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| Posted: Wed Dec 13th, 2006 02:56 pm |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15885.htm Economic Apartheid Kills By Joel S. Hirschhorn Now; it is possible to envision a situation whereby someone somewhere is inspired to figure things out and remove almost all the falsehood leaving a clear and accurate perception of the number one problem facing the human species. Then again; it may be too much to ask and instead the inevitable argument perpetuates. Argument: Dr. John David wisely observed recently: “Without an internal economic restructuring, the nation now at war in Iraq will evolve into a nation at war within itself. Economic apartheid will not create a sustainable society. Violence will increase and democracy will fail unless this issue of increased wealth inequality is addressed.” What is wrong has been known for a long time. Plutarch wrote almost 2000 years ago, "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." The argument between the past: "imbalance" and the present: "inequality" is simple, really, since one, the past, is accurate, and the other, the present, is false. Which is more reasonable: seeking balance or enforcing equality? As compulsive consumers, Americans are spending their way deeper into economic apartheid. The more that Americans spend, rather than save, they make the rich richer and themselves poorer. How smart is that? Freedom to spend is not the same as political freedom; not with two-party control of our elitist, non-populist political system and democracy. How smart is it to consider fixing a problem by creating a problem? Are you confused with my communication? Allow me to illustrate an example: If Americans (or any human being capable of creating something of greater value out of something of less value) invest (rather than spend or save), then, they make themselves more powerful and therefore they add to the total rather than subtract from the total. Still confused? Take any person on the planet and imagine that person earning more than what that person consumes. This must happen in order for that person to spend, save, or invest. Is this not simple? Take any person. The person wakes up. The person consumes. The person produces. At the end of the day the production total is more than the consumption total. Simple. The complications arise when any thought is expended toward measuring the actual production or consumption. An entertainer produces something that is not easily measured? Note the question mark. How much did entertainer X produce for his part in the latest block buster movie? Please consider, for a moment, that people do need inspiration to produce and therefore production of entertainment is a part of overall production. Production is production. Consumption is consumption. When the day is done there is cake to eat tomorrow or there is no cake to eat tomorrow. Take any person. The person wakes up. The person consumes. The person produces. At the end of the day the production total is more than the consumption total. Simple What happens when the producer produces a cake that makes cake while everyone sleeps? Answer: Balance False answer: Equality Why is this not simple? I can't answer that question because this is simple. If each person on the planet were to set aside one extra minute in each day toward the production of one solar panel (the solar panel is a simple example of the cake that makes more cake while everyone sleeps), then, that is 6 billion minutes set aside every day toward the production of one more solar panel. That one minute of investment turns into more solar panels (or any other investment that actually does create more power). The one minute of investment is not spent and that one minute of investment is not saved. That one minute of investment is one minute of investment. Who reaps the reward when that investment begins to pay off? Answer: The individual who is alive and needs more power is the individual who reaps the reward of sound investment. The solar panel simply illustrates the concept of investment. The individual who invested in a powerful future has power provided to him, or her, or his family, or her family, each day for 30 more years, as sunlight is turned into electricity. That is one example of wise investment that is nearly guaranteed to produce more value, more wealth, more power, more independence, less dependence, more harmony, less argument, greater harmony, and less imbalance than any effort aimed at blaming or crucifying the rich, the powerful, and the lucky for being rich, powerful, and lucky. Note: the rich, powerful, and lucky do not want the less rich, the less powerful, and the less lucky to learn how to invest wisely. Why? Because balance means that everyone has to earn their living honestly. Is that too tough to see clearly? Do the math – please. Even at a crawling pace where each person earns one solar panel per year and ONLY 10% of the population on earth begin this investment, even at that pace, the TOTAL production of power increases exponentially and it is a matter of time ONLY a matter of time before power is cheap. Power is cheap. Power flows like water. Power flows like sunlight. Power flows like air. Is this too simple? How much do you pay for water? Not much? Water is pumped with electric motors. How much do you pay for electricity? How much do you pay for air? Air is polluted when oil, coal, or uranium is burned to make electricity. How much does it cost for cancer treatment? How much do you pay for gasoline? Can you really not see your grandchildren driving electric cars fueled in their own homes where solar panels make their car’s fuel during the day? Is this too complicated to see clearly? How much do you pay for heating your home in the winter and cooling it in the summer? The power to fuel cars, pump water, heat homes, cool homes, is the same power that can be used by any human being for free tomorrow ONLY if production is invested now. The sun provides the power. Human beings need only tap into it. This is that simple. The people who have power DO NOT SEE THIS as good news if they see it at all because their power depends upon ignorance and scarcity. If electric power were to be as abundant as air, then, no one would need a POWER company. Each individual would be their own independent Power Company. Example: Take all the investment opportunity that WAS spent on the invasion and occupation of Iraq and use that CREDIT (before it was spent) on making nothing but Installed Solar Panels. Each bomb, bullet, boot, Soldiers, politician’s or Halliburton employee’s pay check WAS spent on another 10 Solar Panels, or more, on more and more houses, businesses, stores, barns, and hospitals until the whole wad is gone, interest payments and all, down to the last dime. What remains? In the war to gain more political power, oil power, and dollar power the remains are piles of dead bodies, injured bodies, burnt buildings, and destroyed lives of the people who survived the war. In the war to balance power, where the investment bought solar panels instead of bombs, each person receiving a solar panel now pays less for power. Even if all the solar panels were all shipped to Iraq instead of lining the roofs of Washington D.C., or the Pentagon, or Halliburton, even if all that investment were simply dumped on Iraq, even so, imagine how that could effect the price of gasoline at home? And: What would the Arab world be thinking about American’s after such a folly? Imagine? Here is a rough estimate of the cost of the Iraq War: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ $349,351,421,635.00 Here is the cost of a Solar Panel: http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/solar_panels.htm How about a rough estimate @ 3,000.00 per solar panel installed? Round off the BILL for the Iraq War at 3 hundred billion. 300 billion divided by 3 thousand. I get: 100,000,000 Check by multiplying 100,000,000 by 3,000. 300,000,000,000 Add the zeros? Simple 300 billion to install 100 million solar panels all around Iraq instead of 300 billion to spread democracy all around Iraq – with blood, guts, and bombs; is a simplistic way to look at it. Granted What is the output of one Solar Panel? How about 100watts? 100,000,000 Solar Panels times 100 watts. A simple addition of two zeros from 8 zeros to 10 zeros 10,000,000,000 10 billion watts (conservatively speaking) How much is that? @ .10 cent per kilowatt hour (rounded up from .0986) http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/cost.html Produce 10 billion watts for 1000 hours and produce 10 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. Perspective (from the link above):
Are you confused? One Solar Panel produces about 100 watts. 100 million Solar Panels produce 10 Billion watts. That is 10 Billion watts produced while the sun shines on the Solar Panels. That is 10 Billion watts produced (filling batteries, pumping water, lighting light bulbs in hospitals, cooking food, heating homes, running power tools) each second that the sun shines, for each minute, for each hour that the sun shines on those Solar Panels. More perspective: Once the 100 million Solar Panels are installed, then, how much time will those Solar Panels continue to produce 10 Billion watts of electricity? http://www.solarbus.org/solar.shtml Here is one: http://www.free-energy.net/panels.htm Expected panel lifetime more than 20 years. How much sunlight in 20 years? http://www.infinitepower.org/ressolar.htm Calculate production time based upon 5 hours of sunlight per day. 5 times 365 times 20 (years) 36500 hours of 10 billion watts electric production. 365,000,000,000,000 hWh TOTAL electric production (potential) That is 365 trillion kwh 10 cents per kilowatt/hour So… times the Total electricity produced in 20 years time by .1 to arrive at the Total value of the investment in dollars. $ 36,500,000,000,000.00 That is 36 trillion, 5 hundred million dollars worth of electricity produced in 20 years. What then would the Arab world think about American’s who rained down Solar Panels upon Iraq instead of Bombs? Sure, or perhaps, the inventive people living in Iraq may not utilize the entire production of electricity worth 36 trillion dollars over 20 years to do things like pump water, run hospital lights, or sharpen pencils for the kids at schools or shave the faces of the kids dads. At least the kids have schools, dads, and hospitals. Too simple?
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