energy efficiency

The next president should do two things: first, he should begin the move to a completely renewable energy electrical system, one that uses sunlight and wind to provide all the energy we need for electricity. Second, he should be blunt with the public that, in order for energy efficiency to play the role that it can, we need to tax carbon. This will actually stimulate the economy and will put us on the road to decreasing carbon and solving the climate crisis.

Immediately fund wide range of international collaborations for education, research and commercialization of ethical, clean renewable energy and energy efficiency designs, strategies and technologies, including tidal, wind, solar, geothermal, plasma converter & MagneGas™, safer thorium nuclear, electric and public transport, compressed air and zero emission vehicles (ZEVs), permaculture, innovation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable building & urban planning/design, vegetarianism, etc.

What we need right now is to create as many incentives for renewable energy as there currently are for polluting energy (i.e. nuclear, fossil fuels). These would be paid by removing subsidies from those polluting energy sources that have failed us. The big obstacle to widespread renewable energy is distribution. The government needs to launch an ambitious transmission like beef-up project to ensure that every American has access to renewable energy. Energy efficiency to reduce what we need.