Re: Global Warming / Renewable Energy


"Bonos Ego" <david.geary@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello all,

This is my first ever post here (thanks to Philip Eden for the link).

Without getting into the debate about Israel / Lebanon / Oil etc, here
are my thoughts on global warming and renewable energy.

If for the purpose of this discussion, we accept that global warming
has taken place and is attributable to man because of the burning of
fossil fuels, the two questions are;

Q1. How do we first stop it getting any worse?
Q2. If, and how do we reverse it?

A1.
Install solar panels & a mini wind turbine on each and every home in
the UK, Europe, United States, Rest of the World etc, connect them all
to a local storage unit and a national grid to store any unused energy
for a later date when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow.

Now most families can't afford the initial outlay for the equipment,
the energy companies aren't interested because they don't think there
is any money to be made, and last of all the government will loose
income from taxes such as the climate levy.

We can also make use of tidal flows and wave power.

It doesn't have to be like this.

If the energy companies paid for the equipment using subsidies from the
governments, then leased the equipment to home owners in the form of
rental income, they could still get their monthly charge of say
£30-£40 per household.

A2 We need to find a way of re-locking carbon back into rocks etc,
just like the process of converting wood into coal over millions of
years, but speeded up.

We can either start planting lots of slow growing trees like oak (not
such a bad thing), which will continue taking carbon out of the
atmosphere for hundreds of years, or we can find ways of speeding up
the process and burring the carbon deep underground.

I would be interested to here anyone thoughts on the above.

Regards,



Lets assume that the predominant winds in the UK still come from the west in
the future, and banks of wind turbans are placed all down the western side
of the UK. Well those on the Eastern side will lose their wind thus making
it nigh on impossible to dry ones washing on a cloudy day. What do they do?
They use the tumble dryer of course. A bit self defeating really


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