House Proceeding 04-21-09 on Apr 21st, 2009 :: 2:53:45 to 2:58:40
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John Hall: science and technology that is within our grasp today. it is great potential. great job creation. great savings of energy, which is a precious commodity, and the ability to do an american-produced agenda, american-produced power to grow and retain american jobs in a

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Speech By: John Hall

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John Hall: of employment out there, employees who are green-collar workers. great potential for this country. mr. umenauer: as we're winding down, i would like to turn to my coleeling, congressman hall. mr. hall: i would like to emphasize jobs. it's astonishing to me that the

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John Hall: chorus fm the other side of the aisle says we are going to lose jobs when conference of mayors released a study showing that renewable power generation alone will lead to the creation of over 2 llion new jobs in manufacturing, legal, construction, engineering, and agricultural sectors. and i recently spent a couple of

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John Hall: days with my work gloves on and my j and a hard hat working doing retrofitting weatheration of hes. in my home county, last year, the community action program only retrofitted and weatherized 183 homes. this year, thanks to the

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John Hall: stimulus package as it's commonly known, they are looking at over 1,000 homes. they are going to be hiring five times as many people to go out. in my district, there are exciting new companies from low tech to high tech. taylor bio mass has a new process to turn municipal solid

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John Hall: waste into clean burning gas for electricity generation using a process that is carbon-negative that is 75% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. when you take that trash, that organic household waste and goes into the landfill and turns into

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John Hall: methane and goes up into the atmosphere, it is worse than carbon dioxide. a new company announced a major jefment creating solar technology. and they will be building solar panels, which we hope will sell around the country maybe to new mexico and other countries like

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John Hall: india, china and germany who right now are in the lead. cities and towns are asking for help to do the same thing. beacon just asked for funds to install new solar electric power system on their municipal ilding, developing a comprehensive plan for the city which recognizes the value of free energy and no emissions.

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John Hall: the win-win-win policy because it hires people to make the panels and hires people to install them. and once they get past the initial payoff and the higher the cost of electricity from other sources goes, the better this looks. and they will use it as an educational tool for the

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John Hall: students in the city of beacon, new york, to see how renewable energy works. lastly, i would just say, echoing congressman tonko's statements about tidal power and hydro power. new york state alone according to the national laboratory website, which is an offshoot of

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John Hall: the department of energy, has 4,000 hydroelectric sites, those are existing dams and waterfalls where water is falling by the ton and not being used, going to waste. just by putting the properly sized turbines, they estimate we

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John Hall: could generate 1.2 -- i'm sorry, 12 megawatts of power. and think of the people it would hire. i wanted to make this comment, that you're hiring electrical workers, you are hiring mechanics, engineers, attorneys,

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John Hall: because there are liability questions with dams. but you're hiring all kinds of dr wide spectrum of workers with different kind of jobs ranking from construction and electrical work to sheet metal, engineering and so on and transportation jobs. and then not only that, but then

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John Hall: you have a decentralized grid with a lot of smaller points of generation as opposed to one huge generation and another huge