Global Climate Change Action

This is about plans. Lets research who actually has one. It had to be google of course. As Eric Schmidt said. Quit grousing and come up with a plan if you don’t like mine. After all whats the alternative? Death? So here is his plan http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=4MlC959hjRM

In short: A crisis is an opportunity(financial crisis).

Q: Why are we spending so much money on military security? A: Oil security

Premise: Total fundamental failure of political leadership based on:
1. Vested interests 2. Lack of understanding of value of; global alliances, best available technology and the great opportunity we are being presented with to restructure inefficiency.

Plan:
A - Efficiency first: This is the cheapest and easiest with the fastest payback e.g. Google investing $5 million for a two year return!
B - Investment in Solar thermal, wind and geothermal mainly with incentives(as there are so many subtle subsidies for fossil fuels)
C - Restructure the old decaying grid: Old grid has 9% efficiency loss. Mathematical modeling using renewables mix across US show a smart grid to be very stable, in fact more stable than current one. Investigate V2G(vehicle to grid) with plug in hybrids i.e. charge in off peak, download in peak as most cost is at peak power(and taxpayer makes money not driving).
D - Regulation: Price on carbon, new building efficiency standards, plug in hybrids(electric/ethanol)

Cost: 2.7 trillion Savings: 2.1 trillion (in efficiencies) 8% discount rate = $200 million in net present value

Solves:
1 Security
2 Price of energy
3 Jobs and investment(yes millions of home based jobs)
4 And by the way, CLIMATE CHANGE

Also check out Al Gore's 10 year challenge. Anyone want to summarize?