Solving our Dependancy

To remove our lust for oil.

Build smaller, intelligent and more efficient dwellings. On a small scale begin to build energy creating infrastructure. Makes our homes have a simple combination of solar, wind, organic and whatever creative forms of local power can be generated. Have that electricity pipe straight into our homes during times of use and when not have it create hydrogen from siphoned off rain water for storage when none of those power generating systems are working. Let the hydrogen we create run our cars (complemented by the many stations across the land). This equation is not one of amazing creation because I am sure the great minds of today have already created all of the items needed in one form or another...I am sure some fine tuning will be needed. This is more a game of numbers. Creating a system that can run at a profit for all of the individuals with the ability to bring something like this about.

Personal Energy Production

So much of it all comes down to energy...where it comes from and who controls it. We all work so we can sustain our lives. We work in order to pacify the desires we harbor. Throughout most of human (and near human) existence we have been dependent upon nature but nothing greater than our own hands controlled things in the end. Now we are dependent upon each other far more than we can conceive. So much of the system is built upon itself to allow for the various points of society to keep reaching out pulling us along that the maintenance of the creature itself has become a significant creature of its own, in a sense of course. And it just so happens, that in our version of the progressive complexity of matter story, energy is create by oil (for now) and our tools happen to run best on electricity and our society is based upon unlimited energy. Every once in a while we are reminded how utterly important it is (parts of New York have been without power for over a week now...remember the Northeast catastrophe a few years ago?) but usually we are passive in our appreciation.

Imagine being the source of energy. And imagine the people of the world were the sources of the energy to the government. 6,500,000,000 people making hydrogen just a little at a time would be pretty solid. Now I know that is pie in the sky...not all of the world will make their own. But we must remember that the amounts used per group will be only what they produce, at least once we have created a system that easy and intelligent enough to be distributed proportionatly world wide (...yeah, I do realize this is a tough one). But really all we are doing is creating a system to allow individuals to create their own energy and that is something worth our time.