The solution to the energy crisis is moving to HYDROGEN as our only combustible.
The problem with energy is that carbon rich materials are being burnt to make electricity... and drive pistons.
Ferget Biofuels... they still have carbon.... Hydrogen is the only thing that we can burn that is completely clean... and infinitely renewable.. ( you burn hydrogen...you get water... you split water, you get the hydrogen back )
One big flaw in current electricity generation is that it takes hours to bring generators online and offline...
And you CAN NOT generate more electricity than you are using... its got to GO somewhere. ( ever notice how the wind farms always have most of their windmills shut down? that's because they can't "store" excess power they generate) This makes electric power plants highly inefficient... IF we could run them at full generation capacity full time... we would be getting much more power per pound of fuel.
Power plants have huge massive flywheels that they can use to "store" some excess electrical output... bleeding that power back off the flywheels as demand peaks.... but they can only store so much in a flywheel.
The Hydrogen Solution would be to use Clean sources for generating the maximum amount of electricity all the time.... Geothermal, Solar, Tidal, Hydroelectric... and using the excess production to split water into liquid hydrogen and oxygen.
And here's the beauty part... 30% of all electricity generated is LOST due to conductive resistance in those huge transmission lines that distribute electricity all over the grid.
30%!
Liquid hydrogen is a superconductor.... You build pipelines to distribute LH to inland areas where they do not have clean sources of electricity generation...
Those same pipes become superconductors for transmission of electricity thru the grid.
Right there you just increased energy production by 30%...
When the local areas have peak demand for more power, they BURN THE HYDROGEN.
- clean power, on tap.
Cars can be electric Hydrogen hybrids... cause once you are pumping hydrogen all over the place... you have the infrastructure to support Hydrogen cars.
Now... we can not meet ALL energy needs thru totally clean sources...
So we need to start, TOMORROW, building nuclear power plants...
Despite irrational public fears of radiation.... Nuclear is the safest power generation method in the world.
And it does NOT produce very much waste.... in the 5o years that nuclear power plants have been operating in the US .... ALL of their hazardous radioactive waste has been stored ON SITE... in indoor pools.
Further... the key thing to remember is that all this radioactive stuff was dug out of the ground... sure we went to great expense to purify it....but it is really easy to De-purify something and simply re-bury it...
So there you have it...
This solution has the benefit of being a FINAL solution... not a temporary stopgap that we have to replace later on...
It puts citizens TO WORK building the infrastructure that will be needed- which will stimulate the economy... and the last public works project of such magnitude... the interstate highway system.... tripled the GNP.
And by ending our need for middle east oil... we solve the entire issue of middle east politics.... they can go back to date farming.
As nuclear fusion is developed, you simply replace fission reactors with fusion generation facilities...
Of all the energy plans I have seen... this one is the only one that will pay back its investment by being permanent.
Spread the word.