[Greenbuilding] Greenbuilding Digest, Vol 2, Issue 8

[John D'Angelo]

To all..

I have owned two electric vehicles 20 years ago. A car called the Citicar
that was made in Florida that went out of business a LONG time ago. To me it
was an idea SECOND car. It basically last forever because it had an aluminum
frame, and plastic body. All you had to do was change batteries every few
years. The thing I liked about it the best was there was virtually NO
maintenance. Today I would be charging it off renewable energy not the grid.

We all need to be aware of where our power comes from or I should say HOW it
is made. Yes wind and solar electric power are truly CLEAN power and fossil
fuel power is truly DIRTY power.

Hydrogen has its place. Yes it does take energy to make it but IF the power
to make it comes form wind or sun then how is that "EXPENSIVE"? After all a
wind generator or solar electric power WILL pay for itself one day and the
power then becomes absolutely free as does the hydrogen. That is the
economic reality of all renewable: the energy is FREE once the collection
system is paid for. So the economics does work but one has to get past the
"first time cost" . Basically fossil fuels have much lower entry level costs
to produce energy where as renewable have a much higher entry level costs.
But one thing ALL fossil fuels have in common is REPLACEMENT costs. You have
to feed the beast DAY in and DAY out.

There is NO reason why EVERY house built today cannot have 100% of its
energy come from the energy that falls on its roof. That said the house has
to practice and use the most energy efficient devices and natural light to
achieve that goal. We are in the stone age when we build and use fossil
fuels to power a home today.

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John D'Angelo
720.296.6790
http://www.beutilityfree.com