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I'm impressed ! Coupled with non fossel fuel power production we could get off foreign oil. And this is also an American made technology which would be an alterative to a Toyota Prius.
Here is some audio:
http://www.podtech.net/nextgear/technology/1700/altairnanos-revolutionary-battery

Wow! This is a great web site. I learned that China is joining other counries on September 22 for World Carfree Day, an annual celebration of cities and public life, free from the noise, stress and pollution of cars.

The web site said "Each year on September 22, people around the world organize events of all sizes to showcase alternatives to the automobile. World Carfree Network invites organisations and individuals everywhere to join.

World Carfree Day began as an open call for a grassroots celebration of cities without cars. The date, September 22, was chosen to coincide with the EU-sponsored European Mobility Week, but our hope is to involve people at all levels of society and from all over the world.

Carfree days were organised as early as during the oil crisis of the 1970s, and several carfree days were organised in European cities during the early 1990s. An international carfree day was organised in Europe in 1999, which was the pilot project for the European Union's "In Town Without My Car" campaign. This campaign continues as European Mobility Week.

In 2000, Car Busters (the precursor to World Carfree Network) issues an open call for a "World Carfree Day," to coincide with Europe's carfree day on September 22. Since then, we have continued to call for activists and citizens to organise World Carfree Day events on or near September 22."

This would be a great project for the Ojai Green Coalition!

That is a great site and have tagged it to my Green file.

I also checked out Brian's offering and that electric car with the new type of battery is revolutionary, if it is all they say it is. If so, the infrastructure to support this would be relatively cheap to put in place. You could have your own home set up to provide the receptacle for the 400 plus volts to take advantage of the 10 minute recharge.

Imagine Ojai having it's own solar power up in the more baron mountains, cabled down to the Valley to recharge your car, light your house, run your computer, warm your pool, cool your house, wash your windows(strike that last one). Not cheap to start up initially, but as the investment pays for itself, and the more that take advantage, the better for Ojai's energy bill and environment.

I still believe that eventually, cold fusion of Hydrogen will be the main source of electric power in the distant future. But the more we get on with Solar Power and Wind Power, obviously we will be better for it. Though the start up isn't cheap, it's much cheaper than a nuclear power plant or another fossil fuel plant. You could build several dozens of Solar Power Plant for the cost of one Nuclear Power Plant. Once in place, we would never have any toxic waste to deal with.

I saw a Metro today. So refreshing to see a small car. A no car world would be better but how would people get to work? A no work world would be better but what would people do with all that time? It's going to take a revolution in consciousness, and revolutions are messy; Mother Nature will have to do it herself. The Green Band Aids are cool and comforting but they don't do much for consciousness pathology. Love is the laser surgery needed to cut to the core and drain the poison. It is an ugly green color and has the stench of rotten money. Sooner or later the greens will have to face the green eyed mobster. He doesn't drive a small hybrid but a tank. It's going to take armor piercing love shells to save this Green wooded valley. Think green; act mean (with tough love).

A thought on the Green Summit event on Saturday:

Hunter Lovins gets paid to consult large corporations on how to “go green." I think this is great. Many of these large corporations need to clean up their act and she appears to be making a difference.

That said, it is this consulting relationship that makes her beholden to those companies in such ways as making statements that they are "going green" when in actuality, they may not be at all.

For example, on Saturday she said "Walmart is going green." I hold this truth to be self evident: Walmart IS NOT and NEVER will be going green. Unless, of course we begin to dilute the definition of "green" like corporate grocery and manufacturers have done to the construct of "organic."

As much as I appreciate her work and enthusiasm, Hunter Lovins is diluting the green movement when she makes statements about how large, plastic, sweat shop corporations are going green.

If it is our goal to be a model green community, it is important for Ojai to distinguish consultants from environmental leaders in this delicate transition to greener pastures.

I didn't get to hear Hunter Lovins speak on Saturday, I got there just after she finished. I did hear that she praised WalMart for it's green campaign. That disturbed me a bit. I'm a filmmaker and I have a lot of friends in the ad business. One friend of mine was working on the new green campaign from WalMart and he told me that the execs that were there at the taping from WalMart were laughing and joking at the whole idea of going green. I believe this sort of thing is called a "green wash".

What a relief to see that I'm not the only party-pooper when it comes to WalMart going green!

I was certainly skeptical of that green claim for WalMart. But even if it is some what dishonest, as in their motive, if they sell products that help as in selling cheap fluorescent bulbs, bring it on(Doesn't that sound familiar).

Before WalMart came to California, what I heard was that they sold American products. After they got into California, I saw adds actually making this claim. So when finally they came to Sacramento, I took a look for myself. I couldn't find any American items on the floor. Some were there to be sure, but nothing in the line of products I would be interested in. What a bunch lies to get people in their stores. It worked then, and it will work now with this green claim.

Brian H's comment is quite accurate about how WalMart will dilute the definition of Green, as they already have.

it is true ... Hunter Lovins' work is largely apologist for the Corporations and the Government ... and the status quo of universal indenture/servitude ... that is, she is a diplomat in the classic sense.

on the other hand, you will note that although both she and the audience and the 'illuminati' or 'gentry' of Ojai here wanted to talk about spending money, and technological fixes like new cars and solar arrays (even covering our sacred mountains with solar arrays) ... every time when asked the question of "how to finance it, how could we afford it", she repeated over and over "efficiency, efficiency, efficiency, efficiency, efficiency, efficiency ..."

as she said not only do we NOT have to invest net money in cutting our energy costs in half, and doubling our productivity -- we do it by making our whole infrastructure of buildings and facilities and services and transportation efficient ...

efficient, efficient, efficient, efficient, efficient ...

i.e., we insulate, plug the holes, use EFFICIENT lighting, appliances, motors, vehicles, electronics, you name it.

we produce your food at home, and do it healthfully, organically.

we take back your water.

we take back your utilities.

we take back your roads.

and find our lives!

the 'true green' will be the truly beautiful ... Goddess Moon revealed ...

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