Birthing the Solar Age

[greenman3610]

A few years ago I set out to make a series of “Renewable Energy Solution of the Month” videos, but I’ve been swamped in the meantime by continually trying to keep up with and sort out the tidal wave of information, and disinformation, about climate change itself. Finally I’m getting back around to presenting the hopeful facts. Speaking to thousands and thousands of people has convinced me that, if you only talk about the problem, and not the path forward, its almost as if people literally, physiologically – can’t hear you.

For months I’ve been gathering interviews with people I know who are following the renewable energy explosion – and everywhere I go, I’m telling people that we are in a stage very much like the internet in about 1993 – taking shape and about to blow up. In fact, the key enabling technologies for renewables are growing right out of the distributed information network that is shaping the new century. There’s no going back, and the companies, and countries, that do not grasp the scale of the change we are seeing, may not survive.

I hope everyone will watch and share this.

[bradla]

1. Oil and coal will be a thing of the past.

It may take 20 years but it simply will be too costly for those companies to continue extracting that junk. Oh boy, those companies will be kicking and screaming.

[ballyhoo]

2. I'll wait until there are not so many fly-by-night solar

companies selling the product with their questionable reps carry wads of documents that look like they were torn from a Sears catalog. Also, utility companies are beginning to charge a progressively increasing fee to tie into their equipment. I'll probably wait until we can get out of the country and find some place with more real life to enjoy before I consider solar. Meantime, I'll just enjoy the power from SCE and watch life go by through my barred doors and windows, which were not there three years ago. No one on my street has solar for basically the same reasons as I.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, greenman.

[peoli]

4. k/r