I ask my big brother the following question, “Yo James, what’s the plan with space travel? Let me know. -Joe”
James replies,
I havent written the space stuff yet. I got sidetracked in renewable energy calculations. I’m trying to figure out what to do after aviating India, and I think I’ve figured it out. Build hydro power stations and wind turbines! A 1.5 MegaWatt wind turbine (one of those giant windmills you see in the pass there in Palm Springs) costs around 2.5 million dollars to install. But then it’s nearly maintenance free for the 20 years of life it’s got. And it will produce around 15 million dollars worth of power. That’s a return of investment of 12.5 million! Sounds like a pretty good business to me. But you only make decent money on the big wind turbines. The small, household ones don’t pay for themselves until about 6 or 7 years.
And micro-hydro is another thing that pays back even more. I read an article about some guys up in Canada that installed 2000 feet of pipe up the side of a hill to catch the water in a brook. The brook only ran in the winters but the project paid for itself in 3 years. So I’m researching that too.
I’ve been taking to heart what was said in the CRASH COURSE about how oil energy has resulted in the biggest boom mankind has ever seen. Right now electricity costs about $.15 per kiloWattHour (that’s running something 1000 watts for an hour such as a small air conditioner…that’s a kWh). Check your electric bill and see what you’re paying. If you ran your shop on solar panels then, after 20 years you’d have paid an average of 9 cents per kWh. If you ran it off a small wind turbine it would be about the same. If you ran it off a giant wind turbine you’d pay about 4 cents per kWh! And if you had 500 feet of waterfall to plug a 6 inch pipe into and run a microHydro generator then you’d pay about 3-5 cents per kWh (over a 20 year lifetime).
The point is that if you could supply everyone in the world with electricity at 4 cents a kWh we would give this planet 3 times the energy it has now! And I was thinking that you could replace money with an energy credit which would be worth 1 kWh of power. Because there’s not enough gold and silver in the world to back money with. LRH says money is energy. So why not just make money worth kilowatthours! I think it’s brilliant if I do say so myself.
Oh yeah, and solar… since the sun is out only a few hours of the day they don’t produce much. But it’s better than a coal fired power plant at least. Of the 3 renewables (wind, hydro and solar) it’s the least good. The best is hydro. It runs 24/7. And nobody is really doing micro-hydro. It could be a really good business.
And that’s it,
James
My jaw drops, “HOLY CRAP, THAT IS GENIUS. MONEY= ENERGY. OF COURSE!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I like the sound of that title- It rings well in me ears.
I got to wondering what the politicians really mean when they say “we are working hard to come up with a solution to these hard economic times” What is so hard about printing money? It’s one of the easiest things to do- I’m sure there are people who have rich parents and whenever they need money they say ” Daddy, can have another more couple thousand? ” the parents give it too them. Well, our wonderful, fantastical superiorly smarter than us Congress and Senate is asking the Fed Reserve ” Can I please have a few more trillion- don’t worry, we’ll pay you back soon- our good ‘ol constituents voted for us knowing how smart we are and that we’ll take care of them. We only need to increase taxes , mostly on the rich who already have too much anyways. And we’ll step up our collection efforts too with “random” audits. We know it will take generations to pay it back but we need the money now. The auto manufacturers are in trouble and we’re so smart that we know what will happen if they don’t get their money. We know for a fact that the only people who can possibly make cars are the Big 3. What would we do without Chryser? I remember my first Chrysler- oh, the memories. We’re so smart we know that all those people who are going to lose their homes are the victims and should be rewarded for their smart decisions to buy homes they knew they couldn’t afford. We’re so smart we know that when we overtax the people and businesses, that they’ll figure it out- they just need to work harder- like US.”
The following post consists of 23 short videos that are highly understandable, almost genius in the presentation. The information is incontrovertible data about ENERGY, ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, and how they tie in together. This video does not leave one feeling apathetic about the situation. If you start watching the videos, i recommend that you just keep going untill the end.
I am very interested in having some educated conversations on this topic.
Here is the definition of crash course: Noun 1. Crash course – a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency)
The following are all the videos all on a single page. It is approximately 3hrs combined. This link goes to Chris Martenson’s website where you will be watching the information from the source: www.chrismartenson.com perhaps you can visit him and share some love for the masterpiece he created.
And i will say this again, I am very interested in having some educated conversations on this topic.
I havent written the space stuff yet. I got sidetracked in renewable energy calculations. I’m trying to figure out what to do after aviating India, and I think I’ve figured it out. Build hydro power stations and wind turbines! A 1.5 MegaWatt wind turbine (one of those giant windmills you see in the pass there in Palm Springs) costs around 2.5 million dollars to install. But then it’s nearly maintenance free for the 20 years of life it’s got. And it will produce around 15 million dollars worth of power. That’s a return of investment of 12.5 million! Sounds like a pretty good business to me. But you only make decent money on the big wind turbines. The small, household ones don’t pay for themselves until about 6 or 7 years.
And micro-hydro is another thing that pays back even more. I read an article about some guys up in Canada that installed 2000 feet of pipe up the side of a hill to catch the water in a brook. The brook only ran in the winters but the project paid for itself in 3 years. So I’m researching that too.
The point is that if you could supply everyone in the world with electricity at 4 cents a kWh we would give this planet 3 times the energy it has now! And I was thinking that you could replace money with an energy credit which would be worth 1 kWh of power. Because there’s not enough gold and silver in the world to back money with. LRH says money is energy. So why not just make money worth kilowatthours! I think it’s brilliant if I do say so myself.
