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The Climate Change Draft Scoping plan requested public comment. I
am
submitting my suggestions, But first I believe we should review
were we are,
how we got here, and where we need to go.

To see how we got here and where we are we need to go back about a
hundred
year s. Several factors gave the nod to internal combustion
engines over
electric vehicles. Improved roads lead to the demand for more
range than
could be obtained by electric vehicles at that time.  An electric
starter
made it possible for ladies to drive the cars.  The abundance of
petroleum
provided a cheap source of fuel. The petroleum industry and the
auto
industry helped make our country the great world leader it is
today. The
success of these industries in the past has trapped us into
thinking that
this is the correct course to take in the future. Nothing could be
further
from the truth. The petroleum is neither inexpensive nor available
locally.
The IC engine uses only 15% of the energy available for
propulsion. The rest
goes of as heat. The shear numbers of the vehicles has created an
unacceptable pollution problem. Our present policies are setup to
perpetuate
the status quo. Presently, the most highly subsidized entity is
the
petroleum industry. The intention of a subsidy is to give aid to
an infant
industry so it can get on its feet. Instead, our money is going to
the most
profitable of industries, helping them to maintain a monopoly and
keep out
competitive industries. This is the exact reverse of what a
subsidy should
be used for. With the above thoughts in mind, here are my
suggestions.

Renewable energy infrastructure is needed.  The governor has made
progress
in providing for the installation of hydrogen stations. The
stations should
also be a source of all forms of nonpolluting renewable energy-
ethanol,
biodiesel etc.

The drivers should have the option of supporting Arab millionaires
and
contributing to pollution or helping American farmers and helping
to clean
the air.

A system has been developed for improving the performance of heavy
equipment
and trucks by XOP, Inc. The system electrolyzes water and the
Hydrogen and
Oxygen is added to the intake of the engine. The system improves
the
mileage, and greatly reduces all pollutants. It has been approved
by CARB.
Web site www.h2xop.com   A similar system
small
enough to fit in an automobile needs to be designed.

 SOLAR
The fastest return on an investment in solar energy is in solar
water
heating, and tax credits are available. (1)In the 1920's fifty
percent of
the homes in Florida heated their water with solar energy. Then
they started
running in natural gas lines and the price was so reasonable that
the solar
units disappeared. Today, with the high price of natural gas, you
can save
money with the solar heaters.

Photovoltaic (PV) panels have a bright future. One of the great
contributions of this type of energy is that it can be installed
locally,
where it is needed. It is distributed energy. It requires no
additional
electric lines and there is no line loss involved. Most other
forms of
energy including wind systems are located remotely from where the
energy is
needed. The lines and the systems are vulnerable to natural
disasters and to
terrorists. The PV panels are a CGS system, clean, no particle
pollution,
green, no air pollution and serene, no noise pollution.  There is
one more
important characteristic of these panels. They produce the most
electricity
right when there is a peak demand. Enough of these units on line
would be a
great buffer to black outs. But here is where our polices
interfere with
progress. There was a cap on the number of PV units that will be
subsidized
at 1.5% in California. It is interesting to note that the energy
source with
the greatest potential is the one we are using the least.  De
Winter and
Swenson (2) place the technically feasible energy from PV at 60
terawatts. A
terawatt is one million megawatts. The world energy consumption in
2005 was
17 terawatts

Turning Trash into Cash (TIC)

One of the emerging technologies that Barry Hanson has disclosed
in his book
"Energy Power Shift" is the possibility of turning garbage into
oil (3). The
process heats the waste material to a high temperature in the
absence of
oxygen, Pyrolysis. It does in hours what it took Mother Nature a
millennium
to do.

This is a win, win, situation. It produces a source of oil for all
of us
while eliminating tons of trash going into land fills where it
produces
methane gas.

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Mr. Hanson has pointed out that if we open up the Artic National
Wildlife
Reserve, after ten years the total amount of energy available will
be 14
Quads (we currently use 27 Quads in one year in the USA) The
temperature
conversion process can provide us with 120 Quads before one drop
of oil can
be pumped from the ANWR.

For those who think a switch to alternative energy would cost too
much
money, Barry Hanson has summarized he benefits as:

 6.5 million new jobs
Clean environment
Energy independence
True national security
Sources.

1. WWW.energystar.gov  

2. "A Wake-up Call" By Francis de Winter and Ronald B. Swenson,
Solar Today,
March/April 2006

3. "Energy Power Shift, Benefiting from Today's Technologies" by
Barry J.
Hanson. Lakota Scientific Press.