Comments on: Generation WE: 95 Million Strong, Taking over the World, Calling for Clean Energy http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/22/join-generation-we-and-support-project-free/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:27:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ayo Pacheco http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/22/join-generation-we-and-support-project-free/#comment-69262 Ayo Pacheco Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:29:40 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6524#comment-69262 Generation-we is a good concept, but "taking over the world"? Where does that leave others in this generation who dont leave in the US...like those who live in developing countries? Generation-we is a good concept, but “taking over the world”? Where does that leave others in this generation who dont leave in the US…like those who live in developing countries?

]]> By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/22/join-generation-we-and-support-project-free/#comment-68570 R Margolis Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:59:34 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6524#comment-68570 Agreed, fusion is longer term technology. I posted the ITER link since I rarely read anything on fusion these days outside of the fusioneers themselves. I'll have to ask my Albuquerque cousin about that "Southwest Dessert". ;-) Agreed, fusion is longer term technology. I posted the ITER link since I rarely read anything on fusion these days outside of the fusioneers themselves.

I’ll have to ask my Albuquerque cousin about that “Southwest Dessert”. ;-)

]]> By: Jesse Jenkins http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/22/join-generation-we-and-support-project-free/#comment-68569 Jesse Jenkins Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:37:47 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6524#comment-68569 I of course meant "desert southwest"... a "dessert southwest" may be a delicious after dinner treat from Albuquerque, but I'm not sure what it has to do with renewable energy. ;) I of course meant “desert southwest”… a “dessert southwest” may be a delicious after dinner treat from Albuquerque, but I’m not sure what it has to do with renewable energy. ;)

]]> By: Jesse Jenkins http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/22/join-generation-we-and-support-project-free/#comment-68568 Jesse Jenkins Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:35:51 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6524#comment-68568 Fusion is the end-game, and ITER is definitely a worthwhile project. But I was a bit concerned with the policy recommendations the Gen We folks had in that they specifically mention hydrogen, fusion and a 100% "off-grid" distributed energy system as the key energy solutions. They might be... in two or three or four decades. But the core solutions available today are plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, solar, wind, geothermal, advanced biomass/biofuels, and efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. Hydrogen is an energy carrier, not an energy source, and not a particularly good one at that. Fusion is a long-shot technology that we should be investing in now for eventual payoff decades from now. And a distributed grid is great, but should be integrated with a nation-spanning "electron superhighway" that lets us efficiently tap the vast renewable energy reserves of this great nation - solar in the dessert southwest, wind in the great plains, wave power off the Pacific Coast - and deliver clean electricity to our homes, businesses and new, plug-in hybrid cars. So, I'd give them an A for message, video, and intentions and a B- for policy. Fusion is the end-game, and ITER is definitely a worthwhile project. But I was a bit concerned with the policy recommendations the Gen We folks had in that they specifically mention hydrogen, fusion and a 100% “off-grid” distributed energy system as the key energy solutions. They might be… in two or three or four decades. But the core solutions available today are plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, solar, wind, geothermal, advanced biomass/biofuels, and efficiency, efficiency, efficiency. Hydrogen is an energy carrier, not an energy source, and not a particularly good one at that. Fusion is a long-shot technology that we should be investing in now for eventual payoff decades from now. And a distributed grid is great, but should be integrated with a nation-spanning “electron superhighway” that lets us efficiently tap the vast renewable energy reserves of this great nation – solar in the dessert southwest, wind in the great plains, wave power off the Pacific Coast – and deliver clean electricity to our homes, businesses and new, plug-in hybrid cars. So, I’d give them an A for message, video, and intentions and a B- for policy.

]]> By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/10/22/join-generation-we-and-support-project-free/#comment-68565 R Margolis Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:18:42 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=6524#comment-68565 If anyone is interested in the latest in fusion, here is the site of the ITER Project: http://www.iter.org/ They do not get much press, but they are working on the components and preparing the plant site. If anyone is interested in the latest in fusion, here is the site of the ITER Project:

http://www.iter.org/

They do not get much press, but they are working on the components and preparing the plant site.

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