Solutions to global warming?
#26
Posted 07 March 2008 - 01:32
#27
Posted 07 March 2008 - 04:04
#28
Posted 07 March 2008 - 07:14
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Dauth, on 7 Mar 2008, 1:30, said:
The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm
#29
Posted 07 March 2008 - 08:46
Most people don't realize that nuclear power is really a wonderful energy source. For the same amount of energy the waste that nuclear power provides is much easier to deal with. Think about it-you could vhoose between having to bury a boxcar full of a very heavy metal for 500 years or somehow recapture 1,000,000,000 cubic meters of CO2 and somehow stop it from reaching the atmosphere.
A not-so-new technology called fast breeder reactors could make nuclear power even more efficient.I'm going to skip all of the technical speak and just ay it makes unusable portions of uranium-i.e. depleted- usable and this can be done several times until the sample is fully tapped out.THis has several advantages.It allows the same fuel to be reused many times thus saving tons of money and natural resources.THe waste that cannot be reused anymore is a huge amount less toxic and therefore doesn't need to be stored as long.
Nuclear Power is the only "green" techology that can provide enough power for a first world country.France gets 75% of its power from nuclear power plants and Japan gets 2/3s.America only gets 10% from fission.
If all of the globe's power needs were provided for using nuclear power, fuel supplies would probably last a century or wo.With fast breeders, it could be a millenia.
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#30
Posted 08 March 2008 - 01:14
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#32
Posted 12 March 2008 - 22:43
From the opening post.
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Sometimes I worry about reading skills, do you prehaps have any evidence for this unbounded statement?
#34
Posted 20 March 2008 - 02:03
It's basically hydrogen power that uses near limitless (and usually useless) sea water.
It's rather unlikely, but hey, it's a possible solution, that if totally developed, will totally solve the energy crisis and create 100% green, cheap power.
But, it seems that the oil companies have "taken care" of this guy.
No more news of this sort.
#35
Posted 20 March 2008 - 06:05
#36
Posted 20 March 2008 - 09:25
#37
Posted 20 March 2008 - 22:37
Dauth, on 20 Mar 2008, 1:25, said:
Helloooooooooo? Radio waves from a homemade generator? Flame of 3000 degrees F?
Did you even read it? Radio waves are low-energy waves, and it produces an insanely high temp. flame. From a vial of salt!
Still, I have doubts as to the veracity.
@cryptkeeper: Yeah, you're right about the effort needed to mass implement it, but the same thing could go for switching total nuclear power or sugarcane ethanol.
#38
Posted 21 March 2008 - 20:51
#39
Posted 21 March 2008 - 20:59
What makes you think we will be there in 50 years? I agree with this fact, but then again I've read dissertations on fusion, and a rather long research paper by a group of undergrad physicists.
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Posted 21 March 2008 - 21:06
#41
Posted 15 May 2008 - 21:29
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Posted 15 May 2008 - 21:55
#44
Posted 15 May 2008 - 23:25
As many politicians have said, oil gives us life. What's pretty amazing and sad is that we have depleted nearly all the readily accessible oil in just a meager 200 or so years since we first gained the technology of drilling. We need to develop alternate sources of energy and embrace the benefits of nuclear energy.
One should watch The 11th Hour if you want extremely viable and plausible ways for green construction and green energy.
#45
Posted 16 May 2008 - 00:15
2. Nuclear fusion has a looong way to go. The tokamak have produced energy in a short span so far.
3. Wind farms are good, but not to birds. Wind farms chop birds to pieces. So we may have an issue with RSCPA or something. Besides, the mechanical efficiency of wind farms is considerably lower than coal-fired plants. Another loong way to go.
4. Solar energy will take the entire Texas (or more than that) to generate daily power requirements. Another loooong way to go.
5. Proper resource management IS BADLY NEEDED. All we do is waste energy worse than having sex all willy-nilly.
6. Some places experience "global warming". Others "global freezing". Kindly read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. I have checked the references he cited. And I was confused about the scientific facts he presented. Read it to discover for yourselves. And don't forget to check the websites.
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#46
Posted 16 May 2008 - 00:19
The Wandering Jew, on 16 May 2008, 0:15, said:
2. Nuclear fusion has a looong way to go. The tokamak have produced energy in a short span so far.
3. Wind farms are good, but not to birds. Wind farms chop birds to pieces. So we may have an issue with RSCPA or something. Besides, the mechanical efficiency of wind farms is considerably lower than coal-fired plants. Another loong way to go.
4. Solar energy will take the entire Texas (or more than that) to generate daily power requirements. Another loooong way to go.
5. Proper resource management IS BADLY NEEDED. All we do is waste energy worse than having sex all willy-nilly.
6. Some places experience "global warming". Others "global freezing". Kindly read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. I have checked the references he cited. And I was confused about the scientific facts he presented. Read it to discover for yourselves. And don't forget to check the websites.
What's wrong with chopping birds to pieces?
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#47
Posted 16 May 2008 - 00:28
#49
Posted 16 May 2008 - 08:12
#50
Posted 16 May 2008 - 08:18
As for now? An entire plant that makes CO2 cartridges with CO2 from the atmosphere. And then storing them. It would probably produce more pollutions, but most likely not CO2.
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