There Is A National Emergency Right Now

From first to last the upper few months of President Obama's Organization (I easygoing point of view print and motto that) Ken Salazar, Secretary of the U.S. Workplace of the House has emerged as the nation's primary illustrative for energy policy. That's at the same time as the lot are in no doubt to show a first function in any sustainable energy narrative.

In integrity, Secretary Salazar was clearly quoted as motto that offshore wind possibly will exceedingly encouragingly lead us to a clean energy a long way. The sustainable development of the colossal wind resource -- same off the Atlantic shore is one of our top options for meeting a long way energy requirements given that in concert mitigating erode change. (GW)

Salazar: Lace power can replace 3,000 coal plants

By Wayne Parry

Associate Horde

April 6, 2009

ATLANTIC Metropolitan area, N.J. --Windmills off the East Seashore possibly will generate adequately electricity to replace maximum, if not all, the coal-fired power plants in the Common States, House Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday.

The secretary tease at a community trouble in Atlantic Metropolitan area on how the nation's offshore areas can be tapped to carry out America's energy requirements.

"The vision that wind energy has the possibilities to replace maximum of our coal-burning power today is a exceedingly suitably hypothesis," he said. "It is not technology that is pie-in-the sky; it is here and now."

Offshore energy production, all the same, right not be known factor to wind power, Salazar said. A moratorium on offshore oil drilling has expired, and President Barack Obama and Assembly ought adjust whether to encompass drilling off the East Seashore.

"We advise present-day are one homeland who purpose us to report on the entrance hall on that," he said. "We need to space at all forms of energy as we spoil station fashionable a new energy ration."

Salazar said ocean winds timetabled the East Seashore can generate 1 million megawatts of power, roughly the equal of 3,000 medium-sized coal-fired power plants, or close to five period the circulation of coal plants now in the Common States, according to the Life Workplace.

Salazar possibly will not estimate how many windmills right be required to generate 1 million megawatts of power, motto it would depend on their size, and how chummy or far from the shore they were located.

Monday's trouble was hosted by Salazar and is the upper of four to be gripped approximately the muscle to chatter how energy resources including oil, gas, wind and surf indigence be utilized as the new law formulates its energy policy. It was gripped at the Atlantic Metropolitan area Convention Heart, whose roof-mounted solar energy panels are the principal in the public.

In 2007, the Exterior Continental Rest, a site extending roughly three to 200 miles from pay in, accounted for 14 percent of the nation's natural gas production, and 27 percent of its oil production.

Salazar said it is final that the public source benefit from renewable energy resources to fade its confide on imported oil.

By retail oil from countries averse to the Common States, "we accept, in my watch out, been patronage each one sides in the war on terrorism," he said.

Environmentalists are urging the Obama law to bar oil and gas drilling off the East Seashore, and invest slowly in wind, solar and other energy technology.

"This is a crucial instant, whether we're going to accept a clean energy a long way or last to rely on oil drilling," said Jeff Tittel, New Sport shirt director of the Sierra Hit. "Demand now the building is fossil-foolish, and we need to change that."

U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., said offshore drilling indigence not be approved, citing the economic charge of a swill.

"The risks are beefy, the rewards are less," he said. "It perpetuates our confide on oil. Honestly, we sparsely upright don't purpose it."

But Do without Hobbs, a petroleum geologist from New Canaan, Conn., said oil and gas drilling has been shown to be accomplished.

"We indigence confess that as a sufficient subject, fossil fuel guts supervisor for modern generation," he said.

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, said the public requirements to chastisement exclusive, motto "it can be dead prudently."

"We need to be first looking at the self-inflicted energy have confidence in we accept at the same time as we jetsam to develop our group energy industry," he said.

New Sport shirt is tripling the deceased of wind power it policy to use by 2020 to 3,000 megawatts. That would be 13 percent of New Jersey's combined energy, adequately to power between 800,000 to upright under 1 million homes.

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