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Post by marle on Jun 16, 2012 16:51:35 GMT -5
All the big countries are capable of surviving on an infrastructure based upon renewable resources. Hydrogen, water, geothermal, solar, wind - the list is endless, and by the end of the century, there'll be even more. I'm concerned with unforeseen consequences to 'green' energy technologies. For instance, wind turbines noticeably raise the temperature in the surrounding area. The manufacture of solar panels produces dangerous emissions and chemical by-products. It may sound like I'm just being negative, but my point is, I wonder if we're just shifting the imbalance? Everything in nature exists in balance. What increasingly complex civilizations have been doing is upset that balance. We're finally entering an Age where this is catching up to us. Hopefully the new technologies don't obscure the fact that the way civilization operates is unsustainable. /end of my blathering
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Post by marle on Jul 25, 2012 18:00:11 GMT -5
I gotta say, if this is what we're reduced to, we're in trouble: Climate Scientists lobby governments to spray atmosphere with sulphur dioxide to reduce global warmingThe sulphur particles are meant to be a "protective shield" against the sun. I am very skeptical of these things because I don't know if we're more intelligent than millions of years of evolution and the global ecosystem. How can we know what the long-term consequences will be? Some skeptical climate scientists are even saying this could interfere with rainfall patterns. And who knows all the ramifications of reducing the sunlight the planet normally gets. Strange stuff.
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Post by Astroruss on Jul 26, 2012 17:53:32 GMT -5
All the big countries are capable of surviving on an infrastructure based upon renewable resources. Hydrogen, water, geothermal, solar, wind - the list is endless, and by the end of the century, there'll be even more. I'm concerned with unforeseen consequences to 'green' energy technologies. For instance, wind turbines noticeably raise the temperature in the surrounding area. The manufacture of solar panels produces dangerous emissions and chemical by-products. It may sound like I'm just being negative, but my point is, I wonder if we're just shifting the imbalance? Everything in nature exists in balance. What increasingly complex civilizations have been doing is upset that balance. We're finally entering an Age where this is catching up to us. Hopefully the new technologies don't obscure the fact that the way civilization operates is unsustainable. /end of my blathering Oh, don't worry, you're right, and no you're not just blathering. New energy sources always have side effects. Coal and oil produce a lot of smoke and CO emmissions. Hydroelectric power plants have been known to reak havoc on fertile river systems and bankrupt economies. Fission reactions always give me splitting headaches, and when fussion reactions occur they tend to exacerbate my fear of intimacy. And microwaves cause cancer, but then what doesn't cause cancer these days? Come on, just program yourself to love the damn hot panels and the little bitty subA particles runnign around everywhere. They're like your kids.
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Post by Sexy Spork #37 on Jul 26, 2012 18:43:51 GMT -5
So basically, we're damned if we do anything and damned if we don't do anything?
Maybe we should just do nothing, then.
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