offices and facilities from NG electrical power plants -- only NG that is secured without hydraulic fracking should be used for this or for any purpose. This is a far superior means of electrical power generation, by any standard, than by means of coal and nuclear power plants, which NG power plants can supplant and are supplanting. The domestic supply of NG utilized primarily in this way could last for two centuries or more, especially if used in hybrid NG and renewable-energy-sources power plants. Using NG primarily for generating distributed electricity in power plants also minimizes and could eliminate entirely the poisoning and explosion dangers of faulty, as well as the aging and natural-forces degradation of, vapor-gas delivery lines leading to vapor NG user and dispenser sites. The power people in the fossil-fuels industry, and their knowledgeable representatives, know all of this but this is not their advocacy. Why?
Though NG is the least dirty of the fossil fuels, nevertheless it is critically dirty and a serious source of atmospheric polluting greenhouse gases unless it is sequestered and cleanly burned and/or converted in NG power plants for generating electricity, electricity that is safely and cleanly distributed to homes, offices and facilities from NG electrical power plants -- only NG that is secured without hydraulic fracking should be used for this or for any purpose. This is a far superior means of electrical power generation, by any standard, than by means of coal and nuclear power plants, which NG power plants can supplant and are supplanting. The domestic supply of NG utilized primarily in this way could last for two centuries or more, especially if used in hybrid NG and renewable-energy-sources power plants. Using NG primarily for generating distributed electricity in power plants also minimizes and could eliminate entirely the poisoning and explosion dangers of faulty, as well as the aging and natural-forces degradation of, vapor-gas delivery lines leading to vapor NG user and dispenser sites. The power people in the fossil-fuels industry, and their knowledgeable representatives, know all of this but this is not their advocacy. Why?
Long before the natural terrestrial and marine stores of NG are exhausted, planetary bi-solar 24/7, around-the-clock smart-grid inter-continentally and trans-regionally redundantly power-cable linked, pooled and shared solar and wind-turbine generated, cheapest-ever and infinite, electricity will be in place, supplemented by local hydro, geothermal, municipal-sewage-plant biodigester conversion of endlessly replenished human waste to power-plant sequestered methane gas for further clean conversion to distributable electricity, with the refuge from this latter process making for agricultural fertilizer. By such time, the technology may also be in operation for extracting and recycling methane and the other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and oceans and seas, to usable power plant gases for the sequestered, clean generation of distributable power-plant electricity. Per a most recent information update on an advance in solar technology, pervasive, simple around-the-clock 24/7 on-site and utility-company solar electricity generation and supply may be available a lot sooner than previously expected in light of a most recent breakthrough new technology arrival for dramatically augmenting the time span for solar electricity generation or making it standalone, reported publicly on 02-29-2012, being night-time solar cell technology that generates electricity in the dark, developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, especially when used in conjunction with molten-salt solar energy storage, http://www.greenwala.com/channels/green-technology/blog/13103-Scientists-Develop-Affordable-…. Also, cat-tail wind turbines that do not endanger birds and bats are here, Wind Power Without the Blades: Big Pics : Discovery News news.discovery.com › Tech News.
Charges by partisans of the fossil-fuels industry of the toxic composition of solar panels are an old, all-but-abandoned competition-attack talking point by this industry. Big broadcast media licensed near-monopoly control of the publicly-owned broadcast airwaves -- freed from the once federal fairness doctrine of allocating equal broadcast time for the legitimate and fair expression of independent contrasting political and civic viewpoints -- has created a largely solo-view, bullhorn-microphone echo chamber across the vast majority of broadcast venues and markets to advance political and financial special interests and denigrate and politically and socially destroy their challengers and competitors. The weekend nuclear-power-plant and fossil-fuels advocate and evangelist professor-of-nuclear-engineering talk show host on KGO 810 AM night-time radio exploits this privileged, one-sided access to the public by routinely emphatically soliciting listeners to visit his advocacy website to send copies of his letter/s, possibly a petition or petitions also, calling for the federal government's purchase and patronage of natural-gas vehicles exclusively, to the exclusion of EVs and hybrid vehicles, for its vehicle fleets in making new vehicle purchases to replace its existing fleets and possibly for it to implement his nuclear power plant vision for the U.S., to the Obama administration, if not also to their members of Congress. To the best of my recall, I believe I last heard the claim on this show that more that 100,000 of the letters have been sent so far to the White House alone. Should broadcast-media talk show hosts, who have privileged instantaneous access to millions of viewers and listeners, be given privileged consideration, over voices and viewpoints not having such access, as a consequence of the reach and impact of their privileged broadcaster lobbyist influence, in driving and determining political or government policy?
If it were not for Paul Hawken accompanying Bill McKibben on the public speaking and interview circuit, in truth, there would no open-minded, general listening audience for Paul Hawken’s individual equivocal but anti-solar technology message. The presence of Bill McKibben gives Paul Hawken the open door to a psychologically unguarded and receptive general, and, particularly, clean-tech, green-tech supporter audience for him to deliver his at-root, adversarial message on solar technology. If I were the CEO and chairman of Exxon-Mobil Oil Corp. I would be delighted in hearing Paul Hawken on the speaker circuit and regard him as not any kind of threat to my business operations. Rather, I would view Hawken as an ally, if not a fortuitous lobbyist, for my industry, with a softening effect on McKibben‘s criticism of my industry. McKibben is the obvious headline, audience-drawing speaker between the two and is an unmitigated critic of the dirty fossil fuels industry and pro fossil-fuels politics and government policy. These two speakers are easy to identify in listening to them on the radio by their vocal styles. Hawken has the softer, cultivated, more intimate voice; McKibben has the more assertive, firmer voice. They overlap in expressing concern about existent global warming, extreme weather events and climate change, and the fallout effects of these on the environment in general, the ecology and humanity. We can expect that fossil and nuclear fuel-energy-industry partisans will seize on Paul Hawken’s categorical smear and put down of solar panels and technology, referring to him as a leading environmentalist incriminating this technology as worse than fossil and nuclear sources of fuel energy. When his attacks on solar technology are matched with fact and information from neutral, expert voices and other sources on solar technology, so far he clearly comes across as an adversarial propagandist against solar.
Quite busily, since the shutdown and pending bankruptcy filing of the Fremont, CA unique cylindrical-solar-panel company Solyndra Inc. (which had received a $527,000,000.00 or $535,000,000.00 federally guaranteed loan, in installments, in recent years -- both amounts reported in the mainstream news media) in September of this year 2011, critics and adversaries of the solar industry are categorically casting aspersions on the whole of the solar industry by making reference to Solyndra as emblematic of the solar industry and calling for the elimination of government loan guarantees and tax incentives in support of the the growth of the solar industry, if not also for the wind and other alternative-fuels fuel-energy industries -- loans guarantees and tax incentives that have supported the problematic nuclear industry from its inception to date (institutionalized corporate welfare), and tax incentives and public-lands drilling and fuels-extraction privileges, at minimal and no benefit to the taxpayer public, of the fossil fuels industries that they have had for more than a century, without interruption to date (institutionalized corporate welfare). They do not impugn the whole of the recently truly pervasively troubled domestic automobile, Wall Street brokerage and banking industries for the failures, respectively, of most, some and many companies within these industries and do not call for government refusal to rescue some of these -- something not being requested by the the solar and renewable fuel-energy industries -- and refusal to insure depositor bank accounts (inclusive of their own). Nor do they say that because once each Macy's and K-Mart filed for and went into bankruptcy that the whole of the department store industry has failed. Nor do they generalize the U.S. oil industry as being an economically failed industry because it has contracted from numerous oil companies in the 1960s to a very few presently (Exxon-Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips Corp., Chevron Corp.).
As regards the highly efficient, unique solar-capture cylinder technology of Solyndra, it and its patent will be sold off to a competitor, or possibly be made public domain technology to all competitors and interested parties, in Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy court, in the court's sell off and/or other disposal of Solyndra's assets, likely resulting in a better deployment of its valuable technology for the solar industry, to the greater benefit of the solar-electrical-systems consumer market.
Why Personal Solar and Wind-turbine Electricity Generation Technologies Are Here to Stay
1. Solar and wind energy are ubiquitous and inexhaustible. Now that their energy can be stored in molten-salt and hydrogen sources, their energy can be concurrently distributed to presently generate electricity for immediate use and stored for later on-demand electricity generation and use when there is no local sunlight (for photovoltaic solar capture) or heat (for thermal-voltaic solar capture) and/or no wind current. With readily-available simple solar and wind technology that can be privately owned or leased for homeowner, rental, office, school, facility and farm on-site safe electricity generation, individuals and entities can now produce their own cheap, unlimited and uninterruptible off-the-grid personal, private electricity (comparable as an industrial and ownership paradigm to their predecessor the personal computer, innovated and made possible by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of garage-business start-up Apple Computer and Bill Gates and Paul Allen of start-up Microsoft Corp. in the 1970s, for anyone), has now come the petite, personal electric power grid, constituted of on-site electrical-system-integrated, safe on-site rooftop, plus, solar panels and on-site wind-turbines, for supplying electricity to and powering lighting, appliances, hard-wired and plug-in electronics and electric vehicles and such fleets. Gradually, anyone and any establishment that can use and afford a petite, personal on-site solar and/or wind-turbine electrical grid will purchase one, including anti-environmentalist, free-market, free-for-all-market, mansion- and palace-dwelling, ruthless financial Libertarians and wealthy fossil-fuels-companies investors and executives and nuclear-power-plant aficionados -- the Papal Vatican city-state is a solarization leader and model for other religious institutions and buildings and for royals and corporate campuses. Any viable, new industry undergoes a growth process consisting of an incubation or latency phase, an early adopter phase, an general adopter phase and a stride phase. The renewable alternative energies industry is in its transitional incubation and early adopter phase.
2. Once a self-empowering and liberating product, that is a benefit to buyers and even modestly profitable to producers and sellers (a solvent business can be made of it and a living can be made on it), becomes rooted (is popular or in steady demand and supply), it will not go way unless it is outlawed.
3. They are highly affordable and becoming more so.
4. Solar and wind-turbine electricity generation technologies for personal and power-plant ownership already have multiple statewide committed, devoted markets of household, business, nonprofit establishment and local government adopters. Buffer-zone protected, fortressed military bases, also early adopters, supplied with a combination of their own on-site geothermal, and concurrently storable and immediately distributable PV and thermal solar, wind-turbine and biomass-biodigester sourced electricity, would be maximally energy self sufficient and continuously operational, and thereby minimally vulnerable, wherever they are located in the world. Once alternative renewable fuel energy sources displace fossil fuels and nuclear energy as the dominant industrial fuel sources, relevant immoral corporate power and politicians will have far less incentive to misuse the armed forces for imperial fossil and nuclear resource grab-and-control wars and then military bases can be turned into U.S. good-will diplomacy power plants and hubs, as well as international peace-keeper bases, serving the energy and peace needs of troubled host nations and people.
Energy Matters published an article on 10-25-2011 titled 'Solar Power's ROI Higher Than Other Renewable Energy Sources' -- ROI means return on investment -- citing "Global Solar Inverter Markets, released by SBI, states the payback for a typical solar PV-based project has reduced from 7-10 years to 3-5 years currently." (Both solar and wind-turbine electricity systems are guaranteed for 25 to 30 years, so they have a lot, possibly decades, of guaranteed free electricity life after they are paid off.), http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=1837.
For a simple-to-grasp, clear, brief, thorough and pleasurable education on the beneficial personal and societal economics and wise national security politics of solar energy systems and electric transportation (including electric bullet trains), and, as possible, the pairing or wedding of these, and more, read the commentary titled 'PV+EV = A Match Made in Heaven,' by Jason Jungreis, of San Francisco, CA, a clean technology attorney, by mouse clicking on http://www.solarfeeds.com/pv-ev-a-match-made-in-heaven/.
Miscellaneous Major News on Solar Energy in October & November of 2011
Article on Gizmodo titled 'World's First Solar Plant to Generate Electricity Even at Night,' dated 10-12-2011, reporting that Gemasolar heliostatic power plant in Spain is operational and able to run day and night -- for 15 consecutive hours of darkness via retrievable solar energy storage in molten salt:
Article on eSolar Energy News titled 'Orbiting Solar Plants within 30 Years?,' dated 11-14-2011: http://www.esolarenergynews.com/2011/11/orbiting-solar-power-plants-within-30.html.
Special Good News on Wind? Click on and read the good news at
http://www.environmental-finance.com/news/view/2111, an Environmental Finance article, dated 11-1o-2011, titled 'Onshore wind farms seen cost-competitive by 2016' (by then a cheaper source of electrical power generation than the currently cheapest fossil-fuels source, natural gas in NG-fired power plants displacing coal-fired power plants and rendering nuclear power plants uncompetitive and unnecessary).
Concluding Remarks
Use your wherewithal to unmask, combat and junk cognitive-dissonance saboteur-infiltrator, duplicitous double dealers in the green energy market and advocacy movement. They are there and are often smart and suave. The fact is that although major solar-fuel energy technology (rooftop panels, power plants and hybrid NG-solar electricity-generating power plants) hold approximately 1% of the fuel-energy market in the U.S., as determined by the Department of Energy in its 2009 release of statistics on market share among the electricity-generation raw fuel sources, nonetheless solar was/is exponentially the fastest growing source of electrical energy generation, with 2009 being the most recent year as of today of assessment of the fuel-energy producers market by the DOE, to the best of my knowledge and research -- meaning that solar has the greatest consumer demand and market-share growth potential indefinitely among the other fuel-energy sources for generating electricity. It's boom time for solar for a long, long, l o n g time! However, as within any industrial or business sector of the economy, there will always be individual company failures, mismanagement and corruption as well as general shake outs in competition among solar energy companies, for rooftop and power-plant utility companies, as will be the case for the other alternative renewable energy companies.
As regards this overall matter, the author of this writing repudiates the fossil-fuels expansionist drill-baby-drill, ravage, pollute, poison, spill, blight and kill national-fuel-energy agenda of primacy-of-profits 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and rejects his candidacy and strategy of opacity regarding the public disclosure of his financial and tax, with emphasis on “income tax,” paying integrity and character in publicly vetting, as a presidential candidate, the status of his publicly accountable and verifiable ethical fitness to occupy the highest public office in the nation, without his insistence that the public rely on and trust his self-serving mere words and uncorroborated assurances of financial and tax-paying uprightness. All federal civil servants and members of the armed forces are subjected to an agency or FBI character background check or investigation and all proposed presidential cabinet secretary appointees are subject to Congressional challenge and confirmation as well as an FBI background check. Traditionally in modern times all other presidential and vice-presidential candidates have made extensive public disclosures of their income-tax and financial background — incidentally, in separate property marriages, in which a non-candidate spouse for political office may have entered the marriage with substantial personal assets or an inherited fortune, the political-office candidate spouse has no right to or involvement with those assets by law so long as those assets remain separate property and disclosure of that spouse’s personal separate assets and related financial affairs may be a liable trespass against the privacy of that spouse and a liable basis for divorce of the offending spouse. Certainly mega-millionaire scion Mitt Romney knows this when he facetiously cites former presidential candidate U.S. Senator John Kerry, D-Mass (who promptly made a thorough public financial and income-tax disclosure on himself during his candidacy), as having not made a public financial and tax disclosure on his wife, the heir to a large fortune before his marriage to her, and dishonestly makes reference to this appropriate nondisclosure (a disclosure John Kerry would have had no legal right to make) as a justification and excuse for making a peek-a-boo minimal, scant and untimely (in effect “I’ll reveal the other financial and tax tidbit on myself after the election.”) disclosure of his own financial and income-tax filing and paying background and history. The same legal situation applies to U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Nev., and his presidential bid in 2008 when made a thorough public financial & tax disclosure on himself but not on his premaritally independently rich, mega-millionaire heiress wife, another example of financial and tax nondisclosure on a wife by a presidential candidate Romney cites as a justification and excuse for his not making a full or extensive financial and tax disclosure on himself. Apparently Romney is obstructing full or extensive disclosure on himself because he is embarrassed and has something disturbing to hide and feels the harm to himself from tiny or nondisclosure is tolerable in comparison to the devastation a full or extensive disclosure might precipitate. It is suspect when he says in effect “I have paid lots of taxes” and avoids the term “income taxes” — he seems to be fudging with the use of this hedge language. Romney is of dubious financial and income-tax paying and filing character until there is certified documented revelation to the contrary, which may, however, result in a finding of disreputable character.
http://www.environmental-finance.com/news/view/2111, an Environmental Finance article, dated 11-1o-2011, titled 'Onshore wind farms seen cost-competitive by 2016' (by then a cheaper source of electrical power generation than the currently cheapest fossil-fuels source, natural gas in NG-fired power plants displacing coal-fired power plants and rendering nuclear power plants uncompetitive and unnecessary).
Concluding Remarks
As regards this overall matter, the author of this writing repudiates the fossil-fuels expansionist drill-baby-drill, ravage, pollute, poison, spill, blight and kill national-fuel-energy agenda of primacy-of-profits 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and rejects his candidacy and strategy of opacity regarding the public disclosure of his financial and tax, with emphasis on “income tax,” paying integrity and character in publicly vetting, as a presidential candidate, the status of his publicly accountable and verifiable ethical fitness to occupy the highest public office in the nation, without his insistence that the public rely on and trust his self-serving mere words and uncorroborated assurances of financial and tax-paying uprightness. All federal civil servants and members of the armed forces are subjected to an agency or FBI character background check or investigation and all proposed presidential cabinet secretary appointees are subject to Congressional challenge and confirmation as well as an FBI background check. Traditionally in modern times all other presidential and vice-presidential candidates have made extensive public disclosures of their income-tax and financial background — incidentally, in separate property marriages, in which a non-candidate spouse for political office may have entered the marriage with substantial personal assets or an inherited fortune, the political-office candidate spouse has no right to or involvement with those assets by law so long as those assets remain separate property and disclosure of that spouse’s personal separate assets and related financial affairs may be a liable trespass against the privacy of that spouse and a liable basis for divorce of the offending spouse. Certainly mega-millionaire scion Mitt Romney knows this when he facetiously cites former presidential candidate U.S. Senator John Kerry, D-Mass (who promptly made a thorough public financial and income-tax disclosure on himself during his candidacy), as having not made a public financial and tax disclosure on his wife, the heir to a large fortune before his marriage to her, and dishonestly makes reference to this appropriate nondisclosure (a disclosure John Kerry would have had no legal right to make) as a justification and excuse for making a peek-a-boo minimal, scant and untimely (in effect “I’ll reveal the other financial and tax tidbit on myself after the election.”) disclosure of his own financial and income-tax filing and paying background and history. The same legal situation applies to U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Nev., and his presidential bid in 2008 when made a thorough public financial & tax disclosure on himself but not on his premaritally independently rich, mega-millionaire heiress wife, another example of financial and tax nondisclosure on a wife by a presidential candidate Romney cites as a justification and excuse for his not making a full or extensive financial and tax disclosure on himself. Apparently Romney is obstructing full or extensive disclosure on himself because he is embarrassed and has something disturbing to hide and feels the harm to himself from tiny or nondisclosure is tolerable in comparison to the devastation a full or extensive disclosure might precipitate. It is suspect when he says in effect “I have paid lots of taxes” and avoids the term “income taxes” — he seems to be fudging with the use of this hedge language. Romney is of dubious financial and income-tax paying and filing character until there is certified documented revelation to the contrary, which may, however, result in a finding of disreputable character.
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world-africa-16203507, something I added to my blog promoting a similar but bigger idea, The Fast Lane to Clean Fuel Energy Independence: the lead & bridge fuel to total clean renewable fuel-energy dominance http://Folks, check out this tweet feed titled 'Rwanda's Poo-Powered Prisons' by BBC news, with a news video link at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
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