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Overview
Welcome to Green Electricity!
What are the biggest problems that face America today? Ask any American today that question, and you will receive similar answers. What would they say? Some of the most pressing: a global recession, our relationship with the Middle East, loss of jobs because of a globalized economy, and the ever-present threat of climate change. What if there was one solution to all these seemingly unrelated problems?
There is.
The simple solution: stop generating our power from coal and oil, and instead, move to alternative sources of energy. This one step would solve all of the above problems. America would make a significant amount of money because of the economic benefits of going green. Our problems in the Middle East would be solved because we would no longer be dependent on their oil. We would create thousands of green collar jobs which increase our employment rate significantly. And, the side effect would be saving our planet.
This site is dedicated to what we believe is the single most important issue facing the world today. It is imperative that we become educated on the technology that will be running our computers in the very near future. Some of the most promising technologies are solar, wind, and nuclear power. These all already exist in the United States. (Did you know that 20% of the U.S.'s electricity is generated by nuclear power plants?) But, we also wanted to explore some of the lesser-known ways to generate electricity cleanly, namely, hydroelectric and geothermal power. In addition, since we believe that clean technology would solve so many problems in our society, we dedicated a section of our website explaining the numerous benefits of making the switch to clean power.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. would put a man on the moon before the decade was out. While it seemed theoretically possible to do so, no spacecraft to date had even left Earth’s orbit. Nevertheless, NASA and the American public accepted the President’s challenge, and ultimately succeeded in 1969 when Neil Armstrong took his first steps onto the barren lunar surface. This achievement is often paralleled to the current situation with green technology. However, a green revolution would be different from a lunar landing in a very important respect. A lunar landing did not produce much of value (other than technologies that spun out of the program, like Velcro) and was achieved at an astronomic cost. In the end, it was simply the weight of the achievement for humanity that justified Apollo 11. A green revolution, on the other hand, would not only be an immense achievement of human ingenuity, but it would power a faltering America into the 21st century and save our military, our economy, and our Earth.
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