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Anne B. Butterfield of DAILY CAMERA, a biweekly contributor to NewEnergyNews

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  • The big ka-ching in our health care wallet
  • Anne B. Butterfield
  • June 19, 2009 (NewEnergyNews)

    While Americans wonder with noisy drama what the Obama Administration will do to our current health care system, wouldn’t it be great if we could materially reduce the cost of health care in our country by tackling climate change?

    Virtually all of the power for our transportation and electric utilities comes from petroleum, coal, and natural gas, the combustion of which emits the toxins that are heavily involved in costly degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), to name a few. Rural or urban, we are sitting in a faint bath of toxic chemicals that can exacerbate our symptoms or hasten acute suffering and death, and when that happens it is a big ka-ching in our health care wallet.

    The emissions and other by products of fossil fuel use are so ubiquitous, and often well hidden, that they slip from our awareness. Their presence and health effects have become “just the way life is.” Here are a few of our fossil fuel chemical friends:

    Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are precursors to smog, that brown smear of ozone and particulate matter that collects over cities under high air pressure conditions. Smog alerts are accompanied by higher than average hospital admissions and deaths.

    Particulate matter excerbates asthma, COPD, bronchitis, cardiac events as well as congestive heart failure. When smog mingles with very small particles (known as PM 2.5) the risk of mortality for men over 65 rises to 24 percent above average; for women of this age the death rate is 80 percent above average.

    Three hundred counties in the US are designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as clean air non-attainment areas, being perpetually outside of the recommended air quality standards. Pass the nebulizer!

    Coal fired power plants emit about a third of all human-caused release of mercury, a neurotoxin so widely spread that women and children are advised to limit their eating of fish. In Colorado one-fifth of waterways have mercury-based fishing advisories.

    Another health cost of using coal as heavily as we do is the ash waste. All over our country, ash waste is dumped in unlined pits in or near the water table. A 2007 report of the EPA found that poorly lined waste sites (60 percent of all) pose a cancer risk through ground water that is 900 times what is acceptable.

    Environmental groups have fought for national standards for the handling of coal ash waste, to keep state officials from competing in a “race to the bottom” for corporate clients’ sake. But rather than put coal waste under the EPA’s regulation, Obama’s Department of Homeland Security has just announced that the locations of 44 coal ash dumps cannot be disclosed; their toxicity and precarious engineering make them attractive terrorist targets. Meanwhile two senators are seeking support to make sure that coal ash waste is treated less rigorously than household trash.

    Ontario, Canada released a report finding that each kilowatt hour of coal-fired power creates 12.7 cents of health and environmental effects. The next time you get your electric bill, picture two-thirds of your kilowatt hours each causing 12 cents of medical and other costs. Utilities like to talk about delivering low-cost energy, but that sector’s emissions of known toxins, at 722 million pounds each year, dwarfs all other industrial competitors. A large part of our health care costs belong on our utility bill and other energy related costs.

    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger put it best: “We pay for the fuel we burn but not for the pollution we emit. That pollution causes serious damage to our world, and in the long run, we all pay for it...Imagine if we decided to let everyone dump their garbage on their neighbors' lawns instead of being forced to pay for trash pickup. Sure, it would be cheaper, but it would be disastrous to public health.”

    The climate bill coming through Congress is guaranteed to be inadequate, so our path to the post-fossil fuel era will be long. We should keep up the support for local communities, like Coal River Valley in West Virginia, which is fighting to stop mountain top removal mining, and our own effort in Boulder to rapidly decarbonize our electric supply.

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    Anne's previous NewEnergyNews columns:

  • The big ka-ching in our health care wallet (June 19, 2009)
  • It takes a Governor (May 24, 2009)
  • Want a job? Think Wind. (May 10, 2009)
  • Just Say No to Xcess Energy (April 28, 2009)
  • NREL’s history of fickle funding (April 12, 2009)
  • Wagons firmly circled: Governance at REA’s and Tri-State (March 26, 2009)
  • A new migratory pattern: Colorado youth go to Washington (March 12, 2009)
  • Even coal is in for a revolution (February 22, 2009)
  • High Flyers and the Commons (February 11, 2009)
  • Come on Baby, Sit by Me (January 25, 2009)
  • A return on investment (January 3, 2009)
  • Mr. Secretary, we're watching you (December 28, 2008)
  • Canary in the Coal Mine (December 13, 2008)
  • Crash test dummies (November 16, 2008)
  • Needless markup (November 2, 2008)
  • The flap about 58 (October 19, 2008)
  • Hip towns and a clever measure (October 7, 2008)
  • Are we afraid of change? Still? (September 21, 2008)
  • Cheney in a chignon (September 7, 2008)
  • Don't tick off the blonde (August 10, 2008)
  • Buying us time on global warming (July 27, 2008)
  • Hint from Heloise - It's the pH, Stupid! (July 13, 2008)
  • Nukes: the position ridiculous and the expense damnable (June 29, 2008)

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    NOTEWORTHY IN THE MEDIA:

  • Young, Green Entrepreneurs Flock to Carbon Market, from NPR's Morning Edition: "...climate change and a billion-dollar carbon market that trades in carbon credits — as if they were pork bellies — have created a new career niche."

  • Ethical Markets TV: A remarkable TV series showcasing people who “…illustrate the triple bottom line, respecting people and the environment while earning a profit…” Part of Ethical Markets: “Your gateway to cleaner, greener 21st century economies.”

  • Energy Security and Global Warming, from Warren Olney's TO THE POINT at KCRW in Santa Monica: "US energy demands are rising as the price of oil goes through the roof...Canadian tar sands and domestic coal would provide energy security, but at the risk of increased global warming. Can renewables be developed in time?"

  • Designer Biofuels, from KQED Radio in San Francisco: "...making a gasoline alternative to run our cars has great promise but there are huge problems...The next answer [may come]...from a UC Berkeley lab, a Silicon Valley start up or...the jungles of Costa Rica."

  • HELEN’S WAR: Portrait of a Dissident, showing periodically on the Sundance Channel (click title for listings), profiles the medical doctor turned anti-nuclear activist as she continues her nearly 4-decade-old campaign to educate the public on the serious drawbacks to the development of nuclear energy.

  • A CRUDE AWAKENING: The Oil Crash, showing periodically on the Sundance Channel (click title for listings), studies the implications of world dependence on oil and declining availability of it.

  • Lee Iococa predicts the Plug-In Hybrid will be the next big thing in cars NPR’s Morning Edition: Thursday, April 26, 2007.

  • Robert Redford Presents "the GREEN": A weekly block of New Energy and Environmentally-Friendly programming. Check local listings.

  • John Rabe's OFFRAMP, Saturdays at noon (and podcasts) via NPR-affiliate KPCC-FM. A radio magazine show about Los Angeles, sometimes covering energy issues but frequently featuring John telling anybody he can about his vegetable oil-burning, converted Mercedes.

  • NOW: PBS's David Brancaccio talks with Laurie David, a producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and a major environmental activist.
    • Stream it at your convenience here.

  • Living with Ed, an HGTV tons-of-fun reality/comedy show about the trials, tribulations, hilarity and rewards in the marriage of environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr., and his appearance-oriented actress-wife Rachelle Carson. Click here for listings

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  • My Novels: OIL IN THEIR BLOOD, The American Decades & OIL IN THEIR BLOOD, The Story of Our Addiction
  • Review of OIL IN THEIR BLOOD, The American Decades by Mark S. Friedman
  • OIL IN THEIR BLOOD, The American Decades, the second volume of Herman K. Trabish’s retelling of oil’s history in fiction, picks up where the first book in the series, OIL IN THEIR BLOOD, The Story of Our Addiction, left off. The new book is an engrossing, informative and entertaining tale of the Roaring 20s, World War II and the Cold War. You don’t have to know anything about the first historical fiction’s adventures set between the Civil War, when oil became a major commodity, and World War I, when it became a vital commodity, to enjoy this new chronicle of the U.S. emergence as a world superpower and a world oil power.
  • As the new book opens, Lefash, a minor character in the first book, witnesses the role Big Oil played in designing the post-Great War world at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Unjustly implicated in a murder perpetrated by Big Oil agents, LeFash takes the name Livingstone and flees to the U.S. to clear himself. Livingstone’s quest leads him through Babe Ruth’s New York City and Al Capone’s Chicago into oil boom Oklahoma. Stymied by oil and circumstance, Livingstone marries, has a son and eventually, surprisingly, resolves his grievances with the murderer and with oil.
  • In the new novel’s second episode the oil-and-auto-industry dynasty from the first book re-emerges in the charismatic person of Victoria Wade Bridger, “the woman everybody loved.” Victoria meets Saudi dynasty founder Ibn Saud, spies for the State Department in the Vichy embassy in Washington, D.C., and – for profound and moving personal reasons – accepts a mission into the heart of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. Underlying all Victoria’s travels is the struggle between the allies and axis for control of the crucial oil resources that drove World War II.
  • As the Cold War begins, the novel’s third episode recounts the historic 1951 moment when Britain’s MI-6 handed off its operations in Iran to the CIA, marking the end to Britain’s dark manipulations and the beginning of the same work by the CIA. But in Trabish’s telling, the covert overthrow of Mossadeq in favor of the ill-fated Shah becomes a compelling romance and a melodramatic homage to the iconic “Casablanca” of Bogart and Bergman.
  • Monty Livingstone, veteran of an oil field youth, European WWII combat and a star-crossed post-war Berlin affair with a Russian female soldier, comes to 1951 Iran working for a U.S. oil company. He re-encounters his lost Russian love, now a Soviet agent helping prop up Mossadeq and extend Mother Russia’s Iranian oil ambitions. The reunited lovers are caught in a web of political, religious and Cold War forces until oil and power merge to restore the Shah to his future fate. The romance ends satisfyingly, America and the Soviet Union are the only forces left on the world stage and ambiguity is resolved with the answer so many of Trabish’s characters ultimately turn to: Oil.
  • Commenting on a recent National Petroleum Council report calling for government subsidies of the fossil fuels industries, a distinguished scholar said, “It appears that the whole report buys these dubious arguments that the consumer of energy is somehow stupid about energy…” Trabish’s great and important accomplishment is that you cannot read his emotionally engaging and informative tall tales and remain that stupid energy consumer. With our world rushing headlong toward Peak Oil and epic climate change, the OIL IN THEIR BLOOD series is a timely service as well as a consummate literary performance.
  • Oil history journal articles by Dr. Trabish: Oil Stories and Histories
  • Review of OIL IN THEIR BLOOD, The Story of Our Addiction by Mark S. Friedman
  • "...ours is a culture of energy illiterates." (Paul Roberts, THE END OF OIL)
  • OIL IN THEIR BLOOD, a superb new historical fiction by Herman K. Trabish, addresses our energy illiteracy by putting the development of our addiction into a story about real people, giving readers a chance to think about how our addiction happened. Trabish's style is fine, straightforward storytelling and he tells his stories through his characters.
  • The book is the answer an oil family's matriarch gives to an interviewer who asks her to pass judgment on the industry. Like history itself, it is easier to tell stories about the oil industry than to judge it. She and Trabish let readers come to their own conclusions.
  • She begins by telling the story of her parents in post-Civil War western Pennsylvania, when oil became big business. This part of the story is like a John Ford western and its characters are classic American melodramatic heroes, heroines and villains.
  • In Part II, the matriarch tells the tragic story of the second generation and reveals how she came to be part of the tales. We see oil become an international commodity, traded on Wall Street and sought from London to Baku to Mesopotamia to Borneo. A baseball subplot compares the growth of the oil business to the growth of baseball, a fascinating reflection of our current president's personal career.
  • There is an unforgettable image near the center of the story: International oil entrepreneurs talk on a Baku street. This is Trabish at his best, portraying good men doing bad and bad men doing good, all laying plans for wealth and power in the muddy, oily alley of a tiny ancient town in the middle of everywhere. Because Part I was about triumphant American heroes, the tragedy here is entirely unexpected, despite Trabish's repeated allusions to other stories (Casey At The Bat, Hamlet) that do not end well.
  • In the final section, World War I looms. Baseball takes a back seat to early auto racing and oil-fueled modernity explodes. Love struggles with lust. A cavalry troop collides with an army truck. Here, Trabish has more than tragedy in mind. His lonely, confused young protagonist moves through the horrible destruction of the Romanian oilfields only to suffer worse and worse horrors, until--unexpectedly--he finds something, something a reviewer cannot reveal. Finally, the question of oil must be settled, so the oil industry comes back into the story in a way that is beyond good and bad, beyond melodrama and tragedy.
  • Along the way, Trabish gives readers a greater awareness of oil and how we became addicted to it. Awareness, Paul Roberts said in THE END OF OIL, "...may be the first tentative step toward building a more sustainable energy economy. Or it may simply mean that when our energy system does begin to fail, and we begin to lose everything that energy once supplied, we won't be so surprised."
  • Oil history journal articles by Dr. Trabish: Oil Stories and Histories

    • About Me

    Name: Herman K. Trabish
    Location: La Crescenta, CA

    *Doctor with my hands *Author of the "OIL IN THEIR BLOOD" series with my head *Student of New Energy with my heart

    View my complete profile

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    CONTACT: herman@newenergynews.net

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    • Friday, May 09, 2008

    SOLAR 2008: DAY 3 – GRIDLOCK?

    Originally posted May 7.
    Power is not the problem – it’s what to do with the power that’s the problem.

    The Solar2008 Tuesday plenary session presenters made it utterly clear New Energy is building at a pace far beyond the energy establishment’s wildest expectations.

    From rooftop photovoltaic panels to desert solar power plants to biomass projects to massive wind farms, the megawatts are rapidly becoming gigawatts. (A gigawatt is a thousand megawatts.)

    Old Energy still doesn't really see what's coming. (click to enlarge)


    Jigar Shah, Chief Strategy Officer, SunEdison    , started the morning with a pitch for Distributed Generation. Distributed generation comes onto the grid from a wide variety of small, local directions (like rooftop solar panels) rather than from a central power plant source. During times of peak electricity demand, like hot summer afternoons, distributed generation reduces the strain. A smart grid can significantly expand its capacity to meet peaking loads by drawing on extra power generated variously and locally.

    Rooftop solar panels are probably the most popular form of distributed generation. If solar continues growing at its current 40+% per year rate (and generating $16+ billion dollars in 2007), it will be providing 65 gigawatts of power in 10 years. That would easily meet solar’s share of the urgently needed new, non-emissions spewing U.S. power but, because much of solar’s growth will be “distributed” and require significantly less transmission on central infrastructure lines, it is even more important to the country.

    The spirit of Distributed Generation. (click to enlarge)

    It is Shah’s contention, in fact, that BECAUSE small solar installations require less transmission infrastructure than centralized power plants, they might turn out to be the key to preventing brownouts (and maybe blackouts) predicted by 2011 in many parts of the U.S. where power plant capacity and grid carrying capacity are overburdened.

    But utilities and power planners tell Shah it’s too expensive to build solar installations. To which Shah replies, “But you’re even MORE expensive.” Insightfully, Shah insists power producers not compare solar energy cost to the cost of power generated by existing Old Energy production but to the cost of building new production from traditional sources. Considered that way, distributed solar generation – especially when the cost of building new transmission for the traditional sources is considered – is competitive right now.

    Shah added that distributed solar generation is now storable, predictable if intermittent, and there are plenty of places to build it, from the rooftops of homes and businesses to the brownfields of inner cities. What is still needed, he concluded, are good incentives, innovative price schedules, net metering and a smart grid.

    Chuck Kutscher, Principal Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) summarized the resurgence of solar power plants (also known as concentrating solar power), like distributed generation another rapidly rising source of output. In solar power plants, solar energy heats flowing materials that are used to do the same thing nuclear and coal plants do with the heat they make - heat water to create steam to drive turbines to generate electricity. There's one small difference, of course; solar power plants emit no CO2 and produce no radioactive waste.

    Parabolic trough collectors, the most mature of the concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies, have been built in California and Nevada and are planned all over the U.S. Southwest. NREL studies show there is available, just at a small selection of best sites in the region, seven times the energy necessary to power the entire country. (Interest in potential Southwestern desert sites is so high there is land speculation on them.)

    An important factor in solar power plant growth, Kutscher said, is that utilities understand and are unintimidated by the steam generation of electricity whereas they seem to regard distributed photovoltaic installations as foreign and beyond their control.

    A parabolic trough -- the most mature of the power plant technologies. (click to enlarge)

    One of the most exciting developments Kutscher described is in solar energy storage. It is no longer hypothetical. It is being done in Spain and storage facilities are being built with some of the new plants here. The economics of storage support power plant construction. The marginal costs of building a second solar field to feed the storage facility while the first one is generating real-time power are easily offset by the value of the stored power continuing to produce electricity during the evening peak demand periods when solar plant output would otherwise be fading.

    The result: Solar energy-generated electricity can be sold at an average 14 cents per kilowatt-hour in markets where the best natural gas can do is 12 cents per kilowatt-hour. And, as Kutscher pointed out, the price of natural gas is expected to go up while the economies of scale on solar power plants are just beginning to be felt. Better reflective materials, prevention of heat loss and more efficient, durable fluids are all in the pipeline.

    There are next-generation solar power plant technologies, too, such as solar power towers and Stirling dish systems. For technical reasons, the power towers may lend themselves to better storage. The Stirling dishes promise much higher efficiencies and don’t require water.

    Kutscher concluded by describing the stickiest consideration for solar power plants – transmission. There is adequate wire space right now for present needs but to take advantage of the kind of sun under which the southwest languishes, a whole new smart grid and a set of high capacity lines running to the north and the east would be necessary. Europe is talking about the same kind of new lines because some dreamers there think lines under the Mediterranean can carry North African and Saudi Arabian solar energy to them.

    Ed DeMeo, President, Renewable Energy Consulting Srvcs, Inc., talked about the wind energy industry’s intention to provide 20% of U.S. electricity by 2030. Tt is a level of growth much of the energy establishment does not believe wind capable. DeMeo and wind energy advocates have no doubts. Raw wind power is many times the entire U.S. power requirement. Costs are already widely competitive and as fossil fuel prices go up, wind’s value gets better.

    Wind represents huge economic opportunity and job growth in the U.S. but it does have problems. Getting the siting of turbine installations right is challenging. The national demand for better New Energy incentives must be met Congressional action. And, most importantly, like CSP, wind expansion will require – and does not have – new, smart transmission.

    The grid needs a makeover. (click to enlarge)

    Craig Cornelius, Principal, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, shared his insights about the growth of distributed solar, CSP, wind energy and the other New Energies, calling on his perspective as the former Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Solar Energy Technologies Program.

    His opening comments? “The grid is not there.”

    In 2003, policy initiatives creating National Interest Transmission Corridors and allowing modes of cost recovery for transmission builders were put through but government regulatory oversight and Not-In-My-BackYard (NIMBY) attitudes still prevent new transmission from being built. It is not cost and it is not technical issues, Cornelius said, it is a matter of national will.

    Despite the absence of transmission, Cornelius was upbeat about the boom in New Energy and it’s upside potential.

    In a question and answer session following the presentations, NewEnergyNews asked the presenters to expand on the topic of transmission needs and explain what prevents the building of new wires.

    Mr. Shah was frank. Enormous costs are involved. Mr. Kutscher said the high voltage transmission lines to carry solar power plant-generated electricity from the U.S. Southwest to major population centers in the north and the east are an exiting idea but still a long way away, as are the sub-Mediterranean lines. For the time being, some medium-sized projects in the pipeline could facilitate some expansion. He repeated what Cornelius has said: Only a change in national will would allow the kind of grid building really necessary.

    “But siting new transmission lines,” Mr. DeMeo added, “…is probably the most difficult problem in the utility industry.” He then pointed to a way out of the NIMBY conundrum. It can be solved by giving people whose property is transgressed by power lines a stake in the new transmission. “We need to help those people along the right-of-way share in the revenue of that line…the whole situation would change [if] they get something out of it…we need a different way to involve the general public, to cut them in…”

    Mr. Cornelius was somewhat encouraging about small transmission projects financed by entrepreneurs to make new CSP and wind projects practical. "There are many gigawatts worth of projects that can get done," he said. "…not requiring hundreds of miles of transmission…”

    Mr. Shah finished up the discussion by admitting it might, in fact, take a precipitous event like a major blackout or a series of brownouts to motivate the nation’s leaders to build new transmission. He reiterated his emphasis on distributed generation, due in part to a recognition that (1) new transmission is needed, (2) it takes a long time to build, (3) it requires a complicated process that is barely started and therefore (4) an alternative is necessary.

    “…In any political environment, people don’t like to take their vitamins,” Shah said. “But they like to take pain medication…Like many of the changes that have happened in the past five years, destructive events like Hurricane Katrina or very high gasoline prices… or blackouts like there were in the Northeast during…2003 will cause extraordinary change…there will be increasing strains on the grid over the next five years and when that happens there will be bouts of innovation…It IS what it is, I wish more of us took our vitamins and regularly exercised but in general a heart attack seems to do the trick for most folks.”

    The Bad News: There was something left unsaid as the Q&A session moved to a different topic, something uneasy, even disturbing. Off-the-record remarks to NewEnergyNews later in the day by two of the participants confirmed it. There is a good possibility the country is headed for transmission gridlock and, like with so many other of the nation’s woes, it is a problem being left for the New Energy industries to deal with.

    The Good News: These folks here at the American Solar Energy Society’s Solar2008 and the other dynamic members of the New Energy industries community are a capable, Can-Do bunch. If new transmission needs to be a part of the 21st century energy infrastructure’s New Energy architecture, these folks will take it on and they will get it done.

    NewEnergyNews was honored by the opportunity to mingle with them at Solar2008 in San Diego. Here’s to next year in Buffalo!



    The American Solar Energy Society’s SOLAR2008: Catch The Clean Energy Wave

    WHO
    The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Day 3 plenary session speakers: Jigar Shah, Chief Strategy Officer, SunEdison; Chuck Kutscher, Principal Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); Ed DeMeo, President, Renewable Energy Consulting Srvcs, Inc.; Craig Cornelius, Principal, Hudson Clean Energy Partners



    WHAT
    Day 3 at Solar 2008, the American Solar Energy Society annual conclave covering everything important in the world of solar energy.

    WHEN
    - Solar 2008 Day 3: May 6, 2008
    - ASES was founded in 1954.

    "Adios" and "au revoir" and "don't stop thinkin' about tomorrow" from San Diego. (click to enlarge)

    WHERE
    - Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA 92108
    - ASES headquarters is Boulder, CO.
    - ASES is the U.S. affiliate of the International Solar Energy Society

    WHY
    Descriptions of the plenary sessions:
    - Renewable Energy Technology Solutions: …An overview of the current state of the industry, and visions for where the industry will be in 20 years.
    - Emerging Transportation: The documentary Who killed the electric car? has mainstreamed interest in electric vehicles and has brought attention to the auto industry’s role in delaying the availability of clean renewably powered vehicles. Chris Paine, director of the film, and Chelsea Sexton, one of the main characters in the documentary will speak on their continuing efforts to promote vehicles that can be charged from renewable energy. Steve Heckeroth, Chair, Renewable Fuels and Sustainable Transportation Division will wrap up the plenary with a presentation the many advantages of solar electric mobility.

    click to enlarge

    QUOTES
    - Vital new ASES report: Economic and Jobs Impacts of the Renewable and Energy Efficiency Industries
    - Vital new ASES report: Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.; Potential U.S. Carbon Emissions Reductions from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency by 2030
    - Jigar Shah, Chief Strategy Officer, SunEdison: “…In any political environment, people don’t like to take their vitamins,” Shah said. “But they like to take pain medication…Like many of the changes that have happened in the past five years, destructive events like Hurricane Katrina or very high gasoline prices… or blackouts like there were in the Northeast during…2003 will cause extraordinary change…there will be increasing strains on the grid over the next five years and when that happens there will be bouts of innovation…It IS what it is, I wish more of us took our vitamins and regularly exercised but in general a heart attack seems to do the trick for most folks.”

    posted by Herman K. Trabish @ 11:58 AM

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