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A Vast Solar Empire

The U.S. is at war in the Middle East at least in part to protect its foreign oil interests. As China, India and other nations rapidly increase their demand for fossil fuels, future fighting over energy looms large. The U.S. needs a bold plan to free itself from fossil fuels. Solar energy’s potential is off the chart. The energy in sunlight striking the earth for 40 minutes is equivalent to global energy consumption for a year. The U.S. is lucky to be endowed with a vast resource; at least 250,000 square miles of land in the Southwest alone are suitable for constructing solar power plants, and that land receives more than 4,500 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) of solar radiation a year. Converting only 2.5 percent of that radiation into electricity would match the nation’s total energy consumption in 2006.

Understanding Metrics

For those of you who don’t know, the metric system is a way of measuring things, that doesn’t use feet, quarts, or inches. Even though many people don’t know how to use it, it is the dominant form of measurement in the world. In fact, there are only 3 countries in the world that don’t use it as their official form of measurement: Liberia; Myanmar; and us. So in the game of Meters vs. Feet, the score is 199 to 3. The odds of Metrics losing, is highly unlikely. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do, let’s get started.

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