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Transportation has always been the catalyst for changing energy systems;
1,000 year-old windmills in Iran. Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall Watson
There is a huge payback in allowing alternatives to oil/coal-fired transportation infrastructure. The costs of monopoly protected modes of transportation are:
By 2020 US oil consumption can be cut in half. By 2030 America can be 80% powered within a solar budget. We can accomplish what Thomas Edison noted was practical in 1910:
"Sunshine is spread out thin and so is electricity. Perhaps they are the same, Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy.”
“Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.
“There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen...."
As soon as the Federal monopoly is broken that protects oil-powered highways and mass transit from competition, the success in breaking the Federal communicaitons monopoly will be repeated. After liberty was restored in communications in 1982 the near century of rotary telephones was displaced by the Internet (created in 1969) and cell networks (1946). After liberty is restored in transportation the costs of pollution, congestion, and accident will be converted into value. America does not have an energy problem; we have a socialism problem of government control of the means of production in power and transportation infrastructure.
The Net Energy of solar is 6x better that oil at powering transportation:
Government officials protecting their transportation monopolies deny that enough solar energy can be stored to power transportation. We agree with Edison, "power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces". Storing energy, like cutting transportation costs by 90% requires only to think more naturally and simply. Nature's low work solution for storing and distributing energy is hydrocarbons, food, wood, oil, and natural gas. We simply mimic nature within a closed loop system to cut cost:
The financial collapse of 2008 will repeat by 2020 if America does not radically transition off its dependence on oil by 2020 based on:
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