“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf and burning it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.”
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US President -elect Barack Obama gave the first of his weekly addresses to the nation and declared “that his administration would mark a new chapter in American leadership on climate change.”
Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change, he said. Many of you are working to confront this challenge….but too often, Washington has failed to show the same kind of leadership. That will change when I take office.
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Al Gore announced his strategy for powering the USA entirely from ‘renewable’ resources -a mixture of solar and wind - by a decade from now. (Are the sun and wind ‘renewable’? How?)
The ten-year time-span, and the ‘big project’ are borrowed from JF Kennedy’s speech announcing the plan to put a man on the moon. Gore makes no secret of it, indeed, he is overtly trying to capture the same spirit, and sense of historical moment by paraphrasing Kennedy.
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The answer sounds like a cocktail recipe but it worth checking out more information about the open source project here
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That new energy concept named a solar tower is able to generate enough electricity for 200,000 homes.In fact, this looking like a giant smokestack appurtenance would release no noxious fumes — just sun-heated air.
Some of these days was told that the demonstrated more than 20 years ago project has the basic design calls for solar collectors to warm the air near Earth’s surface in order to channel it up the tall central tower then. Turbines placed at the bottom make electricity from the updraft.
“It’s a combination chimney, windmill, greenhouse,” said Kim Forté of EnviroMission Limited in South Melbourne, Australia.
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