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Comment on Renewable Energy by Jeff S

Jeff S — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:30:59 +0000

The internet is an amazing tool. As mentioned previously ,Union of Concerned Scientists of which I belong. Leonardo Energy, Earth Justice, Earth First, and Fixing the Planet are all good resources and chocked full of information and like minded people willing to help and educate.
At present there are many renewables vying for the front seat and only the future and research monies will tell. Bio mass looks promising if we can nail down the processing costs. Wind and solar need a shot in the arm for efficiency. Nuclear, heaven forbid as far as I’m concerned may become a player again.
There are plenty of blogs out there where a person can glean enough useful information without leaving your chair. Become part of the answer and you will learn exponentially, I guarantee it.
The US needs to heed the IPCC and make some sacrifices. The upper court system in this country is stacked with eco unfriendlies,Thanks to G.W. which makes it very hard to win environmental cases in this day and age. I think a restructure is in order, the checks and balance system is out of balance. More research money and grants need to be slated for private individuals, to utilize and further the advancement of GREEN power.
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Comment on Renewable Energy by sango

sango — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:28:59 +0000

gud sources-hydel,solar n biogas i guess…
book-nature
americas plan shud b more use of public transport
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Comment on Solar Power How It Works To Power Your Home by Byderule Permaculture

Byderule Permaculture — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:27:59 +0000

your location will decide that
In the desert or hot places ,it would be solar power

this wont be much good in places like England
there tidal generators would be a good idea.

on the coast ,wind power

If you live on a fast flowing river or stream or a water fall .water turbines

Wind and sun are the best options for most
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Comment on Solar Renewable Energy – Sun Power by briangorski_us

briangorski_us — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:26:59 +0000

Okay, I don’t think anyone’s taken this seriously yet, so…

How about, hydro-electric, geothermal steam, wind turbines, augmentative passive solar, such as water heating and daylighting (somwhat different then solar lighting, or skylighting, although skylights count.) Also let’s not forget rain harvesting, and gray-water usage.these save water, and energy from a treatment, billing, delivery standpoint.

Now that I asnwered the name other part: challenges, what happens when there is no sun/wind/water-flowing, if you have all of these, it won’t happen that often, but when it does, are batteries a practical solution? Won’t they eventually wind up in land-fill off-gasing? If you only use one or two of the 3 majors, what about when any of those aren’t available? Availability is still a big concern, hopefully that will be the next stock-market bubble and drive a massive influx of green-products.

The common challenges with non-renewables, rather than starting from an environmental standpoint, how about we start with what they’re called. NON-RENEWABLE, eventually we will run out. It’s theorized that we’ve found all oil on earth, and will start a downward turn on production by somtime in 2008 or 2009. Aside from that, there’s the obvious global warming issues.

O hope this helps some.
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Various. Science Channel, Green By Design (look it up in iTunes), Discovery Channel. Etc.

Comment on Solar Power How It Works To Power Your Home by kenneth d

kenneth d — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:25:59 +0000

I have just answered a Q. similar to this,My G/Fs small holding has no mains, water, sewage,gas or electricity we have a genny that runs the washing machine, T.V & charges a large battery pack we have bottled gas for cooking & heating filtered rain water for showering & washing clothes, a composting toilet, all waste water is collected to water the veggys, when we've finished our waste 'gulper' we should be able to produce our own gas, the genny runs on bio fuel which we produce & the back up petrol genny runs on methenol, which we also produce, we dont pay any utility bills, how cheap do you want to run? you can only watch T.V for a couple of hours a night, but we've got all mod cons!
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Comment on Solar Renewable Energy – Sun Power by jim

jim — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:24:59 +0000

solar: Its free ‘after’ you pay for a 20,000$ piece of panel and then you have matenince. Then what do you do when it rains?
wind: Its a GIANT SPINNING BLADE!!! So sometimes birds die. About 4000 a year world wide.
hydrogen: Clean fuel in, drinkable waste out.
lithium: The lithum battery life has ben multiplied x10. So yay.

At the rate the world uses it, gas will be depleted in 100 years. However cheap gas prolly won’t last anothr week.

But we can now turn turkys into thir weight in oil in 1 week with some time travel doo-hicky.
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Comment on Renewable Energy by JOHNNIE B

JOHNNIE B — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:24:59 +0000

Fossil fuels is the only source that mother nature has built in a process to automatically recycle the Corbin that is in the leaves. The fossil's is the plant leaves and the earth has been recycling it for millions of years. That is where the present source of fossil fuels came from.
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Comment on Solar Power How It Works To Power Your Home by manda

manda — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:23:59 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t have answers for most of your questions. I rent my house so I am still at the mercy of the utilities company.

For the first part of your question, which option is most efficient would depend largely on where you live. Up here in Northern New York, trying to use solar would be not be a good idea because we don’t get much sun, but there are wind farms.
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Comment on Solar Energy Around your Home by Ed

Ed — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:23:59 +0000

Yes, but I can't quantify the savings. One source says single pane windows can account for about 17% of home heat losses. You might explore electrochromic glazing on the Internet. This is glazing whose tint can be controlled by electrical current. Developed by Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
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Comment on Solar Renewable Energy – Sun Power by jesse j

jesse j — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:22:59 +0000

why do you ask questions you all ready know the answer to?
renewable resource = methane
non renewable=oil
blah, blah, blah, blah,
the real question should be why is it we don’t want to change our lifestyles to adjust to the crippling disaster we are creating for our children and our children’s children
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