375handh wrote:Zane:

If you are interested in the topic, a much better movie: Cool It.

375handh

EZFlap wrote:1) Newer, safer, higher quality Nuke plants out in the desert, guarded by a much smaller percentage of the US troops and defense resources we now have fighting overseas. That will power the existing grid and support the development of electric vehicles (including some fun little sport flying "toy" airplanes). Put these nukes AWAY from the !(#$*% shoreline, and away from the plate tectonic fault lines. Put 'em in large "biosphere" domes while you're at it, so the water cooling cycle can recover most of the water.

2) Biofuel from the "Jatropha" plant, also grown out in the desert. This plant requires a relatively small amount of water, thrives in sandy hot environment, resists weather and drought, and will yield a reasonably priced DOMESTIC source of diesel fuel. Combine that with efficient vehicle design like the injected turbo diesels, and you reduce pollution/carbon/ozone issues, use less resources, and the absorption of heat energy by these large plant farms REDUCES the global warming by some small amount. Same with the idea of the huge floating algae and seaweed farms... they absorb solar energy and work toward cooling the atmosphere on some tiny level.

3) Use the huge oil reserves we already have, (but use them more wisely and with less environmental damage) due to the other two energy sources above. I'm no oil expert, but all other factors equal there has to be a large savings from domestic oil because of not spending the money on transporting it across an ocean.

That EZ flap guy needs to stop making sense... The guvmint is gonna have him "dispatched".

Combining the three methods above (and whatever else can be figured out by the scientists) will allow us to get off foreign oil very quickly (taking the funding away from the nice Arab terrorists), and we can keep our !($*% wealth in our country, which means we can fix all the other (valid) pressing problems without going bankrupt and becoming a third world country. Rant switch off.

Lizard wrote:Recently read that the next generation of billionaires will be from the renewable energy business.

I just installed a solar well so we will have free water to go with our walmart dog food at retirement.

Thanks Z,
Dale

lownslow79 wrote:

Lizard wrote:Recently read that the next generation of billionaires will be from the renewable energy business.

I just installed a solar well so we will have free water to go with our walmart dog food at retirement.

Thanks Z,
Dale

Lizard, I dont want to hijack this topic, but did you make your own solar well pump or did you buy one? The reason i ask, is that I have been looking at a solar application for some time for use in the Philippines. My In/laws get along just fine using the community well, but they are getting old. would be nice not to have to pump by hand 2x day for cooking and bath. However i am not educated that much about solar or electricity. What are my options?