And new bridges to generate power to sell, keep the weather off the road, keep lights on and Roadways ice free! Update Ideas: Cover all the modern Ohio/Kentucky Bridges with Solar Panels to protect the roadway from weather, generate power, supply lighting and road surface heating. (See Cincinnati Zoo link below) http://cincinnatizoo.org/blog/2011/05/09/largest-publicly-accessible-urban-solar-array
/ http://www.purplepeoplebridge.com/
Power stores and businesses, shade customer cars, reduce hot blacktop heat, sell power to customers,
Here is my "Bailout idea" an "Interstate Highway Solar Power Grid"
With one BIG IDEA, an "Interstate Highway Solar Power Grid" we can supply economic relief and end U.S. How about a planet "bailout"?? Updated from Joe Drury on September 29, 2008, My Idea first posted 22 Sep 2005
Why am I still buying coal fired electricity in Kentucky in 1/5/2011?? We must fix this! From: [email protected]
To: All those who value life as we envision it! Subject: With one BIG IDEA we can supply Katrina/Rita/Ike/and ongoing storm relief and end U.S. energy problems. We (U.S.) can create long term economic relief and solve all U.S. Energy problems. with one BIG IDEA:
First, thanks to "Meet the Press" and MR. TIM RUSSERT for following up on
"Drowning New Orleans"; Scientific American Magazine; October 2001) by
interviewing Mark Fischetti and Mike Tidwell who in 2003, wrote, "Bayou
Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast,"
"War on energy poverty"
Mike Tidewell fingered our most pressing long term global problem: fossil
fuel burning is creating carbon dioxide causing global warming causing sea
levels to rise 1.5 feet within 50 years causing the flooding of many U.S. other and costal cities around the world. We must create a combined national federally funded jobs program "bailout" for
the New Orleans Katrina and other storm dispossessed that will free U.S. forever from
oil slavery. We must demand our national government and business leaders
create a "War on energy poverty". We need to stop using fossil fuel ASAP
and we need to usefully employ over 500,000 newly dispossessed US workers NOW. We can solve several major long term national and global problems with one
big idea (partially conceived by Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury PHD.):
As of 2004, the U.S. Federal Highway system contained over 42700 miles
(68500 km) of roads. ExFirst, including paved areas, 612,966 acres are used by
medians and 4,848,854 acres used by the rest of right of way lands. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a patch of 100 square
miles of open space in Nevada covered with efficient solar panels could
generate all the electrical power needs of the United 100 SQ Miles = 64,000
acres. We can cover a percentage of these 612,966 acres of U.S. freeway medians and
the 4,848,854 acres used by the rest of the right of way with efficient
durable thin film solar panel strips that could cleanly generate all the
electrical and other power needs of the United states and North Americas
while employing the storm and economy dispossessed, rebuilding New Orleans and the
gulf and starting to reverse global warming. With this idea thin film solar array strips will be deployed on top of
easily maintained existing guard rail and other roadway structures and linked
to the local and national power grids. These will supply shading to a percentage of the
medians where the a "1998 Revised Guidance for the Native Wildflower
Planting Requirement" will be implemented thereby saving money currently
wasted on grass mowing. The combined National Solar Grid can also directly supply electric power to a series
of "Third Rails" which can supply electricity to Electric Hybrid cars while they travel
on the interstates,power local communities, and electrically convert water to
hydrogen fuel (and beneficial oxygen), hot water to drive turbines, or compressed air for off grid transport by truck, bus, car, boat, and plane. "Interstate Highway Solar Power Grid" maintenance can also be paid in part
with funds saved by planting native wildflowers not mowing grass and by
implementing the 1998 Revised Guidance for the Native Wildflower Planting
Requirement. The initial funding will come from the new "amended $286.4 billion
transportation bill" and Katrina job relief and training funds that will be
used to train and pay the Katrina/storm disposed for their work on this "National
Highways Solar Energy Grid". We need YOUR visionary leadership to step up NOW and champion this idea like
the "Manhattan project or President Kennedy's space program" for the
common good, economic security and future of our great country. Some resources and references:
Q: What is the opportunity today? A: The electricity market is a $1 trillion market world-wide--one of the
largest single-addressable markets in the world. There are approximately
12 billion square meters of rooftops in the United States, or just about
enough to deliver all of the electric power the United States requires. In fact, an entire 15% of the United States' electricity (and even 60% of Singapore's)
are consumed for a function required by the presence of too much sun: air
cooling/conditioning. http://www.nanosolar.com
The Department of Energy estimates that a distributed solar system would
involve an average of 17
square miles of PV per state. Using vacant land, parking lots and rooftops
would provide plenty of land for this. They state that using the estimated 5
million acres of abandoned industrial "brownfields" sites in our nation's
cities could supply 90% of America's current electric demand. http://www.energyjustice.net/solutions/
“Our quality of life and economic security are dependent on a stable and
abundant supply of affordable energy,” Watson said. “Encouraging the
production and development of renewable energy on our public lands,
including solar energy, is part of the president’s National Energy Policy.”
p://www.blm.gov/nhp/news/releases/pages/2004/pr041021_solar.htm
"The rest of the world needs cheap, reliable (SOLAR) power too, if we're
going to end the wars over energy and bring on a new age of global peace and
toleration." For investors: "Reinventing energy is a multitrillion-dollar opportunity. It's the next big disruption. It dwarfs any business opportunity in history."
--." That's for Gross himself, as well. What's left to do after you've
ridden the Net rocket from liftoff to splashdown? Why, you save the world. [email protected] [email protected]
Other Sources:
Corporate Headquarters
Nanosolar, Inc. Corporate Headquarters
2440 Embarcadero Way
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3313
650.565.8891 Phone
650.565.8894 Fax [email protected] [email protected]
Global Alliances Contact [email protected] http://www.nanosolar.com/cache/eetimes.htm
Please review my idea and let me know what you think we need to consider as well. Joseph F. Drury Glass Art and Ideas,
Objects of Contemplation
JoeDrury.com
This Map found at: http://www.onlineatlas.us/interstate-highways.htm
Online Glass Art also at:WWW.GlassArtists.org/JoeDrury
Online gallery where glass artists can display photos of their art. This page was last modified on October 25th, 2012
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The sun has been around for a long time like me.
Check out my solar powered water and light sculpture created before solar was cool. Eugene Oregon, 1994
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