Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE WILDFIRES.

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID... 

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives

Contact Governor Newsom of California: 

https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/

Commercial Solar LED Street Lighting: THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS...   HERE IS ONE...

https://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/solar-street-lighting
and Here are another DOZEN...
https://cleanenergysummit.org/best-solar-street-lights/

solar powered street lights

and WHAT is that White Spot Halfway between Seattle and Chicago? That's the Flaring of Waste Natural Gas by Oil Companies... They Just Burn it! Really! 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/07/burning-natural-gas-at-oil-rigs-in.html

Photo from Space of the Bakken Oil Field... Burning Natural Gas at Oil Rigs in North Dakota is visible from space at night. Fracking... It looks as bright as a city but it's burning waste fuel... Polluting the World, Causing Global Warming.

A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark...

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a-mysterious-patch-of-light-shows-up-in-the-north-dakota-dark

What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, have flooded this region, drilling up to eight new wells every day on what is called the Bakken formation. Altogether, they are now producing 660,000 barrels a day — double the output two years ago — so that in no time at all, North Dakota is now the second-largest oil producing state in America. Only Texas produces more, and those lights are a sign that this region is now on fire ... to a disturbing degree. Literally.

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One thing I Noticed in the news was that THE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION WIRES from Oregon to California Melted in a fire 7/12/2021... Vast Amounts of Power flow thru those lines... 

The Concept of Generating power in a Central Location and Distributing it using wires is a FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED SYSTEM... It was Power lines that started the Fire that Burned Paradise, CA...

Why Not Generate Power at the House and Unplug Everyone from the Grid?

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CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY With an Exercise Bicycle Power Generator. ZERO POLLUTION. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery...

Hundreds of Thousands of exercise Bicycles

ALREADY EXIST and they Create ZERO Electricity...

Let's All Email PELOTON and ask them to

Build USEFUL Power Generator Bicycles!

https://www.onepeloton.com/company/contact

Bicycle power generator. HSU CCAT

What if we installed electric power generators on every 

exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning 

power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile 

alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt 

State University

http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_human_energy_

converter

What if EVERY health club had these? What if Rowing Machines, Treadmills, Weight Lifting Universal Gyms and Stair Steppers had Generators? Imagine Pumping Iron and When the Weights Move Down they Spin an Alternator... We Have the Technology... 
There are Thousands of Health Clubs That COULD BE Generating Electricity but DO NOT... I Emailed PELATON Exercise Bicycle Company but they Ignored Me,,, 

Designed by Humboldt State University Campus Center for Appropriate Technology. 

The MEOW... Mobile Energy Operations Wagon. A Six Bicycle Electricity Generator... HSU CCAT... CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO POWER...
https://www.appropedia.org/Pedal_Power_MEOW

Bicycle Powered Electric Power Generator HSU CCAT

https://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_pedal_powered_TV

https://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Build-A-Bicycle-Generator/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/how-to/a10245/pedal-power-how-to-build-a-bike-generator-16627209/


https://www.facebook.com/campuscenterforappropriatetechnology/photos_stream

http://kjcoop.com/~bart/galleries/pedalpower/index.htm

Shredded Rainbow Spiral Business Cards For Sale.

https://www.zazzle.com/shredded_rainbow_spiral_business_card-256163553649539936 <--- Click on the Link!

MORE Shredded Rainbow Spiral Art 

Link to Spiral Art Painted on Bling: 

https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?qs=spiral&st=Popularity

Link to Rainbow Art Painted on Bling:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?qs=rainbow&st=Popularity

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Solar Panels on the Roof of a House REDUCE THE NEED FOR DANGEROUS POWER DISTRIBUTION WIRES. Currently a CAUSE of Wildfires in the Western United States.

 In Olden Times, Corporations Like PG&E and SoCal Edison Would Generate Electricity in a Central Location and Distribute it To Customers. That Plan is No Longer Valid. Small Power Generation Systems Built Right Onto The Home of the Customer Make More Sense. We Need to Take All The Federal Subsidies Propping up oil, Gas and Nuclear Power and Re-Direct That Money towards DOING GOOD INSTEAD OF EVIL.

Centralized Power Generation Made Sense When Nicola Tesla and George Westinghouse Built a Power Plant at Niagra Falls and Distributed Electricity to New York City. It Made Sense When We Built the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and Distributed Electricity to Los Angeles and Las Vegas...

THOSE DAYS ARE LONG GONE!

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Another Great Idea is to Create Drinking Water and Electricity At The Same Time by Desalinizing Sea Water... Use Solar Energy to Pump Water Out of the Ocean and Membrane Technology to Remove the Salt... Nothing New Needs to Be Invented... We Already Have Membrane Purifiers in Front of Liquor Stores Where You Buy Clean Water by the Gallon... It's Called Reverse Osmosis... 

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/how-solar-powered-mobile-water-purifiers-can-help-cities-cope-with-bad-water

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or we could simply Focus Sunlight to Boil Sea Water... When the Steam Condenses it's PURE H2O... Plus... We Get Salt and Trace Elements Used To Make Electronic Equipment... 

http://helioscsp.com/californias-first-concentrated-solar-power-desalination-plant-to-bring-freshwater-to-the-central-valley/

and... Whatever We Do... NO NUKES!

Here are 20 simple ideas for making the world a better place. #1 Solar Powered Desalinization - Change Seawater into Drinking Water, Salt and Electricity.

1. We ought to build a giant solar power desalinization plant in Southern California at Camp Pendleton. It would use solar reflectors to boil seawater and create steam. That steam would be used to drive turbines and create electricity. When the water Cools it Condenses into Pure H2O...  NaCl (salt) and Many Other Trace Elements Useful for Building High Tech Devices can be Harvested. 

Staff Locator for the EPA 

including EMAIL Addresses and Phone Numbers.

https://cfpub.epa.gov/locator/index.cfm

The water would be sold to people for drinking, washing, watering livestock and watering plants. The salt could be sold...

Camp Pendleton near San Diego would be an ideal location. Southern California is in need of water. There is a current proposal to use pipelines to move fresh water from the Sacramento River to be used by farmers and residents in SoCal. A better alternative would be to just get the water from the ocean... 

Read More:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-our-elected.html

When We Come Back from Coronavirus Shutdown... We Have The Opportunity To EVOLVE... and Build a Wonderful World... I'm Collecting Plans for How to Rebuild a Sane Post Coronavirus Society. Please Comment and I'll Add Your Ideas to The Web...

Greetings: Here are 20 simple ideas for making the world a better place. 

#1: Solar Powered Desalinization - Change Seawater into Drinking Water. Let's Build a Giant Plant Halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles... Using Mirrors to Boil Seawater We Could Create PURE H2O, NaCl and Electricity... Simply Drive a Turbine with The Expanding Steam... 

#2: Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax it, Free All the Cannabis Prisoners. Refund the Money Currently Wasted on Law Enforcement To The Taxpayers... 

#3: Cut The Defense Budget in Half. Since We Have Not ACTUALLY DEFENDED The USA Since 1945, Not Even Once, Couldn't We Do Nothing For Less Money? 

#4: Layoff Half the Police. Actual Crime is Down... They Are Bored, Armed, With Nothing To Do... No WONDER They Get In Trouble... 

#5: Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%
 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-our-elected.html

Solar Panels on the Roof of the House That They Power Eliminate the Need for Long Dangerous Wires That Cause Wildfires. ---> Question The GRID... Generating Electricity in a Central Location and Distributing it To Where it is Used. Is Wasteful and Dangerous. Let's Replace Standard Streetlights With Self Contained Solar Powered Streetlights. No Need For Long Dangerous Wires. --->What Paradise Was Like Before it Burned. My Memories of a California Town. [personal autobiography of everything I ever did in Paradise...Just to keep the Town's Memory Alive... If you are reading this in the Future. Paradise, California Burned to the Ground in 2018 and all buildings were destroyed.] I was lucky enough to have visited the town of Paradise. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-paradise-was-like-before-it-burned.html

Let's Move Work Closer to Home. Save Money, Time and Gasoline Currently Wasted Commuting. ---> Here Are Some Things We Can Do About Climate Change... Drive Cars Less. Use Less Electricity. Breed Less. Stop Flying in Jet Airplanes! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/09/here-are-some-things-we-can-do-about.html

Solar, Wind and Hydro are Essentially Free Once Built. Safe, Clean and Infinite. ---> BIOMASS Electric Power Plants Could Dispose of the Millions of Dead Trees in California that are a Fire Hazard. Before we have another Disastrous Wildfire like we had in Paradise, we could remove the fuel from the forests and use it to generate electricity. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/biomass-electric-power-plants-could.html

Once a Person Has a Billion Dollars, What is the POINT of Getting More Money? It's a Hoarding Sickness... One Thing We Ought To Do is Tax the Rich and Distribute That Money to The Poor. The Robin Hood Concept...

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Other Questions...

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Are CITIES VALID? Why Not Live Way Out in the Woods and Telecommute? It's Wonderful!

Question IF... Flying in a Jet Airplane is REALLY NEEDED... Just ZOOM To Your Destination...

We Have Learned That Commuting to Work is an Obsolete Idea... Working From Home is GREAT for Some People.

What Can We DO To Build a Better World?
The Old Ways Do Not Work...

I Have Noticed that TV NEWS is a Fear for Profit Machine. They get Higher Ratings by Shouting DANGER DANGER!

War for Corporate Profit is an Obsolete Idea. Every War Since 1945 Has Been ABSURD! Marketing for Defense Contractors.

My LOGO - PiFOG - People In Favor of Good - gvan42

"Water, water all around but not a Drop to Drink." NO LONGER TRUE! Dramatic Engineering Improvements of Solar Powered Desalinization Plants have made turning Seawater into Drinking Water in VAST Quantities a Reality. Useful for Watering Plants, Livestock, Taking Showers, Filling Swimming Pools, Lawns and Making Ice Cubes for your "Scotch on the Rocks" Beverage. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/water-water-all-around-but-not-drop-to.html

and Then I Got This Email:

Hi Greg,

Like your thought provoking email encouraging folks to think of ways to make the world a better place.  

Your comprehensive list of ideas contains ones I agree with, ones I don't, and ones I'd like to think were feasible.  My biggest immediate concerns, other than my mom's welfare, my self-preservation and that of friends and family, are containing the pandemic, eliminating racism, and ousting the dishonest/clueless POTUS, Senate Majority Leader, the U. S. Attorney General, and others in the current administration that have contributed to the ongoing total chaos that's consuming our nation, negatively impacting our relationship with once strong allies, failure to actively participate in meaningful discussions with other countries to reduce global warming, and significantly losing respect of other nations, not to mention that of the once proud citizens of the United States of America.  

Still waiting for a safe/proven/over-the-counter SMART pill and an antiracist vaccine.

Stay well Greg.

Craig