Mark_Ockerbloom's Blog

I am nearing my 6th decade on this planet, and from even a young age my folks implanted in the minds of 6 children, that if you purchase something, make full use of it, and then dispose of it properly. We were so poor at the start, that my father was working 3 jobs through the 50's & 60's. My father believed that he is the 'bread' winner, and a proper place for at least one of the parents, is the raising of children. To make a long story short, recycling we have always done even if there was no place to recycle to. We would purchase merchandise that would allow us a second use.. Heating was done in fired up boilers in the winter, we had one, so paper,cardboard,etc..would go in then logs. Recycle clothes/hand me downs..but unless you are or have been in the realm of poor, many people will not appreciate what I write. We are a very wasteful country. We throw out just as much as we eat. If it isn't new, or isn't 'hip'(whatever words they use today), then they want new, and they want what is 'fashionable'. If people took their clue from WWI and WWII, in the US, then maybe we might be in a better situation. Recycle Recycle. Solar,Wind,Hydro,and GeoThermal. The technology is there - go to Holland.

One more.. if the pres can use Geo-Thermol then why not the population? Let's look at wind .. some homes, and many businesses have ontop for ventilation purposes, a wind turbine that ventilates the attic space. It is in perpetual motion, why this cannot be used? Anything is better than nothing.

I am honored to have a meteorologist as yourself reply to my statement. Yes, you are correct, it would take people suffering a little, although I do not think that drastically to save on fuel oil. From what I understand and have seen on the Science channels..which I am avid fan.. is that in Holland households can save some money by personal wind powered stations on their home. They are not the massive lots like out in the midwest where you see cattle ranches loaded with them, however I think anything in any scale is worth doing that would save any amount of energy that we waste now. Methane gas use to be a waste byproduct until someone clever enough decided not to waste it. IF Brazil can establish an energy policy then the United States can do the same. However, the oil companies have a monopoly and the car manufacturers are slow on the uptake. They are the ones that drive our need for oil. We cannot go back, high sulfur coal was being used more then, however with this administrations policy towards that, he allows it to still burn.

Excuse the text.. a couple of my post were put in out of order.