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31-01-2010, 04:05 PM
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| | | what do you think is the best way of making energy?
its a hard 1 wth many options with pros and cons, what do you think? |
31-01-2010, 04:45 PM
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| | | Re: what do you think is the best way of making energy?
Coal, gas and oil, It's the only current option for most nations.
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31-01-2010, 04:55 PM
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| | | Re: what do you think is the best way of making energy?
sorry, i meant renewable |
01-02-2010, 06:12 PM
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| | | Re: what do you think is the best way of making energy?
Well, for starters, we use up a lot of energy making love, so if we all made love using a water bed which incorporated a generator using wave power, that might be a good place to start.
But if you have a couple of pensioners living next door, you might find they keep knocking on your door to borrow some electricity from you.
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01-02-2010, 08:19 PM
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| | | Re: what do you think is the best way of making energy?
energy is neither created nor used up
there is a plan to make a pan European and north Africa power grid that would mean that each resource like wind, waves, solar, hydro, geothermal etc, could all be utilized where they are each most plentiful and then transport it to areas where it is not considered viable to collect resources
though it will take a massive investment in the cable network and then in agreements from all parties involved
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01-02-2010, 08:27 PM
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| | | Re: what do you think is the best way of making energy?
photosynthesis - 9 out of 10 plants recommend it 
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02-02-2010, 05:53 PM
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| | | Re: what do you think is the best way of making energy?
lol thx for all replys  |
02-02-2010, 09:41 PM
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| | | Re: what do you think is the best way of making energy?
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Originally Posted by eeyore  photosynthesis - 9 out of 10 plants recommend it | Indeed, if we ever work out Excatly how these chloroplasts ever harness light energy our energy problems will be a thing of the past |
03-02-2010, 09:34 AM
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| | | Re: what do you think is the best way of making energy?
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Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo Indeed, if we ever work out Excatly how these chloroplasts ever harness light energy our energy problems will be a thing of the past | But we already have? Solar powered calculators etc?
Photovoltaic cells (PV) aka electric solar panels are firmly among us.
We need to reduce our energy consumption as well, which will make the task much easier.
Personally I think we need to do the opposite of building a massive pan-European electricity generation and distribution network and start thinking instead of local generation and use.
Its certainly true that at some point in the future our expectations will have to shift. Oil and other fossil fuels will run out or become uneconomic to extract. If hypothetically we have 40 years of oil left, dont think that in 39 years 11 months time you'll be at the pumps filling up saying "well this is the last tank". Long before then remaining oil stocks will be held back by governments because you cant fight wars without oil.  |
03-02-2010, 11:09 AM
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Oil and other fossil fuels will run out or become uneconomic to extract. If hypothetically we have 40 years of oil left, dont think that in 39 years 11 months time you'll be at the pumps filling up saying "well this is the last tank". Long before then remaining oil stocks will be held back by governments because you cant fight wars without oil.
| As a general statement true, yet we are a long way off from fossil fuel running out for example, Venezuela has recently been reassessed upward to being double the amount of oil than what Saudi Arabia holds, also the USGS (2008) survey shows vast quantities of oil and gas between Alaska and Russia still yet to be exploited, and not forgetting our own stocks of coal which we don't extract due to cost.
As climate changes there will be more opportunity in reaching these hard to get at resources  and technology will increase the percentage upwards of what can be extracted 
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