Small Wind in Kansas - and the laws to help prevent us from using it!

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ARE THE LAWMAKERS KEEPING US HOOKED ON CROOKED ENERGY COMPANIES IN KANSAS?

Kansas ranks third in the nation for potential electrical generation from wind turbines. Individuals who can afford it should be doing everything possible to learn, install and use this resource toward individual and communal energy independence.

Below from the American Wind Energy Association's "state by state" site. I would highly recommend contacting state authorities (which seem centered around the Kansas Energy Policy group) listed on the page link.

The Kansas governor and many of the state legislators seem determined to construct more coal electric generation plants, but in my opinion that is not strategic and represents a short-sighted sickness many suffer from around Topeka.

Coal has yet to be burned efficiently without CO2 emissions. Until anybody can prove that the energy exchange ratio, the energy it takes to scrub the smoke and the damage it causes toward climate change is eliminated I am strongly opposed to building more of them.

If I'm wrong and what research available indicates that the scrubbers do not eliminate CO2 emmissions and scientifically can't we should not support them and tell the power pigs to shove it. I invite any corporate rep to write in and tell us taht the technology has changed on the stacks otherwise.

Nuclear power which doesn't contribute to CO2 might be practical for large urban areas, but I wouldn't live near one - but considering the wholesale energy hogs in the suburbs and large cities, maybe in a cruel way, (and I am cruel, ask the Nortonville, Ks. village elite) they deserve the nukes in their backyards if they can't make their McMansions energy independent.

Rural communities, farmers and villagers would do far better by investing in their own electrical generation programs using a combination of available methods; solar panels and wind turbines on individual homes, larger municipal wind turbines for the towns that can get their act together and stop stabbing each other in the back.

No small job for the gossiping superstitious drawbacks which seem predominant in the small towns of Kansas. It's going to take some very brave determined leadership to make these changes and the changes should be as fast as possible. We better consider it as a necessary strategic local manufacturing industry in order to combat further domination by distant corrupt corporate elites.

What would be wrong with residential gray water systems to water the villagers lawns, programs that don't just conserve energy but produces food and energy?

What would be wrong with the town returning to gravel roads instead of outrageously expensive street pavement projects?

What would be wrong with small communities building their own wind turbine electrification towers?

What would be wrong with scuttling the streets and spend the money on installing and maintaining residential (roof to roof, yard to yard) energy producing projects for each of the town's dwellers?

What would be wrong with banning cars, trucks from small towns and promote electric scooters and bicycles for local people to cross a few blocks?

All of these technologies will be getting more and more expensive to use as petroleum based products gets tighter and tighter on a world wide scale. Why wait?

By using a layered approach these measures would safeguard a redundancy so necessary to survive intact, at least temporarily, catastrophic economic collapse of the national or regional energy infrastructure.

It is the difference between plunging back to the Dark Ages in weeks or months, instead of a "soft landing" taking perhaps several decades. Today the selfish dog-eat-dog attitudes and lack of critical citizen awareness and cohesion will prevent it, but that can change with the first rolling brown-outs and black-outs and gasoline price spikes. Why wait?

From the web page, don't forget to bookmark it and explore the whole site for contacts, links and technological stuff:

"Through statutory authority, Kansas allows residential renewable energy facilities of up to 25 kW and commercial facilities of up to 100 kW to connect to the utility grid; however, there are currently no statewide uniform interconnection standards for these systems. All that is currently specified is that a utility may enforce any safety, equipment, or power quality requirements it deems appropriate. Utilities may also install a manual external disconnect device if the customer refuses to do so."

Make it a "soft landing" in the coming energy crisis, by starting here and now: Small Wind in Kansas