Hey guys,
I wrote a letter for the Whistler Question and I thought why not put this up on the bands site. It may encourage and inspire some new ideas or awareness in general. Throw a rock in a pond and watch the ripple.
The mayor of Whistler has agreed to have lunch and chat about these things. There are a lot progress in the works already and studies going on we briefly talked about.
If you are interested in this stuff at all then I encourage you to write a letter to your paper, MP or whoever you think will listen.
You could be surprised at the results you achieve. Please try to keep it positive and help build solutions not walls. Thanks for reading. I hope you all have a great day.
Matt
Sustainable energy solutions needed
Printed: July 29,2009
Whistler – With the Olympics
coming to town and our constant hype about a sustainable society, why
don’t we really show the world how to do it? Leading by example. In my
opinion, we are still far from completely sustainable. Carbon? I find
we tend to fluff things up. I am going to attempt to take a neutral
perspective with no complaining, only proactive approaches.
It is easy to be a critic with no solution. I am going to offer some
solutions and challenge all of you in Whistler to do the same with an
honourable, positive approach.
Instead of arguing among ourselves, we need to think calm
collectively and not rule anything out. So you would like to have
sustainable power without taking away from the visual beauty in
Whistler? Can we not accomplish both? Maybe not just through water, but
there are tones of new ideas out there already being used. Humanity as
a whole tends to follow one idea once it is aknowledged getting stuck
on the small, insignificant details.
Instead, we need to take an outside-of-the-box approach and look a
little into the future. To build solutions instead of walls. What I
have come up with I did by deductively thinking of problems Whistler
may have and then try to link them to the solution of energy.
It is no mystery that Whistler get tons of crazy, high-velocity
wind. The chairs get shut down a lot some years. Why not put windmill
generators on the peaks? I think that targeting the right spots to
avoid taking away from the beauty and even expanding to a few other
mountains in the area we would easily be able to produce enough hydro
for the valley. Who is to say that B.C. government doesn’t consider
doing it across B.C.?
There are also a few solar projects as well as thermo ground designs
I have drawn out that are 100 per cent ways to produce free energy with
enough to have a surplus. This is what some people don’t really want
you to know. The entire oil stocks/gas industry would collapse if too
many alternative sources were created too quickly. Some very rich and
powerful people would lose money. This is why you don’t see things
moving in this direction quicker. Instead we are still installing new
methods to burn. Example: the new natural gas lines put in. This is
another way to slowly milk the public and take away money and capital.
Instead of building too large of one type of energy creator, we can
shift the impact by addressing a few methods. There is even a type of
magnetic motor I have created that spins on its own. This is the
direction we are heading. The corporations have smothered the truth for
years. I believe it is time to put that to an end. If they are smart,
they will transfer their assets now and gain from the transition.
To burn for energy is extremely primitive and I think we will one
day look back at our ignorance as being as primitive as slavery and
women’s rights. You know those Canada commercials about our heritage
these are all examples of how we need to move forward instead of
falling back into our habits.
My only hope is that it all gets done in time. The caps are melting
exponentially annually. How can we stop them? The clock is ticking and
I can’t do anything without your help, your letter, your voice or your
investments of time and money, directly or indirectly. Let’s think
about it, set a plan and get it done — all of us.
Matt Graham
Whistler