[Pil-pc-oceania] Bioheat Gaining Support in the Northeast United States

[Deb Guildner]

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=52272

I cannot keep up with all of the research and ideas cited on the website at the end of the above link.
There is a lot going on.  There are many people actively engaged. Theres a plethora of projects, which is appropriate.
There is not going to be a one size fits-all solution to fossil fuel derived energy crisis, but, like ecologies, a myriad of things for different places.

While some are seeking newer technological solutions, others are rewinding to basic traditional sources (eg article on link).
I am amazed at the ads (in US publications like the evergreen Mother Earth News) appearing for items like "WoodMaster" furnaces (see www.woodmastergreen.com ).
The price of oil-driven energy is driving up the demand for these.  People in the cities of course cannot access these systems.

Doubtless alternative energy would currently be a lot farther progressed if the current volume of works had only been pushed along 30 years ago  - when books 
such as Alvin Toffler's 1970's epic "Future Shock" were first published. We wish the world had listened more; it wasn't rocket science, given the demands of increasing human populations, and the rate of depletion of natural resources. 

Change is always possible, and highly probable, as signs are all pointing to it happening,  but one cannot expect a totally smooth transition.  Chaos is inevitable, yet it is important to keep going with a good plan in mind. As with everything, education is very important.  It is no use pretending everything will stay the same, or alternately dissembling into some anarchistic post apocalyptic nightmare.  A change is gonna come.....!!  

Perhaps if we all volunteered with Overseas Aid Abroad or suchlike, and learned how to install basic village survival equipment, the level of pessimism may be offset.. 
Small technology solutions-weekend boot camps may prove extremely popular!  

Cheers
Deb

On the weather front, I'm feeling a tad optimistic; it has finally rained in Adelaide and southern SA.  
Where there is life, there is hope, and water is certainly life-giving.
If only it would rain in the Murray catchment side of the Snowy Mountains.
They say that la Nina is moving south, and may deliver some rain to the parched SE of Australia.
Here's hoping..
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