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Wind?
Why is wind powered energy on a website about new technology for
transportation? The reason why is because wind powered energy is a
real solution to part of our problem. It's not just being promoted
by hippies and idealistic weirdoes.
In the
US we import $700 billion of foreign oil per year! That's a lot of
money flowing out of our country and into the hands of people who
don't always care about us and some of whom are our downright
enemies.
22% of
the fuel used for power generation in this country, the power used
to create electricity for our homes and businesses, comes from
natural gas. Instead of using natural gas, an abundant US natural
resource, to create electricity we could be using it instead to
power our cars (see natural gas for
cars).
If we
could free up all this natural gas to be used to run cars, trucks
and buses, etc, that would replace $300 billion dollars that now
goes for foreign oil. We would be buying $300 of natural gas
instead. We would keep that $300 billion in the US and our people
and our economy would greatly benefit from this.
How do
we replace that natural gas to make electrical power? We do it
through massive wind farms. Listen to T. Boone Pickens explain in
this video below.
If you think this is too
much of a pie-in-the-sky idea. Watch this video (below) about the
town of Sweetwater, Texas that has been transformed by the people
and farmers buying into the wind power concept and putting it into
action.
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