Stephan:   I lived on a bus for four years, a 36-foot Bluebird Wonderlodge, an absolutely wonderful vehicle. I mention the length because my purpose was to be able to go down every road on the maps, and one couldn't do that if the vehicle was over 36 feet. We made eight coast-to-coast crossings. Each had a theme: The Presidents' Houses, Pre-Columbia America, Utopian Communities, as examples. These trips took months, as we meandered down small roads through American and Canada. I go into all this to say that having done it I know the truth of this report. If we spent the kind of money we spend for war creating a new non-carbon system it could be accomplished within a decade, just as we created the interstate highway system, or the national grid. There are tens of thousands of places where wind or solar could go. What I learned from my trips is that most of America is empty. There are places you can drive on the largest local road, and not see anything on wheels all day. On little roads it could be two days. According to NOAA, 'The narrow fringe of coastal land comprising 17 percent of the contiguous U.S. land area is home to more than half of the nation's population.' A new non-carbon energy system could be created in such a small space in this open empty country one would hardly notice. We would have decentralized regional community sized systems scaled to need. There is nothing technically stopping this except a collective surrender to the interests of the few.