Living Green Energy Fair; Saturday, July 22nd; Arlington, Virginia

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Living Green Energy Fair

Potomac Overlook Regional Park
2845 N. Marcey Road
Arlington, Virginia 22207
703-528-5406

UPCOMING 2006 PROGRAMS

Saturday, July 22nd, 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.:
Living Green Energy Fair

Looking for ways to save money and energy for your home and car? Want to learn about new and “cutting edge” technologies in renewable energy and energy efficiency? On Saturday, July 22, from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. at Potomac Overlook Regional Park in Arlington, Virginia, the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority will present the “Living Green Energy Fair.” This event will feature interesting and entertaining exhibitors, speakers and educational activities to help area resident learn how to live more green and to save more green! Exhibits will include electric and hybrid vehicles, home energy innovations, renewable and energy efficient home appliance installation and more. Educational activities will be geared to both adults and children.

The “Living Green Energy Fair” will take place 2-6 p.m. and a concert, featuring the contemporary folk artists Laurie Rose Griffith and Peter Mealy will follow at 7 pm.. This event is co-sponsored by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, the Clean Energy Partnership, Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment, and the Arlington County Department of Environmental Services.

[kestrel91316]

1. I'm surprised that NNadir hasn't jumped in here yet to deride all this

alternative energy stuff as useless...............

[Massacure]

2. NNadir won't come to deride this.

On a personal scale, Nnadir approves of renewable energy. But you have to admit he is correct in stating that solar and wind will not provide 100% of our electricity in time to alleviate global climate change.

[kestrel91316]

4. Nnadir knows full well that no one expects solar and wind to provide

100% of our electricity anytime soon.

What I don't like is the perpetual badmouthing of their use at all, because they are not a 100% solution.

[NNadir]

3. Um, maybe you can produce a post you've written like this one

of mine from the end of last year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x37366

Maybe you can list some of your threads that write about conservation in this much detail:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=115&topic_id=34359

I don't object to renewable energy per se, and I am on record as being wild for conservation. However, I do object to magical thinking about renewable energy and conservation. Most people aren't bright enough or educated enough to make that distinction and misconstrue what I am saying.

The main problem with renewable energy is that some of its advocates think it can do everything risk free. This is a delusion, and a dangerous delusion at that.

Everybody who talks about renewable energy talks about 30% by such and such a date and 50% by a later date and so on. What they don't talk about is the other 70% and the other 50%.

My position is clear: I have no problem whatsoever with whatever renewable strategies can produce. But if you want me to buy into a 50 year old fantasy that renewables are going to eliminate coal, oil, and natural gas, sell your snake oil at the Virginia festival.

If you think, though, that the answer to global climate change is a feel good trip to listen to fifteen minutes of lectures and drift around the display booths, well, I am unimpressed.