Secretary Chu, said, the Department of Energy is trying to "hit home runs, not base hits." He noted that there are many proposed solutions to climate change out there, and we need to pursue all of them. "The scale of what we need to do is enormous," said Secretary Chu, and "putting the world on a carbon diet" and dramatically bringing down the cost of clean energy and should be top priorities. If we succeed, it will "drive a new industrial revolution."
Gentlemen, my plan is a home run... the revolution has begun.
I hope Goolge staffers summarized my 'gCommunities' plan for Dr. Chu: In fall of 2008 I submitted a national energy and environmental program to google that was focused on ailing communities, energy losses and the planet without sacrificing our level of quality living or stifle advancements in technology.
Highlights of plan: "The key to controlling the massive energy losses and building sustainable energy in the U.S. is to have community based clean energy distribution that focuses on the resources of that region."
I based my $10 Million google idea 'gcommunities.org' on converting U.S. Sprawl and rural communities into self sufficient off grid communities (sorry about the video - they only gave 30 secs).
I documented existing community models that could not only sustain their own resource and energy needs, but a financial model that would offer EROI of less than 5 years. Then these 'gCommunities' would 'sell off' excess and unused
energy load to dense Urban, manufacturing and non-sustainable communities.
With tax credits centralized around passive homes and manufacturing use of co-generation of waste heat systems (largest consumer of energy and generation of GHG).
I also stated that 100% of the project funding would go directly to the project with the intention that it would return over 150% of the investment over the first 5 years. gCommunities would then reinvest the revenue into building national gCommunities through energy cooperative agreements.
As always the data was inarguable, sustainable, economically and profitable with a bureaucratically favorable plan using existing ideas and resources balanced to remove us from our dependence on finite resources while protecting out greatest resources - 'people and the planet'