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Local NYC bodybuilding legend and writer of "Work out, lose weight, and stop being single"
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I'd suggest checking out the book Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think. It covers a lot of the big problems today and how we can solve them along with the underlying forces driving such innovation.
Gas prices have nothing to do with the fact that we don't drill more. CBO, which is not a partisan group, already said that even if we drilled it'd take years before we could fully utilize it. OPEC determines the price of gas, period.
China is also the world's largest producer in solar panels to the point that the US levied a tariff against them. They also invest heavily in nuclear energy. They also include CO2 pollution in their industrial calculations. It's an embarrassment that China is more forward thinking than the US and using our own research to further themselves.
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Local NYC bodybuilding legend and writer of "Work out, lose weight, and stop being single"
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How do I delete this thread? This is over a year old!!!!!
I will tackle the electric cars one:
1.) An electric motor is way more efficient than an gasoline engine
2.) Electric motors can also produce a much wider torque range, so electric cars do not need a transmission
3.) No oil changes ever
4.) No cooling system, because an electric motor does not produce much heat
I believe this will eventually produce a much simpler car that is way more reliable and efficient, with far less maintenance. The limiting factor now is battery/charging technology which is improving every day.
New electric cars:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/top-5-electric-cars-summer-2013/9742-1_53-50149088.html
This guy is right on 100% correct green energy is pure bullshit you will not live long enough to get your money back unless you live as long as ,moses did
Drilling for oil does not damage the environment, it improves the human environment. The industrial revolution and your lifespan past the age of 30 are largely because of the effect of fossil fuels on improving the standard of living of human beings. My environment is radically better sitting on a mattress made of oil synthetics, wearing polyester clothes made of oil, typing on my laptop with a screen and plastic made of oil, in a room with paint on the walls made of oil, eating an apple grown thanks to petroleum based fertilizers products, seeing through contact lenses made of oil, rather than being without those things. Oil is not just used to transport things. It is the lifeblood of civilization and the foundation of our standard of living. If anything, the world needs more oil, especially the 1.5 billion people who don't have electricity.
The human environment as you refer to it is not the only one. I am not so self absorbed as to think that humans are the only ecosystem that matters. Also my problem is with oil in cars and jets as they are the main uses for it. If we get rid of those we will have enough clean oil to make clothes and anything else for the foreseeable future. Oil might be the life blood of society as you say but it is far far from limitless. We can't just keep drilling as Power says we should. We will have to go deeper and deeper, look harder and harder, and finally run out. I'm not talking about in the short term. I'm talking about the world I would want to have children and grandchildren in. Nuclear is a good option however people are wrongly scared. If planned properly nuclear power plants are the safest place on earth.
Get rid of cars and jets you must be crazy how would you get anywhere walk across the pacific to get to Japan we couldn't take a ship because they run on fossil fuels all this nonsense that it will take years to get to our LIMITED RESERVES turns out we have more reserves than the middle east and we are already producing hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil from the bakken and eagle ford sites
We don't need to drill more. Drilling damages the environment and there will be a time when we run out. We need to improve solar and wind energy to the point where they are the better option. Companies that produce appliances must be regulated more closely in terms of energy consumption. Gas will become increasingly hard to get as we drill farther and farther down. If we increase government funded projects to research alternative energy, we will increase jobs. IF enough improvement happens maybe we in the cloudy states will be able to power more than some light bulbs.If you remember Tynan can power his entire setup with one solar panel. So if you have three or four you could probably get by in New York.
More bullshit one solar panel will barely produce enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb obviously you don't even know how they work do some research before you pop off about something look on the internet it describes how a solar panel produces electricity and only when the sun is out how would something like that work in aaska in the wintetime