Global Warming and what you can do to against it
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As you know global warming is endangering the future of life on the
planet. It will also affect us;
rising sea levels, dwindling water supplies, mass deaths due to heat
waves, stoppage of the gulfstream, which
brings milder climate to north of Europe, super hurricanes, less food
due to droughts are some of the effects.
As you also know global warming is produced due to CO2 emissions
coming from burning of fossil fuels. So what
can every single person do to reduce global warming ?
1) Insulation: Do you know that you can save 50% of heating energy
(and money) by insulation ? Especially in
the times the financial crisis, you can make the insulation cheaper
and save the money when oil, natural gas and
coal prices are higher due to higher demand. What needs to be
insulated ? Firstly the Roof, since warmer air
goes up, then the windows (tripple glass or at least dual glass and
shutters for additional insulation at night,
and in summer time), then the outer walls. Also small cracks, leaks in
weatherstrips etc should be eliminated.
An infrared inspection of your house for heat losses would be the best
way to find out what else can be done.
A wintergarden will help heating your house additionally in winter
time.
2) Using rechargable batteries instead of alkaline batteries, and
charge them during less demand ours like at night
will also save a lot of energy and money.
3) Lightning; the use of Compact fluorescent lamps instead of
traditioanl light bulbs will save 80% of energy, the
use of very new LED lamps will save even more.
4) Buying local. Most of the energy is spent for transportation of
imported goods, especially food. By buying local
made food you not only save a lot of energy, but also create more jobs
at home.
5) Heating; there are several way to save energy and money by changing
the heating method; you can use the free heat
of the nature by adding a solar thermal equipment to heat the water
for taking showers and also to heat your home.
Additionally you can use a heating pump, which funtions like a reverse
fridge; it takes the heat of the outside and
transfers it to your home. You use much much less energy to do this
(electricity to pump a liquid).
6) Your car; by buying a hybrid car you save 30% of fuel, by
converting your car to CNG (compressed natural gas) you
can save a lot of CO2, since CNG has much less carbon but more
hydrogen, which will result in water (CH4 instead of
C8H18). CNG will also result in much more energy output per mass. The
conversion is not very expensive. It is totally
save, since the storage has to resist a certain pressure.
Of course there are also other smaller things you have to consider:
- Each 60 pounds increases fuel consumption by 10%.
- Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration, and hard braking)
wastes gas. It can lower your highway gas mileage
33% and city mileage 5%.
- Drive at lowest and constant rpms; 2000 rpm are enough; you can save
up to 30%. Even a Porsche can be driven at the
4th gear at 20 mph and at the 6th gear at 50 mph with 2.5 times less
fuel consumption.
- Avoid high speeds. Driving 75 mph, rather than 65 mph, could cut
your fuel economy by 15%.
- Use air conditioning only when necessary
- Keep tires properly inflated and aligned to improve your gasoline
mileage by around 3.3%.
- Replace clogged air filters to improve gas mileage by as much as 10%
and protect your engine
- Combine errands into one trip. Several short trips, each one taken
from a cold start, can use twice as much fuel as
one trip covering the same distance when the engine is warm. Do not
forget that in the first mile your car uses 8
times more fuel, in the second mile 4 times and only after the
fourth mile it becomes normal
7) Buying A++ or A+++ equipments. The extra money you pay for this
will be back in 1-2 years. It will save a lot of CO2.
8) Try to save also energy at your job; you can do it by insulation,
more efficient processes, heat recovery, more
efficient pumps/engines, low temperature processses, material
saving, water savings, optimization, automatic turning
off of unnecessary energy using processes, control if some
processes are really necessary (the change of some
processes makes other processes sometimes unnecesarry on which
nobody has thought about).
9) Solar cells for your own home; at the moment solar cells are very
cheap since there is an overproduction. These cells
can operate a fridge for example.
Regards.
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david hicks
emmisions marlarky is nothing to do with saving the planet.
I think it is a rouse to create new industries and perhaps take power away
from oil producing countries
I dont know what it is like in other parts of the world, but here in the UK,
we are being treated to some rather complex and rapidly changing building
regulations, that hardly any one understands, and most are ignoring. I even
have examples of those that are supposed to enforce it, blatently not
understanding teh regulations.
If this were really about saving the planet, then surely enforcement would
be far greater
David Hicks
PeterD
<da...@dha-ltd.co.uk> wrote:
>I am rapidly becoming convinced that all this Global warming and carbon
>emmisions marlarky is nothing to do with saving the planet.
>
It has everything to do with (political) power and wealth, and nothing
to do with the planet or the overall good of the human race. It is a
scam designed to be difficult to disprove, but allow the likes of
people like Al Gore (who has one of the most polluting homes in
existance, which is justifies by saying he "buys carbon credits").
He's slime.
>I think it is a rouse to create new industries and perhaps take power away
>from oil producing countries
Nothing that deep. Much is Gore's attempt to be elected president. A
post he deserves like I deserve to be the world's richest man. With
luck neither will happen.
>
>I dont know what it is like in other parts of the world, but here in the UK,
>we are being treated to some rather complex and rapidly changing building
>regulations, that hardly any one understands, and most are ignoring. I even
>have examples of those that are supposed to enforce it, blatently not
>understanding teh regulations.
Ill thought out, knee jerk reactions to a problem that doesn't exist.
As someone outside the UK, I believe you folks need to wrest your
government under control. It is clearly building on the Orwellian 1984
model.
>
>If this were really about saving the planet, then surely enforcement would
>be far greater
>
>David Hicks
About money... Simply money. And power... And more power...
Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
? "PeterD" <pet...@hipson.net> ?????? ??? ??????
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the acid rain. Now it's the fucking CO 2. What shall I do, cut my
electricity and walk to work, or go back to stone age. The new perpetuum
mobile, the windmills, electric cars and (supposedly) hydrogen.
--
Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
major in electrical engineering
mechanized infantry reservist
hordad AT otenet DOT gr
Art
> ? "PeterD" <pet...@hipson.net> ?????? ??? ??????
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>> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:43:47 -0000, "david hicks"
>> <da...@dha-ltd.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I am rapidly becoming convinced that all this Global warming and carbon
>>> emmisions marlarky is nothing to do with saving the planet.
>>>
> Indeed, yes. first it was the leaded gasoline, then the ozone layer, then
> the acid rain. Now it's the fucking CO 2. What shall I do, cut my
> electricity and walk to work, or go back to stone age. The new perpetuum
> mobile, the windmills, electric cars and (supposedly) hydrogen.
>
Don't forget about the avian flu and then the swine flu. There seems to
always be something to point at and cry "the end of the world is near!"
--
a skeptic
CrxCh...@anonamoo.com
If you noticed at the Global warming summit that President Obama attended in
Europe this december there was a bigger meeting going on...
The heads of Russia and Obama got together to try to work out a deal on
Nuclear Weapons treaty that had expired weeks before...
GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WARMING
but that aside and ... really think about it because they weren't there to
talk about much else...
If we can find a solution to cheap solar it could be installed on every
building .. that along with wind and geothermal could reduce our need for
nuclear power.
Right now it costs more for a solar panel then it does for a Widescreen LCD
TV and how the hell is that even possible???
the technology, man hours and materials needed to build a Wide screen TV is
much more then a piece of crap solar panel.
THE PROBLEM IS NO BIG COMPANY WILL MASS PRODUCE THEM...
This will lead countries to depend on Oil, coal and NUCLEAR energy...
Tell the truth would you rather see windmils on the side of the road or live
within the meltdown zone of a nuclear power plant???
Solar panels will not kill you if they break like a release of radiation
from a nuclear power plant...
Also we need to reduce emmisions in our cities for health reasons... not
because the sky is falling....
BUT THINK OF THIS
THERE IS A BIG DAM HOLE IN THE OZONE LAYER OVER AUSTRALIA
Does anyone believe it is from women spraying too much hair spray in the
1950's ?
OR MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE FRANCE / USA AND OTHERS LIGHT OFF ABOUT 4,000
NUCLEAR TESTS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC...
they wont tell us the truth because its too dam scarry...
BUT do we really need every little country in Africa and South America and
Arab Countries with Dozens of Nuclear Power Plants...
HELL NO!
So someone needs to start making solar panels for our electric grid...
and we need to start making Hybrids that can power trucks for distribution
of food and other products not just little cars no one likes to drive....
We will also need to move to more Rail for distribution of products to local
terminals.
This is the truth ... think about it.
Obama now wants to expand nuclear power plants... we can not afford to store
the waste we can not put our families at risk...
$2500 to retrofit every home with solar...
Cheap pannels that can provide what we need and an inverter to send daytime
energy back to the grid to power schools and industry.
IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
it is old technology over 40 years old...
They don't have to be perfect they just need to be cheap.
AND ITS NOT ABOUT LOSING YOUR FREEDOM OR BECOMING A FREAK...
If we can mass produce solar at such a cheap price then Iran and all the
other assholes have no reason to say they need nuclear energy plants..
WE CAN DO IT ... we just need honest people willing to get er done.
"david hicks" <da...@dha-ltd.co.uk> wrote in message
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PeterD
>Global Warming is not the reason to improve our cars, homes and industry.
>
Good quality 2x4s when framing will help limit global warming, but I
recommend using 2x6 for exterior walls.