Your Questions About Green Living

833.33 cents per home for years of free wind energy sounds pretty good to me. How about you?

This is actually an anti-green power article run by ABC complaining that 30% of the wind turbines are made in China. At this price I do not really care that much. The electricity will be made and used here and it is cheap.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/obama-stimulus-money-spent-overseas/story?id=10002592

The program has already spent $2 billion, funding enough projects to power 2.4 million homes. Any wind farm created in the U.S. is eligible for stimulus money to put up wind turbines, regardless of where those massive structures are made. Each turbine costs about $3 million, and reaches 40 stories into the sky.

A minimum of 70 percent of each wind turbine […] will be wholly manufactured in the United States and made entirely of American steel. It is incorrect to assume that the hundreds of additional jobs created aside from the direct construction and operation of the Texas plant would be outside the U.S.,” said Cappy McGarr, managing partner for the U.S. Renewable Energy Group.

The frustrated senators are concerned, though, that some of the money is also paying for manufacturing jobs in China, and they are pushing a bill requiring that stimulus projects create jobs in the United States. They want the wind energy program stopped before the Chinese turbine manufacturers can collect any money.
These are already built at this price.

In Texas Bill White from Houston is running for govenor against Rick Perry the incumbent. Who wins?

White is a very strong candidate. He made the City of Houston, the largest electricity user in the region, the nation’s #1 public purchaser of renewable energy. During his tenure at City Hall, Bill White cut the city’s energy use by six percent, despite double-digit growth in Houston’s population and thousands of new jobs. White required annual performance reviews of city employees, established performance-based pay programs, and was willing to ask low performers to improve or leave. He established a program to permanently recycle hundreds of thousands of tons of yard waste, reducing landfill costs to taxpayers. Bill White understands that keeping young people in school requires both publicly funded programs and the involvement of civic, business, and religious leaders at all levels of government.

Perry is the longest serving governor and won’t debate or take questions from the media. He has friends running the Teachers Retirement Fund who make millions in investment fees and the School Book Board that recommends altering history to make the chuch more important. Then another friend got millions from the Emerging Technology Fund on appealing to Gov. Perry, after he was originally turned down. Do you think he has been in office so long he doesn’t think all this political corruption matters to the voters?
As an independent voter I found Bill White when I was fed up with Perry’s cronies on the School Book Board who said the Civil War had slaves fighting for the Union and omitted Jefferson as a writer of the constitution instead of bettering our students knowledge.

Houston voters returned White to office with re-election margins of 91% and 86%.
Bill White’s proven track record with law enforcement, earned him the support of sheriffs responsible for 98% of Texans living in counties along the border.

The JFK Profiles in Courage Award is presented to two elected public officials each year. White was chosen for welcoming 150,000 hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees to the city despite complaints that the newcomers were a drain on local resources. He immediately helped establish emergency shelters and fostered creation of programs to help those who chose to stay in Houston find housing and jobs.

Anybody out there using a solar heated stirling engine to generate residential electricity?

I am a general contractor in Texas, I am currently designing a environmentally friendly home for myself and young family to live in. I am viewing my options on electricity generation, i.e PV with battery and invertor, bio diesel generators, solar powered stirling engine, possibly offsetting solar power with wind. I have a design for a trombe wall which will help cool the house in the summer and heat it in the winter. Solar powered H2O heaters are a no brainer, My brother in the UK has one and has an abundant amount of hot H20. The cooling system will probably encompass geo-thermal energy, again a lot of systems available, unfortunately for the masses these systems are more expensive than traditional energy sucking compressors and heat exchangers. Hopefully by the time I invest in renewable energy for my home the government will offer more than a $2000.00 TAX credit toward the investment.
If so please forward me details.

The very conservative and oil man T.Bone Pickens is advocating and pushing renewable energies such as?

solar and wind power. This man is as Republican as you can get and from Texas, so you know he was a Bush supporter. Now he is advocating what President Carter did 30 years ago. Does it really take this long for the GOP and conservatives to finally wake up?

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nvedukat… Carter had a solar energy program and even had solar panals placed on the White House. Reagan dismantled the program and then took the solar panals off the White House. perhaps you should read some history.
Suthrn, I know he has a vested interest in this. That wasn’t my point. But there are many small companies in the country that have already started their solar energy business’ and they are already doing very very well economically. They are even on the stock market and that has been a very strong sector. As far as I’m concerned I don’t care if he has heavy investments in it or not. As long as we can clearly get off oil with our energy needs and with our transportation needs, I don’t care. The economy will be better and so will our planet.
Thom…. liberals don’t think alternatives will get us off oil completely. Why do you think we advocate electric/gasoline plug in hybrids that get 180 miles per gallon and not bio fuels such as ethanol.

Which Candidate Has An Illegal Alien Policy?

The U.S. doesn’t have an unlimited energy and water resources…The water source that supplies Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa and parts of Texas is not a renewable resource.

Neither Mc Cain nor Obama has mentioned anything about what we’re to do with the illegal aliens in the U.S.

What’s with that?