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A Bold Challenge
With 15 minutes and 28 seconds of U.S. space flight experience, President John F. Kennedy delivered a bold challenge.
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." ~ Pres. Kennedy, May 25, 1961
JFK urged the U.S. to work diligently to lead the achievements of space travel because "in many ways [it] may hold the key to our future on earth."
Note: If ever we were in need of a bold challenge, it's now. It holds the key to not only our own future, but for the rest of the planet as well. We should commit ourselves to achieving the goal of going 100% green in less than a decade, not over the next 20-30 years. If we could design and build a space program, go to the moon and back in under a decade, we should be able to totally convert to wind and solar in half that time. We have the technology. All we need are some "BOLD" leaders.
"If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations" ~ Nikola Tesla - 1915
"Electric Power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need for coal, oil or gas . . . " ~ Nikola Tesla
"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago." ~ Sir George Porter 1973
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~ Ralph Nader 1980
"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed." ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
"It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals." ~ Sara Stein
"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." ~ Gandhi
"On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else." ~ Marshall McLuhan
"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." ~ Albert Einstein
Biodiesel
Biodiesel is hardly new. Rudolf Diesel used peanut oil in his original compression-ignition engine in 1898!
Vegetable oils were used until the 1920's when an alteration was made to the engine enabling it to use a residue of petroleum diesel.
The diesel engine gained worldwide acceptance, biodiesel did not.
With it's superior price, availability, and government subsidies, petroleum diesel quickly became the fuel of choice for the diesel engine.
But biodiesel is not the answer. It is only one bridge to being clean, green and energy independent.
Natural Gas
In 1821 in Fredonia, New York, William A. Hart drilled a 27 foot deep well in an effort to get a larger flow of gas from a surface seepage of natural gas. This was the first well intentionally drilled to obtain natural gas.
But natural gas is not the answer. It is only one bridge to being truly clean, green and energy independent.
Solar energy is the perfect form of energy
In 1883 inventor Charles Fritz built what many regard as the first true photovoltaic cell. His solar cell only had a conversion rate of only 1-2% but represents the beginning of solar technology as we know it.
