Comments on: Independence: A Bold Vision for Michigan’s Energy Future http://domemagazine.com/blogs Michigan People, Politics, and Policy Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:32:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sam Simonetta http://domemagazine.com/blogs/independence#comment-726 Sam Simonetta Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:00:20 +0000 http://domemagazine.com/blogs/independence#comment-726 I couldn't agree more. Thank you for compiling this information, David. What do we need to do to convince the "powers that be" that we need to not only support and promote this technology, but we need to take action ... now? And I don't mean 10% by 2015. That's too little; too late. When you get a flat tire, you don't just keep driving on it, you change it right away (address the problem)! This is an urgent problem that the big energy companies aren't dealing with very proactively. Something tells me the reason is that someone is making a lot of money with things the way they are. There are certainly suitable sites in much of the state for homeowners to generate all of their electrical needs. I do residential wind assessments and installations for a living, and can vouch for it myself. But you're right, the BEST wind is offshore, and we have LOTS of it! As you said, offshore wind is working and has worked in other countries with less resource than we have; it can work here, and now. We need to shut down, re-tool, and move on - for the sake of ourselves, generations to come, and the the planet that provides us with everything we have. How can we get this ball rolling ... faster? Who should we talk to or write? Thank you. I couldn’t agree more. Thank you for compiling this information, David. What do we need to do to convince the “powers that be” that we need to not only support and promote this technology, but we need to take action … now? And I don’t mean 10% by 2015. That’s too little; too late. When you get a flat tire, you don’t just keep driving on it, you change it right away (address the problem)! This is an urgent problem that the big energy companies aren’t dealing with very proactively. Something tells me the reason is that someone is making a lot of money with things the way they are.

There are certainly suitable sites in much of the state for homeowners to generate all of their electrical needs. I do residential wind assessments and installations for a living, and can vouch for it myself. But you’re right, the BEST wind is offshore, and we have LOTS of it!

As you said, offshore wind is working and has worked in other countries with less resource than we have; it can work here, and now. We need to shut down, re-tool, and move on – for the sake of ourselves, generations to come, and the the planet that provides us with everything we have. How can we get this ball rolling … faster? Who should we talk to or write? Thank you.

]]> By: Mr. Kim Gyr http://domemagazine.com/blogs/independence#comment-722 Mr. Kim Gyr Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:12:18 +0000 http://domemagazine.com/blogs/independence#comment-722 Hello David and all who are interested in a 100% sustainable energy future, which must be reached soon if we are to avoid falling off the energy cliff at the end of oil, and if we want ANY of our great great great great grandchildren to enjoy the lifestyles that we have grown accustomed to! Thanks for all your good work! As a Michigan-born designer who has spent 31 of the last 32 years in Europe, I have lots of urban, vehicle, nautical, and personal designs that may enable us to get closer to this goal of 100% sustainability, please have a look at my open-source website at www.greenmillennium.eu. In my view, we have very little time to provide for 304 million Americans and 6.85 billion world citizens before the end of the Industrial Revolution arrives and we all need to go back to high-tech horse drawn plows (there are now only 2.04% of the ratio of work horses to humans that existed in 1915 in the US today, so what/who will pull the plows when there is no more oil?). The proposals on my site are deliberately provocative and meant to challenge every one of us to think far enough into the future so that we don't fall off the cliff into energy poverty, and life itself, with the End of Oil! Please send any feedback either to my website at humansolutions@greenmillennium.eu or to this website, with David's permission? The times are ripe for good 100% sustainable solutions - are we up to the task, for our great great great great great grandchildren will surely know it if we aren't! Thanks again! Kim Gyr Director, Green Millennium Hello David and all who are interested in a 100% sustainable energy future, which must be reached soon if we are to avoid falling off the energy cliff at the end of oil, and if we want ANY of our great great great great grandchildren to enjoy the lifestyles that we have grown accustomed to! Thanks for all your good work! As a Michigan-born designer who has spent 31 of the last 32 years in Europe, I have lots of urban, vehicle, nautical, and personal designs that may enable us to get closer to this goal of 100% sustainability, please have a look at my open-source website at http://www.greenmillennium.eu.

In my view, we have very little time to provide for 304 million Americans and 6.85 billion world citizens before the end of the Industrial Revolution arrives and we all need to go back to high-tech horse drawn plows (there are now only 2.04% of the ratio of work horses to humans that existed in 1915 in the US today, so what/who will pull the plows when there is no more oil?).
The proposals on my site are deliberately provocative and meant to challenge every one of us to think far enough into the future so that we don’t fall off the cliff into energy poverty, and life itself, with the End of Oil!
Please send any feedback either to my website at humansolutions@greenmillennium.eu or to this website, with David’s permission?

The times are ripe for good 100% sustainable solutions – are we up to the task, for our great great great great great grandchildren will surely know it if we aren’t!

Thanks again!

Kim Gyr
Director, Green Millennium

]]> By: Tom Karas http://domemagazine.com/blogs/independence#comment-699 Tom Karas Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:03:10 +0000 http://domemagazine.com/blogs/independence#comment-699 Thank you Mr. Marvin for laying out your vision of a responsible energy path for Michigan. The more credible, well thought out, alternatives to the coal train that are articulated, the better. It is just a question of political will. As the vision becomes more clear, even Lansing will have to see it. Thanks again. Thank you Mr. Marvin for laying out your vision of a responsible energy path for Michigan. The more credible, well thought out, alternatives to the coal train that are articulated, the better. It is just a question of political will. As the vision becomes more clear, even Lansing will have to see it.
Thanks again.

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