is efficiency. We have to start using less energy on a personal basis. Our power hungry live style has to change or we continue on this path of destruction we've been on for a long time now. I'm scared to death of Nuclear but yet I see the writing on the wall about our continued use of fossil fuels to the point its becoming clearer to me that maybe one is more rational than the others are due to the CO2 factor. Maybe we do need to ramp up research on, Oo I hate to say this but I must, Nuclear. I don't think its the holy grail by any measure but I am beginning to think maybe it is needed in the mix with solar and wind.
I find it hard to believe that we can't use the difference in temperatures between the surface and thousands of feet under our feet to create more of our energy needs. Pretty much reverse the air conditioner cycle and use the expanding gases to turn turbines directly rather than a using a phase change with water and all the related machinery of accomplishing that. I don't know the answers but I do know that we have to do something different than the way we're doing it now.
Cleaning up our act will go a long ways to buying us time to do this research on alternates but changing habits is hard to do as we all know.
I've often thought of going out in my shop and trying to figure something out using the energy thats in the temperature differences of surface and below surface. I have a well that is not used for anything and most times there is a temperature gradient between that environment and the air outside. Trouble is I really don't have the expertise nor the equipment to do this so I'm left with what the fuck like most of us are. There are those who do have this knowledge and available equipment. Why aren't they working on that, maybe they are and I just don't know where to get that information to assure me that they are, I just dont'know.
We have to do something besides sitting on our hands or throwing them up and screaming oh shit the world is getting warmer and its causing all kinds of havoc and it will continue as long as we continue as we are now
We need to do something about population growth and need to be doing that RIGHT FUCKING NOW. Who knows that may be the answer to these questions I keep seeing. On its own the number of people will continue as long as fucking is more popular than dying so maybe we need to put limits on how many new humans we can make on an individual level as China does. In the whole scheme of things the population of the planet earth is probably a lot more stable than it appears. We're adding people but at the same time we're subtracting all other life forms.
On a personal level I've decreased my carbon foot print considerably in the last 25 years or so but I'm just one of billions
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