Royals solar charge

With the recent addition of the largest solar panel installation in Major League Baseball, I’m proud to call the Royals my home team. This home-run improvement shows foresight, as solar and other renewable energies — including wind and geothermal power — reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.

Instead of burning fossil fuels to power large buildings, which accounts for 70 percent of electricity use and causes climate change, more industry leaders and power companies should follow the lead of the Royals and Kansas City Power & Light Co.

This decision was not made for the benefit of the spotted owls and mountain landscapes that typically inform environmentally friendly upgrades.

This decision is the equivalent of a grand slam. It directly benefits the people of Greater Kansas City, whose air will be cleaner, asthma rates lower and economy more secure in the future as a result of this proactive decision.

I hope this encourages other Kansas City businesses to step up to the plate and be similarly realistic about where the country’s energy picture is headed.

Matthew Mulder

Lee’s Summit 

 

Comments

[gringoloco]

Yep, thermal, solar, wind and other alternative energy sources are still in the developmental stage. Sorta like all that time and money wasted on developping cars and airplanes before they became economically viable. Only when cars and planes were being developped there wasn't an entire political party claiming their development was a waste of money.

[zeno]

Thanks God we have you to worry sooooo much. I wonder how the world got along before you and your inflated self worth!

[ggbridge]

I know, right hon? It's grim worrying about pregnant ladies, children and pollution. You must just be lucky.

[zeno]

GG, how do you get through the day sweetie. You are just non stop angry.

I suppose you would love to be back in the day when a kid had to be taken by horse and buggy to a doctor to treat the asthma with leeches!

[ggbridge]

Good old fossil fuels? Good God. Guess you don't know any kids with asthma.

[zeno]

Let us hope that the lights for the field are still powered by good old fossil fuels.

Or we are going to see a different kind of power outage at the K!

[a ruskin fence on every school campus]

hope this works better than my personal experiment of a few decades ago.

Two different styles of roof top equipment in two different cities.

Turn off fossil power input, lose hot water completely .........