Comments on: 5 US towns seeking energy independence with renewable resources http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/5-us-towns-energy-independence-renewable-resources/ Fresh culture daily. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Uncle B http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/5-us-towns-energy-independence-renewable-resources/comment-page-1/#comment-2532 Uncle B Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:01:33 +0000 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=19896#comment-2532 Far too little attention has been given to super-insulation! Proper applications of new and remarkable products as well as "Space Age" technologies still hidden under Military wraps as for defense industries only, will change the "Off-Grid" survival picture entirely! Super insulated Straw Bale homes are proof of the point! Folks live in them now, in the northern Canadian reaches, and little publicized, and not well known facts are: they have no or very low heating bills! Southern climates can do the same, and have no cooling bills! Somewhere on this marvelous net was a "Super Battery" using depleted uranium, with almost miraculous specifications! The ability to absorb almost any charge, surge, or low current, as from Wind Turbines, even in storms, and to discharge the same at required steady currents through what ever load placed on them! Forever, without fluids to maintain, and completely recyclable! This battery and an associated space-age "Alternator" of high frequency design, 400hz if I remember right, was a tenth the weight of comparable units, had "super-magnets and was used by the U.S. Navy, secretly, for aircraft! I wonder what else lies just beyond the fingertips of Joe Consumer, protected by patent law, greedy corporatism's interests, and political forces unnameable? Are we really close to the brink of energy crisis or are we at an artificial barrier set up to justify extracting even more of our hard earned cash from our pockets? I for one feel that totally comfortable "Off-Grid" dwelling is entirely possible through modern technologies, and unrevealed modern science miracles we have no access yet to! "Stuff" leaks to then net! There are "Watchers" Asians sometimes "Tell All" and they have a remarkable store of knowledge as yet uncontrolled by greedy corporatism and capitalism One day soon, mankind will be given an energy independence our forefathers never knew, and that day approaches and will cause great paradigm shifts in the world! Far too little attention has been given to super-insulation! Proper applications of new and remarkable products as well as “Space Age” technologies still hidden under Military wraps as for defense industries only, will change the “Off-Grid” survival picture entirely! Super insulated Straw Bale homes are proof of the point! Folks live in them now, in the northern Canadian reaches, and little publicized, and not well known facts are: they have no or very low heating bills! Southern climates can do the same, and have no cooling bills! Somewhere on this marvelous net was a “Super Battery” using depleted uranium, with almost miraculous specifications! The ability to absorb almost any charge, surge, or low current, as from Wind Turbines, even in storms, and to discharge the same at required steady currents through what ever load placed on them! Forever, without fluids to maintain, and completely recyclable! This battery and an associated space-age “Alternator” of high frequency design, 400hz if I remember right, was a tenth the weight of comparable units, had “super-magnets and was used by the U.S. Navy, secretly, for aircraft! I wonder what else lies just beyond the fingertips of Joe Consumer, protected by patent law, greedy corporatism’s interests, and political forces unnameable? Are we really close to the brink of energy crisis or are we at an artificial barrier set up to justify extracting even more of our hard earned cash from our pockets? I for one feel that totally comfortable “Off-Grid” dwelling is entirely possible through modern technologies, and unrevealed modern science miracles we have no access yet to! “Stuff” leaks to then net! There are “Watchers” Asians sometimes “Tell All” and they have a remarkable store of knowledge as yet uncontrolled by greedy corporatism and capitalism One day soon, mankind will be given an energy independence our forefathers never knew, and that day approaches and will cause great paradigm shifts in the world!

]]> By: 5 US Towns Stepping Up Their Energy Independence « Green Building | Design, Technology, Products, Solutions | SmarterBuilding.com http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/5-us-towns-energy-independence-renewable-resources/comment-page-1/#comment-1733 5 US Towns Stepping Up Their Energy Independence « Green Building | Design, Technology, Products, Solutions | SmarterBuilding.com Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:47:42 +0000 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=19896#comment-1733 [...] Energy, green building | by jonathangeorger Found over at the Sundance Channel’s SUNfiltered blog, comes an eye opener in terms of local communities making a step towards energy [...] [...] Energy, green building | by jonathangeorger Found over at the Sundance Channel’s SUNfiltered blog, comes an eye opener in terms of local communities making a step towards energy [...]

]]> By: Jeff McIntire-Strasburg http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/5-us-towns-energy-independence-renewable-resources/comment-page-1/#comment-1706 Jeff McIntire-Strasburg Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:32:43 +0000 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=19896#comment-1706 Thank you so much for chiming in, Olga... love what you're doing with your site... Thank you so much for chiming in, Olga… love what you’re doing with your site…

]]> By: Olga Anne Frantz http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/5-us-towns-energy-independence-renewable-resources/comment-page-1/#comment-1693 Olga Anne Frantz Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:53:07 +0000 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=19896#comment-1693 There's plenty of wind to fill the sails of our mythical prairie schooner up here in Alberta; it sucks the moisture from the soil and hardens the lines on the faces of the farmers up here. My hubby and I were thinking about the small towns dotting the rural landscape of North America and published the site listed above. We sent President Obama a hard copy in the mail but never heard back. We were probably too optimistic about the size of the towns that might be targeted for a "makeover"; your article seems to confirm that. We still think the basic idea has merit. It provides the "hook" that might capture people's imagination.... On a completely different note...during our travels we have encountered many a traffic jam in the major cities of the world and that got us to thinking about how many supermarkets stock their shelves at night. Consider how many man hours are lost delivering goods to retailers during the day. Picture the Dan Ryan beginning around 6AM as it approaches downtown Chicago, or Interstate 5, or a trip to the airport from any major city, etc. Trucks clogging the road! Of course Chicago prohibits private vehicular traffic on State Street, but why not expand the concept. Why not require deliveries at night. Drivers could be paid extra for night work and we would still save millions of dollars and millions of tons of particulates from idling engines. Radical, yes. Doable, yes. At least we think so! There’s plenty of wind to fill the sails of our mythical prairie schooner up here in Alberta; it sucks the moisture from the soil and hardens the lines on the faces of the farmers up here. My hubby and I were thinking about the small towns dotting the rural landscape of North America and published the site listed above. We sent President Obama a hard copy in the mail but never heard back. We were probably too optimistic about the size of the towns that might be targeted for a “makeover”; your article seems to confirm that. We still think the basic idea has merit. It provides the “hook” that might capture people’s imagination….

On a completely different note…during our travels we have encountered many a traffic jam in the major cities of the world and that got us to thinking about how many supermarkets stock their shelves at night. Consider how many man hours are lost delivering goods to retailers during the day. Picture the Dan Ryan beginning around 6AM as it approaches downtown Chicago, or Interstate 5, or a trip to the airport from any major city, etc. Trucks clogging the road! Of course Chicago prohibits private vehicular traffic on State Street, but why not expand the concept. Why not require deliveries at night. Drivers could be paid extra for night work and we would still save millions of dollars and millions of tons of particulates from idling engines. Radical, yes. Doable, yes. At least we think so!

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