Friday, July 4, 2008

Energy Problem: Proposed Solution

1) Fuel Source conversion

a) Design a clean running diesel hybrid engine that runs off of biofuel that can either be grown or recycled from restraint grease

b) Sign agreements with nation’s largest fast food chains to make available their extra fry grease for consumers to use in their vehicles at less than 0.99 per gallon. Cap and regulate this so that the fast food industry is still making money off of this but that the American public has a cost effective source of fuel.

c) Invest in our domestic agrarian resources as a source for producing bio-fuels. The bio-fuels that are developed should be a compensation of oils from corn, soy and other replenish-able crops. These should be grown traditionally (soil) and hydroponically. These should be grown in multiple locations to install redundancy in the system.

d) Redirection of major domestic oil and gas companies to focus on the agrarian growth and processing of bio-fuel. Making agreements with farmers as they would fossil fuel deposits and minors. The profit for the oil companies should stem off of quantity and quality of bio-fuels and as a result of their alignment with the farming community.

2) Reduce our overall consumption of liquid fuels in vehicles : It has been widely stated that one opposition to organic renewable fuels is that it is not speculated that we could produce enough biofuel to maintain the country’s current need for fuel. In a budget you can increase income or reduce spending. We need to reduce spending on liquid fuel. This is a plan for such a reduction:

a) Re-establish a national rail system for freight and commuter interstate traffic. Invest in fast high capacity mag rails and electric trains that run on existing, upgraded or newly developed rails. These should be power by nuclear, hydraulic and wind turbine power plants.

b) Migrate the majority of domestic airline and bus passenger traffic to train. Airline, train and bus are all part of the same union. A multi-year program to retrain and merge the majority of employees to train traffic and building out of train stations, infrastructure and facilities needs to be developed and implemented.

c) Interstate freight delivery of raw products, goods, vehicles, mail, packages, merchandise etc. needs to be migrated from Semi Trucks to trains. Truck drivers are currently experiencing lower profit margins because cost of fossil fuels for their rigs are is going up and the price companies and organizations are willing to pay is not increasing at proportional rates. Truck drivers, and others in the intrastate trucking industry could also be migrated into the train systems on the freight side. Rails should deliver cargo into the heart of most major cities in the country and a drastically reduced fleet of semi trucks could then deliver the freight in the final in-city or intercity leg of the journey. High torque, low install, low maintenance Diesel Hybrid engines should be developed and installed in these trucks within a 10 year period of time, utilizing enhanced biofuel production processes, such as hydroponics and accelerated growth research.

d) Overall, develop a 5 to 10 year plan to migrate most interstate traffic to clean rails from air and road.

3) Transition stationary energy requirements to non-centralized sources.

a) Single Electric and gas companies should not be the main source of power for homes and offices within specific area or region. Power stations should be owned and operated by a minimum of 3 different and competing privately owned companies, with rates subject to government caps to keep pricing moving in a comparative direction.

b) Houses should be retrofitted with domestic generating systems consisting of items such as wind turbines, solar panels, rain refilled hydrogen fuel cells that should equal a minimum of 90% of the average energy requirement per foot of the square footage of that house. A way of calculating per square foot power consumption of a house needs to be developed. Then utilizing that number a system needs to be developed where new houses are required to cover at least 90 to 100% of their usage and older retrofitted houses need to produce a minimum of 70% to 90% of their usage. Sufficient insulation, storm energy efficient windows etc. need to be included in housing codes.