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America has a real need for green energy. We use a lot of energy to power our cars and heat our houses, but a lot of this energy is dirty and releases too much carbon into the atmosphere. There are many clean energy techniques like, biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydro power, solar power, tidal power, wave power, and wind power. These clean energy techniques all have great potential to supply most of our energy.
Biofuels work good to replace unclean fossil fuels that are not renewable. Biofules are the future for clean renewable fuel for your cars and to heat your homes. The most popular way to make biofuels is to make it from photosynthetic plants although bio fuels can be made from most bio carbon sources. The plant can then be processed and be turned into fuel. For combustion engines this works really well and gives you the same amount of power as gasoline dose if not more. Biomass is about the same as biofuels but, biomass is the living or dead martial that is used to make biofuels.
Geothermal energy uses the heat in the earth to produce energy. There are three main types of geothermal energy. One is conventional geothermal and it is used in binary cycle power plants. These power plants pass geothermal heated water by another fluid with a lower boiling point and cause it to flash into steam. The steam turns a turbine therefore producing energy. The second type of geothermal energy is geothermal heat pump. The top part of the earth's crust stays at about 50-60°F therefore you can lay pipes in the ground and hook them up to a heat exchanger. That way in the winter it will push heat into your house and in the summer it will pull heat out. The third way is called direct heat. Hot water in the earth can be pumped up into a building to provide good heat though a network of buildings.
Out of most of the clean energy techniques Hydro power is used the most. It is used to harness the power of a river or canal to most commonly turn a wheel and the wheel then turns a generator to provide electricity. Tidal power is like hydro power in the since that it converts the tidal energy into electricity.
Solar power harnesses the power of the sun to provide different forms of energy. You can produce electricity with solar panel, but the solar panels only harness part of the suns energy and it is the inferred spectrum of the sun light. This makes the solar panels produce less electricity than there is potential for. The sun releases more power in one hour than the whole world uses in one year. Another form of solar energy is to use the sun to directly produce heat to heat either your house or your water, but it is hard to store power for long periods of time. To store heat you can have flooring in your house that holds heat and have walls that are made out of stone. The stone works good to help store heat for a longer period of time.
Wind energy has been used for many years to power things like sails on a boat to grind grain and to pump water out of the ground, it starting to be more widely used to make electricity. The wind turns a generator to produce electricity that is relatively free.
These clean energy techniques are promising and should be used more so we don't hurt the environment more than we already have.
In case the president hasn’t noticed, we’re broke. We’re worse than broke. We’re about $13 trillion in debt. Oh, but silly little facts like that don’t stand in the way of Obummer spreading the wealth around. His latest folly with our money is a Muslim techonolgy fund bankrolled by the US taxpayer, via loans from China.
The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world.
The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for selected projects and funds.
The Global Technology and Innovation Fund will “catalyze and facilitate private sector investments” throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the White House said in a statement.
Eligible projects would advance economic opportunity and create jobs in areas like technology, education, telecoms, media, business services and clean technology, the White House said.
OPIC said sample projects could help foster the development of new computer technology or telecommunications businesses, or widen access to broadband Internet services. ….
Let’s hope those funds go to the kind of techonology that doesn’t involve blowing up Americans.
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October 24, 2009
Obama Gives MILLIONS in Muslim Technology Fund
Obama offers millions in Muslim technology fund
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The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world.
The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world.
The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for selected projects and funds.
The Global Technology and Innovation Fund will "catalyze and facilitate private sector investments" throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the White House said in a statement.
Eligible projects would advance economic opportunity and create jobs in areas like technology, education, telecoms, media, business services and clean technology, the White House said.
OPIC said sample projects could help foster the development of new computer technology or telecommunications businesses, or widen access to broadband Internet services.
In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last June, Obama argued that "education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st century" and that under-investment was rife in many Muslim nations.
As well as the fund, Obama also said he will host a summit on entrepreneurship this year to deepen ties between business leaders in the United States and Muslim communities around the world.
In his speech on June 4, Obama vowed to forge a "new beginning" for Islam and America, promising to purge years of "suspicion and discord."
In what may be one of the defining moments of his presidency, Obama laid out a new blueprint for US Middle East policy, pledged to end mistrust, forge a state for Palestinians and defuse a nuclear showdown with Iran.
Wild Thing's comment......
Obama helping the Muslims make better bombs. And here I was soooooo worried that the Muslims would not have the technology to, you know, form networks and cells.
This is our money and I don’t want to offer millions ... just where does he get off doing this! Obama just keeps piling on with his TREASON. He cuts back on our military and their equipment and I sure hope the Army brass is taking notes. They take orders from a man who has no respect for them or their country. Obama is going to shovel American tax dollars to the third world Muslim countries as fast as he can. He plans to break this country financially and militarily.
Obama’s 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and “passed by the full committee.” Not sure what the next step is, but based on the summary, it gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.
Read the summary from David Obey’s office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.
• $3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces
• $400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces
• Afghanistan: $1.52 billion, $86 million above the request
• West Bank and Gaza: $665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza
• Jordan: $250 million, $250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance
• Egypt: $360 million, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance, $50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance
• Pakistan: $1.9 billion, $591 million above the request
• Iraq: $968 million, $336 million above the request
• Oversight: $20 million, $13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
• Lebanon: $74 million
• International Food Assistance: $500 million, $200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis
• Refugee Assistance: $343 million, $50 million above the request, …including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)
• Disaster Assistance: $200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia
• Peacekeeping: $837 million for United Nations peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic
• Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
73 million to Zimbabwe