Chattanooga has a fairly active Sierra Club locally. It is active in community education outreach with monthly speakers. Last night the topic was alternative energy sources, focusing on bio fuels and ethanol.
The basic idea is to reduce dependence on oil sources from the Middle East. More drilling in the US will not change the fact that the vast majority of oil reserves are in the OPEC nations.
Energy alternatives such as wind, nuclear, tidal have little impact on oil dependence because the electric grid does not rely primarily on oil.
Transportation energy has to be the focus for impacting dependence on OPEC oil. Our choices are conservation, less driving, increasing efficiency, and oil alternatives.
The speaker was Doug Mizell. He is an entrepreneural advocate for waste reclamation and bio-fuels. His take is to use local agricultural and industrial waste to produce ethanol. He also wants to use our number 1 crop in the south - kudzu - as a feedstock for biofuel production.
Very interesting talk, very informative. The next presentation will be on Do It Yourself Solar. Meetings are held the last Monday of each month, at the Greenspaces office, 63 Main Street.
For more information visit the Chattanooga Sierra Club website.
Today the White House and the Senate has begun discussions for a new energy bill. They have opened the discussion to a live chat, starting at 4pm. Here is the link to the live chat.
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Maybe we can make the goats obsolete if Doug gets his way.
That was about how far he went with the reclamation - contracts with Brach's , McKee's, Coke, pushing for your grass cuttings.:)