Neoliberalism Vs Renewables Aff won that Renewables solve neolib impactsWater Morality and neolib leads to its own impacts
Glenbrooks
2
Opponent: Chattahoochee ZM | Judge: Aaron Vinson
New Reform Adv Longggggg Security K in 1nc and 2nr
Glenbrooks
3
Opponent: Ann Arbor Huron HM | Judge: Andrew Arsht
Pretty Standard Round nothing weird
Great Midwest National Debate Championship
1
Opponent: West Des Moines Valley CH | Judge: Ben Hamburger
New Free Trade Scenario in the 1AC 1NC Diological Environment K (We must protect the Earth (not environment but physical atoms that bind the planet and Earth's soul)) T Brazil Relations DA Consult Brazil CP Judge voted that no matter what all our impacts are irrelevant because the Earth still exists Tip Against this K prove why in that the impact or status quo will destroy the Earth itself (Something like Resource Extraction Environmental Destruction)
Illinois JV State
2
Opponent: Niles North BH | Judge: Nick Locke
1AC broke a new advantage they went for their China DA against the China Adv nothing weird They won that they had the best iL's to Chinese stability
Illinois States JV
3
Opponent: Lane Tech MM | Judge: Eric Oddo
Case won Neolib chance of solving the impacts of the K Perm probably solves
University of Michigan
1
Opponent: Edina SH | Judge: Joseph, Kyle
Heidegger Heg Bad
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Tournament: University of Michigan | Round: 1 | Opponent: Edina SH | Judge: Joseph, Kyle Inherency Mexico has ENORMOUS untapped renewable energy potential. Wood 10 – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City (Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from AND economic and financial incentives for public or private sector¶ development of renewable resources
No disads – Obama already announced climate and energy initiatives in Mexico.
US President Barack Obama has proposed closer collaboration between the US and Mexico on renewable AND to travel to Costa Rica later Friday to meet with President Laura Chinchilla.
Still doesn’t solve the aff – no framework for renewables plan investment key
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s a series of congressional legislation was passed, AND Department had not significantly changed its way of doing business concerning energy usage. Plan
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards the government of Mexico in the area of renewable energy.
Operational energy use (the energy required for training, moving, and sustaining military AND strategies, which also pose several potential policy and oversight issues for Congress. We’ll isolate 2 internals First – plan improves operational readiness Zhao et al 2013- (Zhao, Ying; Brutzman, Don; MacKinnon AND LM-13-C10P05R03-061.pdf?sequence=1)
Studies evaluating the DoD’s energy use have been conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses AND . The overall goal is to reduce reliance on fossil fuels from overseas.
And it makes it more resilient Castillo and Deason ’11 (Ariel S. Castillo, PhD, Environmental and Energy Management Program, School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Jonathan P. Deason, lead professor, Environmental and Energy Management Program, School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC.)(September 2011, "Determination of Solar Energy Transition Potential of Department of Defense Facilities and Nontactical Vehicles: An Application of Multicriteria Decision Theory Modeling and Simulation Approaches," solar.gwu.edu/Research/CastilloDeason_DODSolarPotential_EnvironmentalPractice_Sept2011.pdf)
Solar energy technologies could offer a more robust energy solution when coupled with current generator technologies to provide continuity of operations for the DoD. Solar energy technologies could provide distributed energy during clear-day operations, adding to the resiliency of the base and enabling improved continuity of operations. In addition, solar energy technologies coupled with electric or hybrid vehicles could provide an opportunity to store energy for nighttime operations.
Specifically- Heg solves Pakistan instability
Brzezinski 12 (Zbigniew, US National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, scholar at CSIS, Jan/Feb 2012, "8 Geopolitically Endangered Species," www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/8_geopolitically_endangered_species?page=0,7 SL)
7. PAKISTAN Although Islamabad is armed with 21st-century nuclear weapons and held AND Asia, with violence potentially spreading to China, India, and Russia.
Pakistani instability results in Indo-Pak nuclear war
Fundamentalism is deeply rooted in Pakistan society. The fact that in the year following AND in a new Cold War with China and Russia pitted against the US.
Indo Pak War leads to Extinction
Fai 2001 (Ghulam Nabi, 7/8/2001. Kashmiri American Council. Washington Times, Lexis.)
The foreign policy of the United States in South Asia should move from the lackadaisical AND an inclination to ratify an impending Fissile Material/Cut-off Convention. inclination to ratify an impending Fissile Material/Cut-off Convention.
Even anti-hegemonic authors agree that the US won’t change their global strategy Mearsheimer 11 John J. Mearsheimer, the "R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago" Jan/Feb 2011 "Imperial By Design" http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0059.pdf
The downward spiral the United States has taken was anything but inevitable. Washington has AND would see the United States as a benign hegemon serving their own interests. Total rejection of u.s. leadership would increase imperialism and colonialism.
Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 121-123
My preference here is to advocate a forward-leaning, prudential strategy of institutionally AND have transformative potential, even if this is only now being creatively exploited.
Our form of hegemony is ethical Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 109-115
The final ethical position — the polar opposite of the first — holds that the AND is needed than the simple yet enticing propos¬ition that might is never right.
Congestion in the ERCOT region reached a record high in 2008 when system inefficiency reached AND a yet-to-be-utilized connection are harder to determine.
US engagement with Mexico in the area of renewable energy has been driven by three AND biofuels are therefore vital if Mexico’s true potential is to be fully realized.
Oil Dependence Makes global resources wars inevitable
If successful in the November election, the Obama Administration will make energy a¶ AND allies; countering challenges to Washington’s global interests; and fostering economic growth.
How Energy Drives the World All of these disputes have one thing in common: the conviction of ruling elites around the world that the possession of energy assets — especially oil and gas deposits — is essential to prop up national wealth, power, and prestige. This is hardly a new phenomenon. Early in the last century, Winston Churchill AND 1990-91 and its inevitable sequel, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The years since World War II have seen a variety of changes in the AND the existing system of collaboration among private and state-owned energy leviathans. But that energy equation is changing ominously as the challenge of fueling the planet grows AND countries lacking adequate domestic reserves (and joy among those with an abundance). The world has long been bifurcated between energy-surplus and energy-deficit states, with the former deriving enormous political and economic advantages from their privileged condition and the latter struggling mightily to escape their subordinate position. Now, that bifurcation is looking more like a chasm. In such a global environment, friction and conflict over oil and gas reserves — leading to energy conflicts of all sorts — is only likely to increase . Looking, again, at April’s six energy disputes, one can see clear AND localized dispute that might undermine its claim to sovereignty over the entire region. Egypt, although not a major energy producer, clearly seeks to employ its AND resources, even if this means inflaming tensions with Spain and Great Britain. And these are just some of the countries involved in significant disputes over energy AND Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously suggest that we are entering a new period in which key state actors will be more inclined to employ force — or the threat of force — to gain control over valuable deposits of oil and natural gas. In other words, we’re now on a planet heading into energy overdrive. Solvency
Renewable energy investment causes adoption of microgrids Joyce Laird 8-1-2013 ——Joyce Laird has an extensive background writing about the electronics industry; semiconductor development, R26D, wafer/foundry/IP and device integration into high density circuit designs—(" Can microgrids provide smooth renewable power integration and backup?" Renewable energy Focus USA, http://www.renewableenergyfocususa.com/view/33768/can-microgrids-provide-smooth-renewable-power-integration-and-backup/ AKP)
¶ Microgrids could provide a way to sustain power during disasters and allow isolated regions AND face a barrage of regula¬tory hurdles before it can even begin."
A comprehensive bilateral agreement on renewable energy development is key – that spurs cooperation and investment necessary to catalyze growth in the cross-border clean energy industries
The need for integration of North American ¶ renewable energy markets is real and immediate AND energy sector ¶ holds enormous potential to contribute even more in the future.
In early 2009, President Calderón and President Obama announced ¶ plans to strengthen and AND to ¶ modernize their operations and/or invest further in their sector.
Accessibility – plan promotes equality – laundry list. Tully 6 – PhD from London School of Economics (Stephen Tully, "The Contribution of Human Rights to Universal Energy Access," Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, 4.3, Scholar)BB
Although providing essential infrastructure services was omitted as an explicit target, access to energy AND accessible to all at an affordable price and on an equitable basis." 7
11/1/13
Maine East JK 1AC 110
Tournament: Illinois States JV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lane Tech MM | Judge: Eric Oddo 1AC Inherency Mexico has ENORMOUS untapped renewable energy potential. Wood 10 – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City (Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from AND and financial incentives for public or private sector¶ development of renewable resources.
No disads – Obama already announced climate and energy initiatives in Mexico.
US President Barack Obama has proposed closer collaboration between the US and Mexico on renewable AND to travel to Costa Rica later Friday to meet with President Laura Chinchilla.
Still doesn’t solve the aff – no framework for renewables gridding plan investment key
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s a series of congressional legislation was passed, AND Department had not significantly changed its way of doing business concerning energy usage. Plan
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards the government of Mexico in the area of renewable energy.
Operational energy use (the energy required for training, moving, and sustaining military AND strategies, which also pose several potential policy and oversight issues for Congress. We’ll isolate 2 internals First – plan improves operational readiness Zhao et al 2013- (Zhao, Ying; Brutzman, Don; MacKinnon AND LM-13-C10P05R03-061.pdf?sequence=1)
Studies evaluating the DoD’s energy use have been conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses AND . The overall goal is to reduce reliance on fossil fuels from overseas.
Second – renewables make DoD operations more cost effective Parthemore and Nagl 10 (Christine Parthemore is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Dr. John Nagl is President of the Center for a New American Security.) ( "Fueling the Future Force Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Era" Center for a New American Security(CNAS) is located in Washington, and was established in February 2007 by co-founders Kurt M. Campbell and Michèle A. Flournoy. CNAS is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Its research is independent and non-partisan. CNAS does not take institutional positions on policy issues. September 2010 http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling20the20Future20Force_NaglParthemore.pdf-http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling the Future Force_NaglParthemore.pdf)
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must prepare now to AND armed services to accomplish their missions in the years and decades to come.
Scenario 1 is Asia
Primacy is the lynchpin of Asian stability—decline risks war, deterrence breakdowns, and prolif
Lieber 2005 – PhD from Harvard, Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown, former consultant to the State Department and for National Intelligence Estimates (Robert, "The American Era", page 158) Parallels between America’s role in East Asia and its involvements in Europe might seem far AND the long-term potential to emerge as a true major power competitor.
Since the Party’s life is "above all else," it would not be surprising AND now plans to hold one billion people hostage and gamble with their lives.
Scenario 2 is GPC Independently, Collapse of heg causes great power conflicts- no alternatives can solve Brooks et al 13 ~Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. "Don’t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment", Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107-http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107~~
A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND that of potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85 Even anti-hegemonic authors agree that the US won’t change their global strategy Mearsheimer 11 John J. Mearsheimer, the "R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago" Jan/Feb 2011 "Imperial By Design" http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0059.pdf
The downward spiral the United States has taken was anything but inevitable. Washington has AND would see the United States as a benign hegemon serving their own interests. Total rejection of u.s. leadership would increase imperialism and colonialism.
Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 121-123
My preference here is to advocate a forward-leaning, prudential strategy of institutionally AND have transformative potential, even if this is only now being creatively exploited.
Our form of hegemony is ethical Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 109-115
Congestion in the ERCOT region reached a record high in 2008 when system inefficiency reached AND a yet-to-be-utilized connection are harder to determine.
Scenario 1 is Energy Diplomacy
Investment in Mexico’s renewable energy boosts our energy diplomacy
Johnson et al 13 (Stephen Johnson is a senior fellow with the CSIS Americas Program, and Johanna Mendelson Forman is a senior associate and program director. Michael Graybeal is the program coordinator.)(2/08/13, "Recommendations for a New Administration: Give Hemispheric Energy Policy a Strategic Vision" pdf)(PLeon)
One important change during the first Obama term was a greater recognition that energy security AND all tools of government dealing with energy diplomacy, investment, and trade.
How Energy Drives the World All of these disputes have one thing in common: the conviction of ruling elites around the world that the possession of energy assets — especially oil and gas deposits — is essential to prop up national wealth, power, and prestige. This is hardly a new phenomenon. Early in the last century, Winston Churchill AND 1990-91 and its inevitable sequel, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The years since World War II have seen a variety of changes in the AND the existing system of collaboration among private and state-owned energy leviathans. But that energy equation is changing ominously as the challenge of fueling the planet grows AND countries lacking adequate domestic reserves (and joy among those with an abundance). The world has long been bifurcated between energy-surplus and energy-deficit states, with the former deriving enormous political and economic advantages from their privileged condition and the latter struggling mightily to escape their subordinate position. Now, that bifurcation is looking more like a chasm. In such a global environment, friction and conflict over oil and gas reserves — leading to energy conflicts of all sorts — is only likely to increase . Looking, again, at April’s six energy disputes, one can see clear AND localized dispute that might undermine its claim to sovereignty over the entire region. Egypt, although not a major energy producer, clearly seeks to employ its AND resources, even if this means inflaming tensions with Spain and Great Britain. And these are just some of the countries involved in significant disputes over energy AND Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously suggest that we are entering a new period in which key state actors will be more inclined to employ force — or the threat of force — to gain control over valuable deposits of oil and natural gas. In other words, we’re now on a planet heading into energy overdrive.
Scenario 2 is Water
Renewable Energy Grids are key to powering Wastewater treatment centers
Mexico is a diverse nation with an estimated population of over 113 million people. AND and energy can help encourage sustainable operation of established water and energy systems.
====Lack of access to clean water causes mass disease spread and death==== Erklam, 13 (Franziska Erklam, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Peer reviewed by Academic Supervisor: Christian Bjørnskov, "To which extent is water shortage a key ¶ determinant for a retarded economic growth? A case study of Mexico City", 7/19/13, http://pure.au.dk/portal-asb-student/files/7926/Franziska_Erlekam_-_Master_Thesis.pdfSKx
Despite institutional efforts, the supply of clean water is neither nationwide, nor fairly AND a boom in the sale ¶ of bottled water in the last decade.
In the past, humans have indeed fallen victim to viruses. Perhaps the best AND — which could only infect birds — into a human-viable strain ¶
Scenario 3 is Grids Renewable energy investment causes adoption of microgrids Joyce Laird 8-1-2013 ——Joyce Laird has an extensive background writing about the electronics industry; semiconductor development, R26D, wafer/foundry/IP and device integration into high density circuit designs—(" Can microgrids provide smooth renewable power integration and backup?" Renewable energy Focus USA, http://www.renewableenergyfocususa.com/view/33768/can-microgrids-provide-smooth-renewable-power-integration-and-backup/ AKP)
¶ Microgrids could provide a way to sustain power during disasters and allow isolated regions AND face a barrage of regula¬tory hurdles before it can even begin."
Squo efforts corrupt grid expansions— reforming the grid solves blackout and overstretch
WASHINGTON — It’s a nightmarish scenario - a days-long blackout at a nuclear power plant leading to a radioactive leak. Though the odds of that happening are extremely remote, an Associated Press investigation has found that some U.S. plants are more vulnerable than others. Long before the nuclear emergency in Japan, U.S. regulators knew that a power failure lasting for days at an American nuclear plant, whatever the cause, could lead to a radioactive leak. Even so, they have only required the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors to develop plans for dealing with much shorter blackouts on the assumption that power would be restored quickly. In one simulation presented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2009, it would take AND plant, which is using other means to try to cool the reactors. And like Fukushima Dai-ichi, the Peach Bottom plant has enough battery power AND two other two reactors, Units 5 and 6, the groups said. The risk of a blackout leading to core damage, while extremely remote, exists AND S. power plants are as prepared as they could and should be. As part of a review requested by President Barack Obama in the wake of the Japan crisis, a top Nuclear Regulatory Commission official said Tuesday that the agency will investigate whether the nation’s nuclear reactors are capable of coping with station blackouts and whether regulatory requirements need to be strengthened. Bill Borchardt, the agency’s executive director for operations, said an obvious question is whether nuclear plants need enhanced battery supplies, or ones that can last longer. "There is a robust capability that exists already, but given what happened in Japan there’s obviously a question that presents itself: Do we need to make it even more robust," he said at a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. "We didn’t address a tsunami and an earthquake, but clearly we have known for some time that one of the weak links that makes accidents a little more likely is losing power," said Alan Kolaczkowski, a retired nuclear engineer who worked on a federal risk analysis of Peach Bottom released in 1990 and is familiar with the updated risk analysis. Risk analyses conducted by the plants in 1991-94 and published by the commission in 2003 show that the chances of such an event striking a U.S. power plant are remote, even at the plant where the risk is the highest, the Beaver Valley Power Station in Pennsylvania. These long odds are among the reasons why the United States since the late 1980s has only required nuclear power plants to cope with blackouts for four or eight hours. That’s about how much time batteries would last. After that, it is assumed that power would be restored. And so far, that’s been the case. Equipment put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks could buy more time. Otherwise, the reactor’s radioactive core could begin to melt unless alternative cooling methods were employed. In Japan, the utility has tried using portable generators and dumping tons of seawater, among other things, on the reactors in an attempt to keep them cool. A 2003 federal analysis looking at how to estimate the risk of containment failure said that should power be knocked out by an earthquake or tornado it "would be unlikely that power will be recovered in the time frame to prevent core meltdown." In Japan, it was a one-two punch: first the earthquake, then the tsunami. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled plant, found other ways to cool the reactor core and, so far, avert a full-scale meltdown without electricity. "Clearly the coping duration is an issue on the table now," said Biff Bradley, director of risk assessment for the Nuclear Energy Institute. "The industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will have to go back in light of what we just observed and rethink station blackout duration." David Lochbaum, a former plant engineer and nuclear safety director at the advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, put it another way: "Japan shows what happens when you play beat-the-clock and lose." At Tuesday’s Senate committee hearing, he said the government and the nuclear power industry have to do more to cope with prolonged blackouts, such as having temporary generators on site - or at nearby military bases - that can recharge batteries. A complete loss of electrical power, generally speaking, poses a major problem for a nuclear power plant because the reactor core must be kept cool, and back-up cooling systems - mostly pumps that replenish the core with water- require massive amounts of power to work. Without the electrical grid, or diesel generators, batteries can be used for a time, but they will not last long with the power demands. And when the batteries die, the systems that control and monitor the plant can also go dark, making it difficult to ascertain water levels and the condition of the core. Eleven U.S. reactors are designed to cope with a station blackout lasting eight hours, while 93 are designed for four-hour blackouts.
Impact is on par with nuclear warfare – fallout will be massive and global
Drell, 9 Professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Science Advisory Committee, 12 (THE NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors, pg. 1-3)
We live in dangerous times for many reasons. Prominent among them is the existence AND the public by providing information on how to respond to such an event. Solvency
Accessibility – plan promotes equality – laundry list.
Tully 6 – PhD from London School of Economics (Stephen Tully, "The Contribution of Human Rights to Universal Energy Access," Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, 4.3, Scholar)BB
Although providing essential infrastructure services was omitted as an explicit target, access to energy AND such as fuelwood, from forests and ecosystems. Finally, a global partnership
for development depends upon the co-operative provision of energy. For example AND accessible to all at an affordable price and on an equitable basis." 7
The need for integration of North American ¶ renewable energy markets is real and immediate AND the United States in renewable energy is ¶ surprisingly long and multi-faceted
and it has ¶ been a vital, albeit unheralded, dimension to bilateral relations AND energy sector ¶ holds enormous potential to contribute even more in the future.
In early 2009, President Calderón and President Obama announced ¶ plans to strengthen and AND to ¶ modernize their operations and/or invest further in their sector.
And our evidence is reverse causal- oil dependency bogs down our military- only transition to renewables solves. Wald and Captain 09 General Charles F. Wald (USAF Ret) Director and Senior Advisor, Aerospace and Defense Industry, Tom Captain Vice Chairman, Global and U.S. Aerospace and Defense Industry Leader, " Energy Security America’s Best Defense" 2009, http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local20Assets/Documents/AD/us_ad_EnergySecurity052010.pdf-http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local Assets/Documents/AD/us_ad_EnergySecurity052010.pdf, Caplan Energy security and national security are closely interre - lated: threats to the former AND tankers, mine resistant armored vehicles, and net-centric sensing technologies.
Renewable Energy successful in Water Treatment plants, empirically proven in Singapore
Wastewater treatment is a very energy intensive industry. Singapore has a state-of AND are site specific and should be analyzed on a location-specific basis.
3/15/14
Maine East JK 1AC 120
Tournament: Illinois JV State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Niles North BH | Judge: Nick Locke Inherency Mexico has ENORMOUS untapped renewable energy potential. Wood 10 – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City (Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from AND and financial incentives for public or private sector¶ development of renewable resources.
No disads – Obama already announced climate and energy initiatives in Mexico.
US President Barack Obama has proposed closer collaboration between the US and Mexico on renewable AND to travel to Costa Rica later Friday to meet with President Laura Chinchilla.
Still doesn’t solve the aff – no framework for renewables plan investment key
New Hampshire, USA — Northern Mexico is considered to have the world’s third greatest AND down for solar – that is going to be a big incentive.’ Plan
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards the government of Mexico in the area of renewable energy.
Congestion in the ERCOT region reached a record high in 2008 when system inefficiency reached AND a yet-to-be-utilized connection are harder to determine.
First scenario is energy diplomacy
Plan causes transition to renewables- that’s key to PEMEX reform Melgar 2012 (Lourdes Melgar, director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.)("The Future of PEMEX", Summer 2012, Americas Quarterly, http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3781)
The time is ripe for a historic transformation of Mexico’s energy sector. The 2008 AND in 2007. PEP is repeatedly the number-one client of Schlumberger.
Specifically- PEMEX reform is key to US energy diplomacy
But the US stands to gain much as well if the centrist PRI plan is AND on the international stage and help further US interests in diplomacy and trade.
Third, Joint Cooperation and development of renewables with Mexico promotes US energy diplomacy
Johanna Forman et al, 2/8/2013, Center for Strategic and International Studies, "recommendations for a new administration: give hemispheric energy policy a strategic vision,"http://csis.org/files/publication/130207_JMForman_Energy_HemFocus_0.pdf-http://csis.org/files/publication/130207_JMForman_Energy_HemFocus_0.pdf Four years ago, U.S. energy policy in the Americas arose from AND fostering competition that allows access to clean energy in areas that are still undereserved Independently solves conflict Klare 12 (Michael, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College) ("Michael Klare: Oil Wars On The Horizon" May 10, 2012, http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/michael-klare-oil-wars-on-the-horizon/-http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/michael-klare-oil-wars-on-the-horizon/) How Energy Drives the World All of these disputes have one thing in common: the conviction of ruling elites around the world that the possession of energy assets — especially oil and gas deposits — is essential to prop up national wealth, power, and prestige. This is hardly a new phenomenon. Early in the last century, Winston Churchill AND 1990-91 and its inevitable sequel, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The years since World War II have seen a variety of changes in the AND the existing system of collaboration among private and state-owned energy leviathans. But that energy equation is changing ominously as the challenge of fueling the planet grows AND countries lacking adequate domestic reserves (and joy among those with an abundance). The world has long been bifurcated between energy-surplus and energy-deficit states, with the former deriving enormous political and economic advantages from their privileged condition and the latter struggling mightily to escape their subordinate position. Now, that bifurcation is looking more like a chasm. In such a global environment, friction and conflict over oil and gas reserves — leading to energy conflicts of all sorts — is only likely to increase . Looking, again, at April’s six energy disputes, one can see clear AND resources, even if this means inflaming tensions with Spain and Great Britain. And these are just some of the countries involved in significant disputes over energy AND Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously suggest that we are entering a new period in which key state actors will be more inclined to employ force — or the threat of force — to gain control over valuable deposits of oil and natural gas. In other words, we’re now on a planet heading into energy overdrive.
Scenario 2 is heg
New renewables would use microgrids— causes military adoption and solves blackouts
By Melissa C. Lott, Dawn Santoianni December 18, 2012 — Lott is an engineer and researcher who works at the intersection of energy, environment, technology, and policy, Dawn is is a combustion engineer who has worked on energy and environmental issues for 20 years. She has conducted air pollution research as a contractor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and testified before a Congressional subcommittee on a proposed environmental regulation. Dawn currently works as technical writing consultant through her company, Tau Technical Communications LLC ("Guest Post: Are Microgrids the Key to Energy Security?"http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/12/18/guest-post-are-microgrids-the-key-to-energy-security///AKP)
"Energy independence" is a concept that has become part of the political lexicon AND .40 billion, a nearly three-fold increase from 2012 investments.¶
We’ll isolate 3 internals First – plan improves operational readiness Zhao et al 2013- (Zhao, Ying; Brutzman, Don; MacKinnon AND LM-13-C10P05R03-061.pdf?sequence=1)
Studies evaluating the DoD’s energy use have been conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses AND . The overall goal is to reduce reliance on fossil fuels from overseas.
Second – renewables make DoD operations more cost effective Parthemore and Nagl 10 (Christine Parthemore is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Dr. John Nagl is President of the Center for a New American Security.) ( "Fueling the Future Force Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Era" Center for a New American Security(CNAS) is located in Washington, and was established in February 2007 by co-founders Kurt M. Campbell and Michèle A. Flournoy. CNAS is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Its research is independent and non-partisan. CNAS does not take institutional positions on policy issues. September 2010 http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling20the20Future20Force_NaglParthemore.pdf-http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling the Future Force_NaglParthemore.pdf)
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must prepare now to AND armed services to accomplish their missions in the years and decades to come. And our evidence is reverse causal- oil dependency bogs down our military- only transition to renewables solves. Wald and Captain 09 General Charles F. Wald (USAF Ret) Director and Senior Advisor, Aerospace and Defense Industry, Tom Captain Vice Chairman, Global and U.S. Aerospace and Defense Industry Leader, " Energy Security America’s Best Defense" 2009, http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local20Assets/Documents/AD/us_ad_EnergySecurity052010.pdf-http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local Assets/Documents/AD/us_ad_EnergySecurity052010.pdf, Caplan Energy security and national security are closely interre - lated: threats to the former AND tankers, mine resistant armored vehicles, and net-centric sensing technologies. Collapse of heg causes great power conflicts- no alternatives can solve Brooks et al 13 ~Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. "Don’t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment", Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107-http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107~~
A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND that of potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85 Even anti-hegemonic authors agree that the US won’t change their global strategy Mearsheimer 11 John J. Mearsheimer, the "R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago" Jan/Feb 2011 "Imperial By Design" http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0059.pdf
The downward spiral the United States has taken was anything but inevitable. Washington has AND would see the United States as a benign hegemon serving their own interests.
China
China curbing excess capacity— plan reversal solves solar panel prices
BEIJING — China, the world’s biggest maker of solar panels, will limit construction AND every 10 solar panels produced worldwide, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Chinese Solar Market depends on exports—- internal domestic growth will fail
Bruce Einhorn , March 15, 2012—(Einhorn is Asia regional editor in Bloomberg Businessweek’s Hong Kong bureau. "Focus On Energy Firing Up China’s Solar Market",http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-15/firing-up-chinas-solar-market//AKP, 1/23/14 China’s solar panel industry has become the world’s biggest thanks to a simple formula: AND capacity this year, the country’s panel makers are refocusing on domestic sales.¶
Specifically, US investment in Latin American renewables solves chinese solar manufacturing
Brandt, DECEMBER 2012, "Chinese Engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean: Implications for US Foreign Policy", Derek Hottle, Nicole Adams Nav Aujla, Christina Dinh Kirsten Kaufman Devin Kleinfield-Hayes Wanlin Ren, Andrew Tuck, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE,http://www.american.edu/sis/usfp/upload/Chinese-Engagement-in-LAC-AU_US-Congress-FINAL.pdf//AKP, 1/23/14
F. Energy Policies and Quest for Future Energy Security¶ Resulting from three decades of continuous economic growth, urbanization and a massive social transformation, China is one of the world’s most important players in the LAC energy sector. However, with only one percent of the world’s proven oil reserves and the second largest in terms of consumption, the country has no option but to secure sustainable supply sources elsewhere. Countries in Latin America (especially Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela) are among China’s premier investment destinations. 74 of all Chinese lines of credit to LAC is in oil loans to guarantee future energy supply and energy security.28 While China’s quest for energy security is not a direct threat to US energy security, the relationship between China and Latin American oil exporters should be closely monitored.¶ One area of potential growth and trilateral cooperation is in renewable energy investment. Historically speaking, the United States has led the way in renewable energy investment, but over the past several years, China has made remarkable advances with a surge of new investment in and emphasis on renewable energy technology. Investments in renewable energy reached new heights in 2011, topping 24257 billion, up from only 2439.4 billion in 2004 (552 percent increase in eight years).29 China has surpassed the US in the volume of renewable energy investment, is second behind the EU, and is looking to expand its markets for renewable energy.¶ China and other Asian countries have set ambitious targets for renewable energy as part of their primary energy portfolios. Government grants, subsidies and other tax incentives have prompted a wave of Chinese manufacturing in wind turbines, solar photovoltaic panels and other renewable products. For example, Chinese solar panel production has actually outpaced demand globally and the Chinese are aggressively trying to develop Latin America’s market for solar panels. Latin America provides an attractive market for Asia in the renewable sector and there is great potential to foster increased cooperation in the energy security of both regions as they strive to become less dependent on expensive and dwindling hydrocarbons. Alternative energy provides a green platform to promote closer economic ties, ultimately helping to mitigate the all-inclusive threat of climate change.¶ 28 Kevin Gallagher, Amos Irwin, and Katherine Koleski. "The New Banks in Town: Chinese Finance in Latin America." Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/GallagherChineseFinanceLatinAmerica.pdf (accessed September 20, 2012)¶ 29 "Who’s funding the green energy revolution?" CNN.com. http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/12/world/renewables-finance-unep/index.html (accessed November 8, 2012).¶ 10¶ Beijing and Washington have similar concerns in their energy policies and face the same set of challenges: high dependency on foreign sources of energy, rising energy-related environmental impacts, how to achieve energy conservation and efficiency, and the effect on their economies of energy price spikes. Although China and the United States do not rely on each other for energy supplies, as the two largest oil-consuming countries they are natural energy bedfellows in coping with similar challenges. They should cooperate, through joint or parallel action, to keep global energy supplies open, secure, and at an affordable price level. Both countries would win if they choose to cooperate rather than confront each other in their pursuit of energy security and efficiency. If the US and China can promote the expansion of renewable energy in Latin America, it will help exporters and producers within the US and China by expanding trade and investment opportunities throughout the LAC region. By partnering with capital-rich China and an innovative US, Latin America has the opportunity to expand its own knowledge and manufacturing base and grow its renewable energy market into one that can provide sustainable solutions for the region whose diverse climate should take full advantage of the benefits of renewable energy. The US should take the lead in coordinating trilateral trade fairs and business forums, an initiative often pursued bilaterally or intra-regionally.¶
Chinese alternative energy is the only internal link to solve CCP instability
McMahon 2k13, 1/27/13 (Tamsin, Diploma in European Journalism from the Hogeschool van Utrecht, B.A. from Ryerson University, reporter for the National Post, "How China is going to save the world", MacLean’s, January 27, 2013, http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/27/business/, JKahn) Last week the U.S. Embassy in Beijing upgraded its official reading of AND , but for the rest of the world, a breath of fresh air .
The need for integration of North American ¶ renewable energy markets is real and immediate AND the United States in renewable energy is ¶ surprisingly long and multi-faceted
and it has ¶ been a vital, albeit unheralded, dimension to bilateral relations AND energy sector ¶ holds enormous potential to contribute even more in the future.
In early 2009, President Calderón and President Obama announced plans to strengthen and deepen AND capital to modernize their operations and/or invest further in their sector.
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Tournament: Great Midwest National Debate Championship | Round: 1 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley CH | Judge: Ben Hamburger 1AC Inherency Mexico has ENORMOUS untapped renewable energy potential. Wood 10 – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City (Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from AND and financial incentives for public or private sector¶ development of renewable resources.
No disads – Obama already announced climate and energy initiatives in Mexico.
US President Barack Obama has proposed closer collaboration between the US and Mexico on renewable AND to travel to Costa Rica later Friday to meet with President Laura Chinchilla.
Still doesn’t solve the aff – no framework for renewables gridding plan investment key
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s a series of congressional legislation was passed, AND Department had not significantly changed its way of doing business concerning energy usage. Plan
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards the government of Mexico in the area of renewable energy.
Operational energy use (the energy required for training, moving, and sustaining military AND strategies, which also pose several potential policy and oversight issues for Congress. We’ll isolate 2 internals First – plan improves operational readiness Zhao et al 2013- (Zhao, Ying; Brutzman, Don; MacKinnon AND LM-13-C10P05R03-061.pdf?sequence=1)
Studies evaluating the DoD’s energy use have been conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses AND . The overall goal is to reduce reliance on fossil fuels from overseas.
Second – renewables make DoD operations more cost effective Parthemore and Nagl 10 (Christine Parthemore is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Dr. John Nagl is President of the Center for a New American Security.) ( "Fueling the Future Force Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Era" Center for a New American Security(CNAS) is located in Washington, and was established in February 2007 by co-founders Kurt M. Campbell and Michèle A. Flournoy. CNAS is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Its research is independent and non-partisan. CNAS does not take institutional positions on policy issues. September 2010 http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling20the20Future20Force_NaglParthemore.pdf-http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling the Future Force_NaglParthemore.pdf)
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must prepare now to AND armed services to accomplish their missions in the years and decades to come.
Scenario 1 is Free trade
====Hegemonic Stability is key to free trade==== Kwon, Assistant professor of sociology at University of La Verne, 2012, Roy, "Hegemonic Stability, World Cultural Diffusion, and Trade Globalization", Sociological Forum, June 2012, Jstor, 7/5/13, JG
Following this narrative, world-system scholars argue that trade is¶ facilitated during AND of free trade and commerce (Bairoch, 1993; Kindleberger,¶ 1975).
Lack of Free Trade causes nuclear trade war and turns case
Panzner 8, faculty at the New York Institute of Finance, 25-year veteran of the global stock, bond, and currency markets who has worked in New York and London for HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and JPMorgan Chase (Michael, Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse, Revised and Updated Edition, p. 136-138, googlebooks)
Continuing calls for curbs on the flow of finance and trade will inspire the AND between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war.
Scenario 2 is GPC Independently, Collapse of heg causes great power conflicts- no alternatives can solve Brooks et al 13 ~Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. "Don’t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment", Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107-http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107~~
A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND that of potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85 Even anti-hegemonic authors agree that the US won’t change their global strategy Mearsheimer 11 John J. Mearsheimer, the "R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago" Jan/Feb 2011 "Imperial By Design" http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0059.pdf
The downward spiral the United States has taken was anything but inevitable. Washington has AND would see the United States as a benign hegemon serving their own interests. Total rejection of u.s. leadership would increase imperialism and colonialism.
Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 121-123
My preference here is to advocate a forward-leaning, prudential strategy of institutionally AND have transformative potential, even if this is only now being creatively exploited.
Our form of hegemony is ethical Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 109-115
Congestion in the ERCOT region reached a record high in 2008 when system inefficiency reached AND a yet-to-be-utilized connection are harder to determine.
Scenario 1 is Energy Diplomacy
Investment in Mexico’s renewable energy boosts our energy diplomacy
Johnson et al 13 (Stephen Johnson is a senior fellow with the CSIS Americas Program, and Johanna Mendelson Forman is a senior associate and program director. Michael Graybeal is the program coordinator.)(2/08/13, "Recommendations for a New Administration: Give Hemispheric Energy Policy a Strategic Vision" pdf)(PLeon)
One important change during the first Obama term was a greater recognition that energy security AND all tools of government dealing with energy diplomacy, investment, and trade.
How Energy Drives the World All of these disputes have one thing in common: the conviction of ruling elites around the world that the possession of energy assets — especially oil and gas deposits — is essential to prop up national wealth, power, and prestige. This is hardly a new phenomenon. Early in the last century, Winston Churchill AND 1990-91 and its inevitable sequel, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The years since World War II have seen a variety of changes in the AND the existing system of collaboration among private and state-owned energy leviathans. But that energy equation is changing ominously as the challenge of fueling the planet grows AND countries lacking adequate domestic reserves (and joy among those with an abundance). The world has long been bifurcated between energy-surplus and energy-deficit states, with the former deriving enormous political and economic advantages from their privileged condition and the latter struggling mightily to escape their subordinate position. Now, that bifurcation is looking more like a chasm. In such a global environment, friction and conflict over oil and gas reserves — leading to energy conflicts of all sorts — is only likely to increase . Looking, again, at April’s six energy disputes, one can see clear AND localized dispute that might undermine its claim to sovereignty over the entire region. Egypt, although not a major energy producer, clearly seeks to employ its AND resources, even if this means inflaming tensions with Spain and Great Britain. And these are just some of the countries involved in significant disputes over energy AND Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously suggest that we are entering a new period in which key state actors will be more inclined to employ force — or the threat of force — to gain control over valuable deposits of oil and natural gas. In other words, we’re now on a planet heading into energy overdrive.
Scenario 2 is Water
Renewable Energy Grids are key to powering Wastewater treatment centers
Mexico is a diverse nation with an estimated population of over 113 million people. AND and energy can help encourage sustainable operation of established water and energy systems.
====Lack of access to clean water causes mass disease spread and death==== Erklam, 13 (Franziska Erklam, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Peer reviewed by Academic Supervisor: Christian Bjørnskov, "To which extent is water shortage a key ¶ determinant for a retarded economic growth? A case study of Mexico City", 7/19/13, http://pure.au.dk/portal-asb-student/files/7926/Franziska_Erlekam_-_Master_Thesis.pdfSKx
Despite institutional efforts, the supply of clean water is neither nationwide, nor fairly AND a boom in the sale ¶ of bottled water in the last decade.
In the past, humans have indeed fallen victim to viruses. Perhaps the best AND — which could only infect birds — into a human-viable strain ¶
Scenario 3 is Grids Renewable energy investment causes adoption of microgrids Joyce Laird 8-1-2013 ——Joyce Laird has an extensive background writing about the electronics industry; semiconductor development, R26D, wafer/foundry/IP and device integration into high density circuit designs—(" Can microgrids provide smooth renewable power integration and backup?" Renewable energy Focus USA, http://www.renewableenergyfocususa.com/view/33768/can-microgrids-provide-smooth-renewable-power-integration-and-backup/ AKP)
¶ Microgrids could provide a way to sustain power during disasters and allow isolated regions AND face a barrage of regula¬tory hurdles before it can even begin."
Squo efforts corrupt grid expansions— reforming the grid solves blackout and overstretch
WASHINGTON — It’s a nightmarish scenario - a days-long blackout at a nuclear power plant leading to a radioactive leak. Though the odds of that happening are extremely remote, an Associated Press investigation has found that some U.S. plants are more vulnerable than others. Long before the nuclear emergency in Japan, U.S. regulators knew that a power failure lasting for days at an American nuclear plant, whatever the cause, could lead to a radioactive leak. Even so, they have only required the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors to develop plans for dealing with much shorter blackouts on the assumption that power would be restored quickly. In one simulation presented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2009, it would take AND plant, which is using other means to try to cool the reactors. And like Fukushima Dai-ichi, the Peach Bottom plant has enough battery power AND two other two reactors, Units 5 and 6, the groups said. The risk of a blackout leading to core damage, while extremely remote, exists AND S. power plants are as prepared as they could and should be. As part of a review requested by President Barack Obama in the wake of the Japan crisis, a top Nuclear Regulatory Commission official said Tuesday that the agency will investigate whether the nation’s nuclear reactors are capable of coping with station blackouts and whether regulatory requirements need to be strengthened. Bill Borchardt, the agency’s executive director for operations, said an obvious question is whether nuclear plants need enhanced battery supplies, or ones that can last longer. "There is a robust capability that exists already, but given what happened in Japan there’s obviously a question that presents itself: Do we need to make it even more robust," he said at a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. "We didn’t address a tsunami and an earthquake, but clearly we have known for some time that one of the weak links that makes accidents a little more likely is losing power," said Alan Kolaczkowski, a retired nuclear engineer who worked on a federal risk analysis of Peach Bottom released in 1990 and is familiar with the updated risk analysis. Risk analyses conducted by the plants in 1991-94 and published by the commission in 2003 show that the chances of such an event striking a U.S. power plant are remote, even at the plant where the risk is the highest, the Beaver Valley Power Station in Pennsylvania. These long odds are among the reasons why the United States since the late 1980s has only required nuclear power plants to cope with blackouts for four or eight hours. That’s about how much time batteries would last. After that, it is assumed that power would be restored. And so far, that’s been the case. Equipment put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks could buy more time. Otherwise, the reactor’s radioactive core could begin to melt unless alternative cooling methods were employed. In Japan, the utility has tried using portable generators and dumping tons of seawater, among other things, on the reactors in an attempt to keep them cool. A 2003 federal analysis looking at how to estimate the risk of containment failure said that should power be knocked out by an earthquake or tornado it "would be unlikely that power will be recovered in the time frame to prevent core meltdown." In Japan, it was a one-two punch: first the earthquake, then the tsunami. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled plant, found other ways to cool the reactor core and, so far, avert a full-scale meltdown without electricity. "Clearly the coping duration is an issue on the table now," said Biff Bradley, director of risk assessment for the Nuclear Energy Institute. "The industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will have to go back in light of what we just observed and rethink station blackout duration." David Lochbaum, a former plant engineer and nuclear safety director at the advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, put it another way: "Japan shows what happens when you play beat-the-clock and lose." At Tuesday’s Senate committee hearing, he said the government and the nuclear power industry have to do more to cope with prolonged blackouts, such as having temporary generators on site - or at nearby military bases - that can recharge batteries. A complete loss of electrical power, generally speaking, poses a major problem for a nuclear power plant because the reactor core must be kept cool, and back-up cooling systems - mostly pumps that replenish the core with water- require massive amounts of power to work. Without the electrical grid, or diesel generators, batteries can be used for a time, but they will not last long with the power demands. And when the batteries die, the systems that control and monitor the plant can also go dark, making it difficult to ascertain water levels and the condition of the core. Eleven U.S. reactors are designed to cope with a station blackout lasting eight hours, while 93 are designed for four-hour blackouts.
Impact is on par with nuclear warfare – fallout will be massive and global
Drell, 9 Professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Science Advisory Committee, 12 (THE NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors, pg. 1-3)
We live in dangerous times for many reasons. Prominent among them is the existence AND the public by providing information on how to respond to such an event. Solvency
Accessibility – plan promotes equality – laundry list.
Tully 6 – PhD from London School of Economics (Stephen Tully, "The Contribution of Human Rights to Universal Energy Access," Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, 4.3, Scholar)BB
Although providing essential infrastructure services was omitted as an explicit target, access to energy AND such as fuelwood, from forests and ecosystems. Finally, a global partnership
for development depends upon the co-operative provision of energy. For example AND accessible to all at an affordable price and on an equitable basis." 7
The need for integration of North American ¶ renewable energy markets is real and immediate AND the United States in renewable energy is ¶ surprisingly long and multi-faceted
and it has ¶ been a vital, albeit unheralded, dimension to bilateral relations AND energy sector ¶ holds enormous potential to contribute even more in the future.
In early 2009, President Calderón and President Obama announced ¶ plans to strengthen and AND to ¶ modernize their operations and/or invest further in their sector.
And our evidence is reverse causal- oil dependency bogs down our military- only transition to renewables solves. Wald and Captain 09 General Charles F. Wald (USAF Ret) Director and Senior Advisor, Aerospace and Defense Industry, Tom Captain Vice Chairman, Global and U.S. Aerospace and Defense Industry Leader, " Energy Security America’s Best Defense" 2009, http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local20Assets/Documents/AD/us_ad_EnergySecurity052010.pdf-http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local Assets/Documents/AD/us_ad_EnergySecurity052010.pdf, Caplan Energy security and national security are closely interre - lated: threats to the former AND tankers, mine resistant armored vehicles, and net-centric sensing technologies.
Renewable Energy successful in Water Treatment plants, empirically proven in Singapore
Wastewater treatment is a very energy intensive industry. Singapore has a state-of AND are site specific and should be analyzed on a location-specific basis.
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Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Chattahoochee ZM | Judge: Aaron Vinson Inherency Mexico has ENORMOUS untapped renewable energy potential. Wood 10 – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City (Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from AND economic and financial incentives for public or private sector¶ development of renewable resources
No disads – Obama already announced climate and energy initiatives in Mexico.
US President Barack Obama has proposed closer collaboration between the US and Mexico on renewable AND to travel to Costa Rica later Friday to meet with President Laura Chinchilla.
Still doesn’t solve the aff – renewable development on the border will be limited through 2030, joint cooperation between US and Mexico can boost the industry.
Al Sweedler et al, 2012, The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Progress and Challenges for Sustainability (eds., Erik Lee and Paul Ganster), "Chapter 11: Energy for a Sustainable Border Region in 2030," p. 321-322
Energy poses a formidable challenge to those working to achieve sustainable development goals. Energy AND foundations of a low-carbon U.S.-Mexican border region.
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Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards the government of Mexico in the area of renewable energy.
Reform
The fossil fuel industry has shut down debate over energy policy. The energy companies control the government line on energy. Alternative views and discourse have been marginalized and silenced.
The hegemonic position of the energy business has a suggestive power that even casts a AND (and often the only) party whose opinion is sought and respected.
Under the veil of economic rationality, the fossil fuel industry has systematically erased renewable energy from becoming a genuine alternative.
In her book Power Play, the Australian social scientist Sharon Beder analysed the practical AND therefore, is pseudo-liberalization as a vehicle for self-interest.
The status quo concentration of power in the hands of energy companies and corrupt government makes authoritarianism inevitable.
Scheer 06’(Hermann Scheer, Member of the German Bundestag for the SPD, President of EUROSOLAR, Energy Autonomy : The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy, London, GBR: Earthscan, 2006. p 283-234, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/northwestern/Doc?id=1016774426ppg=294)BLOV
The central political motive for a renewable energy strategy leading to energy autonomy is the AND ) from which hydrogen could be transported to every region of the globe.
The ultimate conclusion of the fossil fuel dominated market state is the elimination of civic resistance and democratic institutions. Values become impossible to articulate in this world.
Scheer 06’(Hermann Scheer, Member of the German Bundestag for the SPD, President of EUROSOLAR, Energy Autonomy : The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy, London, GBR: Earthscan, 2006. P 285, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/northwestern/Doc?id=1016774426ppg=294)BLOV
Such a development, however, is most probably coterminous with decaying and therefore violence AND on inter-state energy oligarchies, on a transnational ’energy state’.
Renewable energy is fundamental to the preservation of human values. Failure to speak out against the status quo makes you complicit in a system that is killing us all.
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." This AND are not only accountable for our actions, but also for our inaction.
Energy is necessary to decrease poverty, cheap food, education, prevents child mortality, and limits disease
Tully 6 – PhD from London School of Economics (Stephen Tully, "The Contribution of Human Rights to Universal Energy Access," Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, 4.3, Scholar)BLOV
Although providing essential infrastructure services was omitted as an explicit target, access to energy AND to all at an affordable price and on an equitable basis." 7 3
We have a moral obligation to put an end to energy poverty and prevent environmental collapse
Moss et.al. 11(Jeremy Moss, Michael McMann, Jessica Rae, Andrea Zipprich, Darryl R.J. Macer, Aori R. Nyambati, Diana Ngo, MingMing Cheng, N. Manohar, and Gregor Wolbring are all members of the working group on the Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Projects (ECCAP), a five-years initiative of the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP), "Energy Equity and Environmental Security", http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218271E.pdf-http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218271E.pdf, A.S.) Considerations of social justice, we have seen, strongly support taking urgent action to AND change mitigation and adaptation, but we shall focus on just three here. Poverty dehumanizes and kills the poor, more have died from poverty in the last 53 years than all who died in Vietnam Loffredo, 93 - Assistant Professor of Law, City University of New York Law School at Queens College (Stephen, 141 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1277, "POVERTY, DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW," lexis
~*1315~ The statement that the poor "have done very well" AND welfare programs that would result in shared benefits to society at large. n227
Mexico is in a unique position to spread a green and equal economy globally through international institutions
Pellicer 6 (Olga Pellicer Professor @ Centre for Research and Teaching in Economics) ("New Powers for Global Change? Mexico—a Reluctant Middle Power?," FES Briefing Paper, p. 6)BLOV
Mexico’s ability to deal with the problems posed by poverty and inequality will have an AND either strengthen its international image, or maintain it on a minor plane.
Congestion in the ERCOT region reached a record high in 2008 when system inefficiency reached AND a yet-to-be-utilized connection are harder to determine.
US engagement with Mexico in the area of renewable energy has been driven by three AND biofuels are therefore vital if Mexico’s true potential is to be fully realized.
Oil Dependence Makes global resources wars inevitable
If successful in the November election, the Obama Administration will make energy a¶ AND allies; countering challenges to Washington’s global interests; and fostering economic growth.
How Energy Drives the World All of these disputes have one thing in common: the conviction of ruling elites around the world that the possession of energy assets — especially oil and gas deposits — is essential to prop up national wealth, power, and prestige. This is hardly a new phenomenon. Early in the last century, Winston Churchill AND 1990-91 and its inevitable sequel, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The years since World War II have seen a variety of changes in the AND the existing system of collaboration among private and state-owned energy leviathans. But that energy equation is changing ominously as the challenge of fueling the planet grows AND countries lacking adequate domestic reserves (and joy among those with an abundance). The world has long been bifurcated between energy-surplus and energy-deficit states, with the former deriving enormous political and economic advantages from their privileged condition and the latter struggling mightily to escape their subordinate position. Now, that bifurcation is looking more like a chasm. In such a global environment, friction and conflict over oil and gas reserves — leading to energy conflicts of all sorts — is only likely to increase . Looking, again, at April’s six energy disputes, one can see clear AND localized dispute that might undermine its claim to sovereignty over the entire region. Egypt, although not a major energy producer, clearly seeks to employ its AND resources, even if this means inflaming tensions with Spain and Great Britain. And these are just some of the countries involved in significant disputes over energy AND Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously suggest that we are entering a new period in which key state actors will be more inclined to employ force — or the threat of force — to gain control over valuable deposits of oil and natural gas. In other words, we’re now on a planet heading into energy overdrive.
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A comprehensive bilateral agreement on renewable energy development is key – that spurs cooperation and investment necessary to catalyze growth in the cross-border clean energy industries
The need for integration of North American ¶ renewable energy markets is real and immediate AND energy sector ¶ holds enormous potential to contribute even more in the future.
In early 2009, President Calderón and President Obama announced ¶ plans to strengthen and AND to ¶ modernize their operations and/or invest further in their sector.
The plan jump-starts Mexican green jobs – massive economic benefits
Wood 12 - PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City (Duncan, Wilson Center, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/RE_Energizing_Border_Wood.pdf)//BB Economic spillover: It is clear that ¶ the development of renewable energy ¶ projects AND 000 people if it were implemented ¶ alongside a complementary industrial policy.3
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Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ann Arbor Huron HM | Judge: Andrew Arsht YAY AFF 6.0 Inherency Mexico has ENORMOUS untapped renewable energy potential. Wood 10 – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City (Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from AND economic and financial incentives for public or private sector¶ development of renewable resources
No disads – Obama already announced climate and energy initiatives in Mexico.
US President Barack Obama has proposed closer collaboration between the US and Mexico on renewable AND to travel to Costa Rica later Friday to meet with President Laura Chinchilla.
Still doesn’t solve the aff – no framework for renewables plan investment key
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s a series of congressional legislation was passed, AND Department had not significantly changed its way of doing business concerning energy usage. Plan
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards the government of Mexico in the area of renewable energy.
Operational energy use (the energy required for training, moving, and sustaining military AND strategies, which also pose several potential policy and oversight issues for Congress. We’ll isolate 2 internals First – plan improves operational readiness Zhao et al 2013- (Zhao, Ying; Brutzman, Don; MacKinnon AND LM-13-C10P05R03-061.pdf?sequence=1)
Studies evaluating the DoD’s energy use have been conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses AND . The overall goal is to reduce reliance on fossil fuels from overseas.
And it makes it more resilient Castillo and Deason ’11 (Ariel S. Castillo, PhD, Environmental and Energy Management Program, School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Jonathan P. Deason, lead professor, Environmental and Energy Management Program, School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC.)(September 2011, "Determination of Solar Energy Transition Potential of Department of Defense Facilities and Nontactical Vehicles: An Application of Multicriteria Decision Theory Modeling and Simulation Approaches," solar.gwu.edu/Research/CastilloDeason_DODSolarPotential_EnvironmentalPractice_Sept2011.pdf)
Solar energy technologies could offer a more robust energy solution when coupled with current generator technologies to provide continuity of operations for the DoD. Solar energy technologies could provide distributed energy during clear-day operations, adding to the resiliency of the base and enabling improved continuity of operations. In addition, solar energy technologies coupled with electric or hybrid vehicles could provide an opportunity to store energy for nighttime operations.
Specifically- Heg solves Pakistan instability
Brzezinski 12 (Zbigniew, US National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, scholar at CSIS, Jan/Feb 2012, "8 Geopolitically Endangered Species," www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/8_geopolitically_endangered_species?page=0,7 SL)
7. PAKISTAN Although Islamabad is armed with 21st-century nuclear weapons and held AND Asia, with violence potentially spreading to China, India, and Russia.
Pakistani instability results in Indo-Pak nuclear war
Fundamentalism is deeply rooted in Pakistan society. The fact that in the year following AND in a new Cold War with China and Russia pitted against the US.
Indo Pak War leads to Extinction
Fai 2001 (Ghulam Nabi, 7/8/2001. Kashmiri American Council. Washington Times, Lexis.)
The foreign policy of the United States in South Asia should move from the lackadaisical AND an inclination to ratify an impending Fissile Material/Cut-off Convention. inclination to ratify an impending Fissile Material/Cut-off Convention.
Even anti-hegemonic authors agree that the US won’t change their global strategy Mearsheimer 11 John J. Mearsheimer, the "R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago" Jan/Feb 2011 "Imperial By Design" http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0059.pdf
The downward spiral the United States has taken was anything but inevitable. Washington has AND would see the United States as a benign hegemon serving their own interests. Total rejection of u.s. leadership would increase imperialism and colonialism.
Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 121-123
My preference here is to advocate a forward-leaning, prudential strategy of institutionally AND have transformative potential, even if this is only now being creatively exploited.
Our form of hegemony is ethical Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 109-115
The final ethical position — the polar opposite of the first — holds that the AND is needed than the simple yet enticing propos¬ition that might is never right.
Collapse of heg causes great power conflicts- no alternatives can solve Brooks et al 13 ~Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. "Don’t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment", Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107-http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107~~
A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND that of potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85
Congestion in the ERCOT region reached a record high in 2008 when system inefficiency reached AND a yet-to-be-utilized connection are harder to determine.
US engagement with Mexico in the area of renewable energy has been driven by three AND biofuels are therefore vital if Mexico’s true potential is to be fully realized.
Oil Dependence Makes global resources wars inevitable
If successful in the November election, the Obama Administration will make energy a¶ AND allies; countering challenges to Washington’s global interests; and fostering economic growth.
How Energy Drives the World All of these disputes have one thing in common: the conviction of ruling elites around the world that the possession of energy assets — especially oil and gas deposits — is essential to prop up national wealth, power, and prestige. This is hardly a new phenomenon. Early in the last century, Winston Churchill AND 1990-91 and its inevitable sequel, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The years since World War II have seen a variety of changes in the AND the existing system of collaboration among private and state-owned energy leviathans. But that energy equation is changing ominously as the challenge of fueling the planet grows AND countries lacking adequate domestic reserves (and joy among those with an abundance). The world has long been bifurcated between energy-surplus and energy-deficit states, with the former deriving enormous political and economic advantages from their privileged condition and the latter struggling mightily to escape their subordinate position. Now, that bifurcation is looking more like a chasm. In such a global environment, friction and conflict over oil and gas reserves — leading to energy conflicts of all sorts — is only likely to increase . Looking, again, at April’s six energy disputes, one can see clear AND localized dispute that might undermine its claim to sovereignty over the entire region. Egypt, although not a major energy producer, clearly seeks to employ its AND resources, even if this means inflaming tensions with Spain and Great Britain. And these are just some of the countries involved in significant disputes over energy AND Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously suggest that we are entering a new period in which key state actors will be more inclined to employ force — or the threat of force — to gain control over valuable deposits of oil and natural gas. In other words, we’re now on a planet heading into energy overdrive.
Renewables key to solve warming
Renewable Energy World ’07 (No author; renewable energy world. 1/24/07. Renewable Energy World.com - started in 1998 by a group of Renewable Energy professionals who wanted their work to relate to their passion for renewable energy. With this passion and the desire to create a long term sustainable business, we have created perhaps the single most recognized and trusted source for Renewable Energy News and Information on the Internet. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/corporate/about-http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/corporate/about)
Landmark analysis released by Greenpeace USA, European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and AND still disagreement about what changes are needed and how they should be achieved.
The impact is billions of deaths, and US key to transition
Cummins ’10 (Ronnie, International Director – Organic Consumers Association and Will Allen, Advisor – Organic Consumers Association, "Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century", 2-14, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/14-6)
The hour is late. Leading climate scientists such as James Hansen are literally shouting AND and the fossil fuel lobby appear determined to maintain "business as usual."
Collapse of the power grid causes nuclear meltdown—collapses - causes extinction. International Business Times 11(Solar Flare Could Unleash Nuclear Holocaust Across Planet Earth, Forcing Hundreds of Nuclear Power Plants Into Total Meltdowns, http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/213249/20110914/solar-flare-could-unleash-nuclear-holocaust-across-planet-earth-forcing-hundreds-of-nuclear-power-pl.htm-http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/213249/20110914/solar-flare-could-unleash-nuclear-holocaust-across-planet-earth-forcing-hundreds-of-nuclear-power-pl.htm. Noparstak) What happens when there’s no electricity? Imagine a world without electricity. Even for just a week. Imagine New York-http://au.ibtimes.com/topics/detail/456/new-york/ City with no electricity, or Los Angeles, or Sao Paulo. Within 72 hours, most cities around the world will devolve into total chaos, complete with looting, violent crime, and runaway fires. But that’s not even the bad news. Even if all the major cities of the world burned to the ground for some other reason, humanity could still recover because it has the farmlands: the soils, the seeds, and the potential to recover, right? And yet the real crisis here stems from the realization that once there is no power grid, all the nuclear power plants of the world suddenly go into "emergency mode" and are forced to rely on their on-site emergency power backupsto circulate coolants and prevent nuclear meltdowns from occurring. And yet, as we’ve already established, these facilities typically have only a few hours of battery power available, followed by perhaps a few days worth of diesel fuel to run their generators (or propane, in some cases). Did I also mention that half the people who work at nuclear power facilities have no idea what they’re doing in the first place? Most of the veterans who really know the facilities inside and out have been forced into retirement due to reaching their lifetime limits of on-the-job radiation exposure, so most of the workers at nuclear facilities right now are newbies who really have no clue what they’re doing. There are 440 nuclear power plants operating across 30 countries around the world today. There are an additional 250 so-called "research reactors" in existence, making a total of roughly 700 nuclear reactors to be dealt with (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/i...-http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf01.html). Now imagine the scenario: You’ve got a massive solar flare that knocks out the world power grid and destroys the majority of the power grid transformers, thrusting the world into darkness. Cities collapse into chaos and rioting, martial law is quickly declared (but it hardly matters), and every nation in the world is on full emergency. But that doesn’t solve the really big problem, which is that you’ve got700 nuclear reactors that can’t feed power into the grid (because all the transformers are blown up) and yet simultaneously have to be fed a steady stream of emergency fuels to run the generators the keep the coolant pumps functioning. How long does the coolant need to circulate in these facilities to cool the nuclear fuel? Months. This is also the lesson of Fukushima: You can’t cool nuclear fuel in mere hours or days. It takes months to bring these nuclear facilities to a state of cold shutdown. And that means in order to avoid a multitude of Fukushima-style meltdowns from occurring around the world, you need to truck diesel fuel, generator parts and nuclear plant workers to every nuclear facility on the planet, ON TIME, every time, without fail, for months on end. Now remember, this must be done in the middle of the total chaos breakdown of modern civilization, where there is no power, where law enforcement and emergency services are totally overrun, where people are starving because food deliveries have been disrupted, and when looting and violent crime runs rampant in the streets of every major city in the world. Somehow, despite all this, you have to run these diesel fuel caravans to the nuclear power plants and keep the pumps running. Except there’s a problem in all this, even if you assume you can somehow work a logistical miracle and actually deliver the diesel fuel to the backup generators on time (which you probably can’t). The problem is this: Where do you get diesel fuel? Why refineries will be shut down, too from petroleum refineries. Most people don’t realize it, but petroleum refineries run on electricity. Without the power grid, the refineries don’t produce a drop of diesel. With no diesel, there are no generators keeping the coolant running in the nuclear power facilities. But wait, you say: Maybe we could just acquire diesel from all the gas stations in the world. Pump it out of the ground, load it into trucks and use that to power the generators, right? Except there are other problems here: How do you pump all that fuel without electricity? How do you acquire all the tires and spare parts needed to keep trucks running if there’s no electricity to keep the supply businesses running? How do you maintain a truck delivery infrastructure when the electrical infrastructure is totally wiped out? Some countries might be able to pull it off with some degree of success. With military escorts and the total government control over all fuel supplies, a few nations will be able to keep a few nuclear power facilities from melting down. But here’s the real issue: There are 700 nuclear power facilities in the world, remember? Let’s suppose that in the aftermath of a massive solar flare, the nations of the world are somehow able to control half of those facilities and nurse them into cold shutdown status. That still leaves roughly 350 nuclear facilities at risk. Now let’s suppose half of those are somehow luckily offline and not even functioning when the solar flare hits, so they need no special attention. This is a very optimistic assumption, but that still leaves 175 nuclear power plants where all attempts fail. Let’s be outrageously optimistic and suppose that a third of those somehow don’t go into a total meltdown by some miracle of God, or some bizarre twist in the laws of physics. So we’re still left with 115 nuclear power plants that "go Chernobyl." Fukushima was one power plant. Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants, all going into meltdown all at once across the planet. It’s not the loss of electricity that’s the real problem; it’s the global tidal wave of invisible radiation that blankets the planet, permeates the topsoil, irradiates everything that breathes and delivers the final crushing blow to human civilization as we know it today. Because if you have 100 simultaneous global nuclear meltdowns, the tidal wave of radiation will make farming nearly impossible for years. That means no food production for several years in a row. And that, in turn, means anear-totalcollapse of the human population on our planet. How many people can survive an entire year with no food from the farms? Not one in a hundred people. Even beyond that, how many people can essentially live underground and be safe enough from the radiation that they can have viable children and repopulate the planet? It’s a very, very small fraction of the total population.
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Renewable energy investment causes adoption of microgrids Joyce Laird 8-1-2013 ——Joyce Laird has an extensive background writing about the electronics industry; semiconductor development, R26D, wafer/foundry/IP and device integration into high density circuit designs—(" Can microgrids provide smooth renewable power integration and backup?" Renewable energy Focus USA, http://www.renewableenergyfocususa.com/view/33768/can-microgrids-provide-smooth-renewable-power-integration-and-backup/ AKP)
¶ Microgrids could provide a way to sustain power during disasters and allow isolated regions AND face a barrage of regula¬tory hurdles before it can even begin."
A comprehensive bilateral agreement on renewable energy development is key – that spurs cooperation and investment necessary to catalyze growth in the cross-border clean energy industries
The need for integration of North American ¶ renewable energy markets is real and immediate AND energy sector ¶ holds enormous potential to contribute even more in the future.
In early 2009, President Calderón and President Obama announced ¶ plans to strengthen and AND to ¶ modernize their operations and/or invest further in their sector.
Accessibility – plan promotes equality – laundry list. Tully 6 – PhD from London School of Economics (Stephen Tully, "The Contribution of Human Rights to Universal Energy Access," Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, 4.3, Scholar)BB
Although providing essential infrastructure services was omitted as an explicit target, access to energy AND accessible to all at an affordable price and on an equitable basis." 7
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Tournament: Evanston Dead Presidents | Round: 1 | Opponent: HoFlo KN | Judge: - 1AC Inherency Mexico has ENORMOUS untapped renewable energy potential. Wood 10 – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City (Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from AND and financial incentives for public or private sector¶ development of renewable resources.
No disads – Obama already announced climate and energy initiatives in Mexico.
US President Barack Obama has proposed closer collaboration between the US and Mexico on renewable AND to travel to Costa Rica later Friday to meet with President Laura Chinchilla.
Still doesn’t solve the aff – no framework for renewables gridding plan investment key
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s a series of congressional legislation was passed, AND Department had not significantly changed its way of doing business concerning energy usage. Plan
Text: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards the government of Mexico in the area of renewable energy.
Operational energy use (the energy required for training, moving, and sustaining military AND strategies, which also pose several potential policy and oversight issues for Congress. We’ll isolate 2 internals First – plan improves operational readiness Zhao et al 2013- (Zhao, Ying; Brutzman, Don; MacKinnon AND LM-13-C10P05R03-061.pdf?sequence=1)
Studies evaluating the DoD’s energy use have been conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses AND . The overall goal is to reduce reliance on fossil fuels from overseas.
Second – renewables make DoD operations more cost effective Parthemore and Nagl 10 (Christine Parthemore is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Dr. John Nagl is President of the Center for a New American Security.) ( "Fueling the Future Force Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Era" Center for a New American Security(CNAS) is located in Washington, and was established in February 2007 by co-founders Kurt M. Campbell and Michèle A. Flournoy. CNAS is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Its research is independent and non-partisan. CNAS does not take institutional positions on policy issues. September 2010 http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling20the20Future20Force_NaglParthemore.pdf-http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Fueling the Future Force_NaglParthemore.pdf)
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must prepare now to AND armed services to accomplish their missions in the years and decades to come.
Scenario 1 is Asia
Primacy is the lynchpin of Asian stability—decline risks war, deterrence breakdowns, and prolif
Lieber 2005 – PhD from Harvard, Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown, former consultant to the State Department and for National Intelligence Estimates (Robert, "The American Era", page 158) Parallels between America’s role in East Asia and its involvements in Europe might seem far AND the long-term potential to emerge as a true major power competitor.
Since the Party’s life is "above all else," it would not be surprising AND now plans to hold one billion people hostage and gamble with their lives.
Scenario 2 is GPC Independently, Collapse of heg causes great power conflicts- no alternatives can solve Brooks et al 13 ~Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. "Don’t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment", Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107-http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107~~
A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND that of potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85 Even anti-hegemonic authors agree that the US won’t change their global strategy Mearsheimer 11 John J. Mearsheimer, the "R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago" Jan/Feb 2011 "Imperial By Design" http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0059.pdf
The downward spiral the United States has taken was anything but inevitable. Washington has AND would see the United States as a benign hegemon serving their own interests. Total rejection of u.s. leadership would increase imperialism and colonialism.
Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 121-123
My preference here is to advocate a forward-leaning, prudential strategy of institutionally AND have transformative potential, even if this is only now being creatively exploited.
Our form of hegemony is ethical Christian REUS-SMIT IR @ Australian Nat’l ’4 American Power and World Order p. 109-115
Congestion in the ERCOT region reached a record high in 2008 when system inefficiency reached AND a yet-to-be-utilized connection are harder to determine.
Scenario 1 is Energy Diplomacy
Investment in Mexico’s renewable energy boosts our energy diplomacy
Johnson et al 13 (Stephen Johnson is a senior fellow with the CSIS Americas Program, and Johanna Mendelson Forman is a senior associate and program director. Michael Graybeal is the program coordinator.)(2/08/13, "Recommendations for a New Administration: Give Hemispheric Energy Policy a Strategic Vision" pdf)(PLeon)
One important change during the first Obama term was a greater recognition that energy security AND all tools of government dealing with energy diplomacy, investment, and trade.
How Energy Drives the World All of these disputes have one thing in common: the conviction of ruling elites around the world that the possession of energy assets — especially oil and gas deposits — is essential to prop up national wealth, power, and prestige. This is hardly a new phenomenon. Early in the last century, Winston Churchill AND 1990-91 and its inevitable sequel, the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The years since World War II have seen a variety of changes in the AND the existing system of collaboration among private and state-owned energy leviathans. But that energy equation is changing ominously as the challenge of fueling the planet grows AND countries lacking adequate domestic reserves (and joy among those with an abundance). The world has long been bifurcated between energy-surplus and energy-deficit states, with the former deriving enormous political and economic advantages from their privileged condition and the latter struggling mightily to escape their subordinate position. Now, that bifurcation is looking more like a chasm. In such a global environment, friction and conflict over oil and gas reserves — leading to energy conflicts of all sorts — is only likely to increase . Looking, again, at April’s six energy disputes, one can see clear AND localized dispute that might undermine its claim to sovereignty over the entire region. Egypt, although not a major energy producer, clearly seeks to employ its AND resources, even if this means inflaming tensions with Spain and Great Britain. And these are just some of the countries involved in significant disputes over energy AND Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously suggest that we are entering a new period in which key state actors will be more inclined to employ force — or the threat of force — to gain control over valuable deposits of oil and natural gas. In other words, we’re now on a planet heading into energy overdrive.
Scenario 2 is Water
Renewable Energy Grids are key to powering Wastewater treatment centers
Mexico is a diverse nation with an estimated population of over 113 million people. AND and energy can help encourage sustainable operation of established water and energy systems.
====Lack of access to clean water causes mass disease spread and death==== Erklam, 13 (Franziska Erklam, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Peer reviewed by Academic Supervisor: Christian Bjørnskov, "To which extent is water shortage a key ¶ determinant for a retarded economic growth? A case study of Mexico City", 7/19/13, http://pure.au.dk/portal-asb-student/files/7926/Franziska_Erlekam_-_Master_Thesis.pdfSKx
Despite institutional efforts, the supply of clean water is neither nationwide, nor fairly AND a boom in the sale ¶ of bottled water in the last decade.
In the past, humans have indeed fallen victim to viruses. Perhaps the best AND — which could only infect birds — into a human-viable strain ¶
Scenario 3 is Grids Renewable energy investment causes adoption of microgrids Joyce Laird 8-1-2013 ——Joyce Laird has an extensive background writing about the electronics industry; semiconductor development, R26D, wafer/foundry/IP and device integration into high density circuit designs—(" Can microgrids provide smooth renewable power integration and backup?" Renewable energy Focus USA, http://www.renewableenergyfocususa.com/view/33768/can-microgrids-provide-smooth-renewable-power-integration-and-backup/ AKP)
¶ Microgrids could provide a way to sustain power during disasters and allow isolated regions AND face a barrage of regula¬tory hurdles before it can even begin."
Squo efforts corrupt grid expansions— reforming the grid solves blackout and overstretch
WASHINGTON — It’s a nightmarish scenario - a days-long blackout at a nuclear power plant leading to a radioactive leak. Though the odds of that happening are extremely remote, an Associated Press investigation has found that some U.S. plants are more vulnerable than others. Long before the nuclear emergency in Japan, U.S. regulators knew that a power failure lasting for days at an American nuclear plant, whatever the cause, could lead to a radioactive leak. Even so, they have only required the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors to develop plans for dealing with much shorter blackouts on the assumption that power would be restored quickly. In one simulation presented by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2009, it would take AND plant, which is using other means to try to cool the reactors. And like Fukushima Dai-ichi, the Peach Bottom plant has enough battery power AND two other two reactors, Units 5 and 6, the groups said. The risk of a blackout leading to core damage, while extremely remote, exists AND S. power plants are as prepared as they could and should be. As part of a review requested by President Barack Obama in the wake of the Japan crisis, a top Nuclear Regulatory Commission official said Tuesday that the agency will investigate whether the nation’s nuclear reactors are capable of coping with station blackouts and whether regulatory requirements need to be strengthened. Bill Borchardt, the agency’s executive director for operations, said an obvious question is whether nuclear plants need enhanced battery supplies, or ones that can last longer. "There is a robust capability that exists already, but given what happened in Japan there’s obviously a question that presents itself: Do we need to make it even more robust," he said at a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. "We didn’t address a tsunami and an earthquake, but clearly we have known for some time that one of the weak links that makes accidents a little more likely is losing power," said Alan Kolaczkowski, a retired nuclear engineer who worked on a federal risk analysis of Peach Bottom released in 1990 and is familiar with the updated risk analysis. Risk analyses conducted by the plants in 1991-94 and published by the commission in 2003 show that the chances of such an event striking a U.S. power plant are remote, even at the plant where the risk is the highest, the Beaver Valley Power Station in Pennsylvania. These long odds are among the reasons why the United States since the late 1980s has only required nuclear power plants to cope with blackouts for four or eight hours. That’s about how much time batteries would last. After that, it is assumed that power would be restored. And so far, that’s been the case. Equipment put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks could buy more time. Otherwise, the reactor’s radioactive core could begin to melt unless alternative cooling methods were employed. In Japan, the utility has tried using portable generators and dumping tons of seawater, among other things, on the reactors in an attempt to keep them cool. A 2003 federal analysis looking at how to estimate the risk of containment failure said that should power be knocked out by an earthquake or tornado it "would be unlikely that power will be recovered in the time frame to prevent core meltdown." In Japan, it was a one-two punch: first the earthquake, then the tsunami. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled plant, found other ways to cool the reactor core and, so far, avert a full-scale meltdown without electricity. "Clearly the coping duration is an issue on the table now," said Biff Bradley, director of risk assessment for the Nuclear Energy Institute. "The industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will have to go back in light of what we just observed and rethink station blackout duration." David Lochbaum, a former plant engineer and nuclear safety director at the advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists, put it another way: "Japan shows what happens when you play beat-the-clock and lose." At Tuesday’s Senate committee hearing, he said the government and the nuclear power industry have to do more to cope with prolonged blackouts, such as having temporary generators on site - or at nearby military bases - that can recharge batteries. A complete loss of electrical power, generally speaking, poses a major problem for a nuclear power plant because the reactor core must be kept cool, and back-up cooling systems - mostly pumps that replenish the core with water- require massive amounts of power to work. Without the electrical grid, or diesel generators, batteries can be used for a time, but they will not last long with the power demands. And when the batteries die, the systems that control and monitor the plant can also go dark, making it difficult to ascertain water levels and the condition of the core. Eleven U.S. reactors are designed to cope with a station blackout lasting eight hours, while 93 are designed for four-hour blackouts.
Impact is on par with nuclear warfare – fallout will be massive and global
Drell, 9 Professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Science Advisory Committee, 12 (THE NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors, pg. 1-3)
We live in dangerous times for many reasons. Prominent among them is the existence AND the public by providing information on how to respond to such an event. Solvency
Accessibility – plan promotes equality – laundry list.
Tully 6 – PhD from London School of Economics (Stephen Tully, "The Contribution of Human Rights to Universal Energy Access," Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, 4.3, Scholar)BB
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for development depends upon the co-operative provision of energy. For example AND accessible to all at an affordable price and on an equitable basis." 7
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and it has ¶ been a vital, albeit unheralded, dimension to bilateral relations AND energy sector ¶ holds enormous potential to contribute even more in the future.
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Renewable Energy successful in Water Treatment plants, empirically proven in Singapore
Wastewater treatment is a very energy intensive industry. Singapore has a state-of AND are site specific and should be analyzed on a location-specific basis.
