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    THE DAY BEFORE

  • Saturday Video: Today Is The Day
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    • THE DAY BEFORE THE DAY BEFORE

    THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT FRIDAY, 10-23:

  • TTTA Friday- TOP WIND GROUP EXPOSES BOGUS ATTACK ON F-I-T
  • TTTA Friday- BIG SUN GROUP BACKS FEED-INS
  • TTTA Friday- NEW ORLEANS CAN SUE EMITTERS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE DAMAGES
  • TTTA Friday- DEFINE ENDANGERED
  • TTTA Friday- SUN-POWERED A/C

    • THE DAY BEFORE THAT

  • HEADLINE: HOW NEW ENERGY GROWS
  • MORE NEWS, 10-22: WIND WEATHERS ECONOMIC STORM; NEVER A BETTER TIME TO BUY SUN; BUT WILL THE CO2 STAY?; AMERICAN BATHS AND SHOWERS

    • AND THE DAY BEFORE THAT

  • HEADLINE: ALL NEW ENERGY BY 2030?
  • MORE NEWS, 10-21: FEDS FUND HOME RETROFITS; ATLANTIC CITY LIKES OFFSHORE WIND; EYES ON THE EV PRIZE; GEOTHERMAL OIL PUMPS

    • THE LAST DAY UP HERE

  • HEADLINE: LATEST NEW ENERGY JOB TRENDS – JOBS! (AND WHERE THEY ARE)
  • MORE NEWS, 10-20: NEW ENERGY IS CHEAPEST ENERGY; GERMANY WINS SOLAR DECATHLON; SOLAR POWER PLANTS FOR FLA; BIOFUELS NEED CLOSER LOOK

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    Anne B. Butterfield of DAILY CAMERA, is a biweekly contributor to NewEnergyNews

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  • Necessary but not sufficient
  • Anne B. Butterfield, October 12, 2009 (Daily Camera)

    We have all heard about the woman who marries her live-in sweetheart, even though he was known to be a womanizer. Even two weeks before the wedding day Rosie found Mark in bed with another woman, but she was too invested in his wealth to break the engagement. Also his community, so elegant with traditions that she`d not remotely known in her childhood, had become her home. If not marry him, where was she to go?

    Rosie and Mark are a parable for every player in Washington toiling away on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA) intended to wean us off of fossil fuels. Mark can`t stop womanizing, Rosie has long been giving favors for advancement; leaders like these do not have the mettle to pinpoint and pursue the very finest solutions.

    But we might be wise to see the bill as Thomas Friedman did when he said of ACESA: "It is appalling, a mess. I detest it. Now hurry up and pass it."

    Even the illusion of fidelity can provide some leverage. The bill`s existence for December`s climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen is pivotal; America is the world`s worst emitter and our failure to bring a comprehensive bill to Copenhagen, even a pockmarked unfinished stinker, will send exactly the wrong signal.

    Those who rationally protest the ACES bill, such as the members of Climate SOS, describe the bill as inadequate for its low targets and, "worse than doing nothing" due to itscap-and-trade structure plus its allowances, offsets, permission for coal plants, plus-size funding for chimerical carbon capture and storage, and reliance on biomass combustion. Worst of all is the waiver of the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases, in the version passed by the House of Representatives.

    SOS prefers direct regulation to bring nearly 100 percent carbon emission reduction in 20-30 years through an energy efficiency portfolio standard as well as extreme ramp-up of renewable energy, zero waste, sustainable agriculture, and more. This would be paid for through a carbon fee or a carbon tax and dividend scheme that pays out most of its resources directly to citizens.

    The problem is that they at SOS seem to believe that Congress can do better. And, behold, our government is still in bed with the other the woman, subsidizing fossil fuels.

    Only last month did the prominent voice of President Obama call for a worldwide stop to such nonsense.

    That`s a little like Mark canceling the Playboy Channel the day before the wedding.

    One prominent supporter of the ACES bill, former Deputy of the Department of Energy and renowned climate blogger, Joseph Romm, advises:

    "And for those who say this doesn`t do enough -- I agree 100 percent. But then the original Clean Air Act didn`t do enough." He cites also the 1987 Montréal protocol as inadequate to save the ozone layer, continuing, "but it began a process and established a framework that, like the CAA, could be strengthened over time as the science warranted. The painful reality of climate change is going to become increasingly obvious in the coming years, and strengthening is inevitable."

    In short, the ACES bill is necessary but not sufficient. We have seen this before. Did women earn full citizenship just after suffrage was passed? Did blacks enjoy social equality just after slavery was abolished, or even after the civil rights movement? Did most states impose best available control technologies on updated power plants just because the Clean Air Act said so?

    No, no and no.

    Environmentalists are in no way fooled by the ACES bill`s failure to deliver the needed emissions reductions. The planet`s survival relies partly on a climate bill but mostly on continued grassroots assault on coal plants and other offenders, plus disruptive clean technologies to take our markets by storm.

    It would be nice to have a sterling market signal in the form of a carbon tax, but with only ExxonMobil strutting in favor of this, people are reasonable to look on philanderers as more trustworthy friends.

    The trick is to keep the EPA vested with authority to regulate emissions, as, according to Climate SOS, some biomass and trash incineration schemes portend to have emissions much worse than burning coal.

    Our work will not be finished with a climate bill; it only will begin, just as Rosie and Mark, once married, finally get to learn what fidelity can mean. And if we don`t like this climate bill, we can take our chances on ExxonMobil.

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    Anne's previous NewEnergyNews columns:

  • Necessary but not sufficient (October 14, 2009)
  • Tort reform: Go big, Obama! (September 14, 2009)
  • Xcel takes aim at Boulder’s solar (July 27, 2009)
  • Selfishly seeking clean energy (July 12, 2009)
  • The big ka-ching in our health care wallet (June 19, 2009)
  • It takes a Governor (May 24, 2009)
  • Want a job? Think Wind. (May 10, 2009)
  • Just Say No to Xcess Energy (April 28, 2009)
  • NREL’s history of fickle funding (April 12, 2009)
  • Wagons firmly circled: Governance at REA’s and Tri-State (March 26, 2009)
  • A new migratory pattern: Colorado youth go to Washington (March 12, 2009)
  • Even coal is in for a revolution (February 22, 2009)
  • High Flyers and the Commons (February 11, 2009)
  • Come on Baby, Sit by Me (January 25, 2009)
  • A return on investment (January 3, 2009)
  • Mr. Secretary, we're watching you (December 28, 2008)
  • Canary in the Coal Mine (December 13, 2008)
  • Crash test dummies (November 16, 2008)
  • Needless markup (November 2, 2008)
  • The flap about 58 (October 19, 2008)
  • Hip towns and a clever measure (October 7, 2008)
  • Are we afraid of change? Still? (September 21, 2008)
  • Cheney in a chignon (September 7, 2008)
  • Don't tick off the blonde (August 10, 2008)
  • Buying us time on global warming (July 27, 2008)
  • Hint from Heloise - It's the pH, Stupid! (July 13, 2008)
  • Nukes: the position ridiculous and the expense damnable (June 29, 2008)

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    • Friday, July 3, 2009

    PAKISTAN WILL BRING SUN POWER

    7,000 villages to be electrified through solar energy: minister
    July 2, 2009 (The New International)

    "The government has set a target to electrify 7,000 villages, which cannot be electrified by grid, through solar energy in the next five years, says Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashrraf…He was addressing the representatives of more than 120 countries in the second session of the preparatory commission of IRENA, held in resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh…

    "The minister said that the world needs to develop global financial mechanism that responds to the special requirements of the renewable energy sector. ‘Pakistan feels that if level playing field is provided to the renewable energy sector, they are the least expensive, environment friendly and the most sustainable resources of energy.’"

    One thing Pakistan has is sun. (click to enlarge)

    "He said that Pakistan has also set high targets for itself including renewable energies to add 5% (approximately 10,000 MW) of the electricity generation on grid by year 2030 and the replacement of 5% diesel with bio-diesel by year 2015 and 10% by 2025.

    "He extended full support of Pakistan to the newly perceived International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)…[and] took part in the voting proceedings for the selections of the place for Headquarter of IRENA and the election of its Director General."

    posted by Herman K. Trabish @ 8:32 PM

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