by Feed your head with a play by Pamela Olson

Created on: August 28, 2008

Solar power is the solution to the energy crisis because we have the current technlogy to be energy independent with solar power! Here's how. The Great American Story. Nevada as The New Frontier for Energy again to the rescue of America. The energy solution is not in the past by drilling a way out, or nuking a way out with nuclear power plants, or even driving less.

America currently consumes approximately 4 billion megawatts (4b = 4,000,000,000. 1mw = 1,000,000) of electricity a year according the US Department of Energy. The United States owns almost 87% of its State of Nevada because President Abraham Lincoln and the American Congress horse-traded Nevada's entry into the Union as a Free State in exchange for that 87% of Nevada land. Land that just happened to have the largest gold and silver deposits ever known. Deposits that Lincoln and the North immediately mined to convert into cash to finance the North's part in the American Civil War. Successfully as it turned out. Nevada, although it had financed the brutally forced and bloody reconciliation and saved the Union, and hence America, later felt it got a shotgun wedding. In An Exclusive Interview With William Kohlmoos, Bill says of Nevada's Sagebrush Rebellion ""It was a revolution against bureaucracy. Easterners didn't understand Western ways and imposed their impractical concepts of the control of natural resources on the West. Nevada State Senator Rick Blakemore was a friend of mine. He was part of the movement to get the Federal lands transferred to the state. When Nevada became the 36th state in the Union on October 31, 1854, the government kept 90 percent of the land. In the late 1906's I was part of a group that believed that government bureaus were running amok and squashing us under their big feet. That evolved into the Sagebrush Rebellion. The press though, the they think are the all-powerful creator of public opinion, was trying to ridicule us."

Nevada's vast mineral wealth is long gone. In today's world, Nevada has a new and different wealth. Like minerals, wealth there for the taking. The wealth of sun and wind. Wealth that can finance another war. Another American War for Independence. Independence from foreign dependence on energy because somehow those foreigners just don't always act in America's best interest. That's ;-) tongue-in-cheek for those that have previously missed it :-( in other of my stories.

Although nothing is more fleeting than military secrets, America's Manhattan Project

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