In the second half, renewable energy expert Jim Bell joins to outline a plan for transitioning communities to energy self-sufficiency. He explains how Energy Service Companies invest upfront capital in efficiency improvements and share in the savings, producing positive cash flow from day one. He cites a San Diego building returning 25 percent annually on its investment and calculates that covering 18 percent of existing buildings with solar panels could make San Diego County energy independent.
Jim Bell offers his book free online, arguing that keeping energy dollars local rather than exporting billions for imported fuel would transform regional economies. Art presses him on specifics and the political obstacles between current fossil fuel dependence and a renewable future.
Key Moments
Dames says shuttle Discovery may be the kill shot harbinger: Dames revisits his long-running 'kill shot' prediction and warns that the in-progress Discovery mission with its damaged tiles, plus the upcoming Perseid meteor shower, looks like the harbinger ensemble he has been remote viewing for eight years.
Dames pulls a punch: pray for the crew: Dames says he is deliberately holding something back from the audience and asks listeners to pray for the Discovery crew because, in his viewing, the shuttle is seen coming back down but he never said it lands.
Crop circles mark the safe zones: Dames claims his remote viewing supports the idea that the centers of crop circle clusters are the safest survival zones on Earth, placed there by a higher intelligence as warnings rather than messages.
Dames predicts loss of one third of humanity: Asked how many will survive the kill shot, Dames estimates the world will lose roughly a third of the human population over a six-month period as solar flares strip the magnetosphere and 'rotisserie' the Earth.
Jim Bell: efficiency would have drained Mideast war money: Energy author Jim Bell argues that if the U.S. had simply pushed cars to an average of 32 miles per gallon, the oil revenue funding Middle East violence and the Iraq war would never have accumulated in the first place.
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The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy
2013
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