<b>Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All)</b>

Funny.

Access to modern energy

By 2030, we will get electricity to 1.3 billion, and upgrade 2.6 billion from biomass cooking.

Doubling the rate of improvements to energy efficiency

By 2030, we will reduce energy demands by as much as 20%.

Yeah, that's gonna happen. And US taxpayers will cover most of the bill.

Well there is the UN & the Great 8... and then the notion that Russia, China, India and North America could redefine the global energy budget outside of the hands of OPEC.

We just have to get a couple of other little things done first:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/un.report.dollar/index.html

And if you can ignore the political stuff at the end, and just listen to the speaker's words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEqFtVrAgSo

Personally, regardless of the efforts that are being made, I think full globalization is a pipe dream.

Everybody knows that's just crazy. Heck, entire economies would have to crash, and create a domino effect first. That couldn't happen.

But wait a minute! Isn't biomass cooking carbon neutral? We should all take our iron kettles outside and cook over a wood fire. If biomass energy isn't modern, how come we can get tax credits for heating systems that convert biomass to heat?

Oh silly me, I guess I'm just not with it.

Biomass Burning is a problem of long standing. Huge amounts of air pollution are produced worldwide by the annual burning of 3 billion metric tons of biomass such as wood, leaves, trees, grass and trash (Abelson). Biomass burning represents the largest source of air pollution in many rural areas of the developed and developing world. Biomass burning is used create heat, to clear forests, to dispose of leaves, crop stubble, trash and wood. Globally, biomass burning is estimated to produce 40 percent of the carbon dioxide, 32 percent of the carbon monoxide, 20 percent of the particulates, and 50 percent of the highly carcinogenic poly-aromatic hydrocarbons produced by all sources (Levine).

http://burningissues.org/lukebiomass.html

Where do I sign up for my tax credit? I've got a woodstove.

But don't those particulates actually help reduce the warming of the earth by preventing some of the sun's energy from reaching the earth's surface? Mother nature has been burning biomass long before we ever started to roam the earth. And again, biomass is a carbon neutral process.

I'm not worried about global warming. Assuming that all of the carbon on the earth exists in one form or another, everything is carbon neutral.

I can't tell if the premise from the blog is to reduce biomass burning, or increase it. If the UN wants to increase the burning of biomass, I'm doing my part.

Thank you for reminding me. I need to lay in some dry wood before the crappy weather hits on Sunday.

Me too. I've got two pieces left on the front porch, and it's supposed to rain all day tomorrow. I reminded you and forgot to remind myself.

Thanks back.

It appears to me that this will happen regardless of what the bureaucrats of the UN put out as a target..They,like me,must scan the internet for articles showing the way forward in bursts of insight virtually every day..It is happening because we humans are a creative bunch of animals with collective sense actually beginning to be seen in action on a global scale.Oh pockets of egotistical dictatorships still exist but they are steadily being marginalized..The internet in particular is shaping us in to a unified people of the planet..Yes the money still leads the way but it is leading toward a brighter future it seems to me.and we all know there is more than enough available for all .

Funny thing about these grandiose objectives...they never seem to mention who is going to pay for it.

it has to make sense business(profit making) wise..I believe it will VW,BMW,Heinz they are all moving to generate more power on their industrial sites themselves to gain independence and a degree of predictability in their energy costs..I've not seen a bioconvergence effort yet on the web but there probably is one..It will happen and the money will be there when the sensibility becomes clear.

And there's the rub...

I agree that it makes sense, but I think the answer lies in small, localized projects, rather than massive corporate level responses. Possibly down to power generation for individual homes.

Even our wind and solar efforts here in the US, (I believe), would have been far more successful, if we went small. Community power generation as opposed to large projects that depend on the existing grid.

Unfortunately, due to the monopolistic nature of the power companies, combined with the tax revenue that the government rakes in, it is unlikely that we will see the independence that we could realize...at least not in the US.

Sure they do! Its just like my wife.

She figures she came up with the idea and its good according to her so that means that I get not only pay for it but do the work to implement it too.

Makes perfect sense from her perspective so why change it right?

Perfect analogy!

She's done her part by coming up with the idea. While you're working on that one, she'll be hard at work coming up with the next one.

The UN is the same. They collect their nice salaries for their superior intellect..

If they decide the world would be a better place with fresh organic carrots, all you have to do, is go out, plant them, water them, keep the weeds out, give them organic fertilizer, pull them from the ground, wash them, cut them into pretty strips, and present them for approval.

Yep and it's very much a one way street too.

If I come up with an idea that I expect her to pay for and implement all sorts of fussing and opposition ensue.

The other day she said that Valentines day was coming up and she was wondering what I would like to do.

I flat out said I would like to do nothing and stay home and I stuck to that answer.

Then I asked her what she thought I should do.

She figured I should invite my dad, his wife, and my grandparents to go out and eat some place nice. At my expense of course even though I quit my job a few weeks ago and she knows I have cut my spending way back whereas she just started her new one about the same time and she gets paid well.

I then told her its a good thing you asked me what I wanted to instead of telling me what you wanted me to do!

I might not be an old war horse yet but I do know enough to chose my battles and my words carefully!

Granted we are probably still going out but I am making dam sure my bank account is empty and that hers isn't before hand.

Please refer to my linked in profile: Subramaniam Udhayamarthandan

You will find the enroute to sustainable energy for all.

Strangely the Engineers / innovators are staying away from the technology solutions enhancement, whereas we have the right technology options.

Solving out all the technical snags of Hydro Power Generation systems, namley

1] Scope of use of any water source by artificial head formation- lakes, ponds, Dams, Barrages, running rivers , canals, sea coasts, Sewage / Effluent treatment plants etc.

2] Simplification of Hydro power systems by new concept called Damles Hydro Power, wherein the systems is simply contained to a circuit.

3] Enhance by gravity powered water lift Ram systems.

4] We can convert existing Hydro. Thermal & even wind mills to hydro systems for round the clock continuous power generation systems.

No perpetual motion havocs.

lovely way of putting it really...nature offers much more than we seem to see for free practically..