Electricity the way to go

To the editor:

Your Mat-Su leaders want you to pay for a piped-in fossil fueled gas power plant, the piping project and the piped gas itself, so someone else can charge each of you and your homes more money for the piped gas and carbon charges later just when worldwide carbon taxes will kick in.

And at the same time the rest of the world with lightning speed, is investing and going to new technologically intelligent and clean water, wind, sun and thermal generation of electricity for their homes and cars to be all electric.

Look, while discussing the three- to six-year completion viability of multiple mid-sized hydroelectric river/tidal, below ice, surface water flowing and in-stream electricity generation projects by channeling the river waters, air turbine designs, small breakaway dams, or by floating in movable larger ships with 40-year hull lifespans as housing for electricity generators. We googled a local map view of the Valley, and guess what?

The Mat-Su Valley is located between the Susitna River, the Matanuska River and the world’s fourth largest tide in Cook Inlet. And you want to build a coal or piped gas carbon fired power plant?

Don’t you and your children want to be a part of leading the rest of the world in exciting, clean, and new electricity energy generation and distribution designs, concepts and technologies for our homes and cars?

Paul D. Kendall

Anchorage