Re: Time's Warning


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I'm willing to give up the burning of fossil fuel. Global warming. War
in the Middle East. The 9- *trillion* dollar defecit. Western
involvement in Arab affairs. (Let OPEC pound sand. Literally.)


Davoud

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Agreed there are many good reasons to switch from fossil fuel, even
without considering global warming. What are your thoughts on achieving
this goal? If an Apollo like program is the plan, what would you
recommend in the interim for significant CO2 reduction?

Well - seeing as how the Solar System is comprised mainly of hydrogen,
and the largest energy production we know of (nearby) is based on
hydrogen, it would seem sensible to go with a hydrogen based economy, no
? Proven energy generation from mass, plus lots of available fuel seem to
be a couple of fairly compelling reasons..

How about first of all harnessing the freely available solar, wind and
tidal energy on a planetary scale to crack water into its component parts
and compress the hydrogen for storage and transport ( man made
solar/tidal/wind power generating islands in the oceans 100 miles on a
side for example). Then we can recombine the hydrogen and oxygen locally
through fuel cell technology to provide electrical power as needed.

We can of course also use the renewable energy sources directly, but
there is the need for a storage and transport mechanism for energy that
the use of hydrogen would seem to work well for.

And then there's fusion power. Ah - how about some big ass
tokamaks....???

*** - this is easy. It just needs lots of cash and global political
willpower......althoug probably not as much cash as waging war for the
next twenty years.

Kind of tough when the current ruling elite is heavily invested in the
oil business and just loves the current situation ????

Well, if it was that easy, you'd expect a country like Japan to be all
over it. They have cash and technology, their ruling elite is not in the
oil business, and they don't love the current dependency on OPEC.

Fair point.

http://www.nifs.ac.jp/
http://www.jaeri.go.jp/english/fusion/fusion.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4571

The Japanese are indeed one of the largest investors in renewable energy
sources and fusion power. They are also an extremely well disciplined and
frugal people and use about one third the energy per capita of the average
american:

http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2005/06/energy_consumpt.html

In other words, they ARE all over it. They're just not very boastful or loud
about it. Which is good. A quiet revolution wins every time....



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