Doesn't work so well for the ~12 hours it is dark.
solar updraft towers then
Doesn't work so well for the ~12 hours it is dark.
solar updraft towers then
Doesn't work so well for the ~12 hours it is dark.
Fuel cell storage. The wind doesn't blow 24 hours a day either. Also, we use ridiculous amounts of illumination after dark, much of it wasted and misdirected upwards at the night sky. Just ask an astronomer. Some creative thinking is needed to change and to help this all work. There are so many things that we are doing wrong, to fix it requires a change of mindset, not the same old business as usual. "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
Fuel cell storage. The wind doesn't blow 24 hours a day either. Also, we use ridiculous amounts of illumination after dark, much of it wasted and misdirected upwards at the night sky. Just ask an astronomer. Some creative thinking is needed to change and to help this all work. There are so many things that we are doing wrong, to fix it requires a change of mindset, not the same old business as usual. "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
people don't care enough for those sorts of changes to happen. i think society has been brainwashed into the consumerism ideal of being cool or neat, easy to obtain and cheap (enough to be disposable). quality and longevity of a product no longer seem to matter.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
Capacitors the size of a small office tower should do the trick.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Stamp
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells
people don't care enough for those sorts of changes to happen. i think society has been brainwashed into the consumerism ideal of being cool or neat, easy to obtain and cheap (enough to be disposable). quality and longevity of a product no longer seem to matter.
Can't we have it both ways? Lighting is a great example. LED's are coming down in price, they last a long time and they have a certain cool factor as well. On top of that most of our over consumption is coming out of industry, not the individual consumer, and they are far more interested in their bottom line. Like Duncan was saying about lights shining into the sky. I am guessing most of that light is coming from government or corporate money so they have a real interest in keeping the light only where they need it to save money. In grocery stores now they have directional lighting in the coolers that only come one when someone is standing in front on them. These things pay for themselves pretty fact when energy is expensive.
Why dont they get some desalination going
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/desalination-boom-california-drought-reverse-osmosis
people don't care enough for those sorts of changes to happen. i think society has been brainwashed into the consumerism ideal of being cool or neat, easy to obtain and cheap (enough to be disposable). quality and longevity of a product no longer seem to matter.
Yeah seriously … if you want to beat big, bad corporations, the best way to do it to consume as little as possible. Don't buy stuff you don't need. Don't replace things just "beacause they are old". If a lot of people started hoarding/saving their discretionary funds, a lot of businesses that thrive on this sort of spending would go bust. Of course, this would probably result in a recession or depression, because our economy is based on growth, ad infinitum.
There's s petty big upfront cost too change and very few people will go for it. Doesn't buy votes.
The whole 2008 thing set the world back a fair bit.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Stamp
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H.G. Wells
There's s petty big upfront cost too change and very few people will go for it. Doesn't buy votes.
By the time it becomes apparent that the cost of doing nothing ends up costing more than the cost of change (like say in California - or wherever) then it will probably be too late.
It's not like the rotters didn't know it was coming. As far back as when an RMB Hammer was made with wishbone s/s's the mantra in Santa Cruz was "if it's yellow let it mellow".
Agriculture is the #1 consumer of h20 down there and more and more farmland is being lost to soil salinity.
And stupid stupid stupid BC'ers keep chipping away at the ALR. Astonishingly short-sighted.
Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.
And stupid stupid stupid BC'ers keep chipping away at the ALR. Astonishingly short-sighted.
yep.
….but dont fret. I suspect that BC will become a farming mecca one day,when crops are no longer viable down south.So much farm and pasture land is laying fallow in this province that its not even funny….and much of it has natural water supplies.
Pastor of Muppets
^Captain Crunch will likely eff it all up before she leaves office by allowing mass fracking, mining, dam building, LNG, new subdivisions, private ski resorts, etc:eek:
Why slag free swag?:rolleyes:
ummm, as your doctor i recommend against riding with a scaphoid fracture.
because growing potatoes in delta next to our largest container port is a great utilization of land.
because growing potatoes in delta next to our largest container port is a great utilization of land.
We should pave over the ALR and build moar container ports so that the rest of the world can feed us while we fill our shelves with moar cheap trinkets from China. Its Global Economy 101.
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