Baltimore Serenade: Ecosystem Guardians Embracing Impactful & Peaceful Climate Solutions

ENERGIES

"Discovery of 'Dark Oxygen' From Deep-Sea Metal Lumps Could Trigger Rethink of Origins of Life" - Life Science (July 22, 2024)

"Oxygen Discovery Defies Knowledge of the Deep Ocean" - BBC (July 23rd, 2024) -

"Chinese Nuclear Reactor is Completely Meltdown-Proof" - New Scientist (July 19, 2024)

Transmission Project - Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project

PUBLIC UTILITY = Enterprise made for a segment of society, based un geography, to use the service it offers. There are classes of services that the public wants and needs: local public and common carrier transportation (buses, airlines, railroads, motor freight truck carriers) conduits, pipelines, local telephone and telegraph carriers, artificial power to create light, heat, and cooling, community facilities for water and sanitation, including reservoirs.

"""""In most countries such enterprises are state-owned and state-operated, but in the United States they are mainly privately owned and are operated under close governmental regulation.
The classic explanation for the need to regulate public utilities is that they are enterprises in which the technology of production, transmission, and distribution almost inevitably leads to complete or partial monopoly—that they are, in a phrase, natural monopolies. The monopolistic tendency arises from economies of scale in the particular industry, from the large capital costs typical of such enterprises, from the inelasticity of demand among consumers of the service, from considerations of the excess capacity necessary to meet demand peaks, and other considerations. It is often also the case that the existence of competing parallel systems—of local telephones or natural gas, for example—would be inordinately expensive, wasteful, and inconvenient. Given the tendency to monopoly and the potential therefore of monopolistic pricing practices, public regulation has for more than a century been applied to certain classes of business.

In practice, regulation aims to ensure that the utility serves all who apply for and are willing and able to pay for its services, that it operates in a safe and adequate manner, that it serves all customers on equal terms, and that its rates are just and reasonable. All states have regulatory commissions, and the federal government has several, including the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission."""""""""
Please seek also, "COOPERATIVE."

Federal Bodies Regulating Utilities:

The Interstate Commerce Act: February 4, 1887

The Communications Act of 1934

The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) - 1931-1985 Records [Disbanded in 1985]

Federal Power Commission (Formally June 23, 1930 - October 1, 1977) [Became Federal Energy Regulatory Commission]

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Communications Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

"Electric Co-op and Utility: What's the Difference?: There's a Wide Variety of Entities Operating Our Electrical Infrastructure. Here's Why the Difference Matters, Even if You Don't Have Much of a Choice.

Use "Cross Ventilation" - the motion of air: Heat rises, and cold air falls. If no curtains, or use in conjunction with curtains and blinds, use cardboard, or if you have flat Styrofoam from packaging (allows some light, but still blocks out heat), place to fit window. Darkness cools so much. If you live in multi-level home, open your windows upstairs in western window (or closest to), place cardboard on unopened upper window, and let hot air escape. If your doors upstairs has space underneath, keep door closed from dawn to dusk. Open windows at night if below 85 degrees and expected to go into 70's or even into 60's. Place cold water on face, and let morning air hit for extra cooling. I hope this helps. This is what I do, and I only use a few fans. It's the electric bill shock that will hurt worse with having air conditioners. Go to libraries, attend library events https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/ malls..., movie theatres, make playdates for your kids during the day if need. Cordially, Shaiyel Seltzer

"The Genius of Small Hydro Turbines" - Undecided with Matt Ferrell (March 2024)

"How Salt and Sand Could Replace Lithium Batteries" -DW Planet A (August 2022)

Spain Uses Too Little Energy - "Spain Sparks Fears of Energy Industry Crisis as Renewable Supply Exceeds Demand" - BBC News (June 25, 2024)

"How China Plans to Win the Future of Energy" - Bloomberg Originals (March 15, 2022)

We need wood to build with, not burn. Wood pellets can be made by wood dust - leftover pieces of wood. Biomass deforestation must end.

PLACEMENT "This is What's REALLY Holding Back Wind and Solar" - DW Planet A (June 2, 2023)

"The Mind-Blowing Thing we Get WRONG About Energy" - DW Planet A (May 31, 2024)

"Geothermal Energy in Iceland" - Suffolk University (2015)

"How To Cool Our Homes (Even Without ACs)" - DW Planet A (2023)

District Cooling: "How Singapore Uses Science to Stay Cool" - Bloomberg Originals City Lab (2021)

"Heat Wave: Cooling Our Cities Without Air Conditioning" - Bloomberg Originals City Labs (2023)

"Is Hydrogen the Clean Fuel of the Future? - NBC News (2023)

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THE ENERGY DIRECTORY

"Electricity" - "School House Rock" (ABC Broadcasting)

"The Story of Cap and Trade" - The Story of Stuff (2009)

This page focuses on how we use energy - all types of energy. It will also delve into the choices of energy.

Eric McErlain ~ The Hartford Courant 2006

STATE OF MARYLAND ENERGY PRODUCTION & CONSUMPTION

STATE OF MARYLAND ENERGY CONSUMPTION 2019 [DATA EIA 2021] - UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

2022 USA COAL EXPORTS

ASIA : MOSTLY INDIA NORTH AMERICA: MOSTLY DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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NEVER INVEST IN "NEW" OLD MATERIALS, ESPECIALLY WHEN NEW ONES ARE AVAILABLE NOW TO REPLACE AND WILL BE ON THE MARKET IN A FEW YEARS When materials that pose no health risks that have been used for a long time, like ceramic pieces, they actually supersede plastic that cracks, and are often made with Perfluorinated and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHS) - the "Forever Chemical" families - who are completely unregulated in Baltimore City and the United States.
Solar shingles are light, no toxic chemicals, and with many other advantages, no leaks as no holes drilled into roofs, rather than roof-holed panels)(solar fabric and films rather than heavy toxic chemical-filled panels).

DO INVEST IN OLD TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS WHEN ONLY REASON IT WAS NOT BUILT WAS DUE TO COST Gasification replaces incineration, ending toxic ash waste. It converts all to gas, and captures fuel, even creating oil - gasoline. It will process all contents of landfills (Norris Farm...), forever ending need of landfills. Chicken, cow... manure can be gasified too, ending age-old crisis of it going into water (especially Chesapeake Bay). Once contents are gone, all toxins must be cleaned up, and then those lands become reclaimed, especially for indigenous /native peoples, reparations/unceded payment(s). At same time as gasifying the landfills, sweeping measures on all permissible, and abolished consumer packaging, moving to, "Compost Gasification."

DO INVEST IN VEHICLES THAT OFFERED A UNIFIED INTEGRATED SOCIETY: Business industries invested in individual polluting tired-vehicles {automobiles, trucks...} so feared the inclusive, equitable, and equality unifying Streetcar, that they financed a shell company, National Lines, to not only replace with busses, but holocaust style - pile up the bodies to burn then, "So they can never come back again." The ability to have superior public transportation, the Streetcar, its cousin Lightrail, and Trains offers the intermingling of all classes, ethnicities, and races - all walks of life.

This is the problem we must solve: How does Baltimore and Maryland become energy independent? It is clear through witnessing Summer of 2022, that when a public entity wants to, such as in California, it takes nothing to shut off energy to customers intentionally to end overuse. When it is too hot, it is too hot, and when one is part of a multi-state grid stemming from Illinois, the owner is at will to choose who and where energy - electricity should go to.

What will heat every home, streets, and all other buildings in the winter, and cool all homes, streets, and all other buildings in spring, summer, and autumn without having to convert itself into another energy (no electricity) so humanity can survive? What will power every moment of everyday in the form of electricity? There is only one: geothermal with hydropower support.

"Maryland Bureau of Mines Coal Division" - Department of the Environment

"2022 Public Power Statistical Report" - Public Power Magazine

"Going Local: Municipalization Empowers Communities" - American Public Power Association (APPA)

April 2014 ~ Chesapeake Climate Action Network

ENERGIES: BALTIMORE USES

SOLUTION: ENERGY INDEPENDENCE & PUBLIC ~ COOPERATIVE UTILITY COMPANY

About Community-Owned Colorado Springs Utilities

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"Making of A GREEN Building" - The Chesapeake Bay Foundation

"The World Needs A Supergrid, But There's a Problem" - Bloomberg Quicktake Originals (2022)

"How Electricity Gets to You" - Wendover Productions (2021)

"Energy Rankings: Measuring States' Energy Infrastructure - U.S. News and World Report Magazine (2022) [Maryland 30: 38 - 14 - 38]

"Why the Poor in Baltimore Face Such Crushing 'Energy Burdens': Darlene Jenkins Couldn't Understand Why her Gas and Electric Bills Were so High. Then She Met an Advocate in a North Baltimore Parking Lot." - Inside Climate News (2021)

:New York City's Greenery Absorbs a Surprising Amount of Its Carbon Emissions: A Hyper-Local Study of Vegetation Shows That the City's Trees and Grass Often Cancel out ALL the CO2 Released From Cars, Trucks and Buses on Summer Days." - Columbia Climate School - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (2023)

SOLAR COSTS

"Hydrogen Accelerates Energy Transition in Developing Countries" - World Bank (2020)

WAVE, OCEAN, & TIDAL ENERGIES

WIND

"They Call The Wind Mariah" - The Smothers Brothers | "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"

"Weather" - "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" (2019)

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GEOTHERMAL

PLANET~EARTH~~~~~~~~~~~~GEOTHERMAL~~~~~~~~~~Street~~~Sidewalk~~~Home~~~Library~~~Business~~~~~~~~~~GEOTHERMAL~~~~~~~~~~PLANET~EARTH

HYDROTHERMAL~GEOTHERMAL

"Flooding" - "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" (2017)

WAVE, OCEAN, AND TIDAL ENERGIES

Ocean, Wave, and Tidal Energy" - Prep On Go (2018)

"Tidal Energy" How it Works - DW Planet A [Wind Tidal Turbines] (2021)

"Orbital Tidal Turbine : Launched April 2021" - Just Have a Think (2021)

COMPOST FUELED GASIFICATION

NUCLEAR

COAL

MASSIVE COAL EXPLOSION IN BALTIMORE 2021

MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT (MDE) SETTLEMENT WITH CSX - NEARLY NOTHING

"It's Time To Let Coal Die" - Climate Town (2023)

"Coal" - "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" (2017)

OIL

BIRTH OF AN OIL FIELD 1949 SHELL OIL INDUSTRIAL FILM GEORGE PAL ANIMATION

" GASOLINE FOR EVERYBODY " 1947 OIL & GASOLINE REFINING PROCESS ETHYL CORP EDUCATIONAL FILM 12084 - Audio Productions (1947)

"Skin Cancer Hazard to Oil Refinery Workers in the 1940s, Standard Oil, 1954

"Oil and Sea Turtles: Biology, Planning, and Response" - NOAA (2021)

"Challenges in Evaluating the Severity of Fibropapillomatosis: A Proposal for Objective Index and Score System for Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Brazil - PLOS One (2016)

"Poisoned Great Barrier Reef, Gruesome Green Turtles"

"Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate" - Council on Foreign Relations (2023)

"Is Saudi Arabia Really Quitting Oil?" - DW Planet A (April 26, 2024)

TRASH PLAN

TRASH PLANNING

"Earth's Atmospheric Global Electric Circuit at the Frontiers of Earth System Science" - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (NCAR & UCAR Education and Outreach)

ENERGIES: BALTIMORE USES

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ENERGIES: BALTIMORE USES

"Household Energy and Clean Cookstove Research" - Environmental Protection Administration (EPA)

Fossil Fuel: Liquid Petroleum Gas not solution to energy poverty

"Why All Eyes Are On Zimbabwe's Lithium Industry" - CNBC (March 8th, 2023)

Eric Sanderson: "Terra Nova, the World Beyond Cars, Oil, and Suburbs" - Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College (2012)

"Viewing Entire Conception - Economic Picture" Portion: "Terra Nova, the World Beyond Cars, Oil, and Suburbs" - Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College (2012)

GASIFICATION [Produces Fuels]

PLEASE EXCUSE BELOW. HOLDING LINKS SPACE.

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Mayor Scott forces Conduit deal Exelon (bge) proposed to pass 3-2 no show, despite landslide Baltimore Citizen vote to Prohibit Sale, Transfer, or Franchise of Conduit on Election Day, November 8th, 2022. No thought for future needs to save Baltimore, only faster highspeed internet. [Click here.]