SOTU: Bush Wanted Renewable Energy Cuts
SOTU: Bush Wanted Renewable Energy Cuts
Bush said: “The best way to break this addiction is through technology. Since 2001, we have spent nearly 10 billion dollars to develop cleaner, cheaper, more reliable alternative energy sources – and we are on the threshold of incredible advances.”
FACT — BUSH PUSHED FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY CUTS IN LATEST BUDGET: President Bush’s FY06 budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) energy efficiency and renewable energy programs envisioned “reductions totaling nearly $50 million – an overall cut of roughly four percent.” [Renewable Energy Access, 2/28/05]
FACT — BUSH REJECTED BIPARTISAN PLAN TO SET GOALS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY: Last year, President Bush “oppose[d] efforts to include a national renewable energy requirement for utilities in Congress’ broad energy legislation.” According to the Union of Concerned Scientists it “is a cost-effective, market-based policy that requires electric utilities to gradually increase their use of renewable energy resources such as wind, solar, and bioenergy,” to between 10 and 20 percent by 2020. A 10 percent standard “would have virtually no impact on electricity prices and could save consumers as much as $13.2 billion.” [Reuters, 2/10/05; Union of Concerned Scientists; Union of Concerned Scientists]
FACT — BUSH ENERGY BILL CONTAINED LITTLE ON RENEWABLE ENERGY: The energy bill supported and signed by President Bush dropped a provision that would have required utilities “to generate at least 10 percent of their electricity through renewable fuels by 2020.” [New York Times, 7/26/05]
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yada yada yada…. If we are going to become independent of foreign oil, then we can pull out of Iraq tomorrow. Bush is proposing Demcratic ideas. The problem is the Republicans are going to have to deliver on these ideas. It won’t happen and it will play into the hands of the Democrats. Bush has no real vision beyond tomorrow. This speach is all about trying to bring up HIS poll numbers. What he doesn’t realize is his statements are setting the bar high for the Republicans to deliver which they won’t. He hasn’t delivered on any of his promises from the SOTU addresses and he won’t deliver on this on either.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:05 pmYou are right cats.. bush doesn’t give a rip about curbing our dependance on foreign or domestic oil. He is using this as an attempt to reach to democrats. I will take it though. We need to talk about our real addiction, our addiction to cars and sprawl. I pray that if nothing else our country will start a national debate on oil and how we need to encourage smart growth and new urbanism to decrease our dependance on cars and sprawl. Please take a few minutes to read a little about Howard Kunstler.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:47 pmgeorge senior owns 51% of marathon oil. Do you honestly believe he would endanger his inheritance just to do the right thing for america?stop paying farmers pennies not to grow on all their land and start growing crops for biodeisal!!
January 31st, 2006 at 11:52 pmSo let’s See…Addicted to Foreign Oil. Sure George.
And NOW the USA is going to switch to ethanol from Twigs and Grass from the Heartland. Hmmm.
That’s Odd though… Seeing as how the USA just invaded
and occupied the richest OIL reserves on earth…
… using GI’s from that very same heartland…. Hmmm
One Citizen MUST wonder… China? India? Who? Where? When?
What? Is going to happen to all of that Not-So-Foreign-Oil… now that Iraq was colonized like the 51st state?
… Protected with Our Very Own National Guard and Reserves.
This is odd, odd indeed. One of the Latest Republican Meta-Cons… getting a roll-out in “The State of the Union Address.”
Send Your Boys and Girls to Die for Mid East Oil… for Cheney and Exxon and Enron…Yet don’t expect any of it at
home…
Instead, pay the price of New Technology innovations… and Let Cheney and Exxon and Enron own the World’s Oil… and FUEL their ongoing Industrial Revolution of China and India.
Cleary, The State of the Union is One UNDER SIEGE… One of Immense CONs against the Citizenry.
February 1st, 2006 at 12:03 amGod Bless our Over-Deployed and Under-Supplied Troops. Bring the Home NOW. The Nation NEEDS its National Guard.
[...] So we spent $10 billion over 5 years on alternative energy research. It sounds like a big number but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what we should be spending and how much we’ve spent on this bogus war. This is going to be one of those programs that sounds great but will get underfunded and swept under the rug. Nto to mention how much of it he’s wanted to cut or underfund in the past. [...]
February 1st, 2006 at 11:04 amI think the numbers given by Bush (10 billion over 5 years) are BS. They must include subsidies to the coal industry to develop ‘emissions-free’ coal (a logical impossibility) and nuclear industry. The first thing this administration did was to slash the renewable research (solar / wind/ biofuels) budget by 80%. Ever see the movie ‘Syrianna’? There’s a memorable quote, something like “We’ll keep making money as long as we don’t start running cars on water”. We are going to spend 2 trillion plus in Iraq – that’s a lot of solar panels and wind turbines. However, Iraq has a hundred billion barrels, maybe two hundred, of high grade crude. At future prices of $100 a barrel, that’s at least 10 trillion dollars worth of oil. Pretty good return on investment, 500%, IF YOU CONTROL THE OIL! Astonishing that these people can get away with their lies in the corporate media – but guess who owns that?
February 7th, 2006 at 1:06 pmClean energy
The entire world is looking for a source of clean energy. I have discovered a certain paradox basing on which a machine called METOZ can be built which by harnessing the gravitation of our EARTH can produce clean energy.
The energy producing process is demonstrated in:
http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/paradox.html
and can be very easily confirmed by an experiment.
I am also in possession of a set of calculations which prove that the METOZ machine:
1/ does not consume water / 39 A5-pictures /;
2/ does not consume compressed air / 39 A5-pictures /;
3/ produces energy to the outside = 4 839 kGm during a „swing cycle†/39 A5-pictures /;
/ this is a „weight cycle†= the centre of gravity of the water in the METOZ machine sinks ( downward movement ) /
4/ energy is produced / released to the outside = 44 600 kGm during the „straightening cycle†/ 39 A5-pictures /.
/ this is a “pressure cycle†= the water mass centre of gravity inside the METOZ machine travels upwards (upward movement) /
Features: 1/; 2/; 3/; 4/, of the machine owing to appropriate dimensions of individual elements of the lever mechanism.
The METOZ has an even-arm lever of a 1.72 m length. The centre of gravity of the lever lies beneath the lever suspension point. The METOZ is equipped with two cylinders of a 1.6 m diameter each. Piston sidewalls do not contact directly with cylinder walls. The lever swing changes between and .
Figures ( 3 x 13 x 4 = 156 ) present temporary, consecutive action situations at intervals of . The middle figure presents the machine and the side figures the position of the left and right cylinder and the mathematical description of these situations.
In the past I have made two models, which confirmed the legitimacy of my theoretical assumptions concerning the METOZ machine. I have got photographs.
I am looking for a person who would be interested in my invention. I can offer ample information. I look forward to hearing from you.
http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/three_levers.html
13 – 03 -2005 Gdynia, Polska Zygmunt OrÅ‚owski
P.S. The term “gravitational paradox†used in this description relates to the mathematical and physical description of the action of the METOZ-machine.
THE EARTH GRAVITATION CAN BE THE SOURCE OF CLEAN ENERGY.
Comment for METOZ
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By
Orlowski Zygmunt
Poland 2005
index html
Comments concerning machine “METOZ”
“METOZ” is able to realize the cycle “deflection” and the cycle “straighening.” Both cycles are in accordance with current physic’s laws. “METOZ” as machine can not work and hand over the energy because it would be inconsonant to the law of conservation of energy.
I propose to execute the following intelectual process:
we have found ourselves in the Europe of XVII century. We know the trigonometry in the scope of being occured for “METOZ.” We know what is the even-arm lever and moment of force too. Just appeears Mr. Baise Pascal / 1623–1662/ and he publishes his hydraulics law with adequated experiment. All thinkers are sure that this law is correct and quite real. This time someone invents machine “METOZ”. Now turn up the following questions:
1/ why the implementation of the cycle “deflection” is impossible?
2/ why the implementation of the cycle “straightening” is impossible?Both groups: opponents and followers of bulding “METOZ” live in XVII–th century and they not know that:
a/ the idea of an “energy” will be introduced into science scarlerly in mid. of XIX century,
b/ the law of conservation of the energy will be exist scarlerly after 1847 y.
QVESTION!!!
WHAT KIND OF RATIONALY ENTERELY / ARGUMENT/ CAN BE DREAMED UP THE OPPONENTS OF BUILDING THE MACHINE “METOZ’ IN XVII CENTURY.
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February 12th, 2006 at 3:46 pm[...] I stand in true support of our troops. By true support, I mean not leading them into a war predicated on lies, by not slashing veterans’ benefits, by lessening our dependence on foreign oil (instead of just talking about it), and aiding countries steeped in extreme poverty (where terrorist cells are born, feeding off chaos). [...]
May 6th, 2006 at 1:53 am[...] I stand in true support of our troops. By true support, I mean not leading them into a war predicated on lies, by not slashing veterans’ benefits, by lessening our dependence on foreign oil (instead of just talking about it), and aiding countries steeped in extreme poverty (where terrorist cells are born, feeding off chaos). [...]
May 10th, 2006 at 10:19 amWhile bush’s public interest in renewables gives positive exposure for the industry, I am worried about his motivations. He has hyped up alternative energies as a solution but his loyalties seem to lie with non-renewable sources such as nuclear power and bio-fuels. It would be nice to hear more talk about solar power and wind power. These sources of energy are actually renewable and therefore more beneficial in meeting our future energy needs.
May 27th, 2006 at 12:55 pmMy name is Pranab Jyoti Ghosh, I am an Indian physics graduate and myself have theoretically developed a technology on producing energy without any kind of fuel. This technology is a combination of processes that are well tested and now in use in different industries and research projects. I have done everything that I can do by myself. But for further advance, I need financial and technical assistance. I specifically want to make a virtual prototype by using data from different experiments that I have collected from different industries and research projects. Those who are reading this message, other than the venture capitalists, are requested to guide me to persons, organizations, institutes and others, who can probably take interest in my work and will help me to make my idea a reality. I am assuring them that this project is just need to be made and improved. All the basic experiments had been already done successfully and enough data had been gathered. In short, it is a new and exciting kind of technology and as far as I know, nothing like this exists this day. Can anybody help me to make my idea a reality?
May 28th, 2006 at 1:43 am“So we spent $10 billion over 5 years on alternative energy research. It sounds like a big number but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what we should be spending and how much we’ve spent on this bogus war.”
July 22nd, 2006 at 10:02 pmSeems to me the enemy doesn’t look all that bogus these days. Of course, I’m
not an expert like you when it comes to reality. Others mightwant to know that before Bush, this country had NO energy policy. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Other than those two things,
waht you said makes a whole lot of sense. And that’s not bogus flatery. Honest.
I particularly was impressed by your analysis – that since the Iraq war budget is much
larger than the energy rsearchbudget, that must mean the research budget is too small.
Or is the Iraq war budget too large? You’ll have to explain your logic here for determining
whether the energy budget is large enough. I’m not quite following the Iraq comparison.
Forgive me for my denseness in understanding your elegant logic.
“My name is Pranab Jyoti Ghosh, I am an Indian physics graduate and myself have theoretically developed a technology on producing energy without any kind of fuel. This technology is a combination of processes that are well tested and now in use in different industries and research projects. I have done everything that I can do by myself. But for further advance, I need financial and technical assistance.”
This guy is another Niklas Tesla!! He was the fraud of the century who claimed (among other idiocies) that he could capture energy floating all around us using a box of vacuum tubes
July 22nd, 2006 at 10:06 pmand use it to provide unlimited electrical power.
SO YOU THINK WE HAVE AN ENERGY PROBLEM ??? NO, WE HAVE A POLITICAL PROBLEM !!!
August 15th, 2006 at 4:56 pmI am inventor and owner of Metoz machine invention. Everyone can take absolutely and legitimate the METOZ invention and build the Metoz machine. I can help only. I can not build METOZ. I am moneyless.
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August 17th, 2006 at 9:47 pmWell i am a indian mechanical engineering student and believin that some day there might be energy which doesent require combustion ..i have tried to theorize a possible renewable energy..yes GRAVITY!!..its actually a primitive machine like the principle we ude in hydro power plants..but this machine(i din’t name it yet)uses huge weight and also spring with required elasticity….sure the spring has to be changed at regular intrevals(a small problem)but c’mon it was worth a try….i am currently experimenting on that….just giving information and perhaps would like some criticism about my project
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