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Old February 21st 10, 10:11 PM posted to sci.astro
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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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Old February 22nd 10, 12:37 AM posted to sci.astro
dlzc
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Default 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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Old February 22nd 10, 12:38 AM posted to sci.astro
Brad Guth[_3_]
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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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Old February 22nd 10, 12:48 AM posted to sci.astro
Androcles[_27_]
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"..." 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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Old February 28th 10, 04:39 AM posted to sci.astro
Brad Guth[_3_]
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Default 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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