Environmentalist Brutally Assaults Solar Technology

Halt That Scam! Charge that Man!, By Order of Chief of the Green Police

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 electrical-sourced energy 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 organization SCNC and SDS) 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 an manner as to self-discredit and self-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, environmental 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 that it is “a failed technology with markets primarily 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. He was sure to say that in concept the limitless sun energy of photons into electrons was the perfect energy source but add 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, P.G.&E., G.E., Chevron Oil, Total Oil of France, Bank of America, the U.S. Defense Department and Ikea are investing heavily in solar, and solar is proliferating sizably in California, Arizona, Nevada, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, China, India, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and in at least one Sub-Saharan African nation, Tanzania, among other domestic states and foreign nations. 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:

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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 1:00pm,Terra Verde explores the lifecycle impacts of solar energy, from raw materials extraction to disposal.

On 09-16-2011 this 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 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, 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 it could make for an or the ideal source of fuel energy for generating electricity. Proof that solar panels and technology are substantially 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 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

www.enf.cn/

www.greenindustryguide.com/solar

www.energysourceguides.com

With these kinds of information and research resources immediately available everyone 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, with frequent Shell Oil and Chevron Oil sponsorship ads, Hawken refrains from calling solar panels and current solar technology a failed technology, assertions he made about solar technology in a previous KQED show approximately a week prior, but otherwise repeats the other categorical negative talking points. KQED was caught and admonished some years ago for broadcasting as documentaries of what were really infomercials for ad sponsors, possibly paying for the documentary-infomercials. Listen to him yourself, to verify my account, 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 blue-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

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 Kings 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?

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 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, private car-battery charging stations, etc., which serve these customers perfectly well with, apart from the cost of the solar capture technology itself, a supply of unlimited, free sunlight and mere daylight, and artificial indoor light for some of these, on which to operate or charge.).

In response to an 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 occurring on 09-18-201l by the Guardian, U.K. 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.

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 and wind-turbine electricity. With recent applied advances in on-site and power-plant solar-fuel-energy storage, along with wind-turbine and hydro fuel-energy storage, self-sufficient and power-plant solar-plus generated electricity is 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. Both nuclear and fossil-fuels fuel energy is 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-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; 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 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 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 a 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 usemolten 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 – SolarReserve 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 saltheat storagesystem. ... the idea is to heat the salt with solar energy, then transfer theenergy …”

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 the other two fossil fuels 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. 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 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. 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 FM has each a weekend nuclear-engineering professor and an investment market analyst and adviser who evangelize for “a nuclear Manhattan program” for the mass construction of nuclear power plants across the U.S., at taxpayer 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, require minimal maintenance and cost the least of all vehicles to insure) and hybrid vehicles -- 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 renewal energy sources to supplant most dangerous coal, fossil oil and nuclear sources and a plug-in hybrid electric-NG, 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 5 years at the current rate of oil consumptions by the U.S.; however, the profits and returns to investors would be possibly in the hundreds of billions of dollars in total if the U.S. transportation economy remained oil dependent. They minimize the importance of global warming and climate change and their connection 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 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 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 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.

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 in NG power plants for generating electricity, electricity that is safely and cleanly distributed to homes, offices and facilities from NG electrical power plants. This is a far more 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. They know all of this but this in not their advocacy. Why?

Charges by partisans of the fossil-fuels industry of the toxic composition of that solar panels

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 audience for his at-root, adversarial message to solar technology. If I were the CEO and chairman of EXXON Oil Corp. I would be delighted in hearing Paul Hawken on the speaker circuit and as not any kind of threat to my operation. 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 speaker 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 their fallout effects on the environment, 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.

Use you 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% or the fuel-energy market in the U.S., as determined by the Department of Energy in 2009 release of statistics on market share among the electricity-generation raw fuel sources, it was exponentially the fastest growing source, being the most recent year as of today, 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 electricity generation sources. Its boom time for solar for a long, long time.

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Making the Best of a Bad Situation in Extreme Heat States

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.

Goodbye & Good Riddance to Dirty Fossil Fuels Imperialism

Cosmic War on Earth for the Killing of the Rising Solar, Wind & Other Renewable Energy Electric Industries & the 2nd Killing of the Electric Car -- Solar Energy is Star Energy

A futile war doomed to abysmal failure

Let the drill-baby-drill, spill-pollute-and-kill, Neanderthals stuck on stupid stay there and sink in their fossil-fuels tar pit of outdated technology, as the new technology of starlight power rises and resplendently shines, indeed: Solar Power.

Earth: A Natural Bi-Solar Cyclically Rotating Planet for Around-the-Clock Inter-Continental Solar-Generated Electrical Energy Exchange, Forever, Via Redundantly Numerous Below-Ocean-and-Sea-Floor Electricity Transmission Cables.

Solar Fuel Energy for Everything: The next step up and forward in the advancement of human civilization with its raw fuel self supplied directly from clean sunlight or mere daylight and providing thoroughly clean on-site self-generated and self-distributed electricity, requiring no infrastructure, other than its on-site casing and wiring to the electrical grid, no supplier or supplies from the mining of or extraction from the environment, no chemicals or chemistry, per se, and involving no risk or damage to the environment, but always improving in efficiency and application and becoming more attractive and competitive in price. With solar power, one may opt for off-grid, independent self-generated and stored solar-sourced electricity and/or utility-company generated electricity -- currently stored solar energy entails battery or special solar-panel storage, involving chemistry, but likely soon will be superseded by already test-proven clean storage solar cells providing for 24/7 on-site, off-grid solar power operation immune from power failures or sourcing from the public-utility-companies' electrical grid. Storage solar cell technology is likewise self fueling and charge storing from sunlight or mere daylight and has virtually unlimited positive evolvability potential compared to solar technology's nascent rival, reportedly currently more highly productive yet clean hydrogen fuel-cell or (chemical/fossil-fuels) fuel-cell technology, previously owned by Chevron Oil Company, that is dependent on environmental extraction for its raw fuel source and on-site chemistry for its operating fuel or electricity generation and a supplier and constant raw fuel supplies, and thus is only an attractive and convenient transitional and temporary technology for fuel independence from fossil fuels, although it unfortunately optionally operates on fossil fuels as well, and so is a dead-end fuel technology with respect to the mid-term to long-term, for sure.

Over the long-term, after a solar-electric technology is paid for from its savings in avoided utilities and fossil-fuels bills, yet retains decades or more of additional electricity production life, solar energy for electricity generation and use is essentially free. Furthermore, solar-electricity-generation technology will eliminate the dangers of oil, gasoline and vapor natural gas pipelines and their aging, flawed construction, geophysical disturbance, malfunction, accidental assault or damage, tampering and sabotage. It will also do away with spill and explosion susceptible shipping, rail and truck transport of all fossil fuels, including coal, the dirtiest and least cleansible fossil fuel, in practice, despites long-time failing claims by the coal industry of clean coal to come (forever coming soon), a fossil-fuel resource associated with the worst air pollution, and environmental and ecological destruction and loss of workers' lives.

Much-less-dirty natural gas should promptly replace dirty coal in powering electricity generating power plants until the convergent, new alternative energy grid is fully established and enough feeder solar electricity power plants, perhaps new-and-advanced, hazard-and-fail-safe small modular nuclear power plants (very possibly a bait-and-switch, life-saving or extending nuclear-industry lead-the-public-on hoax and fantasy propaganda-gimmick for retaining and seducing continued investor and government backing in support of the preservation of the shaky and dangerous prevailing paradigm of nuclear power plants facing widespread public apprehension in light of numerous serious problems with nuclear power plants), hydrogen-fuel-cell systems and wind farms, etc., for electricity generation are online to offset their electricity production if not displace these interim majority natural-gas-based plants themselves. Environmentally protective and friendly states, with a majority of citizens who support a new green-and-clean energy technology economy, which have little or no coal mining industry, should promote, if not legislate, prompt conversion of coal-powered electricity-generating power plants to natural-gas-powered such power plants.

UPDATE: Given the gravity of the Gulf of Mexico BP Oil "drill, baby, bill" disaster of April through the summer of 2010, the ensuing criticism of the proposal that natural gas be an immediate replacement fuel for powering vehicles in the U.S. is reluctantly hereupon modified to concede that manufacturers and owners of liquid-gas vehicles and hybrid electric-liquid gas vehicles should be encouraged to retool or have serviced for retooling (easily done generally at a cost of less than $1,500.00) these vehicles for them to drive on natural gas or natural gas as well as electricity for hybrid vehicles, with the introduction and addition to the automobile market of a variety of makes and models of the plug-in rechargeable all-electric and plug-in rechargeable hybrid electric-(natural) gas vehicles (with the electric drive also rechargeable by gas/natural-gas drive). The natural gas supply source at homes and offices can also easily and relatively cheaply be outfitted with a safe on-premises natural-gas fueling device for natural-gas fueled vehicles, eliminating the need for gas refueling for the most part at commercial fueling service stations. So that the future inventory of federally, and maybe, state and municipally, owned vehicles does not become complacently attached to or dependent on also dirty and environmentally harmful fossil-fuel natural gas as the predominate source of vehicle fuel for the long term, if government, at the federal or all levels of society, is to changeover its inventory of new vehicle purchases to oil-fuel-free vehicles the new vehicles should be plug-in rechargeable hybrid natural gas-electric vehicles for long distance driving and plug-in rechargeable all-electric vehicles for local driving -- liquid gas is oil (that is, petroleum) derived and natural gas is a naturally occurring vapor gas. Accommodating and promoting natural gas for co-fueling hybrid vehicles and alternatively fueling the existing national inventory of liquid gas vehicles would immediately facilitate a radical and rapid transportation break away from dependence on politically and environmental thorny and disastrous oil-based fuel. However, co-fueled NG-electric or any fossil-fuels dependent vehicles are superfluous, irrelevant and inappropriate where there are solarized homes and offices that generate a substantial portion or most or all of their electricity, thereby minimizing or eliminating dependency for plug-in electric vehicles associated with these on coal and all other fossil-fuels for electrical fueling/recharging. Once solar garage doors and such house doors, for generating home electricity, that in turn can be used to clean-and-green charge plug-in electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, are on the market for homeowners to purchase, the funeral era of gasoline-only-engine vehicles will have arrived and demand for and sales of plug-in all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles will become overwhelming as wells as will the demand for and sales for solar garage and house doors for off-grid, standalone household electricity generation affordable to most homeowners, many of whom may not be able to afford full solarization of their homes. Solar garage doors with built-on sockets on the inside could both recharge vehicles in the garage and outside in the driveway via a slot on both sides of the width of the outside of the garage door for outside-vehicle recharging cords to lead to the inside socket-side of the garage door. This sales momentum and the demand-popularity for electric cars will also depend on and have to be preceded by or accompanied with electric-car prices being competitive with traditional gas-car prices. In an optimistic move in support of the alternative motoring technology for automobiles, Ford Motors Inc. has announced that it will be selling its 2011 plug-in hybrid Lincoln MKZ sedan for the same price as the gas-only model. Per Deus Ex Machina, minimal apologies and praises to Bob Brinker and Dr. Bill Wattenburg for their fortuitously redemptive counsel concerning this matter.

(NEW: On May 20th and 21st of 2010 the whole array of the mainstream news media in northern California reported that Tesla Motors Inc. has joined with Toyota Motors International Inc. to mass produce long-distance, high-speed, all-electric vehicles in a reopening of the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont, CA, recently closed and previously jointly operated by General Motors Inc. and Toyota Motors. Toyota has invested $50,000,000.00 in Tesla. Toyota and Tesla, which has secured $465,000,000.00 in other financing, will be manufacturing a Toyota designed and featured car on the Tesla-technology drive-train and Tesla will be manufacturing the first model of its own series of mass-market vehicle models, with each the Toyota and Tesla model planned to be on the retail market for sale in year 2012. The facility will be hiring an estimated total of 1,000 employees in the short term at the rate of 50 per month, ongoing, and may hire as many as 10,000 employees if the vehicles prove popular in the retail market. Reportedly, coming Tesla vehicles will be able to travel up to 300 miles on a single full electrical charge of the vehicle battery, a significant improvement on the 244-mile driving range of its first vehicle model, the Tesla Roadster for the niche wealthy market, debuted in 2008. All-electric vehicles require very little or minimal servicing and no smog-control checks, and auto insurance companies charge little for their insurance coverage. Moreover, the electrical cost for the per mile drive of an electric car is a small fraction of the gasoline cost per mile drive for the most-efficient, highest mileage per gallon/liter gasoline- or biofuels-powered vehicles. Other major auto manufacturing companies are introducing all-electric vehicles this year and next that can drive from 40 to up to 100 miles per battery charge, whereas daily commute miles in urban centers normally are 40 miles and less. Also the recharging infrastructure for all-electric vehicles is spreading quickly, and there are solar charging units for them that can be installed at homes and condo and apartment complexes; however, standard 110-volt electrical outlets [also known as sockets or receptacles] for slow charging and standard 220-volt electrical outlets for fast charging, available in virtually any garage, make solar chargers an off-grid option. It is a sure bet that within 50 years mass-market petroleum-only powered vehicles will no longer be manufactured and the inventory of existing petroleum powered mass-market vehicles will be viewed as primitive and antiquated, and much of the world will be able to kiss good bye to vehicle dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil or any more than lubricating oil, obtainable from plants and animal waste. Currently, there are both the all-electric Coda and Nissan Leaf sedans on the automobile market for sale. The plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt coming to the retail market in 2011 can travel 40 miles all electrically on a full electrical charge, but continuously recharge its electric-drive battery with its gas motor, and travel a continuous 350 miles on a combination of an initial full charge of its electric-drive battery and a full tank of gasoline. The successful 26-hour flight of the Swiss-made Solar Impulse manned-airplane on 07-07-2010 augurs for and alludes to a time to come of a market of all-solar-powered airliners, aircraft, watercraft, rail and road vehicles, as well as electric-car charging stations and their recharging ports, factories and electronic bill boards, that operate and charge from mere daylight and afterward operate in the dark, after dusk, from reserve charges of their solar fuel cells -- we can also expect portable computers and other portable electronics devices to eventually operate from the power of natural and artificial light. Pursuant to BBC's online news of 07-16-2010, the Solar Impulse test flight was followed by a successful to-date, 2-week test flight of the U.S.-made U.S.-Army eternal-flight solar airplane, a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle [UAV] theoretically capable of staying in flight permanently, named Zephyr, operating according to the same principles.).

Already there are solar mini-panel calculators, solar-battery watches, solar outdoor cookers, solar hot-water heaters, combination solar/crank-powered radios, solar/crank-charged flashlights and such rural night lamps, and solar-charged deck, patio and garden lamps that glow all night long. In time computers, television sets, cell phones and miscellaneous other traditionally electrically powered electronic devices will be operated and/or battery recharged and powered via a solar-power capture cord made for placement in daylight and sunlight, with the solar-capture end placed in daylight or sunlight and the other end plugged into the power-cord jack of the electronic device.

There is a plodding and tenacious media campaign under way by conservative talk-show hosts and guests, and business publications' journalists, as well as by touring public speakers on radio public affairs forums, touting and promoting a refocusing of the clean, renewable energy agenda and policy to a different one emphasizing government support for 1) a crash program for construction of nuclear power plants for electrical energy generation and 2) production of natural gas (naturally occurring vapor gas) fueled vehicles and natural gas fueling outlets for replacement of the federal government's inventory of 600,000 liquid-gas-powered and hybrid vehicles and new vehicles sold by automobile manufacturers to the public, (in preference over plug-in hybrid gas or non-polluting biofuel-electric and long-distance all-electric vehicles currently dominating the alternative energy vehicle market and growing in this regard by leaps and bounds, with newer hybrid vehicles minimizing and scaling down gas or non-polluting bio-fuel use and subserving -- recharging the discharged electric-drive battery while standing in for it until its restored full charge -- increased and primary electrical driving reliance). They argue that solar and wind electricity generating technology are too slow in proliferating and only account for less than 2% of current electrical energy generation (ignoring that alternative renewable energy sources have already accounted for 16% of the energy market worldwide in recent years, according to Rocky Mountain Institute chief scientist and CEO Amory Lovins) and are too unreliable and expensive to supplant and meet the nation's electrical and transportation energy needs in a transition from foreign oil dependency and dirty domestic coal in the near term or over the foreseeable future -- the second killing in the cradle of the reemerging electrical vehicle and entrenchment of vehicle dependency on fossil fuel/s. Further, they argue that a new market of plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles will necessarily be dependent on utility companies' dirty-coal-generated electricity for battery recharging at night when solar generated electricity is not available with the absence of sun light, resulting in status-quo level releases of hydro-carbon pollution into the atmosphere, if not more -- which is significantly nonsense and manipulative, misleading partial truth posing as whole truth as the Energy Information Agency of the U.S. DOE reports that coal-fired power plants account for 56% of net electricity generation in the U.S., with the remainder generated primarily by nuclear power plants, hydro, NG, solar and wind sources. Maybe they are ignorant of or mum about the fact that already solarized homes, and government and commercial facilities and office buildings and the solarized buildings of religious institutions, etc., are able, on their own, to recharge plug-in electric and all-electric vehicles during the day, come rain, overcast or shine, by harnessing daylight alone, without the need for direct sunlight, for electricity generation, and of the fact that once the smart-grid-to-come-online is in place solar-tech generated electricity convergent with wind turbine electrical power from different regions of the nation will be able to cooperatively and collaboratively feed the smart grid with electrical power around the clock, night and day, 24/7/365-6. Maybe too they have not considered that at one time automobiles made up less than one percent of the transportation system, when horses, steamships and steam-engine trains were the traditional and dominant forms of transportation, and that automobiles were then considered a novelty and impracticality with no long-term future in serving the public at large when first introduced, and later slandered as a cause of high-speed death beyond a lethal speed that humans allegedly were said to be unable to tolerate and survive (circa 40 or 45 mph) -- maybe they conveniently dismiss the relevancy of Moore's law relating to the rate of doubling of the number of transistors that can be inexpensively added to electronic integrated circuits for improvements in digital processing speed and memory and imaging capabilities, found to be applicable to the rate of improvement of much modern technology in general, as also observably applicable to improvements in solar and wind energy technologies. Maybe they have not considered that neither solar nor wind power would be unreliable sources of electrical energy when daylight-time versus night-time nations, in our bi-solar-day world, collaborate in generating and exchanging solar-derived electrical energy during their respective daily opposing light-versus-dark cycles as the Earth rotates ceaselessly through its bi-solar day, and as the existing technology and techniques for storing solar-electric energy take hold and advance on a broad scale -- Europe is already undertaking to work with North African and tropical nations in this regard. A succinct way of expressing this relationship is say that solar-derived electrical energy from daylight nations can be transferred by cable to night-time phase nations, and reciprocal transfer can occur with the change in the light phase between the halves of our planet. The same consideration applies to up-and-down periods for wind-generated electrical energy between the high producing wind regions within the nation. Nor do they make clear that natural gas is not a clean fossil fuel but is a dirty albeit so-to-say cleaner (dirty but less dirty) fossil fuel than oil or liquid gas and is another fossil fuel we should endeavor eventually, but as soon as possible, to emancipate ourselves from as a fuel source. Nor do we want vehicles to compete for natural gas with housing and buildings, for their heating and appliance powering, which would permanently and drastically drive up the price of natural gas, any more than we want food crops and food-crop land to make biofuels to compete with abundant food availability and affordability for humans and animals. We also need to consider whether it is cheaper and safer to promote investment in bi-solar day-versus-night inter-Continental solar energy exchange utilities development (collaborative multinational, intercontinental solar and wind) for electrical energy production and exchange concerns and existing solar and wind storage technology and techniques over embarking on a crash program for nuclear power plant construction that would be dependent much more on taxpayer funding (very costly funding) and take more time to come online than solar and wind energy enterprises and their energy production evolution. Nothing is stopping the nuclear industry and Wall Street from safely building, within government regulations, new nuclear electrical power plants at the expense of private money from private investor funds, possibly with government tax incentives.

Instead of natural gas being deployed to power vehicles, it most beneficially should be deployed to replace currently predominating dirty coal, as in coal-fired power plants, in powering electricity generating power plants. If natural gas has any compelling value in powering vehicles such would be to power large transport trucks, hopefully hybrid gas-electric trucks, until large transport trucks can be exclusively powered optimally electrically. The proven abundance of domestic natural gas can virtually immediately both generate and supply electricity and continue to supply directly pure natural gas nationally and for centuries, if necessary, to buildings of every kind at relatively low cost for building lighting, heating, cooking and electrical device and equipment powering needs, ultimately supplemental to majority future electricity generation by the convergent alternative energy grid and power plants and off-grid such technology. However, the technologies for harvesting coal, petroleum and natural gas for electricity, propulsion and fire generation should not be lost as they would likely be ideal, in part, for powering human settlements on Mars where their CO2 emissions could theoretically be strategic in building up a thick atmosphere on Mars hospitable to vegetating and crop farming the surface of Mars. Evidence of large deposits of hydrocarbons on Mars has long been established, as well as of a variety of specific other valuable minerals. By the way, petroleum will always remain valuable on Earth in the making of medicines and for making fabrics and plastics.

Those who advocate using natural gas (vapor gas) to power vehicles typically do so without regard to its contribution to global warming and environmental and human ill effects. Typically their argument is that we as a nation have an abundance of domestic natural gas and should use it instead of liquid gas derived from oil (mostly foreign oil) to power our vehicles to free our transportation system from dependence on foreign oil -- their concern is national energy independence and not CO2 atmospheric pollution and global warming from fossil-fuels emissions as well. Like the advocates for government financial support for building a large number of traditional large nuclear power plants domestically (at times, unstable), the advocates for natural gas powering of federal government vehicles are generally old-school elderly or old people of the old-nuclear-reactor and fossil-fuels paradigms and era, who were raised and educated, and who aged, under these paradigms and in that era. These energy paradigms, along with dams, are most of what they know, have been served by and have benefited and profited from and believe in when it comes to energy resources. They and much of their generation pose static inertia and obstruction to change to the new energy paradigm for the following generations and the progressives of their generation. Unfortunately, like T. Boone Pickens said, it is the old-timer (elderly) conservative chairmen of major industry, media and commerce who control big business and significantly influence politics to the detriment of much needed change in our society in their wanting to preserve the status quo familiar and favorable to themselves.

These natural gas promoters -- critics of dirty coal -- are not against a dirty oil or dirty fossil-fuels-energy-powered society, as they are openly in favor of "drill, baby, drill" of our coasts and in ANWAR. They attempt to minimize the danger of marine oil disasters, dismissing and disregarding harm to marine animals and the water, ecology and human communities affected by them, saying tar balls naturally occur in coastal waters and that there is naturally on the order of 100 times more oil seepage from ocean and sea floors worldwide than that of the Gulf disaster, ignoring that unnaturally concentrated and locally massive oil suffusion kills off many species of marine life and water fowl and that this thick and massive liquid oil rises in such form or at the surface of ocean and sea waters whereas naturally occurring oil does not, with rare exception, and does not occur on many, if not most, coasts (their dismissive remarks and attitude are like their comparing a teaspoon full of cyanide in a cup of water, analogous to unnatural marine oil eruptions and gushing, with a cup full of cyanide disbursed in a giant lake of water, analogous to natural marine oil seepage). I dare them to drink the cup of water with the teaspoon of cyanide while I swim in or drink from the giant lake with only a cup full of this poison suffused in it, and no other of significance in amount.

Also, the major oil companies are also engaged in major natural gas exploration, extraction and production, so pretending to denigrate truly dirty coal for electricity generation is just a rationale for expanding dirty oil and dirty natural gas, alongside traditional nuclear power and its cumulative problematic waste disposal problem (which some crazed, wicked and fanatical proponents argue falsely is a resolved problem), in dominance for powering our society, and marginalizing the competitor rising alternative clean-and-green solar, wind, geothermal, tidal and fuel-cell energy source and new energy paradigm threatening their past and impending passe energy monopoly. These folks are nothing other than big-oil, natural-gas and nuclear-energy propagandists and boosters; government big spending to support and insure them, and their profit margins, and stock values and steady, stable and fat dividend stream is their enduring and primary interest.

(NEW: However, the nuclear-electrical energy generation scientists are making a strong case that low-cost mass-production, standardized small modular nuclear powered plants, with standardized parts, are virtually attack-, hazard- and fail-safe and easier and much cheaper to build and operate, and are more efficient in generating electricity, than conventional large nuclear reactors, perhaps explaining why President Obama has recently publicly committed the federal government to supporting the production of plentiful new nuclear reactors in the U.S. Read on the subject of modular nuclear reactors for more information of this new type of nuclear reactor. This type of reactor may also be a good electrical power source for Moon, Mars and other extraterrestrial base facilities for human settlements in the future, if its billing is not hyperbolic propaganda.)

Solar energy is essentially infinite, from the standpoint of the life-expectancy of our species, planet Earth, star (the sun), and solar system, and wind energy is quasi so, with both being basically safe and ecologically friendly and their pliable technologies ever being made nearly as friendly in the near term.

Are these talk-show hosts, guests, and touring public speakers, who are advocating for "big government" support for natural gas and highly expensive (at taxpayers' expense) nuclear sourced energy dominance in the energy market, really the hypocritical anti-big-government but self-proclaimed profit-motive free-marketplace libertarian, Wall Street and pro-traditional big-business conservative Republican lobbyists for the financial balance sheets and bottom lines of the profit-and-loss statements, and stock values and dividend earnings, of the status-quo big fossil-fuels and nuclear industries? Of course!

They want big government to patronize, subsidize and promote their business and investment interests in the name, and under the guise, of acting in the national interest and out of a sense of patriotism. They are unconscionable, insatiably gluttonous financial vampires and money maggots. Let natural gas cars and nuclear electrical power plants compete in their conservative Republican and libertarian free marketplace with the invisible hand of Darwinian natural selection, in supply-demand capitalism, picking the winners on a level playing field, at their own expense, with their competitors' businesses and not be advantaged with state socialism in assistance and patronage of their own businesses, at taxpayers' expense and the expense of their competitors -- the socialism for the poor and middle class Americans (when it comes to public education, unemployment benefits, Social Security pensions, Medicare health care for the elderly, national health care insurance for all Americans, including children, paid for by the pooled taxes of American taxpayers) they so much disdain and denounce. They do not want a fair and free market for everyone, open to all competitors, but a market free and unregulated for themselves and their profitability (a financial free-for-all for themselves); that is, they want selective, narrow state-supported oligarchical capitalism favoring themselves (fascism), like in the no-bid military-industrial-complex contracts for Haliburton Inc. (former "Vice" President Dick Cheney's financial alma mater), and its subsidiaries, to provision and accomplish contract projects for the American military and government embassies in Iraq and Afghanistan, occupied by the U.S. military. They have a fossil-fuels cash cow that they want to milk, without interference or outside competition, to the last drop and wisp.

A public speaker and some broadcast lobbyists for this refocusing are the following:

John Hofmeister, former CEO of Shell Oil Company, who is now leading the organization Citizens for Affordable Energy. He is campaigning for exploitation of all-inclusive sources of energy, paying homage to renewable sources but emphasizing that the U.S. has virtually endless sources of fossil fuel energy, when fuel extraction from shale and tar sands is taken into consideration, while according no regard to the environmental and health hazards of long-term continued industrial and consumer use of fossil-fuels energy. What is to be expected from an oil man, although his hands figuratively may be covered with green gloves?

Chevron Oil Corporation, with daily NPR sponsorship ads on KQED 88.5 FM radio promoting all energy source use, until October of this year 2009, when it is running ads saying that it is supporting "human energy." The CEO of Chevron debated the CEO of the Sierra Club on NPR radio in the summer of 2009 on energy policy, taking a similar energy policy stance as that advocated by John Hofmeister.

Natural Gas has gotten into promoting itself as a patriotic alternative-energy (really!?) climate-change savior with broadcast ads to such an effect airing in August of 2009.

Bob Brinker, a former Wall Street and insurance company investment manager, the weekend afternoon KGO 810 AM radio talk-show host of Money Talk, who routinely advocates for federal government support for mass construction of nuclear electricity-generating power plants and replacement of its inventory of vehicles with natural-gas-powered vehicles, as well as for oil drilling and exploitation of ANWR (the pristine Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge) and the marine-refuge, scenic coasts of California and Florida for a very lucrative but quantitatively a relative pittance of oil in view of hemispheric and worldwide oil reserves -- a resource inclined toward obsolescence in the mid term as a vehicle fuel anyway, its primary profit source. Like Rap Daddy says in his song titled 'Don't Make Me Scream': "While it's there, better get that cash!"

Brinker has a propensity for complaining in the abstract about "celebrity politicians" running the government, implying that experts should run the government. I know of nowhere in humanity where experts have run the governments other than under totalitarian communist and fascist regimes (conferring privileges and power on loyal party ideologues over pure merit, with the controlling capitalist roaders of the new, post-Mao-era communist leadership of the Peoples Republic of China having realized the untenability of a competent purely communist political-economic system of government and having moderated this inherited communist system into becoming an economically highly competitive dual system of communist State Capitalism, permitting limited democratic rights on the mainland, and limited democratic governance in Hong Kong), worse than most other forms of government -- not even under monarchies, oligarchies, kleptocracies and dictatorships is there rulership at the top by infallible, big brother-knows-best experts. However, the staffs of sub-cabinet and civil-service levels of first-world democratic-republic governments are selected largely based on academic, skills-training, employment-experience and test-taking and job-interview merit -- this also applies in large part to elected top executive and legislator staffs. Well, I guess no system or individual is perfect. It is amazing that he does not have a propensity for complaining about the incompetence and immorality of Wall Street, rogue investment activity and the corporate sector, supposedly the paragons of expertise (like the trillion-dollar-plus failure of too-big-to-fail Long-term Capital Management, managed by Nobel prize economists, that was bailed out by the federal government, and the too-big-to-fail whole of the investment banking sector both rescued by the Federal Reserve Bank and the U.S. Treasury and bailed out from imminent total collapse with more than a trillion dollars in taxpayer dollars, to name a few of the financial sector bodies governed by private experts -- see the blog Capitalism with a Conscience: National Health-care Insurance Reform for a broader enumeration of the bubble-bust industries governed by private sector experts). Let him try to convince the computer visionary dabblers, tinkerers and geek-adventurers, deserving long-time richest-man-in-the-world Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corp, and very rich-man Steve Jobs, co-founder and return-CEO rescuer of now again thriving Apple Computer Inc., that they need the oversight, training and stamp of approval of IBM Corp., wobbly Wall Street, the U.S. Small Business Bureau, the private U.S. Chamber of Commerce or a Dr. Edward Teller or Dr. Bill Wattenburg in order for them to set up and lead their companies and legitimately compete and succeed in the big-time corporate world.

Brinker also chides wind farms/wind turbines for being killers of birds -- although they are being adapted with better and better measures to minimize and eliminate this problem -- with no mention on his part as to the devastation and pollution all-too-frequent oil spills (apart from the CO2 poisoning and destruction of planetary and its life forms' health in the industrial burning of all fossil fuels), large and modest, wreak on marine life (including water birds) and habitats and shores as well as the livelihoods of fishers and local fishing industries, with inadequate, little or no compensation voluntarily granted to the adversely affected commercial interests and communities by the offenders or in litigation before and by courts stacked with conservative Republican and libertarian-minded judges sympathetic to big corporations. Somehow, Brinker doesn't come across as an environmentalist or a sincere lover of wildlife.

Let it be known that the Cosmic Prophet (aka Lord Prophet) has high regard for and confidence in the overall good character reflected of and financial judgment and integrity of advice expressed by Bob Brinker and that he is an adherent of capitalism: Good-Steward Communitarian Capitalism with a Conscience but not with a dunce cap, and that he absolutely rejects and denounces Law-of-the-Jungle, Predatory, Parasitical, Selfish, Ruthless, Savage, Short-sighted Pollution-and-Depletion, Extermination-and-Annihilation Capitalism for Short-term Privileged Interests and Primacy of Profit. The Cosmic Prophet opposes Predatory and Parasitical Prolitarianism likewise -- populist-driven extraordinary and exceptional taxation and/or appropriation in part of normal business and investment income for its own benefit, at times to the marginal profitability and financial survival risk of businesses and investors. It must be borne in mind that capitalism, whether it be natural empirical capitalism or classical-text or business-school capitalism, is the basis for an advanced society of splendor and a plethora of amenities, as capitalism maximally incentivizes creativity and an endless variety of innovations and products, and materially and socially generously rewards and empowers talent (individual and cooperative) and investment in talent and innovation -- which generically separates advanced society from primitive society and an energized advanced society from a sluggish, deprived, bumbling and stagnant prolitarian-governed second-class society, historically having advanced, powerful weapons and a large army. Most sane people, including religious authorities and front-line activists, the poor, affluent advocates for the poor, hard-core communists and anarchists, want a comfortable living environment, a residence with plumbing and heating, a sink with faucets that deliver running water, a toilet, a bathtub or shower, hot water, good food and drink, clean and attractive clothes, books and music, a vehicle or public transportation, and other material amenities -- innovations and amenities that are the legacy of natural empirical and/or institutional capitalism. The Cosmic Prophet is an advocate for the poor but is an unapologetic materialist who likes luxury and abhors poverty per se (not the poor) and would like to rid the world of it, but would not relinquish his quality of life in sympathy for the poor, though he would gladly pay taxes in concert with the rest of society's members to help alleviate poverty, a problem that the poor must also help to alleviate by restraining their reproduction beyond their means to support and to raise healthy educated, ethical and well-behaved offspring. He is aware that were many poor people better off they would have less concern than he has for the poor or for him if he were poor and that many would harm him to take money off of his person (as has happened several times in his life) or out of his bank account or to take items of value from his car (if not hijack his car) or from his residence. Indeed, the communists and fascists leaders Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Lon Nol and Pol Pot had middle-class upbringings and did not personally live austere lives comparable to the poor they led and over whom they presided had lived -- squalid, unhealthy, deprived, harsh, miserable, stifling and degrading lives from which they sought to rescue these and largely were struggling to stave off or flee from for themselves.

Bill Wattenburg, professor of nuclear engineering, a weekend late-evening KGO 810-AM radio talk-show host, who has been a guest on Bob Brinker's Money Talk show promoting the same energy-related ideas as those advocated by Bob Brinker. They routinely compliment each other on their respective shows as brilliant and as having the right ideas on the right direction for the U.S. energy economy. Wattenburg is the chieftain roaring firebrand railer against environmentalists. Among the promos for his show, he is billed as being the smartest man in the world, invoking the timeless truth of Abraham Lincoln's words: You can fool some of the people all of the time! Rumor has it that that Wattenburg owns a solarized home, has an on/off switchable house water heater and owns a hybrid car -- evidently he definitely is quite smart. A contradiction in terms? (However, it may be that their advocacy for nuclear-reactor production for electrical generation, if this applies to modular nuclear reactors, may be a good idea and advocacy.).

The particularly pugnacious side of Dr. Bill's distinctively sweet and sour manner has earned him the moniker Dr. Shrill Bill Rotten Nerd with some opposition.

John Bolton, lawyer, conservative think-tank fellow of multiple such think tanks, and recess-appointee former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. from August of 2005 to December of 2006, under the Bush-II presidency, who resigned the latter post upon its impending expiration, knowing that the U.S. Senate would not approve him for a permanent appointment to that post in dread of his reputed abrasiveness and extremism. A repeat guest on conservative infotainer and progandist Lee Roger's KSFO 560-AM radio talk show, he asserts that government should not select the preferred national source of electrical energy generation but that the free marketplace should and that electricity generated by nuclear power plants is the way to go, as the electricity generated by them would be cheaper than by other means and that nuclear power plants are a clean and safe way to generate electricity. The three latter claims are just that and matters of vigorous dispute by professionals and experts on both sides of the dispute, as well as by a malfunction history of nuclear power plants in the U.S. and the problem of nuclear waste disposal (which the virtually lonely voice of Wattenburg argues is not a problem). As for the marketplace offering the public a variety of energy sources and means of electrical energy generation from which to select, with equitable government incentives for production among all of the alternatives (for emancipation of the economy from dependence on foreign oil and dirty coal for electrical energy generation), so as to have a level playing field for all competitors, this is exactly what the alternative energy companies, including geo-thermal and hydro-power companies, etc., want. Earth Island Institute reports that even now the nuclear power sector receives disproportionately very large federal financial support with no construction of new nuclear power plants with private funding. It is quite clear that Bolton is a half-cocked old-money, status-quo big-business talking-points lobbyist and advocate.

The pro traditional and status-quo energy paradigm views of these parties are espoused by conservative broadcast-media news commentators, including on NPR. Some of these commentators assert that oil-based fuel for powering vehicles will, as a practical matter, remain the primary source of automobile fuel until it is exhausted.

U.S. Abandonment of Return to the Moon & of Venture Beyond to Near-Earth Outer Space

No Privatization of Taxpayer-Owned NASA/Public Space Science!

1. Subordination, Attenuation and Eclipsing of Public Space Science & Defunding of NASA & JPL

President Obama must reconsider his decision to abandon returning the U.S. to a presence on the Moon and extending that presence to Mars and the asteroid belt. For the Obama Administration to abandon the plan and endeavor for the U.S., via its public space science agencies NASA and JPL, to return to the Moon and go to Mars and its two moons as well as the asteroids is for the Obama Administration to forgo the ultimate frontier, for momentary budgetary convenience and narrow political expediency, and to cede U.S. and collaborative EU leadership in space science and exploration to India, China, Japan, Russia, the E.U., on its own, and Iran (don't scoff or laugh, as Iran has a demonstrably quite competent and successful space program that is a military cause for concern to the U.S. Pentagon), that are rapidly advancing as competitors in these regards. Interim limiting of U.S. involvement in outer space to international space station and space shuttle missions and runs, to be contracted out to private space-flight companies, is to retard and stagnate the U.S. space program and not to advance and make progress in technological, navigational or knowledge acquisition or application space science in competitive and meaningful ways. Earth's moon, Mars and its moons, and the mineral-rich nearby asteroids (inevitable extraterrestrial industrial abodes) will be thoroughly explored, studied, incrementally engineered for human, robotic and industrial settlement and resource harnessing, and colonized in the not-very-distant foreseeable future by the space-faring nations with the most space-science and exploration vision, ongoing and advancing education and drive to peacefully extend their frontiers, knowledge, technologies and economies to territories beyond the boundaries of the socially, politically and economically fractious and contentious Earth. Those nations that occupy and control the near-Earth celestial territories will become the richest and, possibly, securest nations on Earth (from a national security telecommunications and military standpoint), whose treasuries and industry will in large measure be insulated from the economic volatility on Earth that is the result of political and labor unrest. Near-Earth space colonization and industrialization will bring or afford unparalleled economic opportunities and benefits, as well as a such higher standard of living (quality of life), to the people of the space colonizing nations. The Obama Administration's unfortunate decision is a commonplace style of decision in the U.S. of short-term gain at the cost of unheeded long-term pain.

I fault most for this bad policy decision the ill-advice given to the President on this matter by the Augustine Report space science committee.

In the murky game and rhetoric of political in-house economics, while the administration is slashing the budget of NASA for NASA-specific space projects, the administration is saying it is increasing the budget for NASA that in turn is slated to outsource fund private spaceflight and space-science companies the phantom 6 billion-dollar NASA budget increase over five years and a good portion of NASA's current and future baseline budget, with the affected NASA projects and personnel associated with these, respectively, to be shutdown and apparently displaced. Is this Orwellian political double speak? Is this equivocation? Are these weasel words? What is the purpose of the seeming calculated muddle in meaning here? How is it rational and not grossly wasteful for NASA to be directed to shutdown a program in which it and the U.S. government and taxpayers have invested 9 billion dollars, at the cost of spending another 2.5 billion dollars to actually shutdown the program and junk the technologies and innovations produced by the program? Why not temporarily scale down and strategically narrow the scope of the program until fiscal good health is restored to the federal government that would allow at such a time for maximal funding for an accelerated and full scoped program, apparently well after the expensive, federal budget-busting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are terminated and our troops are withdrawn from these nations?

Political leaders must comprehend and not overlook or downplay the importance of high-profile public space science, and public science, leadership to the public -- this is science that is funded by taxpayer money and that is owned collectively by the citizenry. Its achievements, discoveries, issues and implications reverberate into the physics, chemistry, math, astronomy, geology, biology, geography, history and current-affairs books, classes and research of our schools at all levels, and into popular literature (most notably science journals and magazines and science fiction short stories and novels) and TV programs, movies and music, as well as impact on planetariums and astronomical observatories, and spill over to telecommunications, aeronautics, nautical and automobile engineering, innovation and manufacturing. The most popular TV and radio scientists have been astrophysicist and astronomy professors (Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Simon Singh, Brian Greene, Michio Kaku, Neil Degrasse Tyson) and the most popular science-related television shows and movies have been programs such as War of the Worlds, Star Trek and the Star Wars series. Another one of the latter, the currently playing Avatar, has broken all movie attendance and revenue records. NASA's activities, and active and media-visible presence is a tremendous and rare positive inspiration and mind and imagination stimulation on our children, youth and young adults and their interest in science and choice of a science education and career, technologically and materially beneficial to our society, as well as a national-spirit buoying force in the social and entertainment background of our nation on the whole. Most Americans, adults and children alike, will not want to view a NASA newly fronted by the operatives and spokespersons of private space companies reporting on, in the near term, multi-hundred-million-dollar, per individual, space tours for profligate-spending, obscenely rich people, advertising such tours, making stock performance reports on a private space company stock market exchange, and presenting space company profiles and investment appraisals.

2. Public Capitalization of Pioneering Space Science & Technology, & Public Benefits Entitlement

Governments (Russia, et. al., the U.S., the European Union, Japan, India, China), which have, from greater to lesser degrees, pioneered space science, space exploration and the surveying and geophysical analysis of the major celestial bodies in our solar system, and which have originated the spacecraft and mass of other technologies for this work, by virtue of their space pioneering technology and work (pioneering, publicly financed investment) have earned and irrevocably hold exclusive rights to the stewardship and hegemony of our beyond-Earth solar system, and all rights of governance of the navigation, exploration, settlement, exploitation, industrialization and all other uses of outer space in our solar system, "not private enterprise and the investor communities of the Earth." Nor may any government nor leader or leadership body of any or all nations of the Earth confer ownership of any part of the solar system beyond Earth to any individual, group of individuals, organization, entity or one government or group of governments, nor exempt any private individual, group, entity or interest from regulation by and accountability to government on and of Earth. Any resources extracted beyond Earth, within our solar system, should be the shared property of the people of the nation from which the extractors originated or ventured, with the peoples' share to be auctioned for sale and the proceeds therefrom to be deposited or invested in trust for the people collectively to defray the costs to providers of otherwise free universal health care, education, and job training and job retraining of those people as well as to fund public space science and all other public science for that nation. The private interests' share should be taxed, with the taxes going for the same public benefits, since it has been the taxpayers' money that has financed the long-time governmental pioneering space science, products and work benefiting private enterprise and investors.

3. The Subsidized Giveaway of Public Space Science to Private Space Enterprise

It appears that the Obama Administration's sidelining of the Constellation Program for human settlement of the Moon (shown to have abundant water molecules to provide for electricity for building infrastructure, water for hygiene, drinking and food production, and vehicle and rocket fuel), Mars and the asteroids, and the diversion of federal money for this to contract with private enterprise, to takeover development and operation of near-Earth spacecraft and technology and the missions of these, is a stealth giveaway, in part, of the ultimate extraterrestrial mining and industrialization of Mars and its moons, and the surface mineral rich asteroids, to private enterprise, at the long-term cumulative tax cost and loss of benefits to the taxpayers of the U.S., with space-related private enterprise's imminent subsidy by the taxpayers of the U.S., to the expense and detriment of pioneering public science, space science and technology (namely, NASA, JPL, MIT and CalTech). Now that the costly foundational inventions, craft and technology for space science and exploration, and their rigorous testing, have been produced and accomplished by public science at the taxpayers' expense, let's give these and the solar-system motherlode to private enterprise and pay it to take it all for free (as the book title and now common saying goes: "The Best Government Money Can Buy"). Maybe Fox News Media, the free-market Libertarians, Wall Street and the investment community of the U.S. might start liking the President, at last? Back in the early or mid 1990s one asteroid alone, of the thousands in the asteroid belt next to Mars, was found to contain tens of thousands of tons each, to the best of my recall, of uranium, copper, iron and gold, with the gold there having had a worth an estimated $3 trillion dollars then, when the price of gold was relatively low. With nano-fiber materials stronger than diamonds and steel and lighter than aluminum, that already have been made, robots and freight spacecraft and vehicles made of these materials would make mineral mining of Mars and the asteroids feasible and extraordinarily profitable as well as socio-politically uncomplicated for private enterprise. Currently it takes 6 months for our spacecraft to get to Mars, using traditional rocket fuel; however, this time can be reduced to between 3 months and 1 month (specifically, 39-days for now) with already invented but expensive plasma-fuel propulsion technology invented by MIT physicist Franklin Chang-Diaz, a former NASA astronaut -- this technology is called VASIMR, the Variable Specific Impluse Magnetoplasma Rocket and is discussed in a COSMOS Online magazine article titled 'To Mars in 39 Days,' Agence France-Presse, 03-02-2010.

Seven-hundred fifty-thousand asteroids are estimated to lie in the asteroid belt between the planets Mars and Jupiter. U.S. and a Japanese spacecraft have examined the largest of these with their on-board scientific instruments and returned their data to the space agency of each's respective home nation. In 2005 Japan landed its spacecraft Hayabusa on an asteroid named Itokawa; this craft obtained a sample of the ground there and is still en route back to Earth to deliver it to Japan. Its flight home has suffered long delays due to a series of malfunctions that appear to have been overcome, and the craft is expected to arrive to Earth in June of 2010.

When industrial colonization of near-Earth extraterrestrial celestial bodies becomes a fact and is under the control of private enterprise, as relates to the U.S., space science and extraterrestrial discoveries and knowledge garnered by private U.S.-based space companies will no longer be publicly reportable and public-domain discoveries and knowledge, but will become the proprietary, and perhaps trade-secret, possessions of private enterprise. However, we can be sure that U.S. enterprises will not have a monopoly or dominate in the industrial colonization of near-Earth extraterrestrial space, but will be in competition with the space programs of our competitor governments and the private space enterprises of the governments of the other space-faring nations. Moreover, given the considerable funding resources of those governments, our competitor nations and their private space enterprises may beat U.S. enterprise to the punch and be the dominant players in the industrial colonization of near-Earth extraterrestrial space. This translates into U.S.-based space-faring private enterprise versus our space-faring government competitor space programs and their space-faring private enterprises, at times partners with competitor government space programs.

If there is to be a relationship or partnership between taxpayer-owned NASA and private space companies, which have not yet been able to put a rocket outside of Earth's orbit, it must be one in which already qualified and proven such companies provide technical support and other support services to NASA, as needed if needed, and follow the lead of NASA, and not one in which NASA follows the lead of these companies and provides support services, knowledge, training and technology transfer to them.

Picking the Pocket of the Public Under Cover of Darkness (in the midst of a general fiscal crisis)

It might not be an extreme stretch of mind for one to expect that the federally contracted private space enterprise personnel working with NASA and JPL personnel during the duties transition period between these will be mentored by NASA and JPL, et. al. (MIT, CalTech?), on all of the details and applications of their public space science technology and that the private space enterprise companies and their scientists and engineers will receive the schemata, diagrams and blueprints relating to these technologies for their private company use, outwardly under contract in the service of the federal government, in a for-free scientific knowledge and technology transfer from the public that will eventually serve the private profit interests of these private commercial space companies.

4. New Vision for Private Enterprise Leadership in Space Technology, Services & Exploitation

The new U.S. space program vision is for space-focused private companies to take the leadership role in near-Earth spacecraft and space-technologies engineering, manufacturing and deployment with NASA providing support services for these companies and with NASA, et. al., continuing its leadership role with its deep-space missions. In the near-Earth outer-space environment, private companies will also be tasked with placing numerous spacecraft fueling stations all over, and unspecified human-spaceflight missions, excluding to our Moon, will remain a federal government goal, suggesting that the U.S. will bypass the Moon for a U.S. human outpost there but will journey instead to Mars, its moons, and the asteroids, explaining the goal of placing spacecraft fueling stations pervasively in the near-Earth outer-space environment. Why even ask the question of the point for all of those coming fueling and refueling stations throughout the near-Earth environment? Presumably they are for eventual commercial journeys to, about and from Mars and the asteroid belt for mining and valuable minerals extractions in these celestial territories and their deliveries to Earth. Space stations in the outer-space environment of Mars and the asteroid belt will probably function as initial human office and housing accommodations, until ground-based such accommodations are built on the surfaces or subsurfaces of Mars, its moons, and the bigger asteroids.

Whereas bureaucratic space scientists uniformly contend that ferrying extracted minerals, by round trip spacecraft, back to Earth from any celestial body in the solar system, including Earth's Moon (on which Japan's orbiter-probe Kaguya detected uranium, as well as thorium, potassium, oxygen, magnesium, silicone, calcium, titanium and iron per Space.com, 06-29-09), is economically impractical at the present time, given the very high cost of carrying freight on board a spacecraft ($10,000.00 lb.), nevertheless other information on this issue suggests to the contrary. However, they do offer that this activity may be practical within the Mars vicinity itself and would likely give rise to a local economy there that could be profitable locally if people would be willing to live and work on Mars, its moons, and the nearby asteroids, where extracted minerals could also be stockpiled until low-cost spacecraft and fuel became available for round-trip spacecraft fleet travel from and to Earth and/or until such spacecraft could be made and fueled locally. The information to the contrary of this point of view refers to the principles of low-gravity celestial bodies and no gravity and object weightlessness in space, which are seized upon herein by the author, a technical know-nothing space-science aficionado, who proposes that removing minerals from particularly the low-gravity asteroids in the asteroid belt and loading them and carrying them to Earth on board solar-sail spaceships (already constructed by NASA/JPL) or even dragging them virtually weightlessly in net mesh or containers, like trailer hauls, from minimal gravity asteroids through zero-gravity space, with tethers, by tugboat spacecraft or by spacecraft pushing them in a bulldozer manner or by sailing them by carrier solar-electronic, aeronautical space balloons (similar to human-carrier aviation or weather balloons), or such space rafts (grin now), may be feasible until the cargo were to reach the magnetic field of Earth's orbit and the powerful pull of Earth's gravity, perhaps requiring that the cargo be outfitted with remote controlled parachutes and somehow made navigable by engineers to orbiting the Earth and for touching down in a large desert or deep body of water on Earth, with safety measures taken to protect animals, from which it could be retrieved, or were it to be intercepted and collected by freight spacecraft from Earth prior to its coming within Earth's orbit.

5. Reject Giveaway Privatization of Public Space Science & Background Role for NASA & JPL

Please write your Congressional representatives and senators to prevail upon President Obama, in bi-partisan action, to reverse his decision and to sustain an all-out, full-throttle involvement and program for a U.S. NASA and JPL return to our Moon and venture, in collaboration with private enterprise (which, along with top universities, has invented, is doing the R&D on, and owns numerous patents on products and technologies indispensable to extraterrestrial geoengineering for on-site self-supporting human habitation and on-site community and industrial self development by humans), to near-Earth celestial bodies for permanent study, terraforming, and human, robotic and industrial colonization and settlement. Demand that all extraterrestrial celestial bodies in our solar system, not occupied by cognitively advanced ET life, be declared the protectorate and good-stewardship properties of the present-time and future space-faring-invested community of democratic and populist governments of the Earth (with gender equality and equal opportunity under the law in practice or in sincere and observably substantive progress), irrespective of their economic systems, and not of private interests. I personally make this declaration in their behalf on my own herein and hereupon.

NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration

JPL = Jet Propulsion Laboratory

CalTech = California Institute of Technology

MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Space-faring Nations (all with one or more moon missions and other spaceflights)

Russia/USSR, Luna 2 to 24 Obiter-Probes & Rovers, 1959-1970 (and more)

USA, Pioneer-4 to Apollo-17 Moon Obiter-Probes & Landers, 1959-1972 (and more)

Japan's Hiten Moon Obiter, 1991-1993 (a redirected, improvised mission); Kaguya Moon Orbiter-Probe, 2007-2009

Europe's SMART-1 Moon Obiter-Probe, 2004-2006

China's (PRC) Chang'e-1 Moon Orbiter-Probe, 2007-2009

India's Chandrayaan 1, Moon Orbiter-Probe, 2008-2009, discovered water on Moon

Satellite Launching Nations (all missile launching nations, that include N. Korea and Pakistan)

Russia/USSR, 1957

USA, 1958

France, 1965

Japan, 1970

China (PRC), 1970

Britain, 1971

Europe, 1979

India, 1980

Israel, 1988

Iraq, 1989

Iran, 2009

AS SOON AS ANOTHER NATION IS THE FIRST TO LAND AN OPERATIONAL GROUND BASE SPACECRAFT ON MOON SOIL THAT THEREWITH STAKES A HOMESTEAD, OR MOON BASE, ON THE MOON WITH DEVELOPMENT OF AN OUTPOST FOR THAT NATION TO BEGIN OR FOLLOW, PRESIDENT OBAMA, NASA CHIEF CHARLES BOLDEN AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (WHO AND WHICH ARE IN THE PROCESS OF TERMINATING THE NASA MOON-AND-BEYOND HUMAN-SETTLEMENT CONSTELLATION SPACE PROGRAM), WILL BECOME PARIAHS, ESPECIALLY AS AMERICANS WATCH -- WITH REGRET, NATIONAL SELF DISGUST, RESENTMENT, JEALOUSY AND RAGE FOR RETRIBUTION -- THE DEVELOPMENT TO COMPLETION OF EVERY EDIFICE, FEATURE OF INFRASTRUCTURE (INCLUDING A SPACEPORT FOR SPACECRAFT, HELICOPTERS, SPACE PLANES, LAND VEHICLES AND ROBOTS, AND SOLAR ARRAYS FOR SOLAR ENERGY CAPTURE AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLY TO THE MOON AND EARTH, CONDOMINIUMS, TOWNHOUSES AND HOTELS WITH SPECTACULAR VIEWS OF EARTH AND A GYMNASIUM AND RECREATIONAL AND SPORTS CENTER) AND EACH AN ELECTRICAL, LIGHTING, WATER GENERATION, DRIP IRRIGATION, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RADAR SYSTEM AND THE INSTALLATION OF AN OBSERVATORY AND ET-SIGNALING RADIO TELESCOPE FOR THAT OTHER SPACE-FARING COMPETITOR NATION. TO JUDICIOUSLY AVERT THIS MISFORTUNE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY, TAXPAYER-OWNED NASA, REPRESENTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, MUST STAKE A HOMESTEAD FOR AN AMERICAN MOON OUTPOST, FIRST, THAT INCLUDES MIXED TERRAIN AND HUGE CRATERS (THAT CAN BE DOMED FOR HUMAN HABITATION AND FACILITIES) AND EXCELLENT VIEWING OF EARTH, AND THEN SLACK OFF OR GO SLOW WITH ITS DEVELOPMENT IF NECESSITATED BY THE BROKEN FEDERAL BUDGET.

IF AND ONCE AN AMERICAN MOON BASE WERE ESTABLISHED, A COMPANY OF THE ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS, WITH PERSONNEL ON ROTATING TOURS OF DUTY ON THE MOON, COULD START BUILDING AN AMERICAN COMMUNITY THERE IN COLLABORATION WITH NASA AND PRIVATE SPACE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING COMPANIES. THE CENTRAL ROLE OF THE ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS IN THIS PROGRAM WOULD LIKELY BE A MILITARY SERVICE ENLISTMENT DRAW TO SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING HONORS AND COLLEGE-PREP HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS COLLEGE, GRADUATES FOR PRICELESS HANDS-ON SCI-TECH AND ENGINEERING EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND MILITARY SERVICE TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE, AND FURTHER COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (MILITARY COLLEGE ACADEMIES FOR THE ACADEMICALLY ELITE YOUNG SCIENCE-AND-ENGINEERING EDUCATED HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATES) AND OCCUPATIONS, ATTRACTIVE TO ALL TEMPERAMENTS OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING PACIFISTS AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. A MILITARY PERCH ON THE MOON MIGHT ALSO PERMIT THE LEGITIMATELY DEMOCRATIC NATIONS OF THE WORLD, FROM ON HIGH, TO CONDUCT DRONE AND REMOTE WEAPONS WARFARE AGAINST AL QAEDA AND TALIBAN TERRORIST LEADERS ON A PERMANENT BASIS, THAT WOULD BE FUTILE FOR THEM AND DISPOSE THEM TO EXTINCTION OR SURRENDER, WITHOUT THE NEED FOR AN AMERICAN AND ALLIED TROOPS PRESENCE IN THE TERRITORIES OF THEIR OPERATION.

A PERMANENT HUMAN PRESENCE ON THE MOON MAY ALSO OCCASION EARTH-SERVING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEMS TO BE GROUND-BASED ON THE ATMOSPHERE AND ELECTROMAGNETIC-INTERFERENCE FREE MOON AND ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR SUCH SATELLITES TO BE IN EARTH'S ORBIT AND ALLOW FOR THE ACTIVE AND DEAD ONES THERE, AS WELL AS ALL ORBITING SPACE DEBRIS, TO BE CLEARED FROM EARTH'S ORBIT.

ALSO, A RAPIDLY ACCESSIBLE AND INEXHAUSTIBLE ELECTRICAL AND BUILDING HEATING ENERGY SOURCE, IN THE FORM OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY FROM SUBTERRANEAN ICE DEPOSITS, IS ALREADY PRESENT ON MARS, POSSIBLY ON ITS 2 MOONS, AND ON THE ASTEROIDS AND THE MOON (CONFIRMED, ACCORDING TO MAJOR NEWS-MEDIA RELEASES ON 03-02-2010, TO POSSESS A MINIMUM OF 600,000,000 TONS OF WATER ICE AT ITS NORTH POLE ALONE -- ENOUGH, IN THE ABSENCE OF RECYCLING, TO MEET ALL HUMAN HABITATION (PERSONAL, FOOD, APPLIANCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURAL) AND VEHICLE OPERATION AND DAILY MOON-EARTH SPACE-TRAVEL FUELING NEEDS FOR 2,000 YEARS. AN ONLINE POPULAR SCIENCE ARTICLE , ALSO DATED 03-02-2010, IS AVAILABLE ON THIS SUBJECT.

I am not an anti-Christ, a gun grabber or toter, an employee of any public or private space-related agency or enterprise, or a President Obama hater. I am a pan homo sapiens sapiens (modern world human), good-steward communitarian capitalist-system exponent, concerned citizen and strong supporter overall of President Obama. However, I oppose his decision on this matter and realize that he is, like all elected government leaders, a politician and all that entails, good and bad. I make this statement because my link postings of this blog on Twitter have brought email to me in support of my position on the concerned subject from groups of widely differing ideologies, some that are quite wacky and harsh toward liberals and such as well as blatantly virulently racist toward President Obama, whereas I do not identify with or relate to such people nor to bigotry. Rather, I condemn all bigotry.

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