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  Efficiency and Conservation

  Building efficiency and conservation improvements, remodels, and modifications are a option that would put local people to work on local projects.  Maybe even fund local organizations to hire engineers, develop appropriate local strategies for conservation, secure a work force, train them and make them available to the community to do such jobs.On American Progress' 'Green Recovery' plan posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago 21 Responses

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  Welcome To Southland DR

  Welcome to So Cal David.  Now what is this thing you say in the title, something called "rain."  Sounds familar, something from a long time ago.  I will have to Google it and see if that might jog my memory.

  Be careful with fire while visiting down here.On L.A. bereft of clouds, rain; climate change the culprit? posted 2 years ago 3 Responses

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  Good News

  It is so refreshing to see recognition that leaving power supply development to the market is a fool's strategy.On Wind power installations set to soar 63 percent this year posted 2 years ago 6 Responses

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  Storage Is Critical

  As a small 600 MW operator of the grid I must say that storage is vital to operation of the grid.  We, the people, need storage so that we can take in more renewables than something on the order of 33 percent.  Having simply EV, only electric vehicles, will not provide the storage that is needed.

  This is why a smart grid is so necessary.  We must coordinate the delivery capability and need for electricity.  Storage helps us align that delivery capabilty with the need.

  I suspect that there are some economic inefficiencies here.  In other words, I think that utility that serves the hybrid plug in vehicle during the peak periods can contribute a positive cash flow to the owner in terms of energy or cash, only problem is I am not sure of the value of such flow.  I suspect it is significant.On 100 households to test out plug-in hybrid Pruises in California posted 2 years ago 3 Responses

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  Shortages and Rationing

  While markets work as long as supply and demand are within the linear operating range of supply and demand.  I fear that if supplies are short enough that reality will result in a rationing reaction.

  I do not yet believe that Americans wll stand by and let people reach that depth of desparation simply because the poor can not find the money to pay the price for a product that has been driven to outrageously high level in order to send a price signal to the masses.

  I think that the power of potentially limiting power or water is under-rated or has been largely ignored.  I see no reason to continue to feed power and water to those who chose to be inefficient dispite their ability to pay.

  We all must, especially those whith sufficient resources, must practice efficiency and energy conservation.  On CBPP launches a climate equity program posted 2 years ago 5 Responses