Errr... Sortof. If you look at those RAM chips in your computer...
Okay, not really. Still there is some inital reacerch into capisitor powered cars going on out there. The neat thing is the capisitors can be recharged far, far faster than batteries can be safely charged.
Capacitors also run dry alot quicker than batteries, so there's a trade off. But I like the idea of a capacitor powered car. The only thing is, say the entire country converts to electric cars of some sort. Capacitor, battery, doesn't matter. Where's the electricity to power them going to come from? The electricity demands of our country would jump tenfold or more.
My former Physics teacher had one. He says that it costs around 30-40% more than a standard heating and airconditioning system and that it will pay for itself in 2-4 years. Similarly, a number of resorts up at Tahoe use geoexchange systems to cut their heating and cooling costs.
Hmm. I like this. I dunno how many can afford one, but I do like it. Do you know how it compares to a standard heating/cooling system in terms of temperature regulation? I was just thinking, we could see a substantial decrease in electricity demands if more people used this system. That is of course, provided it works well in all climates and has no adverse, but so far unseen effects.
Why must it replace ALL the power? There are dozens of other power sources. Hydroeletric, Wind, Solar, Tideal, perhaps even various types of biomass (charcoal or wood anyone?). This in addation to our existing fossil fuel generateing capacity (at least for the time being). There is no reason we have to decomission every coal plant at once.
Back in Nevada, around 10% of power is generated by Geothermal plants, like the two I described.
Not all the power, but a very large percentage. There has to be one main source, and then everything else can supplement it. Because everything else you mention is only good as a supplementary techinology, none of it, nor all of it put together can meet the power demands of the world or the US. Biomass has the same basic problem that ethanol has. Plus, do you really want to cut down all the trees to power your home? The ocean takes care of most of the carbon, but about 15% is scrubbed by the world's trees. And charcaol is just coal I believe. I don't think we should suddenly just shut down all the fossil fuel plants, but we need to start shutting them down and replacing them with clean technologies. Especially the old ones that haven't been retrofitted with scrubbers. And tidal power has yet to be made work efficiently. Anyway, that's why I support nukes, because they are the only technology that can meet our growing energy demands, they would be the main power source, and the other technologies, like wind and solar and biomass and everything else would supplement them.
In Indiana, we aren't so lucky as Nevada, 95% of our power is still generated by coal plants, we have some of the worst air quality in the country.
The biggest problem with all this is; most of the kina pollution that threatens us
is from 'industry' and 'combustion transportation'
The two main focuses should be on them, not set astray by an overwhelming list of all that pollutes.
If we all scream and run into sand holes, the world and the humans, as well as; every other beautiful creature, will eventually fade away.
The Sumerians wrote of it, why cannot it happen again?
Leaving the beginnings of a new world, when the clouds breakup and the sun shines again.
The crap that is left ‘primordial ooze’ (for lack of a better term) will swirl in the liquid that remained of the oceans and create all the critters again.
Otc:
(Silhouetted shadows rise from the sea in a full moon, harvest yellow on the horizon. Horrid images creeping forth from the blackened waters, invading the land once more. )
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The ultimate fact remains, we must deal with it and if creating millions of tinny ships, to remove solids from the air dose it for you, then so be it.
We must be open about making some areas hydro and other areas wind maybe even a few nuke silos, ‘fantastic’ the point is we must decide what we are going to do about it and do it.
A rural village in the united states ran out of fuel to make electricity, they are huddled up in one building with back up generators. The rest of the town is in deep freeze, their homes have no electric power.
Environment over greed must become the way of the future, be careful big business inviro-cops are watching you.
I heard a commercial today and I kid you not! this is what I heard: “come into a Tesoro, you have to buy gas anyway!� the mere fact that they would put out a commercial like that says: they know they have us over their oil barrel and they are gonna squeeze us, for every dime they can!.
What do you think we are talking about here? Bunny rabbits? We are discussing "industry" and "combustion transportation". Not that industry is the real problem, the problem is how we generate the electricity that powers industry. And there's combustion transportation, then there's gas powered vehicles. One is a problem, the other is not necessarily so. For example, you could have a car that burns hydrogen for its fuel. The only products of that would be water. I see no overwhelming list of all that pollutes, I see a discussion of how to solve our energy and transportation problems. Also, the world will be fine. It survived 4 billion years before humans got here, and will around for along time after we are all dead. All that we are talking about is what SORT of world we want to live in. The animals will survive. Even if we all kill each other tomorrow, there will still be plenty of animals left to repopulate the world. Also, a nuke silo is where a nuclear ballistic missile is kept until it is ready to be launched. A nuclear plant is where they generate electricity.
ABout the town, that's BS, they get power off the national grid just like everyone else, besides it's SUMMER. How exactly is a town in deep freeze in SUMMER?
I've tried to be nice to you, but it's getting very hard. You are in way over your head, so how about you go to the shallow end of the pool and talk about bunnies or something else disgustingly cute. Or better yet, research before you talk. I'm sure you've got more than empty space between your ears, so stop being the puppet of the media and go out to learn for yourself. The only thing you said that was a real contribution was "point is we must decide what we are going to do about it and do it." This is true, and I agree, but we can't afford to go off half-cocked on some scheme that may not even work when there are other much easier and more practical solutions. Deciding what we are going to do about it is at least as important as doing it. Whatever we do will be a major investment and probably a large scale change in the system.
And to everyone else, I'm sorry for my harsh words to this person, but at some point I just lose my patience.
It is said that when Rincewind dies, the occult ability of the human race will go UP by a fraction. -Terry Pratchett
