Mon, 2008-06-09 12:40 — herb the verb
Here is an exerpt:
"Bottom line, decreasing fossil fuel use in the developed world by 30% nets a total increase of carbon emissions of nearly 30% using current trends in India and China alone, not to mention the rest of the underdeveloped world."
Please feel free to check my sources, assumptions and math. I will gladly revise accordingly.
So, my first post, and first blogwhore, all wrapped up into one! ;-)
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herb
excellent post.
that's a great picture on your web site.
i see a list of new, to me, websites in the right hand panel.
and a predilection for humor. that's very encouraging.
free advice.
be a capitalist.
don't think of it as "blog whoring";
think of it as a "free advertising" opportunity.
one too good to pass up.
turkana.s. and mary at the left coaster also post often on environmental matters.
Quite the Moral Conundrum Isn't It?
We see some developing countries finally developing, which could be an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty (not everyone, but some people). However, they need energy and the cheapest, most widely available energy for them to use with their infrastructure puts all of our existences at risk. Even if we clean up our own act.
We are so screwed.
Congrats on starting your own blog. A worthy project.
I had an earlier, related post
Regarding the conflict between "conventional" environmental responses and the energy needed to enact them.
I call it the "Carbon Benefit Analysis". It is going to take a radical re-alignment of environmental theology to have any hope of reversing current trends and by necessity that requires the active involvement of industry.
Finding common ground and language to quantify progress/reward is also required work.
As for the pics, I took both of those. The turbines are in the Fenton Wind Farm near Chandler, MN.
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Good night and good riddance!
math!
i tried it too, over at your blog [and welcome to blogtopia!]. the future does not look rosy, but it's sure good reason to ramp up our use of solar, wind, etc now. maybe even help out china and india and africa with setting up their solar and wind power.
Nuclear
Yeah, I know, but what the hell, may as well piss off everyone.
Cookie-cutter construction keeps the cost down, build them small and close to the demand to reduce line loss, amortized over lifespan the delivered cost can be as low as 12 cents/kwh.
Used recycle and storage should be done under IAEA, with final waste stored on site. No need to trasnport other than for fuel delivery. All the istes will need to be guarded, why not guard the waste with the site.
on-site nookyoolar waists
going on 3 decades now since i toured the particular nuclear plant, but they had planned on-site storage for 25 years' worth of spent fuel, in those 'swimming pools' they build just for the purpose [gawd, are those things cool to stare into!]
at the time, the plant had been in operation 12 years [or had 12 years storage left, i forget which] but they were fully expecting that somebody would design something and sure enough, somebody did come up with something and that plant, and many others, were able to exted their on-site storage.
soon, though, there ws no longer room on-site for any more pools and casks and so specialized facilities, just for storing nuclear plants' wastes on 'farms' of dry casks began to spring up around the country.
fast forward to a decade or so ago, and strictly as a matter of serendipity, in a bad-karma kind of way, the company that owned that plant was trying to buy primo farmland this||close to my family's farm, three states away, because it had run out of space yet again. took us nearly 10 years, but we finally managed to run them off. no telling which community ended up being their unwilling neighbor finally.
i'm ordinarily not opposed to starting much-needed drastic measures even with no clear endings in sight, but not on this.