Are you ready for some Energy?

(New comers please start at "Done Complaining..." )
Ok where to start tonight? In our last posts we were discussing how electricity + water = hydrogen, oxygen & how we might use that to cut down on or eliminate our foreign energy consumption. In the last post we talked about how we could use hydrogen to power our vehicles & power plants. In this post we are going to talk about some common sense ways to make a lot of electricity from Mom nature. I started with a simple question. Is our govt trying to make green energy or make the most expensive green energy on the planet? I submit to you that it is the former, dont think so? Then sit right back & let me spin you a tale on how I see things.

First of all how do we make electricity? We find a way to turn a generator or electric motor. Yes if you turn a electric motor manually it makes electricity, how you turn it is up to you, steam, wind, water, ect. Keep that in mind it could come in handy someday when the world goes to pot. Anyway that is the basic method for making electricity. It doesnt matter if your blowing on a computer fan to light a flashlight bulb or a nuke power plant making steam to turn turbines or Niagara falls, its all the same thing.

So how do we get it from Mom nature? We use our God given brains thats how. 'Green energy' isnt exactly new ya know? The Romans were pretty good at it. If we could apply just some of their ideas, we could make a lot of power for pennies compared to what our govt is spending. What do I mean? Try this on for size. The Romans built multi stage water wheel grain mills. They put a square building in the middle of the river, water wheels on both sides & repeated it behind the first one, going down stream like a set of stairs. One had 16 wheels, 8 on each side & thats how they fed Rome. So what you say? Yea try doing a modern version of that in the middle of & the length of the Mississippi. Do I have your attention now? Even if we only did it to the bridge footings it would still be a ton of juice. We have lots of rivers, lakes & dams with absolutely no power generation on them. The north east ran on water power 100 years ago, now? Nothing.

Not enough you say? Ok time for some big guns. The most popular way of making electricity in this country is we make steam, to turn turbines, to turn generators. Umm how many volcano's do we have? There is a super volcano underneath Yellowstone national park. If you cant figure out how to make steam from a volcano then you need to take a trip to Greenland & learn. Dont tell the greenies I told ya about all this but its gonna blow some day. Taking heat out of it might just buy us a few more years. ;) .

Want more? Ok take a look at your cities, you see those glass buildings? Well 20% or so of what your looking at is only there to cover the beams & concrete floors, no one looks through them. So why arent they solar panels? Cause that would mean the govt would have to govern & that means saying no to people. Ever notice they arent very good at saying no to people? Its all appeasement all the time.

Every part of this country has some sort of 'free' resource. The south has sun & wind the plains have wind the north east & west have water & wind. As for wind Ive seen some amazing contraptions our forefathers thought up to power their factories out west in the early 1900's. Ive seen so many inventions & ideas that government just ignores, it makes me mad. Its about time we started using some of them.

Im a fan of many small things from the old wind mills that used to pump water on farms to water wheels that powered saw mills to the little paddle wheel on your pond to water turbines on the bottoms of rivers. Everyone should make some power even if its just a stupid pinwheel on a pole. Who cares how efficient it is if you got a bazillion of them & they're easy to make? Remember my plan is to make more electricity than we can possibly use. Then use the extra to make hydrogen to run our power plants & vehicles. 

If govt was smart they would be finding ways to encourage people to put up solar panels & other such means. Thats where the subsidy money should be going. Do you have any idea how much acreage roofs take up in this country?

Tidal is another huge source of potential energy the tide goes in the tide goes out but no one has the guts to go up against all the lawyers & govt agencies that will attempt to prevent anyone from doing anything.
Ive got ideas but I dont have any money or power to fight them & their regulations. Im just a nobody & thats why I wrote this.

Till next time Ladies, Gents & all ships at sea, have a good night.

@Jikiri over n out