iBots On Mars

What will it take to make your life, your town, your city, your country fossil fuel free? And let’s think really biggest. Let’s include uranium in the fossil fuels list. This means all energy needs must come from renewable resources. Is it possible? Can we do it? Should we do it? Let’s work together and figure it out. In the next 20 weeks, not 20 years.

This project uses the Meetup web app to help pull people together. We are starting the Chattanooga metropolitan area. We are blessed with a really big head start: the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA. TVA tells us that 30% of Chattanooga’s electrical power comes from the two hydroelectric dams in or near our great city. This fantastic renewable resource is a legacy we inherited from work done in the 1930s and 1940s.

But that’s just electrical power. What about energy for heating our homes? Energy to run commercial and industrial plants and offices in our area. And what about all those cars, trucks, trains and planes? Just how much energy is that?

Some people will decide that thinking about a problem this big just makes their brains hurt. Others will think it is foolish, or someone else, probably “in government” should be solving this problem. But we believe there are like-minded people who really care and are willing to join together and begin the process of solving this problem. And do it in a wonderful way.

So if you believe you are called to work on this project let’s get started and add up the Total Energy Budget for Chattanooga, and then figure out where the renewable energy could come from. And how much it is going to cost. And who is going to generate and distribute it, and is it going to be taxed? If so, who gets the money? And… you get the idea.

Excited about these challenges? Click here download the current draft of the Project Overview.

The LWSC Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage GeekSpeak Picnic is scheduled for Sunday, 28 April 2019, starting at noon. Bring your lunch and your BIG ideas as we brainstorm possible renewable energy and resource additions to the facility. Click here to download the picnic agenda.

Interested in joining the project as a researcher or task leader? These positions are currently unpaid but we are pursuing funding and hope to offer compensation for these positions. Click here to download the current draft of the SWFR Organization Chart.

You can join this project at two levels. The first level is to join the Meetup. Click here to join the SWFR Meetup, Chattanooga chapter.

The second level is to join the project team as a LWSC co-op member. Complete the form below to be considered.