Solar Power for Everything as Big Oil Proxy Storms in Swinging

Earth: A Natural Bi-Solar Cyclically Rotating Planet for Around-the-Clock Inter-Continental Solar-Generated Electrical Energy Exchange, Forever, Via Redundantly Numerous Below-Ocean-and-Sea-Floor Electricity Transmission Cables.

Solar energy is essentially infinite, from the standpoint of the life-expectancy of our species, planet Earth, star (the sun), and solar system, and wind energy is quasi so, with both being basically safe and ecologically friendly and their pliable technologies ever being made nearly as friendly in the near term.

Solar Fuel Energy for Everything: The next step up and forward in the advancement of human civilization with its raw fuel self supplied directly from clean sunlight or mere daylight and providing thoroughly clean on-site self-generated and self-distributed electricity, requiring no infrastructure, other than its on-site casing and wiring to the electrical grid, no supplier or supplies from the mining of or extraction from the environment, no chemicals or chemistry, per se, and involving no risk or damage to the environment, but always improving in efficiency and application and becoming more attractive and competitive in price. With solar power, one may opt for off-grid, independent self-generated and stored solar-sourced electricity and/or utility-company generated electricity — currently stored solar energy entails battery or special solar-panel storage, involving chemistry, but likely soon will be superseded by already test-proven clean storage solar cells providing for 24/7 on-site, off-grid solar power operation immune from power failures or sourcing from the public-utility-companies’ electrical grid. Storage solar cell technology is likewise self fueling and charge storing from sunlight or mere daylight and has virtually unlimited positive evolvability potential compared to solar technology’s nascent rival, reportedly currently more highly productive yet clean hydrogen fuel-cell or (chemical/fossil-fuels) fuel-cell technology, previously owned by Chevron Oil Company, that is dependent on environmental extraction for its raw fuel source and on-site chemistry for its operating fuel or electricity generation and a supplier and constant raw fuel supplies, and thus is only an attractive and convenient transitional and temporary technology for fuel independence from fossil fuels, although it unfortunately optionally operates on fossil fuels as well, and so is a dead-end fuel technology with respect to the mid-term to long-term, for sure.

Over the long-term, after a solar-electric technology is paid for from its savings in avoided utilities and fossil-fuels bills, yet retains decades or more of additional electricity production life, solar energy for electricity generation and use is essentially free.  Furthermore, solar- electricity-generation technology will eliminate the dangers of oil, gasoline and vapor natural gas pipelines and their aging, flawed construction, geophysical disturbance, malfunction, accidental assault or damage, tampering and  sabotage.  It will also do away with spill and explosion susceptible  shipping, rail and truck transport of all fossil fuels, including coal, the dirtiest and least cleansible fossil fuel, in practice, despites long-time failing claims by the coal industry of clean coal to come (forever coming soon), a fossil-fuel resource associated with the worst air pollution, and environmental and ecological destruction and loss of workers’ lives.

Once solar garage doors and such house doors, for generating home electricity, that in turn can be used to clean-and-green charge plug-in electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, are on the market for homeowners to purchase, the funeral era of gasoline-only-engine vehicles will have arrived and demand for and sales of plug-in all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles will become overwhelming as wells as will the demand for and sales for solar garage and house doors for off-grid, standalone household electricity generation affordable to most homeowners, many of whom may not be able to afford full solarization of their homes. Solar garage doors with built-on sockets on the inside could both recharge vehicles in the garage and outside in the driveway via a slot near the ends of both sides of the width of the outside of the garage door for outside-vehicle recharging cords to lead to the inside electric socket-side of the garage door.  This sales momentum and the demand-popularity for all-electric and plug-in hybrid cars will also depend on and have to be preceded by or accompanied with electric-car prices being competitive with traditional gas-car prices.  In an optimistic move in support of alternative motoring technology for automobiles, Ford Motors Inc. has announced that it will be selling its 2011 plug-in hybrid Lincoln MKZ sedan for the same price as the gas-only model.

On May 20th and 21st of 2010 the whole array of the mainstream news media in northern California reported that Tesla Motors Inc. has joined with Toyota Motors International Inc. to mass produce long-distance, high-speed, all-electric vehicles in a reopening of the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont, CA, recently closed and previously jointly operated by General Motors Inc. and Toyota Motors. Toyota has invested $50,000,000.00 in Tesla. Toyota and Tesla, which has secured $465,000,000.00 in other financing, will be manufacturing a Toyota designed and featured car on the Tesla-technology drive-train and Tesla will be manufacturing the first model of its own series of mass-market vehicle models, with each the Toyota and Tesla model planned to be on the retail market for sale in year 2012. The facility will be hiring an estimated total of 1,000 employees in the short term at the rate of 50 per month, ongoing, and may hire as many as 10,000 employees if the vehicles prove popular in the retail market. Reportedly, coming Tesla vehicles will be able to travel up to 300 miles on a single full electrical charge of the vehicle battery, a significant improvement on the 244-mile driving range of its first vehicle model, the Tesla Roadster for the niche wealthy market, debuted in 2008. All-electric vehicles require very little or minimal servicing and no smog-control checks, and auto insurance companies charge little for their insurance coverage. Moreover, the electrical cost for the per mile drive of an electric car is a small fraction of the gasoline cost per mile drive for the most-efficient, highest-mileage-per-gallon/liter gasoline- or biofuels-powered vehicles. Other major auto manufacturing companies are introducing all-electric vehicles this year and next that can drive from 40 to up to 100 miles per battery charge, whereas daily commute miles in urban centers normally are 40 miles and less. Also the recharging infrastructure for all-electric vehicles is spreading quickly, and there are solar charging units for them that can be installed at homes and condo and apartment complexes; however, standard 110-volt electrical outlets [also known as sockets or receptacles] for slow charging and standard 220-volt electrical outlets for fast charging, available in virtually any garage, make solar chargers an off-grid option. It is a sure bet that within 50 years mass-market petroleum-only powered vehicles will no longer be manufactured and the inventory of existing petroleum powered mass-market vehicles will be viewed as primitive and antiquated, and much of the world will be able to kiss good bye to vehicle dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil or any more than lubricating oil, obtainable from plants and animal waste. Currently, there are both the all-electric Coda and Nissan Leaf sedans on the automobile market for sale. The plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt coming to the retail market in 2011 can travel 40 miles all electrically on a full electrical charge, but continuously recharge its electric-drive battery with its gas motor, and travel a continuous 350 miles on a combination of an initial full charge of its electric-drive battery  and a full tank of gasoline. The successful 26-hour flight of the Swiss-made Solar Impulse manned-airplane on 07-07-2010 augurs for and alludes to a time to come of a market of all-solar-powered airliners, aircraft, watercraft, rail and road vehicles, as well as of electric-car charging stations , along with their recharging ports,  and factories and electronic bill boards, that operate and charge from mere daylight and afterward operate in the dark, after dusk, from reserve charges of their solar fuel cells — we can also expect portable computers and other portable electronics devices to eventually operate from the power of natural and artificial light. Pursuant BBC’s online news of 07-16-2010, the Solar Impulse test flight was followed by a successful to-date, 2-week test flight of the U.S.-made U.S. Army eternal-flight solar airplane, a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) theoretically capable of staying in flight permanently, named Zephyr, operating according to the same principles.

Already there are solar mini-panel calculators, solar-battery watches, solar outdoor cookers, solar hot-water heaters, combination solar/crank-powered radios, solar/crank-charged flashlights and such rural lanterns, and solar-charged deck, patio and garden lamps that glow all night long.   In time computers, television sets, cell phones and miscellaneous other traditionally electrically powered electronic devices will be operated and/or battery recharged and powered via a solar-power capture cord made for placement in daylight or sunlight, with the solar-capture end placed in daylight or sunlight and the other end plugged into the power-cord jack of the electronic device.

Proponents of the prevailing and fossil fuels and traditional nuclear energy paradigm, who criticize and belittle the marketplace viability and competitiveness of solar energy,  argue that a new market of plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles will necessarily be dependent on utility companies’ dirty-coal-generated electricity for battery recharging at night when solar generated electricity is not available with the absence of sunlight, resulting in status-quo level releases of hydro-carbon pollution into the atmosphere, if not more – which is significantly nonsense and manipulative partial truth posing as whole truth as the Energy Information Agency of the U.S. DOE reports that coal-fired power plants account for 56% of net electricity generation in the U.S., with the remainder generated largely by nuclear power plants, NG, solar and wind sources. Maybe they are ignorant of or mum about the fact that already solarized homes, and government and commercial facilities and office buildings and the solarized buildings of religious institutions, etc., are able, on their own, to recharge plug-in electric and all-electric vehicles during the day, come rain, overcast or shine, by harnessing daylight alone, without the need for direct sunlight, for electricity generation, and of the fact that once the smart-grid-to-come-online is in place solar-tech generated electricity convergent with wind turbine electrical power from different regions of the nation will be able to cooperatively and collaboratively feed the smart grid with electrical power around the clock, night and day, 24/7/365-6. Maybe too they have not considered that at one time automobiles made up less than one percent of the transportation system, when horses, steamships and steam-engine trains were the traditional and dominant forms of transportation, and that automobiles were then considered a novelty and impracticality with no long-term future in serving the public at large when first introduced, and later slandered as a cause of high-speed death beyond a lethal speed that humans allegedly were said to be unable to tolerate and survive (circa 40 or 45 mph) — maybe they conveniently dismiss the relevancy of Moore’s law relating to the rate of doubling of the number of transistors that can be inexpensively added to electronic integrated circuits for improvements in digital processing speed and memory and imaging capabilities, found to be applicable to the rate of improvement of much modern technology in general, as also observably applicable to improvements in solar and wind energy technologies. Maybe they have not considered that neither solar nor wind power would be unreliable sources of electrical energy when daylight-time versus night-time nations, in our bi-solar-day world, collaborate in generating and exchanging solar-derived electrical energy during their respective daily opposing light-versus-dark cycles as the Earth rotates ceaselessly through its bi-solar day, and as the existing technology and techniques for storing solar-electric energy take hold and advance on a broad scale — Europe is already undertaking to work with North African and tropical nations in this regard. A succinct way of expressing this relationship is say that solar-derived electrical energy from daylight nations can be transferred by cable to night-time phase nations, and reciprocal transfer can occur with the change in the light phase between the halves of our planet. The same consideration applies to up-and-down periods for wind-generated electrical energy between the high producing wind regions within the nation. Nor do they make clear that natural gas is not a clean fossil fuel but is a dirty albeit so-to-say cleaner (dirty but less dirty) fossil fuel than oil or liquid gas and is another fossil fuel we should endeavor eventually, but as soon as possible, to emancipate ourselves from as a fuel source. Nor do we want vehicles to compete for natural gas with housing and buildings, for their heating and appliance powering, which would permanently and drastically drive up the price of natural gas, any more than we want food crops and food-crop land to make biofuels to compete with abundant food availability and affordability for humans and animals. We also need to consider whether it is cheaper and safer to promote investment in bi-solar day-versus-night inter-Continental solar energy exchange utilities development (collaborative multinational, intercontinental solar and wind) for electrical energy production and exchange concerns and existing solar and wind storage technology and techniques over embarking on a crash program for nuclear power plant construction that would be dependent much more on taxpayer funding (very costly funding) and take more time to come online than solar and wind energy enterprises and their energy production evolution. Nothing is stopping the nuclear industry and Wall Street from safely building, within government regulations, new nuclear electrical power plants at the expense of private money from private investor funds, possibly with government tax incentives.

Those who advocate using natural gas (vapor gas) to power vehicles typically do so without regard to its contribution to global warming and environmental and human ill effects. Typically their argument is that we as a nation have an abundance of domestic natural gas and should use it instead of liquid gas derived from oil (mostly foreign oil) to power our vehicles to free our transportation system from dependence on foreign oil — their concern is national energy independence and not CO2 atmospheric pollution and global warming from fossil-fuels emissions as well. Like the advocates for government financial support for building a large number of traditional large nuclear power plants domestically (at times, unstable), the advocates for natural gas powering of federal government vehicles are generally old-school elderly or old people of the old-nuclear-reactor and fossil-fuels paradigms and era, who were raised and educated, and who aged, under these paradigms and in that era. These energy paradigms, along with dams, are most of what they know, have been served by and have benefited and profited from and believe in when it comes to energy resources. They and much of their generation pose static inertia and obstruction to change to the new energy paradigm for the following generations and the progressives of their generation. Unfortunately, like T. Boone Pickens said, it is the old-timer (elderly) conservative chairmen of major industry, media and commerce who control big business and significantly influence politics to the detriment of much needed change in our society in their wanting to preserve the status quo familiar and favorable to themselves.

These natural gas promoters — critics of dirty coal — are not against a dirty oil or dirty fossil-fuels-energy-powered society, as they are openly in favor of “drill, baby, drill” of our coasts and in ANWAR. They attempt to minimize the danger of marine oil disasters, dismissing and disregarding harm to marine animals and the water, ecology and human communities affected by them, saying tar balls naturally occur in coastal waters and that there is naturally on the order of 100 times more oil seepage from ocean and sea floors worldwide than that of the Gulf disaster, ignoring that unnaturally concentrated and locally massive oil suffusion kills off many species of marine life and water fowl and that this thick and massive liquid oil rises in such form or at the surface of ocean and sea waters whereas naturally occurring oil does not, with rare exception, and does not occur on many, if not most, coasts (their dismissive remarks and attitude are like their comparing a teaspoon full of cyanide in a cup of water, analogous to unnatural marine oil eruptions and gushing, with a cup full of cyanide disbursed in a giant lake of water, analogous to natural marine oil seepage). I dare them to drink the cup of water with the teaspoon of cyanide while I swim in or drink from the giant lake with only a cup full of this poison suffused in it, and no other of significance in amount.

Let the Neanderthals stuck on stupid stay there and sink in their fossil-fuels tar pit of outdated technology, as the new technology of starlight power rises and resplendedly shines, indeed: Solar Power.