Jay Parkhill March 5th, 2008

Climate change begins at home for sure.  Putting a stop to it also requires lots of local effort.  Still, where’s the line between encouragement and pie-in-the-sky-ism (I just made up that term)? 

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is reportedly bullish on tidal energy, despite the fact that it is economically unfeasible for the near future, and would produce very little energy.

Newsom Waves On SF Tidal Energy « Earth2Tech

Someone last night also told me that San Francisco has an open purchase requisition out for a fleet of city plug-in hybrid vehicles.  The problem is that no one is making them as OEM and there have been only 150 or so plug-in conversions of hybrid vehicles nationwide (maybe worldwide) ever.  

I applaud San Francisco for moving to the vanguard in pursuing alternative energy.  Without taking away from that at all, I would also like to see practical initiatives such as getting commercial buildings to turn the lights out at night. Imagine how much coal it takes to light all those offices when no one is in them at night.

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