Greetings,
The hype surrounding fracked gas obscures
the reality of solar energy.
In Australia, rooftop solar is now
cheaper than grid energy.
The following two articles are eyeopening
and encouraging.
1.)
"Solar photovoltaics will do to grids what mobiles did to telephony."
David Crane, head of NRG, a New Jersey based integrated energy company
with 29 traditional gas, coal, and oil power plants located across 11
states, including 9 in Texas.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/solar-pv-will-do-to-grids-what-mobiles.html /// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRG_Energy)
2.) "In Australia, rooftop solar is
now cheaper than grid energy." http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/australian-solar-energy.html Excerpt: "Dramatic
improvements in the economics of solar power... has seen its cost drop 75 per
cent in the last four years, and 45 per cent in the last 12 months alone."
NRG's David Crane is
right. We are so focused on the nuts and bolts of solar energy
production that we ignore solar's more transformative effects including a
decisive shift from "grid centrality."
Once power shifts
from oily guys (like Bush, Cheney and Arab sheiks) to
unplugged "decentralists," there will be epochal change in the
deployment of democratic political power, chiefly a shift from dependence to
independence.
Currently, we are so dependent on central
power that many citizens trample their own best interest in order to
promote the "good" of powerful centralists, often referred to as
"job creators."
Our highly-financialized economy produces
relatively few "real things." Instead, putative "job
creators" seek profits from arcane "financial instruments" whose
"reality" exists mostly in cyberspace.
I encourage you to see "Inside
Job," Oscar-winning Best Documentary, 2011. "Inside
Job" is freely streamable at
Kevin Phillips, a Nixon adviser and
co-founder of the GOP's "Southern Strategy," laid the groundwork for
understanding "Financialization."
To the extent that "job creators" invest in the production of "real things," they invest where profits are highest - China, India, Brazil, Russia and a host of "breakout" third-world countries.
"Drill baby drill" looks ever
more like trepanning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vsB-oxHMRw&feature=topics
Pax
Alan
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