Solar Power Potential with PRT

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Solar Power Potential with PRT
Ron Swenson ATRA Santa Cruz 2006 November 18
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The Elevator Speech

• not to mention the numerous farmers now employed
  in growing hay for horses.Boat builders would
  suffer and towline, whip, and harness makers
  would be left destitute. Martin van Buren,
  Governor of New York, April 1832...

• not to mention the numerous farmers now employed
  in growing hay for horses.Boat builders would
  suffer and towline, whip, and harness makers
  would be left destitute. Martin van Buren,
  Governor of New York, April 1832...

• Without solar, energy independence is pure
  rhetoric.
• Clintons New Generation Vehicle
• Arnolds Hydrogen Highway
• GMs Yellow Gas Cap
• Bushs Cellulosic Ethanol.
• Only solar energy will do the job.
• Solar is sufficient to power high capacity PRT --
  100 percent -- using only the systems 4 to 8
  right of way.

...not to mention the numerous farmers now
employed in growing hay for horses. Van Buren
1832 8th President 1837-1841
If canal boats are supplanted by railroads,
serious unemployment will result
...not to mention the numerous farmers now
employed in growing hay for horses. Van Buren
1832 8th President 1837-1841
If canal boats are supplanted by railroads,
serious unemployment will result
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Global Warming over the Past Millennium
Very rapidly we have entered uncharted territory
Over the 20th century, energy consumption
increased sixteenfold. Global warming from the
fossil fuel greenhouse became a major, and
increasingly dominant, factor in climate change.
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We know the peak is coming but what can we do
about it?

• Can Solar Energy Replace Oil?

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American Consumers Do Understand
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Net Production of Biomass in the USA
www.oilcrisis.com/Patzek
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Swensons Law

• To avoid deprivation resulting from the
  exhaustion of non-renewable resources, humanity
  must employ conservation and renewable resource
  substitutes sufficient to match depletion.

www.HubbertPeak.com/Swenson
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Thomas Edison

• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy.
  What a source of power! I hope we don't have to
  wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle
  that.
• (1847-1931)

www.ThomasEdison.com
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Global Solar Energy Balance
www.hubbertPeak.com/debate/oilcalcs.htm
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120,000 TW of solar energy received by the Earth
www.ecotopia.com/Apollo2
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Total Area Required for a PV Power Plant to
Produce the Total US Electrical Demand
www.ecotopia.com/Apollo2
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Solar on Rail
www.SolarEvolution.com/SkyTran
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SkyTran Solar
Solar SkyTran, with aesthetics emphasis and added
power at stations
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Calculate Solar size, cost per Mile
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PV The Growth Industry
Oil declines at 4/yr PV increases at 50/yr
Peak 5 10
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www.ecotopia.com/ASES/SolarToday
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Solarevolution
More at www.SolarEvolution.com