Reaching Carbon Balance Through Reduction
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Mar 4, 2009 |
One of the key things to realise about reducing carbon emissions is we need to be on the negative side of the emissions equation.
I.E. For balance we need to reach a 1-1=0.
To reduce the current glut of carbon in our atmosphere we need to reduce it below balance to say, 1-5=-5. For example, by sequestering 5 times our normal carbon output we can reduce our carbon footprint to balance in about 15 years.
Are governments around the world going to do this? On their current performance I would say "No!"
I would say we are going to have to be the ones who do it ourselves or convince them they are actually going to have to stop talking and get it done.. Labels: carbon sequestration, emission reductions |
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Applying The 80/20 Rule To World Hunger
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Dec 10, 2008 |
 I did a reverse search on many of the topics involved in global warming and dealing with world hunger and found the number of searches for these items was incredibly low, when compared to "news" items.
I feel our news media has a solemn duty to properly keep these things in the public eye, so that people begin to understand the problem fully enough to change their behavours.
For example, many of the things we can do about global warming are, as simple as, turning out a light or offsetting our car usage; and if we add enough of them up, we can easily bring the world carbon emissions below that much talked about and little done 20% mark.
For some useful tools,
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| posted by speedquill @ 3:51 PM |
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Applying The 80/20 Rule To Global Warming
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Oct 11, 2008 |
 One of the most important things to do is decide what are going to be the quickest methodologys to reduce global warming now, not in three years now!
Each country will be different, each country will have different resources we can apply to this increasing environmental degradation.
We can do it. We only think we don't handle change well. However, when the earth is at breaking point, we must adapt quickly or perish. Labels: environment, global warming, greenhouse gas |
| posted by speedquill @ 5:28 PM |
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Beginning The Saltbush Salinity Solution
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Jun 8, 2008 |
 It's one of the only plants in the world which can actually take salty water through its system, and it takes the salt out of the water and puts it into a couple of sacrifice leaves on the plant, and then the rest of the plant can use the pure water or cleaner water and it enables it to grow on.
As it uses lowers the water, the natural rainfall washes the salt back out of the soil, and hence improves the land dramatically.
We need to grow this plant across the world to help reduce salinity everywhere it occurs. Labels: Pure Water, Salinity, solutions |
| posted by speedquill @ 1:06 PM |
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Don't Think They Were Meant To Let This Little Space Shuttle Secret Slip Through Just Yet.
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May 30, 2008 |
 It's amazing what you can recycle in a closed system isn't it.
"Water-recycling technology has not been installed on the ISS because the shuttle visits the ISS regularly. The shuttle creates water during flight because it uses fuel cells that "burn" hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity.
Fuel cells are a very cool technology that's just starting to reach the point where it's feasible to think about having one in the basement to provide clean and reliable electricity for your house without an electricity network. They have been used on the shuttle for nearly 20 years.
Anyhow, as a result, when the shuttle docks it has bags and bags of pure water. This is water is de-ionised and taken to the ISS, where it is stored in great big balloons. I think there can be several tons of water in the station at any given time. As a result, the ISS isn't yet as aggressive about recycling urine as Mir was.
I think the plan calls for urine recycling to come on stream at a future date, when the crew will be expanded and the shuttle visits might not bring enough water. Also, if we are going to get to Mars and beyond, we need to be able to recycle 100% of the food and water, which means both solid and liquid waste, and the ISS may well get to test drive some of those systems in the future. " - Mark ShuttleworthAnd it might have just gone out with the sh-t and that was 2002. Labels: International Space Station, recycling, Space Shuttle, water power |
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How To Feed A Billion People And Be Able To Pay For It Part 1
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 A simple process is available to over a few years to feed a billion people using the same simple maths used by network marketers. Some aid agencys are starting to move in this direction, this article is designed to simply make the whole process happen more quickly and systematically.
Certain strategies need to be in place to impliment this process robustly.
Firstly, a solid base.
You need to create an ongoing food creation centre to feed baseline village systems. For simplicity, I've used villiages of 100 people which we will feed until they are operational, with an operational date of 3 months from starting ( the village is self sufficently abled to feed itself). Obviously, these figures will vary on a case by case basis, though we do need to establish clear baselines to work with and in some cases we will need to buy villages more land.
Now the part that makes it really pump.
Graham Stoate
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The Maths Of Feeding One Billion People Pt 2
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 Ok, so let's get right to it.
Firstly, we will assume a feeding centre that can feed 20 villages of 100 people has been established. This will also provide all the seedlings and tree stock for each villiage. Spreading the baseline here, makes the whole country move far more quickly towards sustainability.
So the Maths.
With 20 villages producing enough food to support 4 more 100 people villages at an arbitary 3 months to self sufficiency. That's 80 villages or 8,000 people self sufficient.
So 20 produces 80;
In the next 3 months produces 320;
In the next 3 months produces 1280;
In the next 3 months produces 5120, so after one year 512 thousand people are fed;
In the next 3months produces 20480;
In the next 3months produces 81920;
In the next 3months produces 327,680;
In the next 3months produces 1310720, after 2 yrs thats 131 million fed and sustainable;
In the next 3months produces 5,242,880;
In the next 3months produces 10485760; that's over one billion people to sustainability in less than 3 yrs.
Before you question this, Ask yourself this
"Can we afford to not do this now?" Again!
-Graham Stoate
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:47 AM |
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How Do We Make Each 100 Person Village Self Suffucient Pt 3
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May 15, 2008 |
 Firstly, We need to have water and a place to store it. So the first thing you need is a windmill that pumps water. That water is pumped into an above ground swimming pool liner held inside four walls of earth. This allows gravity feeding to be used in irrigating an extensive garden.
The reasons for doing this are two fold:
1. To fuel four more villages out of poverty, and this should be seen as payment for all the infrastructure we provide. So they did it, we didn't do it for them.
2. They continue to over produce so they can sell excess product to larger towns and citys.
3. By planting a diverse array of trees near by ( ie fruit, timber, native, bamboo, paper).
This sets us up for the next part "How to make the west willingly pay for it ."
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| posted by speedquill @ 8:40 PM |
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How To Pay For It And Mitigate The Greedy Half The World's Greenhouse Gases In The Process Part 4
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 Many countries in the west are struggling with inflation and rising interest rates.
Plus we have the added burden of trying to reduce our greenhouse emissions by quite extreme levels in a very short period of time.
By selling the offsets from the trees in the west, with a maintenance strategy in place, we can assure that three things:
1. We sell the offsets at western rates.
2. This means excess monies can be put into electricity generation from renewable energy sources IE solar and wind.
3. As the money is leaving these countries, with the offsets as a return, shouldn't this reduce
inflation and thus interest rates?
This must be seen as only an interim measure to get global warming and climate change under control. This is only a small space for us to catch our collective breath.Labels: Billion Sustainability |
| posted by speedquill @ 8:04 PM |
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A Carbon Neutral Bio Mass Plant
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 A local biomass debris reclamation site takes limbs and grinds them up on site and turns them into wood fuel for wood-fired boilers for power production.
"It's basically carbon neutral," Ed Buford with the Angelina Fuels LLC said. "With fossil fuels you are adding carbon to the atmosphere when you burn it. With biomass, the carbon is already there, so you are not adding any new carbon to the atmosphere. It's better than coal-fired plants by far."(Link)
For More Detail on This Proposal
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| posted by speedquill @ 9:20 PM |
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One Environment Minister Shows The Way.
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Apr 17, 2008 |
 Australia's environment ministers have failed to agree on a national scheme to rid the country of the billions of plastic bags used each year. South Australian Environment Minister Gail Gago said she was "deeply disappointed" with Thursday's outcome. "But South Australia can hold its head high. We've announced that as of today we will ... bring about a ban on plastic bags in South Australia, commencing January 2009," she said.( For More)
Every Australian needs more effective leadership like this from politicians, not the usual lets create a harsher law and pretend the problem doesn't exist. Bravo.Labels: environment |
| posted by speedquill @ 11:15 PM |
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Can Our World Really Wait Any Longer For Clean Hydrogen Fuel Systems
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Apr 7, 2008 |
The book advocates hydrogen fuel as the best long-term alternative to fossil fuels and as a way to stop polluting the air and subsidizing terrorists. Shows how to generate hydrogen by electrolysis, how to convert an internal combustion engine to hydrogen, and how hydrogen can be used in home appliances.
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Global Warming Is Simple To Understand, No Water No Drinking, No Oxygen No Breathing, Water Above Our Heads Drowning, Simple.
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Apr 6, 2008 |
 Global warming isn’t opinion. It’s a scientific reality. And the science tells us that human activity has made enormous impacts to our planet that affect our well-being and even our survival as a species.
The world’s leading science journals report that glaciers are melting ten times faster than previously thought, that atmospheric greenhouse gases have reached levels not seen for millions of years, and that species are vanishing as a result of climate change. They also report of extreme weather events, long-term droughts, and rising sea levels.
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| posted by speedquill @ 1:21 AM |
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Matrin Luther King How big Would His Dream For Our Environment Have Been.
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Apr 5, 2008 |
 Martin was someone who dreamed big, we need people who dream this big to connect the answers to our global position.
In a way, that makes it possible for all of us to live in a sustainable way . To not stop the initiatives that are so important, but to support them properly in better applying the solutions for a positive future, as Martin Luther King did to solving the problems of rascism. We need to show that much courage again. Labels: Dream Big |
| posted by speedquill @ 2:41 PM |
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Burying Our CO2 Deep
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Mar 29, 2008 |
 Kurt Zenz House isn't the first scientist to suggest sequestering carbon dioxide in the ocean. But he is the first to come up with a solution that might actually work.
The key is depth. Whereas other plans to sequester carbon in the ocean were plagued by fears that the CO2 would escape, House advocates going much deeper—at least three thousand meters, or two miles below sea level into the seabed.
At that depth, House hypothesizes that the extreme water pressure and low temperature will turn the carbon into a liquid denser than the surrounding water, forming a layer that will prevent it from rising back up into the ocean.
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| posted by speedquill @ 2:22 AM |
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The Water Purifying Pollution Magnet. A Work Of Sheer Genius
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 Eighty-two thousand people die from cancer in Bangladesh every year, many due to arsenic poisoning.
But building upon her discovery of a way to get rust nanoparticles to bind to arsenic, Vicki Colvin has invented a new, astonishingly easy way to clean the water supply:
Sauté a teaspoon of rust in a mixture of oil and lye, which breaks down the rust into nano-sized pieces. Retrieve the rust particles with a household magnet. Then immerse the rust-covered magnet into a pot of contaminated water. Pull out the arsenic. The system is up to a hundred times more efficient than existing methods, and requires no electricity or manufacturing infrastructure, so even the poorest of villagers can use it.
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| posted by speedquill @ 1:57 AM |
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Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
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For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems.
Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum. The insidious explosion of human impact today is creating a shockwave that will threaten global ecosystems and their ability to support us for decades-possibly centuries.
Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global EnvironmentLabels: environment |
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Amazon, What If The Forest Was'nt There Anymore? Essential Oxygen #1
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Mar 21, 2008 |
 The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than 160 kilometres or one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.
The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.
So if we fell all the trees in the Amazon basin, we'll have 20% less oxygen to breathe world wide.
I guess we might be abled to live with that. I guess people forget we have to breath...Labels: Oxygen |
| posted by speedquill @ 12:24 PM |
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Asbestosis A Disease That Could Have Been Prevented Continues To Occur. Essential Oxygen #3
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 Just ask this very courageous human being, how important oxygen is.
Oh, you can't, because Bernie Banton is dead.
Asbestosis an essentially preventable disease continues to be a problem in our community and governments continue to turn a blind eye to it. Probably because it takes so long to take effect.
In almost every community you can easily find sources of contamination.
So whats my point, if the oceans die, and scientists have predicted 50 years. If the Amazon rainforests disappear.
That's 70% of our oxygen supply. Gone. For MoreLabels: Oxygen |
| posted by speedquill @ 11:43 AM |
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Altitude Sickness. What Happens When You Can't Breathe. Essential Oxygen #4
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 "The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere at sea level is about 21% and the barometric pressure is around 760 mmHg.
As altitude increases, the percentage remains the same but the number of oxygen molecules per breath is reduced.
At 3,600 metres (12,000 feet) the barometric pressure is only about 480 mmHg, so there are roughly 40% fewer oxygen molecules per breath so the body must adjust to having less oxygen."For More
We are talking 70% less oxygen and most people have problems at 8,000 feet.
How will you do? I feel an oxygen tax coming on or perhaps the big money in the future will be in oxygen.
Of course, it is a long way off. Perhaps it is better to think ahead.Labels: Oxygen |
| posted by speedquill @ 11:08 AM |
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What Hillary Clinton Will Do For The Environment.
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Mar 20, 2008 |
 To transition to a clean and renewable energy future, Hillary will urge all of the nation's stakeholders to contribute to the effort.
Automakers will be asked to make more efficient vehicles; oil and energy companies to invest in cleaner, renewable technologies; utilities to ramp up use of renewables and modernize the grid; coal companies to implement clean coal technology; government to establish a cap and trade carbon emissions system.
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:32 AM |
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Barack Obama On our Environmental Future
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 "Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in," Obama shouted.
"And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen."
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:09 AM |
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McCartney's Kangaroo Cull Protest: I take Issue With His Rhetoric
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Mar 13, 2008 |
 I have no problem with Paul McCartney's attempts to have these kangaroos moved to a better location; to me this is the prefered outcome.
However, as to his assertion, "There is an urgent need for action to protect kangaroos from a barbaric industry which slaughters them for meat and leather," he said in the message. ( in IBN News.)
The humble kangaroo is one of the least damaging animals for the Australian environment, far less than cattle and sheep.
So will he be campaigning for stopping all animals being killed for for meat as well or was this just a glib and catch cry for attention.
Especially when there would be ample recourse under australian law to simply have the animals humanely removed. You have the money use it wisely.
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| posted by speedquill @ 5:20 PM |
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The Renewable Sustainability Of An Interesting Mind.
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Mabey is controversial in his views about what we mean by buzz words like 'renewable', or 'sustainable', and he is highly provocative in his final response to the Eden Project itself. Labels: environment |
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What Is Cosmetic Eco-Friendly Anyway?
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 Mabey argued this is peddling a bubble of illusion for people who hanker for "a kind of refuge in the green" but don't want to think a great deal about the natural world, or relate to it.
What is being marketed as "green living" isn't bunking down with the wild wonders of nature, but an air-brushed concept of nature as a kind of property make-over.
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| posted by speedquill @ 4:37 PM |
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Wood Smoke Particles. Imagine The Damage They Do Around The World.
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Mar 8, 2008 |
 Smoke from wood burning, however, pumps four times more particulate pollution into the air as the dozens of power plants in the basin. And the pollution itself can be far more hazardous than other kinds of air pollution.
Wood smoke is mainly made up of particles 2.5 microns in size, or smaller. Such particles are estimated to cause 5,000 premature deaths in the basin each year. They can worsen heart and lung disease, and could cause cancer.
Imagine the damage wood smoke does around the world. We need to do better.
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:47 PM |
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China's Pollution Problem In This Olympic Year
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 BEIJING — China's premier promised in a major speech Wednesday to cut pollution emissions, conserve energy and shut down outmoded and inefficient factories in heavily polluting industries such as electricity, coal and steel.
"First, we will implement the plan to close down backward production facilities in the electricity, steel, cement, coal and papermaking industries," Premier Wen Jiabao said.
China's double-digit economic growth has come with a surge in heavily polluting industries such as manufacturing and energy. The country is home to 16 of the world's 20 most heavily polluted cities. ( Read Full Article) Labels: environment, Pollution |
| posted by speedquill @ 2:57 AM |
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Solar Cars. Can They Be Trully Independent?
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Feb 29, 2008 |
 Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day.
The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the first solar cells able to harness the sun's invisible, infrared rays.
A hydrogen-powered car painted with the film could potentially convert enough energy into electricity to continually recharge the car's battery. ( Read More.)Labels: efficiency, electric cars, solar |
| posted by speedquill @ 3:14 PM |
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Solar Cells More Efficient By Up To 5 Times.
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 Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day.
The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the first solar cells able to harness the sun's invisible, infrared rays.
The breakthrough has led theorists to predict that plastic solar cells could one day become five times more efficient than current solar cell technology. (Read More?)
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Biofuel Mandate Need Not Put Upward Pressure On Fuel Prices
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Feb 26, 2008 |
 With the advent of Biodeisel produced from Algae it is unnecessary and stupid to use food crops as a source for biofuel production. The amounts of algal biodeisel that can be produced on a similar acreage to corn is trully remarkable. With the possibility of an almost zero waste output.
At present their is some talk that this process is currently more expensive, but isn't attempting to shut down of the ecosystem in which we live going a bit far, too?
We need to spend the money needed to make this process work here in Australia and since some algae forms grow in salt water wouldn't that make it even more viable.
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| posted by speedquill @ 2:03 AM |
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Walkability Must Be A Design Feature In Every Community
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 Once our most important and common transport mode, walking has been replaced by motor vehicle travel. Car ownership in Perth is the highest of any capital city in the world with 725 cars per thousand inhabitants.
Four in every five trips made by Perth residents is by car, about 10% of trips are made entirely by walking.
Everyday in WA's cities and towns people make over 240,000 car trips of less than 1 km (10 minute walk). TravelSmart data indicates that at least 20% of these could be walked.
A focus on ensuring local communities are walkable can reduce unnecessary car trips.
For An Exceptional Article On WalkingLabels: alternative energy |
| posted by speedquill @ 1:55 AM |
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Global Warming And Palm Oil. Getting The Science Right.
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Feb 22, 2008 |
 Having been shown up to be less than kosher in their attempts to discredit palm oil as a healthy vegetable oil, CSPI then quickly changed tack and proceeded to make unfounded allegations of massive deforestation by oil palm plantations.
Leading allegedly to global warming and the destruction of habitat for the orang utan and pygmy elephants in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Sensing a chance to gain a financial windfall in the form of increased government, corporate and public funding, environmental NGO’s such as the Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Wetlands fell over each other in joining the queue to drum up a chorus and cacophony of apelike noises echoing CSPI’s sly stratagem to question and discredit the palm oil industry’s environmental record.
“Palm oil: Cooking the Climate”, a banal position paper issued by Greenpeace recklessly supported those unproven allegations.
You'll have to go halfway down the page to find it, but an interesting article that spells it out.
" We Must Get The Science Right"Labels: global warming, Palm Oil |
| posted by speedquill @ 3:53 AM |
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Environmental Picture Just Keeps Getting Worse
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 A WORSENING global warming scenario means the Rudd Government should set a more ambitious greenhouse reductions target than it took to the federal election.
Prof Ross Garnaut, author of an interim report on climate change, said yesterday Australia had to take the lead on dealing with climate change because it potentially faced the greatest dangers.
He also warned that tackling greenhouse emissions would drive up electricity prices, hit low-income earners and bite into the profits of major industries such as cement-making, and steel and aluminium smelting. Labels: environment, global warming |
| posted by speedquill @ 3:35 AM |
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Check out The Australian Governments Greenfleet Site
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Feb 18, 2008 |
 Greenhouse gas emissions are directly related to your car's fuel consumption, so choosing a fuel-efficient car and being responsible about how you use it will reduce its impact on the environment.
If you're buying a new car, choose a fuel-efficient vehicle from the class of vehicle that best suits your needs ... - Consult the fuel consumption sticker displayed on new and used vehicles.
- Check and compare the car's environmental credentials using the federal government's Green Vehicle Guide.
For More Labels: efficiency |
| posted by speedquill @ 1:54 AM |
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Using Jatropha For Biofuels In Haiti
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Feb 14, 2008 |
 Jatropha curcas is an important feedstock for the production of biofuels. Its widespread use in India and Egypt is gaining popularity as a quick growing source of oil-bearing nuts that can be pressed to produce biodiesel products.
Jatropha has also been a crop of choice in development programs in Africa where local villages have grown Jatropha on small plots of land and have hand-pressed the oil for use in generators, sewing machines and small motors.
Glycerin, a by product of Jatropha oil, can also be used to produce soap.
For an excellent article on its use in Haiti for local economic development
http://www.haitiinnovation.org/node/1386Labels: biodiesel |
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Give A Valentines Day Gift That Touches Forever
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Feb 3, 2008 |
 Instead, of the usual gift of roses or lilys or chocolates. Why not give her something that lasts forever?
Why not offset the emissions from her car? So that everytime she drives it, she knows she's helping to save our world. And you were the person who set that up for her. And of course, if you're a her, you might just do it for him, too. Labels: carbon neutral |
| posted by speedquill @ 1:44 AM |
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As The Weather Worsens Due To Global Warming We All Need to Take Precautions
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Feb 2, 2008 |
 A spike protector, like most modern home appliances, is designed to be plugged into a 3-prong electric wall socket connected to an independent ground, as well as to the power-in and power-out lines.
The wire ground (designed to handle accidental shorts between the power lines and an appliance's metal housing — blowing fuse or circuit breaker in the process, but saving you a shock) is essential if a spike protector is to function.
Click Here For The Full Article On Lightning and Electricity Protection
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| posted by speedquill @ 12:51 AM |
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Carbon Market Profit- Getting a Piece
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Jan 31, 2008 |
As I've been saying would happen, the world greenhouse gas credits market--driven by carbon--rose 80% last year.
The rise in carbon market profit, of course, can be attributed to mandatory emission cuts in Kyoto countries as well as to companies in the US seeking to green their image in world where the emission of pollutants is increasingly taboo
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| posted by speedquill @ 6:25 PM |
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50 Simple Steps To Stop Global Warming
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Jan 30, 2008 |
Global warming is the most important environmental issue facing mankind. Organized in a fun, easy-to-read format, this collection of 50 simple acts can help in the fight against global warming. The steps outlined are the most effective, practical ways to make the shift from a fossil-fuels based society to an exemplary and self-sustaining world power.--> Labels: global warming, solutions |
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Co2 Reductions By Serial Sequestration.
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 "Just to explain 1-1=0 or serial sequestration again.
Rather than take a fossil fuel and pollute and then require an offset say in the planting of an equivalent number of trees ( not that re-forrestating the earth wouldn't be anything, but a good thing. )
Instead, to use a biofuel, for example biodiesel, and using it ( + 1 amount of CO2 ), then mitigating that pollution by creating the biodiesel again whether from grain or algae ( -1 amount of CO2 ), thus creating a zero balance. You can then do this forever."
Graham Stoate Labels: biodiesel, carbon neutral, CO2, Serial Sequestration |
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Stopping Climate Change Could Stem Economic And Environmental Disaster: Water Future 2
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 The Himalayas contain the largest store of water outside the polar ice caps, and feed seven great Asian rivers.
Immediate action against climate change could slow the rate of melting, which is increasing annually. "The rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers will first increase the volume of water in rivers, causing widespread flooding," said Jennifer Morgan ( pictured ), then director of the WWF's Global Climate Change Programme. "But in a few decades this situation will change and the water level in rivers will decline, meaning massive eco and environmental problems for people in western China, Nepal and northern India." Labels: environment |
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Learning From Natures Genius
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Who wouldn't want to mimic nature it's solar powered and any waste it produces is fuel, for a totally different part of the ecosystem. Isn't the fact life exists at all amazing beyond belief and isn't this what inspired Einstein to travel on the back of a light beam. Must read just for the inspiration the material provides.
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Solarbees Environmentally Friendly Reservoir Management System
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The SolarBee incorporates patented near-laminar radial flow technology that provides high-flow, long-distance circulation™ (LDC) to improve water quality in freshwater lakes and reservoirs, potable water tanks and reservoirs, wastewater ponds and lagoons, and estuarine environments.
Solar-powered, the energy savings from each unit is equivalent to about 220,000 kW hrs per year, or the annual energy requirements for about 20 homes or 25 passenger cars, thereby reducing equivalent carbon dioxide emissions (the leading Greenhouse Gas, GHG) by about 150 tons per year.
We need more responsible technology like this.
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:25 PM |
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Clean Green Investing
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 According to Vinod Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems and one of the driving forces behind the once dominant information technology market, the growing climate crisis not only calls for immediate action, but is also starting to generate real financial opportunities.
Khosla notes that the risks associated with investment in "dirty" technologies, i.e. petroleum products, are rising and clean technologies may provide a lower risk alternatives.
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| posted by speedquill @ 3:15 AM |
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Recycling Really Does Help Our Environment
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 Using recycled copy paper from 100 percent recycled content, such as Harbor 100, instead of copy paper from 100 percent virgin forest fiber reduces total energy consumption 44 percent, net greenhouse gas emissions 38 percent, and particulate emissions 41 percent.
It also cuts both wastewater and solid waste in half and eliminates wood use entirely, according to the EPN report.
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| posted by speedquill @ 2:39 AM |
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How Did Tesla's Radiant Energy Machine Work?
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 Nikola Tesla had an Electric Pierce Arrowback in 1930, the ICE engine was replaced with an Electric Motor. The power source was a black box of radio tubes, in the glove compartment.
The box had an antenna sticking outand Tesla would fool with some tuners and tune in the right frequency and got 240 volts delivered through the air to his car. The car ran almost silent.
He had the car stashed in a barn near Niguera Falls. He was sending the energy from the Power Plant, some how. He said this power could be made possible for everyone. J.P.Morgan did not like the idea, because where do you put the meter?
Morgan stopped funding and Tesla's Wardencliffe Tower was taken down. We were denied FREE power. Now we pay for gas & SMOG. Labels: electric cars, tesla |
| posted by speedquill @ 3:12 PM |
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Is It Possible To Run Your Car On Water?
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Jan 23, 2008 |
 Well, water is supplemental to gasoline. However it is possible and VERY EASY to extract energy from water to run your car on water too.
I have a water-to-energy converters running in my cars since 2006. YOU CAN TOO. I'm about to tell you about a SIMPLE technology you can have right now, called . It's one of the most PRACTICAL free-energy devices, marked by extraordinary simplicity and effectiveness.
We have developed devices that use a little electricity out of your car's battery, to separate water into a gas called HHO (2 Hydrogen + 1 Oxygen). HHO, also called Brown's Gas or Hydroxy, burns beautifully and provides TONS of energy - while the end product is just WATER!
Mobile Magazine says "HHO provides the atomic power of Hydrogen, while maintaining the chemical stability of water."
Pound for pound HHO GAS IS 3 TIMES MORE POTENT THAN GASOLINE!!! HHO is a fast growing trend for boosting performance and MPG.
For the full skinny on his amazing technology, just click here. Labels: emission reductions, water power |
| posted by speedquill @ 12:22 PM |
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Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
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 Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) are an emerging trend in automotive circles, and consumer interest is growing rapidly. PHEVs combine the environmental and economic benefits of pure battery electric vehicles with the extended range of a gas internal combustion engine to meet the needs of virtually all consumers.
Based on the success of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), several aftermarket companies are currently working to modify these vehicles to become PHEVs, by adding significantly larger battery packs, adjusting the operating software to allow for higher speed to be achieved in pure electric mode, and mounting a Delta-Q charger onboard.
Some large automakers are involved in trials of commercial PHEVs, and others are seriously investigating this solution to provide substantial increases in fuel economy, with 100+ mpg as the design goal.
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:27 AM |
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Biomass Sufficient To Displace 30 Percent Of US Petroleum Consumption
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 Producing ethanol from cellulose promises to greatly increase the volume of fuel ethanol that can be produced in the U.S. and abroad.
A recent report found the land resources in the U.S. are capable of producing a sustainable supply of 1.3 billion tons per year of biomass, and that 1 billion tons of biomass would be sufficient to displace 30 percent or more of the country's present petroleum consumption.
Currently, Iogen Corporation in Ottawa, Canada produces just over a million gallons annually of cellulose ethanol from wheat, oat and barley straw in their demonstration facility.
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I Know The Politicians Won't Get It, But 1-1=0.
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 It amazes me how these people get elected, if you co-generate the biofuel ( for the pollies, you use the same fuel you are generating, there should be about a zero contribution to Ghg's, because they cancel each other out.
Using algae to produce biodiesel, the algae has to take up the same amount of co2 to produce the same amount of biodeisel it usually produces. Thus 1-1=0.
Oh, but you say what about the green waste. You burn it and run the emission after aclimatisation through the algae, until no co2 is left to return to the environment.
So you balance the emission everytime you produce an equivalent amount of biodeisel, thus zeroing the effect on the environment. Think about it.
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| posted by speedquill @ 3:23 AM |
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British MPs fear effects of biofuels
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 Better off with oil? : Producing some biofuels could emit more gases than fossil fuels, some critics warn, and lead to the demise of rainforests to make room for crops THE OBSERVER, LONDON Monday, Jan 21, 2008, Page 6
Controversial plans to make cars greener by using fuel made from crops and animal fat will be thrown into doubt this week when British members of parliament are expected to question whether they will do more harm than good.
Biofuels have been hailed as a green alternative to oil by some, but in the US, where there are massive plants converting corn, it has been criticized for making food more expensive and being environmentally unfriendly.
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| posted by speedquill @ 3:14 AM |
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75% Reduction In Energy Costs With Geo-Thermal
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 Up to 75% energy saving due to reduced energy consumption EarthLinked® offers the most energy efficient means of heating and cooling buildings in most areas.
Boasting a certified coefficiency of up to 8.0, Earthlinked systems reduces cooling costs an average of 30% as compared to a 10 SEER air conditioner, and heating costs by 75% as compared to electric heat.
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| posted by speedquill @ 2:53 AM |
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We Need More Initiatives Like Lunar Power
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 A drama is unfolding in New York City's East River. This summer the Popsicles at a Gristedes supermarket on Roosevelt Island, midstream between Manhattan and Queens, will be kept icy by power generated just a stone's throw from the riverbank.
Anchored 30 feet down, six underwater turbines will turn day and night, driven by the tidal flows in the channel.
At a fish-friendly 35 rpm, the propellers will crank out up to 200 kilowatts of clean power, or roughly half the peak needs of the supermarket.
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Without question, fresh water is our most precious resource, and as the population increases, so too will the cost of water.
The Desert™ Cube Waterless Urinal System is a simple and effective way you can help solve this economic and environmental challenge. Using natural microbial technology to control odours and the build up of uric scale, the Desert™ Cube system is rapidly transforming washrooms across Australia.
The benefits are not only in the massive water savings, but also in odour elimination, chemical free maintenance and improved hygiene.
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| posted by speedquill @ 2:25 AM |
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Future House USA Ready For China
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 The Future House program is designed to promote energy-saving strategies and construction that will have a minimal impact on the global environment. Which is one reason that China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is sponsoring the demonstration project.
Another reason that China has taken the lead is that while its economy has undergone a dramatic transformation, and the country is now a major participant in the global markets, one sector that has not kept pace is housing. "The need for housing is huge, especially in emerging countries like China," Bialecki says.
As a result, nearly five years ago, the construction ministry authorized the Future House project to demonstrate the latest concepts in renewable-energy sources, modern conservation technologies, environmental compatibility and sustainable construction practices from around the world.
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| posted by speedquill @ 2:09 AM |
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The Link Between Peace And The Environment In Indonesian Schools
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 In a remote part of Central Java, Indonesia’s most populous island, there is a rather unusual form of environmentalism taking root.
Shadowed by the great Merapi volcano and surrounded by fertile fields of rice and sugarcane, a small school is graduating environmentalists whose commitment to the earth is not based on Western conservation texts but rather predicated in values derived from Islam.
The head of the school, Nasruddin Anshari, frequently uses the refrain “one earth, for all.”
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| posted by speedquill @ 1:50 AM |
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Virgins New Climate Change Fund
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 Unlike typical 'green' funds, The Virgin Climate Change Fund can invest in all industry sectors but will only invest in companies with lighter than average environmental footprints for their sector.
This 'lighter footprint' strategy aims to capitalise on research (1) which suggests that companies with a strong environmental focus can outperform their 'dirtier' competitors.
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| posted by speedquill @ 1:40 AM |
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Biomass The Way To Go In Ethanol Production
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 The majority of ethanol produced in the United States is currently made from corn grain. It currently costs at least twice as much to make ethanol from cellulosic feedstocks than from corn.
Those high costs have thus far limited expansion of cellulosic technology beyond the demonstration phase, but an injection of government funding has sped the process in recent months.
The U.S. Department of Energy rolled out about $1.1 billion in funds to research bioenergy and build six commercial-scale biorefineries to help achieve the goal of increasing renewable fuels use to 36 billion gallons over the next 15 years.
Some or all of those six plants should be up and running in about two years.
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| posted by speedquill @ 12:18 AM |
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How To Make Ethanol
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Jan 16, 2008 |
 Everyday ingredients used in the tips on how to make ethanol are corn, wheat, sorghum, barley and potatoes. In Brazil, the world’s biggest manufacturer of ethanol, sugarcane is used to produce ethanol. There are also two processes by which you can learn how to make ethanol with and these are the dry mill process and the wet mill process. In the US, dry mill process is the one most often used when teaching others how to make ethanol with the starch content of the corn being fermented into sugar to be further distilled into alcohol. Labels: alternative fuels, ethanol |
| posted by speedquill @ 12:57 AM |
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Producing The Next Generation Ethanol Without Using A Food Source
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 Coskata is a biology-based renewable energy company. Our technology enables the low-cost production of ethanol from a wide variety of input material including biomass, municipal solid waste and other carbonaceous material.
Using proprietary microorganisms and patented bioreactor designs, we will produce ethanol for under US$1.00 per gallon.
"GM is enabling Coskata to produce the next generation of biofuels -- without using a food source -- making it economically viable and commercially available," Bill Roe, president and chief executive Coskata.
"Alternative transportation fuels are coming faster than people think . . . and will be available at a lower cost than people have imagined."
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| posted by speedquill @ 12:13 AM |
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A More Responsible GM Invests In Ethanol Production From Biomass
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Jan 15, 2008 |
 WARRENVILLE, Ill., Jan. 13 -- General Motors said Sunday that it has taken an ownership stake and formed a partnership with Coskata, a renewable energy start-up company that plans to produce ethanol from agricultural leftovers and municipal and industrial waste.
The partnership represents a rare foray by a major automaker into the production side of non-fossil fuels as GM and its rivals, under pressure from tougher U.S. fuel-efficiency standards, pursue a mix of fuel-efficient vehicles and technologies.
If all the flex-fuel vehicles produced by GM, Ford and Chrysler, plus those the companies have committed to producing by 2010, were to run on ethanol, they would displace 29 billion gallons of gasoline annually, or 18 percent of the projected petroleum usage at that time, Wagoner said.
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:59 PM |
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Emerging Bio Fuel Technology From DuPont
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 Biobutanol has a higher energy density than ethanol and can be blended at higher ratios with gasoline. It can also be transported by pipeline, a major hurdle facing ethanol shippers, who must rely on trains, trucks or barges.
Car engines have also shown they tolerate more butanol in the gasoline mix than ethanol, Connelly said.
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:34 PM |
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Flexfuel Makes Brazil Self Sufficient For It's Energy Needs
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 Ethanol in Brazil is used in two ways: either blended in a mix of 75% gasoline and 25% ethanol or as pure ethanol pumped directly into a car’s fuel tank. On any given day, motorists across Brazil can stand in front of a pump and decide, based on price, whether they want to put ethanol or gasoline into their “flex-fuel” car engine, or whether they want to blend the two fuels.
The “flex-fuel” vehicles work on any mixture or combination of ethanol and gasoline, so that a motorist can literally put some gasoline in the tank, and later add any quantity of ethanol to the same tank.
In 2006, 80% of light vehicle sales in Brazil were “flex-fuel”. For this basic reason, Brazil has now become self sufficient for its energy needs, with sugar-based ethanol providing 40% of its automotive fuel needs, or 20% of its total energy needs.
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:37 AM |
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The Easy Reference For Anyone Wanting To Build Their Own Solar Energy System
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Jan 14, 2008 |
 Here is an online reference for anyone wanting to understand and installing your own solar electric system. It's a reference book that you can not afford to be without, if you are at all interested in solar electric systems. With the information contained in this ebook, if you are at all handy with tools, you should be well on your way to installing your own moderate sized solar electric system. Even if you're not the handyman type or simply don't have the time to do the actual installation, the knowledge gained from this ebook will allow you to figure out the size of system you need. Labels: alternative energy, solar, sustainability |
| posted by speedquill @ 3:30 AM |
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We Need A More Appropriate Funding Share For Solar Research
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 Scientists long ago calculated that an hour’s worth of the sunlight bathing the planet held far more energy than humans worldwide could use in a year, and the first practical devices for converting light to electricity were designed more than half a century ago.
Yet research on solar power and methods for storing intermittent energy has long received less spending, both in the United States and in other industrialized countries, than energy options with more political support.
Indeed, there are few major programs looking for ways to drastically reduce the cost of converting sunlight to energy and — of equal if not more importance — of efficiently storing it for when the sun is not shining.
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| posted by speedquill @ 2:01 AM |
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This Should Be Every Street Light
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Jan 12, 2008 |
 Solar Wind Technologies LLC configured the system using solar panels, a small wind turbine, batteries and a special lamp, all mounted to a regular light pole. With and a small wind turbine and battery backup.
“This is a great application for the city,” said Mike Correale of Solar Wind Technologies LLC. “With a solar and wind hybrid system, we can extract energy from the sun or the wind, both of which are prominent here in North Texas, generating clean, green energy.” The cost of the solar/wind power system is about $6,600 a pole, but the cost to extend utilities and the average monthly electrical cost of about $400 a pole per year is saved since the light pole doesnt use electricity. Additionally, when the power is out, the light will still be on at night. Labels: renewables, solar, wind power |
| posted by speedquill @ 1:43 AM |
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Safely Site And Install Your Wind Powered Renewable Energy System
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 Wind Energy Basics is an excellent introduction to wind power for educational programs concerned with state-of-the-art renewable energy options, and will be indispensable for those considering today's generation of quiet, efficient, and reliable "micro" wind turbines. |
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An Excellent Anology Of What We appear To Be Doing About Climate Change
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 What would you say if you were on a ship awash in water to the gunwales, and a few people are desperately trying to bail out the ship with a tin cup - while many others are cutting huge gaping holes in the hull with chain saws. You would no doubt think that these people have gone nuts, that they are out of their minds, and that the whole thing is some insanely crazy farce.
For an excellent explanation of carbon sinks click here. |
| posted by speedquill @ 2:35 AM |
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Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions With Seven Key Techniques
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 These seven opportunities outlined in the report, "Towards a High-Bandwidth, Low-Carbon Future: Telecommunications-based Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions" are:
Networked demand-side management to increase renewable energy use.
Integrated personalised public transport.
In-person high-definition videoconferencing to improve business productivity.
Presence-detecting services that turn off devices that are “on” but not being used.
Real-time freight allocation systems to fill empty freight vehicles.
Remote power management for appliances not in use or on “stand-by”.
Teleworking.
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| posted by speedquill @ 1:56 AM |
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Amazing Electricity Prices From OPTA's Wave Energy Generation System
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 Ocean Power Technologies (Australasia) Pty Ltd (OPTA ) is developing and installing an initial 20kW wave-energy generation system, to be moored to the seabed several kilometres off the Victorian coast near Portland.
The wave energy converter, called the Powerbuoy(tm), is fully-submerged and resembles a large ocean buoy. It will generate renewable electricity for transmission via submerged cable to the grid, where it can be sold to retail customers.
Electricity from an installation of multiple PowerBuoy(tm) units is expected to cost around 7 to 12 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) to run compared to the 25 to 50 cents per kWh for diesel-fired generation. This also compares favourably with other renewable sources of energy.
The unit is estimated to have a useful life of at least 30 years.
For Ocean Power Technologies PDF Report on wave technology. Labels: alternative energy, wave power |
| posted by speedquill @ 12:57 AM |
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The Isle Of The Wave Powered Bus
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  The Oscillating Water Column technology is in use in the Isle of Islay, Scotland, where a system called LIMPET has been installed since 2000.
This system has a maximum output of 500 kW. It is ideal for locations where there is strong wave energy, such as breakwaters, coastal defences, land reclamation schemes and harbour walls. This form of energy generation is suitable for producing power for the national grid.
In the Isle of Islay, the electricity generated is being used to power an electric bus, the first bus in the world to use wave power as its fuel. (Green Energy Works, 2006)
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| posted by speedquill @ 12:08 AM |
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Seth Godin's Classic Marketing Book FREE PRIZE INSIDE
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Jan 10, 2008 |
 This is a fantastic book for anyone wanting to get those really important ideas for our precious environment into the world, and he does it easily. It's subtle genius. |
| posted by speedquill @ 5:46 PM |
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Why The Japanese President Should Stop The Whaling Now
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 I remember the last time the Japanese were directing our attention with the shock of " Scientific Whaling", and I created a question for the then opposition for the Howard Government.
It went like this " Will the honorable minister tell us how many things the Japanese have slipped by us, while their "scientific whaling" continues."
The retort to any number given, would of course be:
" Oh, you only noticed that many.....?"
Like many asian races, the Japanese are very thoughtful, intelligent and resourceful partner in creating a better future.
And it is with this in mind, that I kindly ask you if you could find a more humane way to distract our attention. Thank you. Labels: antiwhaling, solutions, species extinctions |
| posted by speedquill @ 1:15 AM |
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Clean Energy From The Wind Powers 26,000 Homes
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Jan 9, 2008 |
 When the 52.5MW Challicum Hills Wind Farm was completed in August 2003, it became Australia’s largest wind farm.
Located on private farming land just east of Ararat in western Victoria, the project generates enough clean electricity to power 26,000 homes each year – about 1.5 per cent of Victoria's residential electricity demand.
Creating significant employment, investment and tourism opportunities in the region.
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Why Is Brown Coal So Dirty?
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 Why is coal doing so much environmental damage?Simple: it is the most carbon-rich of all fossil fuels. Burning coal generates 70% more carbon dioxide (CO2) than natural gas for every unit of energy produced.
Coal is the sedimentary organic rock formed from vegetation that lived millions of years ago.
The most mature coal variety, anthracite - hard, black and lustrous - is nearly pure carbon, and has historically been regarded as useful to humans because of its high energy content.
But dirty brown coal, or lignite, produces most CO2 per unit of energy.
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| posted by speedquill @ 12:32 AM |
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30% Rise In Vicorian GHG Emissions
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 Greenhouse gas emissions from energy production in Victoria have risen by 30 per cent since 1990, new figures show, putting pressure on the state government to do more to tackle climate change.
Victoria's hefty increase, caused mainly by emissions from its Latrobe Valley brown coal-fired power stations, went against the Victorian government's policy of cutting greenhouse emissions by 60 per cent of 2000 levels by 2050, the report said.
Climate Group Australian director Rupert Posner said the state government was not doing enough to reverse greenhouse emissions.
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| posted by speedquill @ 12:23 AM |
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Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
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Jan 8, 2008 |
 Alarming new satellite data show that the warming of the world's oceans is reducing ocean life while contributing to increased global warming.
The ocean's food chain is based upon the growth of billions upon billions of microscopic plants. New satellite data show that ocean warming is reducing these plants ---- thus imperiling ocean fisheries and marine life, according to an article in the Nov. 7 issue of the scientific journal Nature.
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Ocean Colour Clue To Global Warming
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 A green ocean is a productive ocean; the light from the sun helps the phytoplankton -- tiny ocean plants -- to be productive. This production in turn drives ocean food webs.
New research, published in Science on April 26, assesses the color of the ocean and finds that many key ecosystem parameters describing marine food web function are nearly constant across the entire North Atlantic Ocean. The research is also expected to yield clues about the carbon cycle and global warming.
David Siegel, professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and first author on the paper, analyzed satellite ocean color data from the ‘Sea-viewing Wide Field of view Sensor’ called "Sea WiFS" to address the factors regulating the spring bloom of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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| posted by speedquill @ 4:06 AM |
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Emissions Can Overwhelm Planet's Ability To Absorb Carbon
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 One in a new generation of computer climate models that include the effects of Earth's carbon cycle indicates there are limits to the planet's ability to absorb increased emissions of carbon dioxide.
If current production of carbon from fossil fuels continues unabated, by the end of the century the land and oceans will be less able to take up carbon than they are today, the model indicates.
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| posted by speedquill @ 4:00 AM |
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North Sea Efficient Sink For CO2?
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 A relatively large number of algae grow in the North Sea. These form the basis for a much richer food chain than that found in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dutch-sponsored researcher Yann Bozec calculated that coastal seas such as the North Sea remove about three times as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than would be expected on the basis of their small surface area. Labels: carbon sequestration, emission reductions |
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Climatologists Forecast New Climates
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 Geographers have projected temperature increases due to greenhouse gas emissions to reach a not-so-chilling conclusion: climate zones will shift and some climates will disappear completely by 2100.
Tropical highlands and polar regions may be the first to disappear, and large swaths of the tropics and subtropics will reach even hotter temperatures. The study anticipates large climate changes worldwide.
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| posted by speedquill @ 3:39 AM |
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Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide?
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 A physicist from Colorado State University and his colleagues from the North American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned and confirmed the unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels.
Through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, scientists have been able to elucidate why plants are growing more rapidly than they are dying. The NACP is employing methods, such as the use of cell phone and aircraft towers to monitor and retrieve carbon data for their continuing study Labels: CO2 |
| posted by speedquill @ 3:27 AM |
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Could This Fix For Global Warming?
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 Engineers have designed a simple, sustainable and natural carbon sequestration solution using algae. A team at Ohio University created a photo bioreactor that uses photosynthesis to grow algae, passing carbon dioxide over large membranes, placed vertically to save space.
The algae can be harvested and made into biodiesel fuel and feed for animals. A reactor with 1.25 million square meters of algae screens could be up and running by 2010.
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| posted by speedquill @ 3:18 AM |
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