According to the Miami Herald, Florida is getting $200 million in stimulus money to create a ``smart grid'' for utility customers that should result in lower electric usage.
Give us a break!!!
The money is going to Energy Smart Florida, a program involving Florida Power & Light that plans to install 2.6 million smart meters in homes and advanced monitoring systems in the grid substations.
SPEND THE MONEY ON DISTRIBUTED SOLAR ENERGY SITTING ON TOP OF OUR ROOFS, RATHER THAN AT A COLLECTIVE SOLAR CENTER THAT WOULD SPEND ADDITIONAL MONEY IN DISTRIBUTION!!!!
None of the money above is actually going to produce ENERGY, only enhance pipedreams of marketing lobbyist promoting computerized monitoring as a source for energy..(money) in their pockets that is!!
Stop letting BIG Business and Politics tell us how much better they know than us!!!
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The objective of this blog, is to establish a forum for our community and enable collaborative interdisciplinary thought and discussion as to how we can all help make it a better place.
Focus areas:
1) Energy Independence: This matter is so strategic that it affects everything we deal with... the price of just about everything. We are being held at bay by the Oil Producing states due to our reluctance stemming from 1979 to change our sources of energy and go the easy way of dependency upon foreign resources thereby choosing the easy way out.....which of course never works.
2) Opportunity via innovation: New ideas for doing old things in a more cost effective and efficient manner, taking into account our impacts on our earth and neighboring ecosystems.
3) Social Consciousness: Striving to bring a social consciousness to "Entities" which are not real human beings such as Government, Corporations, Non-Profits, Institutions, and Utilities, as well as to People since a lot of people just don't really care about anyone else but themselves.
4) Education: Part of the reason we have become so dependent on foreign source labor is because we have left our educational system go "to the dogs". We don't improve education by spending more money on buildings and administrative programs, we do so by building up MINDS via good quality CONTENT, CURRICULUM, EXPERIENCES AND TEAMPLAY. We have a great defecit of US Scientist, Mathematicians, Engineers, and Technical experts and have resorted to outsourcing this to workers who only lease us their time and then take their knowledge and experience back to their countries.
5) Jobs: We can't wait around for the Big Companies to figure out how they're going to move. Small & Medium size companies have the flexibility and mobility to get things done and to approach new technologies and solutions with speed and efficiency. Let's share in opportunities where we can all invest our time and talents to make this a better place.
