Climate & Nature...

I must admit there are days when my six-mile bike ride to work seems like a straight uphill climb. In those moments of laziness, I wish the Idaho sun could just transport me there aside from the pumping power of Pat and Charlie. And while that may be a reality soon as solar-powered cars are becoming a reality, harnassing the cleanest and best renewable energy source we have for all power usages is a must for the future.

In their book Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, authors Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks go after naysayers and present some fine arguments on how this can happen and ways to get started.

Here is a green nugget from their book:

"There are many tyrannies in the world, but the worst are tyrannies of the mind, mental straightjackets that imprison imagination. When it comes to energy, the tyranny of the present is a box that confines us to considering only the technologies of today as we envision the future.

"Some say we are helpless in the face of global warming. Those "nattering nabobs of negativism" will constantly point out irrelevant facts about how expensive alternatives are compared to fossil fuels, how inconvenient they are, and how undeveloped they are. Those unfortunate victims of the tyranny of the present cannot envision the inevitable growth in efficiency, declining costs, and ever increasing accessibility of clean and renewable energy.

"We must understand the awesome power of the human intellect. That is the real renewable energy. That intellectual power is now on the cusp of perfecting the ultimate clean energy: solar power. If we see only what is possible today, we will miss the most transformative technologies and overlook clean energy's greatest potential.

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