BOTTOM UP CARBON STRATEGY

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Climate Risk
Consumerism
Cultural Ideas That Used to Work
Economic Strategy
Encompassing End to End Management
Entrepreneurs With Business Plans, Focused on What
Glossy Thinking in a Complex World
Handling Complex Things in Lifestyle
Hogtied With Today's Problems---Carbon Later
Imagining Beyond Sacrifice and Deprivation
Indigenous Industries and Technologies
Information and Control
Making Economic Customization Affordable
Managability of Technology
Middle Class on 100 KWH/Month
Public Derivatives Based on Tight Measurement
Short Stories About Life in 2121
Smart Grid
Technology
Ten Million People Can't Be Too Stupid to Contribute
The Front End of Technology and the Human Brain
Threshold Industries
What is Inside and Out of the Box
Where is the Electricity Waste

Step Out and Read the Meter

Mothers can know the GPS whereabouts of their children and call them to give precaution they are playing in a dangerous area. I can know the news in China real time, when unemployment effects my investment in Chinese real estate and instantly establish a trade in response to the news. But the electricity company hires a man to drive around in a petroleum powered car to read my electric meter. The application of newer technology does not get applied to the most cost-effective purpose from a macro economic point of view. Relying on efficient markets with blind faith is foolish ideology.

Pew Survey Shows Unflapable American Optimism

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From the above Pew survey, the American public evidently believes more strongly that no fundamental shift has occurred or is occurring. I hope they are right. This kind of optimism translates into having cake and eating it too--just like the delusional credit binge of early this decade. This economic shock evidently doesn't drive the public to ask the same questions or have the same reservation as I do. The survey subjects must believe some short term pain, a little tweeking and we'll be merrily on our way. The American public evidently believes this current economic downturn is just noise in an ever upward trend in economic prosperity.

Trivial Reasons

Standby power on billions of devices is not generally necessary. Plug-in regulation of electricity use, such as always-on power supply cubes, can switch off devices for the power consumed by presence sensors. Newly designed nano technology to sense presence is greatly needed. The same applies to nano tech switch signaling. When power consumption for these devices is in the relative scale of micro-amps, using it in device control can take down quite a number of coal fired power plants.

As well, existing technology is also capable of more efficient control than always -on, in-standby status devices.

Because, there is no trivially small consumption of electricity when it is multiplied by billions of devices.

A heavy sacrastic view of supply side dreamland

Think about the capital investment required for the three windmills in the back yard--possibly a half Million Dollars--for one or two or three automobiles? Even if the math isn't quite there, the idea is still in the right trend. With the U.S. public ledger alone in hock for ten Trillion Dollars and growing, where is the capital coming from to build those wind mills, or will that be provided by the mythical Don Quixote? If the wind doesn't blow, then good old Middle East oil will be used to charge the car batteries and possibly the next night given back to the grid to run the nichrome (electric) space heater next to the bed--not as utopian as the wind conveniently blowing before the full moon. Or is that Moon gas appearing from moonbeams, tittilating the atmospheric methane belched up from the cattle supplying beef for the new middle class in China--new energy not yet dreamed by rockhead/egghead engineers, or does that mean we might do well to think more about globalized regulation of financial or larger markets? So, if our transportation system is going to work this way, of thirty or forty million automobiles, what is going to be the capital outlay for all of those windmills? Is it going to be paid by piling up more debt, also not to forget the capital to pay for new transmission capability and the new high tech grid control necessary to make it work? Also not to forget asking slumbering Dilbert, after a week or two of experiencing those massive poles and noisy machines in his back yard, if he still wants to tilt with those windmills. It's not Norman Rockwell's America any more and it's not Kirk Kerkorian's America any more. Renewable or not, increasing generating capacity (or according to RMI, "build out") is just like building freeways--build it and they will come--then more, then more. Maybe a little sobering up would do us good. Why not try something new--tell the public the truth about what we all must sacrifice and labor together as one people on a planet for which we all have responsibility. I think there is something special about the American people. I think they are ready to roll up their sleeves if asked--or am I the dreamer and it is still Kerkorian's America after all? "Overture, light the lights, this is it, the night of nights, and oh what heights we'll hit, on with the show, this is it."

Global boom in coal power – and emissions

"In all, at least 37 nations plan to add coal-fired capacity in the next five years – up from the 26 nations that added capacity during the past five years. With Sri Lanka, Laos, and even oil-producing nations like Iran getting set to join the coal-power pack, the world faces the prospect five years from now of having 7,474 coal-fired power plants in 79 countries pumping out 9 billion tons of CO2 emissions annually – out of 31 billion tons from all sources in 2012." Christian Science Monitor, March 22, 2007.

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"How do we use electricity," is the best question to ask when we think about global climate change? An important source of our problems is, grass roots, inside out, bottom up, individual behavior--lots of little things. It's about attitude and what we think is ultimately important. This content is not about what we want to believe, what is popular, exposure or number of hits. It's not simple. It's not a silver bullet. It's about how lots of people can use business and technology to profit by a greater understanding about how electricity is used and wasted, deep into the margins of electricity services. As capital investment funds are available, it's premise is that investing in demand side waste reduction is usually a more efficient market than supply side power production, increasingly as energy commodities inevitably become more costly. It's about how systems, institutions, ideas and ingenuity form with the mass cultural change that accompanies the sobering realization that almost everything is on the line as global warming sinks to the core of universal human motivation.

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