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Energy at any scale
posted by Doru.Coarna on 11/18/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
SUBPHYSICS offers solution: any amount of energy from the energy invested in formation of space; yes, the space is formed by quantic dipoles consolidated in an electromagnetic manner and we can extract their energy, 10,000 times more than we spend!
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Global Problem … Global Solution
posted by Youssef Hassan on 8/19/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
Because the fossil fuel will not remain forever, the whole world should plan to do without it and to depend on the renewable energy 100% in the near future. But because the problem is global, also the solution must be global, i.e. the whole world should cooperate to face and solve this problem. First step -to reach this goal- is to reject the hostility and conflict between peoples. Second step is to establish common markets (e.g. African Market, Asian Market, etc). Only in these good conditions, the whole world will focus their efforts together to find out and produce the renewable energy by arranging and assigning roles and tasks among each other, otherwise they all will be the real loser.
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Global Problem: The Population Explosion
posted by Youssef Hassan on 8/31/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
There is always a high cry which warns of the risk of population explosion around the world. This risk is a sump which absorbs and swallows all efforts –national or international- of the development in all fields, including the field of saving energy and developing new sources of energy. There will not be a noticeable advancement in this field unless this risk is faced globally.
Global help wanted, to save a lot of fuel
posted by Youssef Hassan on 9/7/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
The internal coast road of Alexandria, Egypt, is very important highway for the city heavy traffic. It connects the east of the city with its west directly without any crossings except the entries and exits. This road was broadened enough to facilitate the traffic, thus saving a lot of fuel for every fraction of second. Only a small part (nearly 2 km) of this road is the bottleneck (very narrow). The traffic slows down and creeps at this bottleneck. Any vehicle needs nearly one hour to pass it, so a huge amount of fuel per second is lost. This bottleneck is adjacent to the eastern harbor of Alexandria. A strip of this eastern harbor needs to be filled up to broaden the bottleneck, but it cannot because the eastern harbor is full of the ancient city parts sunk underwater. The only sure and practical procedure to rescue these ancient city parts sunk underwater is to evacuate the eastern harbor completely from water. UNESCO can help.
Controlled Avalanche
posted by Youssef Hassan on 11/1/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
An idea is to create and control an artificial avalanche in some area such that: 1-the necessary arrangements should be taken to prevent any kind of damages; 2-the avalanche ends up in a natural or artificial pond; 3-that pond is acquiring some reasonable height with respect to the mountain base; 4-the ambient temperature at the pond level liquefies the collected snow in the pond into fresh water; 5-the released fresh water out from the pond is controlled to produce electricity; and 6-the released fresh water out from the pond runs in a canal to be used for many purposes. In addition to obtaining renewable sources of energy and fresh water, the controlled avalanche refrigerates the lower layers of the atmosphere locally, thus helping as anti-global warming if the idea is applied widely.
YEAH
posted by MizzBettyBoop on 11/16/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
I agree with you. We shouldn't depend on fossile fuels when we know it will be all gone in a short time. And it doesn't make it any better to cover our eyes and wish for more to appear. It's not just America's, China's, or Africa's problem. It's the WHOLE WOLRD'S problem and the world should put aside differences and work together to solve it.
Drill here, drill now....drill in America
posted by rorbeck on 9/8/2009 - This comment was recommended 2 times
I believe New Gingrich got this going but it bares repeating. Why in the world we are not drilling in our own country is beyond thinking. The oil, as has been reported, is seeping up from the sands in Santa Barbara CA and we are being irresponsible by not going after this God/given resource. Someone, somewhere has to be more vocal and more adamant about this resource and what it would do to benefit the state of CA and the rest of the country. It is ludacrous to ignore this. Some one with charisma needs to over/power the environmentalist and make them sit down. The USA has unlimited coal...mine it! The USA has more natural gas than we are able to handle...handle it! And...when you hear about electric cars...someone please inform the public that it takes energy to plug in a car to re-power it. ENERGY!! Where is IT coming from? I for one do not want to see my country littered with wind mills and solar panel when we have the resource that we KNOW works. And..finally. In my lifetime and in yours...that is if you are 73 or 2...Americans are not going to give up their automobiles. And...we are not going to drive golf/carts with canopy's as they do in Europe...so ...... start drilling....start building refineries and start employing Americans in the process to bring forth our own energy that is just waiting for us . . Cap and Trade never produced a gallon of oil. This is not to say that all other sources should be ignored...BUT do it without subsidizing and see if it works...If it does, by all means include IT
irresponsible
posted by louisenviro on 10/2/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
hi ide like to expose some of the myths your comment is based apon although it is true that there is plentiful coal on american soil the economical section of this coal is soon to be depleateded easily within the next 40 years to extract the rest would need heavy substady also the amount of carbon realesed would destroy the lives of many people in the 3rd world due to climate change although there is much natral gas in america there is no nearly as much as you seem to suggest also electric cars are 30 times more effient than petrol cars and taking into acount battrey raplacement and disposal are still 3 times better also i have never seen i golf/cart drive down my street i live in euorpe all ive seen are sensible cars that do more than 18 miles to the gallon. it seems to me that american policy makers are living in a dream world of unlimited fuel and resorces if the money they invested in there wastful ethonal programs was invested in renewables and/or effiency mesures we might start getting somewear.
Irresponcible
posted by bill f. on 10/24/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
I came back after a long resbit doing other kinds of writing and am disappointed to see folks still holding on to the myths that we are all destroying the planet. A couple years ago I wrote that" it is not what goes into the fuel tank; it is what comes out the exhaust pipe. Someone was listening as Mazda and some European manufacturers have come up with a liquid similar to urine that is injected right after the catalytic converter. THE END RESULT: NOTHING COMES OUT BUT NITROGEN AND OXYGEN. If you have ever taken chemistry, you already know that when you combine elements the end product is something else. The trick is to get the end results you want. They say" THE MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE", what else do you call doing nothing to eliminate a preceived problem? NOt drilling for all it is worth is like stepping over a pile of money because you are in a hurry to get nowhere! There is over 300 years of coal left and every time the earth's plates shift more oil becomes available. In Texas we are only going 1.5 miles down for gas and in the USSR they go over 40,000 feet or 8 miles for oil but that is not the record. They come in and look where we said there was no oil but THEY find it! I love electric cars too and want to build one some day. The truth is that the technology is not yet reached the point where they are as convenient as what we now have. Some day it will be much better.
you do relise
posted by louisenviro on 11/5/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
for every barrel of oil we find we consume 3 and tectonic activity has very little effect on the oil we find its far to slow it matters what we put in are car and what comes out the end
maybe...
Maybe we're not drilling in America because we know it may mess up our already needy enviorments. If we drill here, think of the little kids who can't go to the beach on the hottest day of summer because there is a massive oil spil. What if we don't have anymore seafood because all the fish are dead from oil pollution. I understand what you're saying. We have great resources here that we can use. All I'm saying is that if we use them, it may not be the best thing to do if we want to save our world.
The game is unrealistic about nuclear power
posted by rgvandewalker on 11/13/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
The nuclear environmental impact is 5/9 of coal? That's crazy. Spent nuclear fuel can be reprocessed. France & Japan both do it. France's nuclear waste fits in the floor of a single room at Le Havre, and is sealed in Pyrex. Fossil fuel plants spill millions of tons of hazardous waste. The security cost gotcha is crazy, too. Uranium is about 0.3% of a plant's operating costs. Just buy a ten year stock when it's cheap. It fits in the back parking lot. Also, nuclear fits in a tiny amount of land. It has almost no impact on biomes.> Want a -real- exciting technology? A liquid fluoride thorium reactor generates even -less- waste. 0.1% of a conventional reactor per watt. It also uses only 800Kg of thorium per GW year. So, it reduces mining impacts >12 fold over a uranium reactor. And, it's cheaper. Thorium is $30/pound, and doesn't need to be enriched. Best of all, the U.S. DOE already has built several. It's not even that hard. It just needs to be commercialized.
http://www.energyfromthorium.com/
New Energy Technology
posted by bill f. on 10/28/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
FOOD to WASTE to FUEL Instead of wasting the world’s food supply on fuel; lets eat it first. That goes for both man and beast. You see none of us creatures, can drain more that about 20% of the energy values out of food by eating it. The waste can also include inedible items like garbage, spoilage and other agricultural waste products. Even wood chips and grass clippings can be turned into fuel products. The first level of fuel could be methane gas, next oil, then alcohol and finally solid waste. The solids can be compressed dried and burned like wood or coal chips. Even the ash from this system would be clean and as usable as volcanic ash. Now you have squeezed the Nickel until the Buffalo jumped! I know of no major city with a sewage system that converts that kind of waste into fuel for anything. Some 3rd world countries do have digesters that produce methane from all their waste including human waste, but that is done on a small house by house scale. We prefer to bury our waste for future generations to have to deal with. Now lets switch to a logical approach.
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Heat
posted by MarkLeavenworth on 11/1/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
Bill, So here is what I have, since you asked for it. I've removed the brush, since it really didn't work. Instead, at sunset when the cold comes in, I stoke the stove with wood on low heat, and near the back wall I have a barrel with a screen into which I drop a piece of knotty wood (ox-head) that is not efficient to break down. Then I do a load of laundry, so that the dryer hot air blows into the patio, and cook some hot dogs for the kids and make tea to get steam in the air. The combination keeps the whole house cozy with less than 1/3 of the wood used last year at this time. But here's the kicker, the next day, the temperature in the house is rising to 72 degrees, and I have no explanation. The best I can so far figure is that the heat from the bottom of the barrel outside radiates into the earth and then comes back again hours later. Crazy, I know, but there is no other source of heat.
Leaves
posted by MarkLeavenworth on 10/17/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
I'm sad that James C. Scott doesn't give me any credit. But besides that, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to take the brush from the 5 Mulberry trees that we pollarded (American word meaning cut the branches off) and pile them along the far end of the house. I am confident that the slow yeast/bacterial decomposition of the leaves will add a critical heat to that side throughout the winter. At the end of the winter, I will pile the branches into a bonfire and scoop the cools into a barrel to make charcoal for the forge. Any leaves remaining piled will be raked up and added to the garden plot. I hope this helps. We're all in this together.
Fuel for the State
posted by MarkLeavenworth on 10/14/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
My latest theory is that the state is a natural reservoir for the safe distribution of controlling or other character disorders produced through either accidents or deficiencies in the natural family environment.
Common Cause
posted by MarkLeavenworth on 10/16/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
I mean, who among us that participates in civilization is without a missing piece...a brother or a sister, a father or a mother, a son or a daughter. The completion of family is the cause of civilization, and wherever family is complete, there is the simple and the poor.
Lifestyle
posted by GSmiley on 9/27/2009 - This comment was recommended 2 times
By the time you finish reading my comment, God knows how many more babies will be born. Our population is increasing. Our cities are getting bigger. As humankind, we produce more, we consume more and we exploit every single source of energy which is granted generously by our nature. However, unless you can replace the sources used up during your cause, it means your situation is not sustainable. It means at the end of the day you will end up in a world where all sources are diminished and the lifestyle we have right now cannot be carried out anymore. Everybody would like to go everywhere by their own car, and consume as much as they like. But it can't last forever. Whatever new technology is brought about, how more new generation cars produce less emission, the fact that we have to change our lifestyles stays solid. We have to consume less, we have to use mass transit, at least we have to drive "golf/carts with canopy" instead of huge and massive trucks. If we don't start changing by ourselves, the nature will change us by force.
Powering the cities of today
posted by GDIKnight2009 on 9/16/2009 - This comment was recommended 1 time
Cities have the ultimate in power generation. They are not utilized to take advantage of its many features. First, they have a huge window area for thin solar films that can filter out sunlight and generate electricity. The hottest days of the year are turned into energy generating solar capacity to compensate for the demand of building air conditioners. Second, their height allows for the capture of wind energy and rainwater. Wind is especially plentiful on top of the dizzing heights of skyscrapers as well as internally during elevator usage. Third, elevators can be equipped with magnetic coils so that each time an elevator is used, electrical power is generated.
Smart choices for energy generation
posted by GDIKnight2009 on 9/16/2009 - Be the first to recommend this
We have seen the hint of peak oil and we need to get smarter with energy. Our current problem of running out of oil should have a solution using integrated solutions. Using coal plants -> CO2 emissions can be used to heat up oil shale underground to extract the oil. CO2 emissions and other noxious compounds remain underground and oil is extracted and pumped out. Using a piston energy system -> radiated heat from the combustion of oil or other energy source is re-used to heat steam and provide the energy to drive the pistons. This reduces the fuel output and keeps the pistons clean and at peak efficiency. Using garbage -> methane is naturally produced from fermentation of material. It is time to re-use garbage to generate energy.