Great Photo,
John E. Sununu had another Opinion article in the Boston Globe last Monday January 6, 2014. The same old stereo-typing of environmentalist and almost no new news or decent facts.
It boiled me to write a little rebuke. It's not really a finished product but for the record it's pasted below
From The Desk of Tom J. Flaherty
Another view of John E. Sununu’s Opinion, of Monday, January 06, 2014 in The Boston Globe.
The article states the usual negative stereotype comment of the right, a conscious effort to distort reality. Finally this narrow profit centric argument is starting to open to a more comprehensive view.
Mr. Sununu should join the future with positive comments about all the great solutions ahead. It is true the new shale gas economy is changing some basic negative economic facts of the last forth years. However it is by no means a slam dunk. The vast majority of creditable science agrees that carbon is a problem accelerated by human behavior. Creditable folks say fracking can be done well but rushing to discredit, circumvent, and end run the government’s ability to protect humanity and the environment with media, money, and the like is dangerous. The methane that is associated with fracking is a huge problem. As the peat bogs of Siberia thaw, wells leak from improper oversight and petro rush to riches we may find we should have taken the prudent path.
An alternative view sees that the government has done most great things that people and corporations can’t do alone. It is the Federal Government laboratories they are the genesis of most of his private free enterprise accomplishments in medicine, physics and other science. The lithium Ion battery was and continues to be made viable by our labs. The density, stability, and current handling/recharge rate is greatly a result of government labs and cooperation with universities. What is a better electrical grid would be a decentralized “distributed” system that’s more efficient, less susceptible to terrorist, and more empowering to the individual. Various sources unlimited would be connected locally relieving the heavy lines. Homes and communities could have Geo-Thermal, solar, wind, Hydrogen, Bio Mass and so on. Yes a threat to the mega energy conglomerates. Like small phones there is room for them and innovation. They should embrace the future with creativity and innovation not endlessly scan their Excel spread sheets to take and not fairly share the fruits of innovation and labor. Recently a Univ. of Connecticut team built a solar cell using atomic deposition. A photo cell that is a nano-antenna converting energy all the way from the heat spectrum, up through the infra-red to the higher frequency light. If my memory is correct it had an efficiency rate of seventy percent. That if mass produced would be something I’d like to see mandated to some extent by building codes and government planning. The lithium batteries have the potential to recharge on a par with our petroleum fueled cars that kind of demand will demand more energy and a much better electrical grid. Jobs and a clean future is no pipe dream. As for Canadian energy and all the fondness most of us have viscerally for our neighbors, domestic energy keeps us strong. Our trade deficit remains our most tragic reality. Our country is a target and it is being bought whole as the majority of our citizens fade into lower living standards. A well balanced country strong across its base is needed not the top down prostrated evolution we are experiencing.
Mr. Sununu should join the progressives like Elizabeth Warren that produce great letters and inquires bringing to light Wall Street, Trade, and Justice Department failures. Speaking positively to all the solutions so we can start to be a united country happy, proud, and prosperous for almost everyone is what is needed.
Mr. Bill Chameides, Dean, Duke University Nichols School of the Environment is posted 12/13/2013 9:56AM on the Huffington post with a good critique of another very similar Opinion post of Mr. Sununu's.
Finally I request the Boston Globe to regularly publish some of Senator Warrens principled work that does not even see the light of day in major media.
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