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Re: What's the responsible way?
The locals (I am an Albertan) are demanding that the issues be dealt with. The provincial government has set aside over a billion (Canadian) dollars to sequester CO2. The companies are required to find ways to reduce tailings ponds and water usage. The amount of water and energy consumption per barrel of oil has decreased a lot over the last 30 ...
Posted to Green Room by aardvark77 on June 26, 2009
Re: Niagra Falls.
i believe that the falls are throttled back about 90% during the night to permit the production of super cheap electricity. recently i have read of several new electrode combinations to increase the efficency of electrolysis of water, i think MIT announced one. the way load is shared on the grid by generating stations is to vary the voltage, ...
Posted to Moneybox by herbissimus on May 8, 2009
Auto Haters: Fat, Mean & Undermining Green
Economist David Gordon wrote in his book Fat and Mean, “In the 1980s, by common measures, the proportion of managerial and administrative employment was more than three times as high in the United States as in Germany and Japan.” He also wrote that the US has a higher percentage of supervisors than Germany, Sweden, and Japan ...
Posted to Today's Papers by Bibble on December 11, 2008
Corn can produce diesel
Although corn is normally converted to sugars and then fermented to make ethanol, it can also be gasified to produce syngas, which then is converted to synthetic fuels. These synthetic fuels include diesel.The standard gasification process that is still used today was developed in Germany in 1913, improved upon in the 1920's by Franz Fischer ...
Posted to Green Room by regrouping on November 14, 2008
Re: When I last did the calculation...
You've apparently never seen the other effects of coal. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is only one of many negative effects on the environment. There's also mercury and sulfur dioxide caused by combustion, not to mention the hundreds of miles of streams destroyed by mountaintop removal mining. In addition to that, strip mining, the preferred method ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by Sam in KY on October 9, 2008
energy saving
Dear friends, What do we do with all the money we save on energy saving measures? We spend it! We re-insert it into the energy consuming economy, where it is converted into joules. Didn't you know? That is why we keep on using more energy despite all well meant endeavours. I recommend that you BURN the money that you save, otherwise your efforts ...
Posted to Moneybox by ecosceptic on September 6, 2008
Re: A Response from Andrew Revkin
Beautifully stated! The science issues are: i) whether or not we have anthropogenic CO2 mediated global warming (settled in the affirmative); ii) what the magnitude and varied impacts of this warming will be (not settled). The complementary policy issue is what - if anything - should be done about this. As a layman, I'd be happy to restrict my ...
Posted to The Spectator by Marcus61 on August 11, 2008
Business Innovation
I think that one of the greatest steps toward improving our environment is increasing the individuals sense of responsibility toward it. One of the best ways we can do this is by supporting innovative businesses that not only provide us with our desired utility but also benefit the environment. For example, I came across a website ...
Posted to Green Room by Gustavion on July 23, 2008
Makes Me Laugh -- Elites With Furrowed Brows AT LAST - -
So, the FDIC Chairman is a female children's book author from Massachusetts, who started her new job running security for our Nation's bank deposits since 2006? How fortunate for her. I am a Massachusetts/New Hampshire working guy going back to 1990, originally from the Midwest, with some college but no degree, and I have been ''getting ...
Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard1 on July 18, 2008
Regarding the Wall-E article...
''Wall-E tells us that if we don't change the way we live, we'll all get really fat and destroy the world.'' You'll find no bigger supporter of the first amendment than me. However, I think the statement above, quoted from the article is a little biased. To me, it sounds like someone who is just looking for a reason to look down on ...
Posted to Green Room by CWickham on July 11, 2008

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