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Is it just the lack of a concise message? Are you saying they should pick a particular project and let others pick up the rest of the list?
Speaking as a hodgepodger/generalist myself, I am well aware of the shortcomings of losing focus and trying too many things, getting spread out too thin.. Then again, I see energy as complicated, life as complicated, the solutions to losing our one, biggest draft-horse as a complicated blend of elements that will have to somehow be stretched out to fill a big shoe. Some answers are supplyside, some are demand, and finding out what we actually need, after a few generations of having access to many extra 'wants'.
You probably just got my goat by mentioning Solar Heating. I think that's one of the best ways to free up liquids and gases for transp, but it's too 'Sweatery' for people to get all excited about. It's so simple. My house burns about 12gal/day of heating oil through the cold months, and there are millions of homes and businesses that do the same.. Solar air and water heating could knock a huge chunk of that out.. if China doesn't get ALL our copper before we decide to start really putting them in.
Read throught the list. Ask yourself if they aren't getting just a little too cute with the sequestration of massive quantities of carbon dioxide [to way below current levels if the goal is energy self suffiency. My suppostiion is that they tacked that one one only to appease one of the core left wing consituent groups -- the hard core greens.
AReduced CO2 emmissions is not bad objective, but the massive reduction that was proposed struck me as nothing more than pandering.
Our copper? Is this the same idea as OUR oil under THEIR sand?
"What's behind the thefts is the rising price of copper, brass and aluminum and the demand for scrap metal in China and Taiwan, some say. On Wednesday, depending on the grade, copper sold for $3 to $3.10 a pound at Ace Scrap Metals, 5900 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis. Aluminum sold for 70 cents to $1 a pound, and brass went for 90 cent to $1.75, depending on the grade."
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisstatenews/story/C5A77E83E088F13C8625718000 16615E?OpenDocument
I don't claim the earth's mineral rights in the name of the US, but like the question of 'Energy Independence', I feel the issue is what we are throwing away, and at our own peril. What we treat as junk and even as a simple, movable commodity could be, like copper, a resource with enormous value if we look to possible uses (like solar hot water) that might call for a stockpile that we, in typical short-sightedness and devoted Market-sensibility, have allowed to ship overseas instead of creating a strategic reserve, or at least applying to countless current needs here at home.