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Clean Energy Ideas: Solar, Natural Gas, Clean Coal, Geothermal, and Hydrogen

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Clean energy and the smart electricity grid.

Solar Technology and the Smart Electricity Grid

With incentives for commercial buildings and warehouses to implement this renewable energy technology, which also reduces green house gas, creates jobs, creates growth, reduces the trade deficit (oil), and strengthens the US dollar; this green energy technology will also give the U.S. economy a boost.

The increase in demand will also result in more competition, research, innovations, and improvements. With the installations being concentrated in cities (commercial buildings) any maintenance required should also be competitive.

The improving solar technology can also be applied to battery powered cars and for space applications.

Natural Gas Power Plants and Smart Electricity Grid

With North America moving towards a smart electricity grid, the growing demand for electricity that will result from more hybrid electric cars, and the current low cost and abundance of natural gas, an estimated 100 year supply and also a clean energy, natural gas power plants similar to coal burning power plants could be built to add supply to the smart electricity grid.

Clean Coal Power Plants and Smart Electricity Grid

North America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. The U.S. presently uses coal to generate 50% of its electricity so it's in the U.S. best interest to improve this technology. Coal is also greatly used globally and especial in China, and this will probably continue to increase, so improving this technology also has a global benefit and big impact on the environment. There are different clean coal technologies with the leading one having CO2 stored underground in former oil or other sealed formations. If the CO2 does escape these formations that have contained oil for millions of years, according to a U.S. geologist, the CO2 smears on the sand and cannot escape.

Geothermal Energy and Smart Electricity Grid

Is another technology that can be used to create electricity and for heating and cooling systems.

Fusion Power and the Smart Electricity Grid

Fusion power is currently being developed to create electricity and will also use the existing infrastructure and smart electricity grid.

Natural Gas 18 wheelers – T Bone Pickens PickensPlan.com

North America has a huge amount of natural gas. The government could create subsidies or incentives to increase the adoption of this technology. The reduced cost to 18 wheelers through natural gas subsidies, for them, should also reduce the costs of products in North America due to lower shipping costs, and therefore benefiting the North American economy. Given the fact that 18 wheelers are also major air polluters, the impact on the environment and health would also be a very good one.

Hydrogen Powered Cars

Hydrogen can be created from the electricity to power hydrogen cars.

Wind Turbines

One reason why I do not like wind turbines - dead eagles, an eye sore, and no space age applications.

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