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Chapter 29: Rethink “green” and a Few other Suggestion

Chapter 29: Rethink “green” and a Few other Suggestion. Written by Robert Bryce Presented by : Stephen Berwick. “Green” is not cheap or easy. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -Voltaire

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Chapter 29: Rethink “green” and a Few other Suggestion

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  1. Chapter 29: Rethink “green” and a Few other Suggestion Written by Robert Bryce Presented by: Stephen Berwick

  2. “Green” is not cheap or easy Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -Voltaire • “ All the blather about “green” has caused the delusion that we can get energy on the cheap with out environmental impact at all.” • $5.5 trillion will be spent by the International Energy agency between now and 2030 on renewable energy. • By 2030 renewable energy could provide 10% of the worlds primary energy needs.

  3. N2N Plan • Promote Natural gas and nuclear power through target use of tax incentives • Encourage oil and gas production in the U.S. • Continue promoting energy efficiency • Continue working on renewables and energy storage technologies such as batteries and compressed air energy

  4. Support the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) • IAEA is the organization that is supposed to regulate and police the nuclear center • On September 7, 2002 Bush falsely claim that the IAEA issued a report saying that Iraq was just six month away from developing a nuclear weapon • January 27, 2003 the director general of the IAEA told the UN that there was no evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq • Right now it is under funded and lack political power

  5. End Iowa’s Monopoly on the Presidential Primaries • Iowa is too small and agriculturally focus for the first primary • The ethanol debate became a litmus test in the last election • Obama was Pro ethanol before running • Hillary became Pro ethanol after becoming a presidential candidate as did McCain.

  6. Elect More Engineers and Push Science, Technology, Engineering and Math • U.S. run by lawyers. who write “super-long super-complex bills.” • The 2005 Energy policy Act was 550 pages • The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act 310 pages • The 2009 American Clean Energy and Security Act 1428 pages • In 2009 only three senator had engineering degrees • USA has 1.1 million lawyers, which is about 1 lawyer for every 280 citizen. • France has 46,000 lawyers, which is about 1 lawyer for every 1,300 citizen.

  7. Emulate Iran and France • Iran and France embraced Nuclear and Natural Gas • In 2008 Natural gas provides 15% of France’s energy, and 55% of Iran’s • In 1973 nuclear power provided about 2% of France’s energy in 2008 it provided 39% • Today nuclear power provide nearly 80% of France’s power • Iran has embraced Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs) • Iran had 1.5 million NGVs in mid 2009

  8. Current Natural Gas Vehicle Statistics

  9. Quit Wasting Natural Gas • In 2007 5.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas were burned as waste • That is equivalent to 30% of the European unions total annual gas needs • On average the world burn 14.5 billion cubic feet of gas. That is equal to 2.6 million barrels of oil worth the energy.

  10. Put someone in charge of energy • “Energy policy is like the weather: Everybody complains about it, but no one does anything about it.” • In 1971 energy policies were determined by 48 federal agency and 14 congressional committees • In 2009 24 federal agency and 25 congressional committees

  11. Questions • Q. how much Natural gas was burned as waste in 2007. • A. 5.3 trillion cubic feet • Q. what is the ratio of lawyers to citizens that the USA has. • A. Approximately 1-280

  12. References • NVG global http://www.iangv.org/current-ngv-stats/ • Bryce, Robert. Power Hungry, The Myths Of. Public Affairs, 2013. Print.

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