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...plutonium?Originally Posted by blackmage_nuke
The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel">benefits</a> of biodiesel make me say "Why aren't we using more of it?" on a regular basis.
I say we harvest and liquefy the homeless to use in our cars.
Oh, did I mention I'm awesome?
Primarily because the vast amount of farm land needed to replace fossil fuels (by which I mean a great deal more than is currently in use) would probably cause just as much ecological damage as fossil fuels are right now.The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel">benefits</a> of biodiesel make me say "Why aren't we using more of it?" on a regular basis.
Yeah, biodiesel and similar are just transitional solutions. Wind power is the way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. Damn! The way of the future.
In gyms, we could replace the primitive systems where we actually spend electrical energy to be able to spend our physical energy all the better with systems where the bike you work out so furiously on stores the energy and puts it to use instead.
Produce more dinosaurs for more fossils I think. Someone told me gasoline is from fossil fuels!
Happy Birthday to Me
Don't forget the elderly
The messenger is standing at the gate
Ready to let go
Ready for the crush
Too late for whispers
Too late for the blush
The past is mercy
When the future is aglow
We talked about wind power in class, and this slim blonde girl piped up in her quiet voice about how wind farms cause damage downwind where there's less wind and the climage changes.
If 'global warming' = true, then there's more radiant energy in our atmosphere. More energy = more storms (and more importantly) more wind. The wind has picked up considerably the last few years. There have been dozens of seemingly solid trees in my hometown that were just uprooted. Healthy oak trees just blown over. There's been two trees in my backyard that blew over, a pine and a mulberry (the mulberry survived because it was next to a concrete patio and could only blow halfway over. It looks so silly making branches out of its roots xD).
Also a thought I had is that we can't depend on finding some miracle replacement for what we use now. We'll have to finetune our power generation to our power usages, and that's the only way we can regain anything back against the likes of friction, heat, and sound.
If I ever set up a business it would be one that puts solar panels and small arrays of wind turbines on top of people's roofs. Everytime I go past the multitudes of houses on my way to Uni I'm reminded of the idea.
Tap the methane from landfills.
Solar panels powering things during the day. Use the excess energy to pump water up a hill. Then use HEP to create more energy by letting that water run back down the hill through the turbines for when the solar panels aren't effective.
That's... incredibly dopey of her. A wind farm will cause a miniscule reduction in the amount of wind that reaches places downwind, but you get a bigger effect by erecting a building or a fence. Personally, I think the US is just desperate to avoid adopting any solution that'll actually help the environment by reducing fossil fuel usage - a bit of silly propaganda like "wind power destroys the climate" and everyone turns against it immediately.
In my own country, rich landowners are doing a lot of pissing and moaning about wind power, but only because they can't stand the thought of being able to hear and see windmills. "Visual pollution", they call it, even though the benefits outweigh the harm by an immense margin.
Wind power is the ultimate renewable resource. It recharges itself. The turbine is a simple mechanism. There are no toxic byproducts, except the lubricants used to keep the thing running smoothly. Overall, the only reasons for opposing wind power are (1) a selfish "not in my backyard!" attitude, and (2) a compulsive desire to keep using existing sources. It takes a lot of turbines to create large amounts of electricity, which increases setup costs and maintenance, but it's still a better choice for the long-term.
Hydroelectric is 'clean', but there can be significant ecological impacts: dams prevent silt being washed downstream, causing greater erosion and loss of minerals. However, a carefully planned and managed hydroelectric scheme reduces the impact, and generates vast amounts of power, since it's using two of nature's great unstoppable forces: water pressure, and gravity.
Hydroelectric was brought up and then put back down with the 'most of the dams that can be built in the US to any great effect have been built'.
there's one in my hometown (we also have a nuclear power plant). When they built the dam, they created Lake Dardanelle and displaced quite a few people; there's roads leading into water that I never knew about until my dad pointed them out.
(of course the lake gets a lot of recreational use, and I'm sure they reimbursed the people that had to move, but it's kinda creepy to think of a lost city underwater)
I like windmills. some day I'm going to get my dad to invest in some to put up at the house. he's always wanted to, but balked at the up-front cost.
I still think my method is ultra-win.
Just a tad expensive.
They're all expensive, that's [one of the reasons] why no one's used them yet.
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