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Global Warming and what you can do to against it
Dear All,
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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Global Warming and what you can do to against it
Dear ...:
On Feb 21, 2:11*pm, "..." wrote: As you know global warming is endangering the future of life on the planet. Why do you think this is an appropriate topic for sci.astro? Water vapor I accept, but CO2 I don't. As you also know global warming is produced due to CO2 emissions coming from burning of fossil fuels. Do we know this, or do only some of us think this is the mechanism? 1) Insulation: .... 2) Using rechargable batteries instead of alkaline batteries, .... Recycle the batteries. 3) Lightning; the use of Compact fluorescent lamps .... Adds mercury to the environment. Either recycle or use LEDs instead. 4) Buying local. .... also, grow your own food. 5) Heating; .... move to a warmer climate. 6) Your car; .... you do not need 2000+ pounds of personal jewelry to ferry your butt around day to day. Use public transportation. Cars are for moving "off grid". 7) Buying A++ or A+++ equipments. .... Buy recycled / used equipment. 8) Try to save also energy at your job; .... sleep at your desk? 9) Solar cells for your own home; .... Reduce surface population by 90%. Have a viable space program. David A. Smith |
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Global Warming and what you can do to against it
On Feb 21, 1:11*pm, "..." wrote:
Dear All, 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. I agree, but can you get any words of wisdom out of Steven Chu? ~ BG |
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Global Warming and what you can do to against it
"..." wrote in message ... Dear All, As we know you are a ****in' ignorant pest, you've been answered on this before. **** off. |
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Global Warming and what you can do to against it
How warm does our moon(Selene) keep us?
One degree F/decade? One degree F/century? One degree F/millennium? One degree F/ten millennium? How much warmer can we allow Eden/Earth to get? How much increase in nighttime cloud-cover can we live with? How much human warming and polluting assistance can Earth stand? How much more of Earth’s hydrogen and helium can we afford to lose? Our lithosphere gets continually morphed along by a substantial composite of gravity tidal waves .55 meter at the equator that migrates and/or reverberates throughout as causing an Earth warping/ undulating surface bulging/sinking kind of ride that’s roughly 2/3 moon and 1/3 solar, that’s also fast moving and can’t but help trigger tectonic quakes via modulating our broken lithospheric plates that otherwise merely slip and slide into and under one another relatively harmlessly. In other words, the morphing/distorting or modulation of our lithosphere and mantel is perhaps more responsible for causing ocean tides than is gravity itself pulling upon water, and it’s certainly the most likely earthquake trigger, especially whenever there’s 3+ body alignments taking place. Moon orbits us at 1022 m/s = 16.957 m/s at the surface equator of Earth, but of course that’s only if Earth wasn’t itself rotating at 465 m/s. (465 –17 = 448 m/s is actually one heck of a nifty form of lithosphere modulation or tidal velocity as a continuous geophysical morphing shock-wave, of subsequent seismic and geothermal dynamics to always deal with) I wonder what the all-inclusive cost in hundreds of billions or perhaps trillions per year that such damage and losses to us humans, our infrastructures and the environmental trauma via earthquakes involve. Looks as though March 14~15th, 29~30th, April 13~14th and similar future alignment dates are worth paying closer attention to. http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/sto...moonphase.html Relocating our captured moon(Selene) out to Earth L1 isn’t going to happen overnight (more like taking a century) nor will this eliminate ocean tides, although it’s going reduce those tides by at least 50% plus cut those pesky lunar induced seismic trigger considerations by at least 8:1, as well as giving us roughly 3% of badly needed shade to work with. In my book of constructively doing stuff which directly benefits the greater good, that’s called a win-win-win. Perhaps our lunar tidal energy should be reinterpreted as essentially extreme long-wave IR that doesn’t reflect but penetrates and morphs or modulates throughout the crust and mantel, distorting our relatively thin lithosphere 55 cm at 448 m/s, and then via secondary convection up-welling that obviously does eventually manage to get rid of such geothermal energy, is exactly what contributes the bulk of heat and pollution to our surface and atmospheric environment. If it was just up to the much weaker tidal influence of Earth’s rotation and that of our sun with its illuminating form of heat, and especially if this were accepted without a seasonal tilt and having less global nighttime cloudiness, we’d be extensively iced-up nearly to the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Ideally, if the global warming nighttime cloud cover doesn’t increase we’re better off having a moon that continually modulates the entire body of this thin-crusted planet. However, the nature of this evolving planet plus we humans as having extensively increased the amounts of atmospheric water saturation, as well as our having made it sooty and acidic enough to etch class, whereas this kind of artificial global dimming and increased nighttime cloud cover is not exactly helping to keep us cool or much less weather stabilized, whereas slow glacial ice and compacted snow stores hot and cold energy as well as the bulk of fresh water in a very controlled method that’ll be hard to replace or do without. Earth has been surface radiating its core energy at roughly 64 TW, while holding onto that moon has been contributing 2e20 N.m/sec 55,555 TW (some of which [let us say at the very least 0.1%] becomes geothermal thermal energy). In other words, without our moon (-56 TW), the core radiated heat of Earth w/o moon might become worth as little as 8 TW which shouldn’t hardly thaw any ice. 1 btu = approximate amount of energy needed to heat 0.4527 kg of water by one degree Fahrenheit, and most often that’s also given or interpreted as to represent that volume of h2o that’s heated by one degree per hour, mostly because that’s how we apply and measure our energy usage, and otherwise the energy as a measure of Joules is always per second unless specified otherwise. 1 btu = 1055.06 joules 1 kw.h = 3412 BTU.h 1 kw.h = 3.6e6 joules 8.34 pounds = one gallon of pure h2o 8.356 btu/gal/1°F rise/hr (based on 1g/cm3 density) 8.356 btu/3.783 kg = 2.209 btu/kg (based on 1g/cm3 density) 2.209 btu = 2.3306e3 J 2.209 btu/kg/1°F rise/hr (based on 1g/cm3 density) Earth mass = 5.974e24 kg 5.974e24 * 2.209 = 13.1966e24 btu to get Earth warned up by 1°F However, the average density of Earth is roughly 5.5 times greater than water. 13.1966e24 * 5.5 = 7.26e25 btu in order to sustain the whole body of Earth as getting warmed up by an extra 1°F 7.26e25 btu * 1.055e3 = 7.66e28 J If 100% of the 2e20 N of tidal binding force were converted into thermal energy: 7.66e28/2e20 = 3.83e8 seconds 3.83e8/3.1536e7 = 12.145 years per 1°F rise. It’s perfectly clear that any large and/or massive enough asteroid in a sufficiently nearby orbit of a given planet can make that planet a little hotter from the inside out. By any conceivable interpretation, our moon(Selene) of 7.35e22 kg that may have started out as an icy 8.35e22 kg in a much closer orbit and even upon physically encountering us, more than qualifies. There’s even an extensive NASA infomercial production as public funded and televised on PBS as well as available on DVD, of nifty animation eyecandy as to how such an asteroid/moon activated a dormant magnetic field and otherwise heated up the planet Mars. I personally could doubt that more than 10% of this GW trend via tidal interaction is the case, although it could easily be worth as great as 90%, making that timeline of global warming via tidal binding forces more like 121.45 years per 1°F rise, and of course Earth always radiates at least 90% of energy influx which then makes it worth 1214.5 years per 1°F rise, although as to where the other energy is going I haven’t the slightest idea (similar to our LHC having lost track of 98% of their proton quark/higgs mass or strange dark-matter), unless it’s sustaining some kind of electrostatic charge differential, but then what planet couldn’t use a few trillion naked/rogue Higgs and magnetic holes to go along with its LHC gamma. Of course the moon itself isn’t a ball of solid/fused inert rock, and therefore some kind of geothermal considerations with considerably less geodynamic activity than Earth has to coexist under that unusually thick and mineral saturated lunar crust. So, as I research and manage to learn more, I’ll have to continually rethink in order to update/revise this ongoing interpretation, because I doubt others with better physics and science expertise that are mostly public funded will bother to help investigate, perhaps because supposedly Earth has nearly always had that physically dark and crystal dry moon of ours that we still can’t set up any camp/habitat upon or within, nor can we even utilize its zero delta-V L1. There’s also the near zero delta-V of Cruithne that’s never too far away, at 1.3e14 kg (about right for a spent carbonado comet core) as a somewhat second captured moon of ours (discovered long after our Apollo missions), as also held by a fairly complex set of Newtonian gravity constraints that’s a little odd but none the less stable. Most likely this once icy Cruithne also bounced off something like Earth (perhaps 65 million years ago), and thereby having lost/ transferred all of its icy payload in order to stick with us. Its original comet payload of ice could have been worth 2.7e14 kg, although its initial icy mass and date of encountering us is currently unknown unless you’d care to reconsider that Yucatan impact site. The physical elements or unusual attributes of Cruithne should prove extremely interesting, but even though well enough within existing resolution of present day astronomy, especially whenever it’s nearby and otherwise easily viewed in detail by a probe fly-by, though unfortunately it’s still being kept pretty much taboo/nondisclosure rated by those in charge of mainstream damage-control of moons not being captured. The co-orbital Cruithne-3753 (our binary moon or planetesimal/ asteroid) eventually gets within 38 lunar distance, thus it would become similar to seeing a 130 meter resolution of our lunar surface is what’s needed in order to deal with directly imaging this little target from Earth, and KECK with its 395 meter FL and f40 secondary mirror could accomplish this. Image simulations of a 5 km asteroid: http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2009...uithnexx_1.jpg http://www.pagef30.com/2009/07/colon...-cruithne.html Brad Guth, Brad_Guth, Brad.Guth, BradGuth, BG / “Guth Usenet” |
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