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Outfit all public schools with solar rooftop panels. When school is not in session, sell power back.
Public schools' budgets all over the nation are being strangled. School rooftops can be a source of income for the schools aside from lowering their operating costs for energy. Peak consumption of energy during the work/school week will be lowered, reducing the likelihood of energy blackouts, and during non-school hours, the enrgy collected could be sold back to energy providers, helping them to conform to renewable energy standards,and giving the schools some extra income. The placement of the panels would be temporary work, but with thousands of schools, it would help many of the unemployed from construction fields.
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Reduce the need for oil in the United States. Our need for oil weakens our national security.
The govenment and the business community need to cooperate to develop alternative energy sources that can be readily available as soon as possible. Energy tax credits should be available to business for research and development of these energy sources. There should also be a tax incentives to individuals who opt to use alternative energy sources in their cars and homes. If we didn't have to import foreign oil, we could save billions of dollars, clean up our environment, and keep our military out of the Middle East.
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Industrial Energy Parks - Energy Pods tied together with Mini Smart Grid
Using Warehouse rooftops in Industrial districts to create small self sufficient Energy Parks. A minimum of ten warehouses tied together with a mini Smart Grid (intelligent), that meters energy with demand and distributes. Excess is piped of to main grid or substation. Call them energy Pods to keep to a managable level, so company can be involved in the success and metering (nice graphics for employees to view). Great for company green ad campaigns and most of all...jobs. If this became a nationwide model, would have multiple benefits...lower high energy demand districts that clog up main grid, and create an… more
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Tax free renewable energy profits
Incentivize renewable energy by making profits from any renewable energy or renewable energy technology sold tax free for the next 50 years. (As opposed to increasing taxes on coal and oil.) I see this approach having the following benefits (in addition to job creation):
1) Will increase the profit potential of investing in alternative energy and lowering the breakeven point, attracting more investment.
2) Will give business long term stability in planning because these are not credits or subsidies that can be changed depending upon congressional politics.
3) Will not increase the cost of doing business for truckers, cabbies, delivery… more19 votes -
Science!
1. Invest solely in hydrogen (the MOST abundant element in the universe) power.
2. Stop all purchase of foreign oil
3. Phase out petroleum based vehicles just as we did with analog TV9 votes -
Create a renewable energy source
Creation of a renewable constant energy source is the key to the future either through a push into hydrogen power which is already available, or a push in the scientific community to find a better answer. Solar power is already in use so lets start actually building them on a large scale and hydrogen engines HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, no outsourcing inovate create build and export is the only choice if we want constant jobs here
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Encourage solar electric powered air conditioning for homes and businesses
The need for air conditioning directly corresponds to the availability of solar energy which corresponds to peak daily and annual electrical demand. To burn 4 units of coal energy to deliver one unit of cool air energy is thermodynamic suicide and dumber than dumb.
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Immediatley start the process of installing solar panels on all governmentally owned buildings.
All federal state and local government buildings should be the starting point for a major push to move away from fuels as our primary power source. By starting with government buildings, this would bring a high level of demand for the skills and products neccessary thereby creating a more cost effective market price for the average consumer to start taking advantage. And so called "public utilities" should start acting like it instead of being focused on profits.
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