Originally posted by Wolfman:
This can't go on, but it will. Colorado and Alberta have Oil Shale deposits that dwarf the oil fields of the Arab States, we'll NEVER get the petroleum "Monkey" off our back.
You are right about the Oil-Shale deposits, here are some more Oil/gas findings which should frighten us all.
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/discover/h_left.htm Plus there are some huge Gas reserves under the Mediteranean Sea...off the Egyptian coast and Gaza
I will try to find the URL later (but it is a possible reason for the Israeli/Palestinian peace talks going on at the moment)
Human beings are greedy there is absolutely no way you can get any one to cut down on their use of energy/power. A few hundred or or a few thousand individuals trading in their gas guzzling
tractors for bicycles, and switching off a few light switches will have no effect, other than drive you to mental distraction in the end.
Nevertheless, I am personaly optimistic, even though I know pollution and its effects will get a lot worse in the near future.
I firmly believe that Science will eventually come to rescue our world.
Could we force anyone to use less energy?(without a revolution)
Manufactures will eventually realise that by producing more energy efficient goods that are cheaper, the financial wheels will still keep turning to keep them in business.
Remember radio valves and their hot filaments?
Well I am optimistic that all electrical appliances will be using Transistors that only require 2.6volts (maybe even less) and a few watts to run all the gadgets we now use in homes today. Including LED lighting. At the moment any lighting would be dimmer, electric vehicles would run slower. Street lighting, a terrible waste of power, could be LED on verticle poles. Be lowered down nearer the street, even switch off, when no street movement was detected. There are far too many street lights any way.
Personal security - Goverments and what the present lighting manufacturers have to offer....dictate what they believe is best for public interest. We all started off on the wrong foot, expecting the summer heat and light to last 24 hours a day.
We need to learn to expect less, far less, and relax more instead of driving around at high speeds which require brighter lighting. Manufactures as I stated above have to sell more efficient goods cheaper.
Night lighting, one day might be direct the Sun down to Earth by Mylar reflective parasols.
Hot water for homes is the one item that most of us would complain about, were it to come out less hot, but modern solar collectors such as they use all over Israel, might have to be the standard used.
Recycled everything, and that means Furniture, as another best way to cut down energy/power.
If Manufactures came up with a strong plastic granular "chipboard" filled with everything including plain beach sand? If strong and long lasting and above all cheap, it would catch on.
Prehaps the real problem is the Kilovolt AC transmission lines that carry power across continents. If the final stepdown Transformers were restricted to an output of a few volts, and 5 Amps, (per household)things like pollution would see an immediate change for the better.
But of course that might mean every home and apartement would need one of these low power Tformers installed,.... would we have the copper?
Still if we dont do something, life as we knew it, will come to a slow dirty smoggy halt.
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"You will never find a real Human being - even in a mirror." .....Mike Kremer.
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