Goal: Crowd Source Think Tank

The goal of this website is to form a Crowd Sourced Think Tank.  The Think Tank provides a platform where we collaborate by identifying problems (technical, financial, social and policy) and respond with inspired solutions.  But notably, the objective is to create integrated solutions that shave off inefficiencies by layering improvements of incremental efficiency gains across the larger system. The idea is not that we present one-off solutions, but that we weave our various ideas together to come up was a sequential series of improvements along the chain of production for an overall improved system.  So for example.

Say NY decides to implement an incentive policy to increase private solar panel use to diversify the State energy profile.

Someone suggests it be linked to the grid to shore up the grid and reduce battery needs.

Someone suggests that it be prioritized for NYC in the beginning because it would provide most benefit to the State by getting the most light capture at peak load to benefit the State electric system as a whole.

Someone suggests that isn’t fair, bc upstate NY’ers don’t get a chance to experience solar.  Someone makes an amendment and suggests all upstate schools have solar panels and monitoring systems and when the NYC system is maxed out, other NYS areas are targeted in a methodical way.  Someone else notes that by addressing NYC solar opportunities first, NY State reduces the State per capita GHG emissions fastest.

Someone suggests that whoever gets the solar panel incentives, must also be required to paint their roof white or silver to increase the albedo (reflected light) that reduces warming in the city, thus also reducing demand for A/C in the city.

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The Goal of the Think Tank is to redefine civic entrepreneurship, by LAYERING ideas, LAYERING complex systems, and LAYERING efficiencies in the larger system to get the most return on investment, financially, socially, and environmentally.

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  nate wightman September 6, 2011 at 8:11 am

  Germany has cancelled at least 2 nuclear reactors due to their solar program
  maybe find a way to link a map of all US that shows where solar makes more sense
  check out clean energy collective founder Paul Spencer in Carbondale Colorado
  builds big systems and sells to individuals….saves in all the misc. costs
  this was in home power magazine or homepower.com
  in denver the xcel energy put solar panels on the side of their big downtown building
  lots of tall buildings have an exo shell of stone or such this shell should be abandoned and solar should be used instead

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