California State AssemblyCandidate for District 29

To reduce carbon production in the delivery of energy, energy production must be clean, safe, and profitable so that adoption is widespread.

• Wind energy production is only profitable with subsidies, incurs a high cost in maintenance, and must be produced centrally, thus also incurring high delivery costs. Production of wind energy devices produces large amounts of toxic waste that is managed in other countries, and the carbon footprint of the manufacturing of the devices is very large, so the American public is mislead into thinking that wind is clean, when it is not.
• Silicon solar offsets its large amount of toxic waste to other countries, and is insufficiently efficient to be profitable without subsidies, but it can be placed on-site, thus avoiding delivery costs. However, perovskite solar shows promise to be more efficient and cheaper and cleaner to produce. Perovskite solar can be manufactured entirely in California, using our unique natural resources. Commercial availability of perovskite solar is very near on the horizon. More investment should be placed in it, as well as de-regulation to facilitate faster implementation.
• Nuclear power, in its current implementation, is inherently unstable, and now after several accidents in the past 50 years that is evident. Due to these accidents, the regulation in the nuclear industry is enormous, and the costs associated with that regulation make nuclear power production nearly unprofitable. However, thorium nuclear reactors are inherently stable, and use waste from existing nuclear reactors as their fuel, but their development is slowed by lack of investment and excessive regulation. Thorium reactors can also be made in a variety of sizes, facilitating on-site production. More should be invested in thorium nuclear energy.

I would propose the following legislation:

• Sponsor state funding of research in thorium nuclear power.
• Careful de-regulation of thorium nuclear power research.
• Sponsor state funding of research in perovskite solar energy production.

Tax incentives for developing vertical housing in higher-concentration population areas, which are also where most jobs are. 

Unfortunately there are no good, short-term solutions for this problem. The best way to approach this is to modify our school system to facilitate better outcomes in the long-term, and to modify our national trade policies to enable our economy to recover its shrinking middle class. 

De-salination to add more water to the aquifer and to meet the needs of the community and industry, if the community can bear its cost. Unfortunately this is costly compared to other, existing water management solutions. However, other solutions are not allowed, and there is no, newer technology that is ready for industrial scale production of water.