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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12122)5/1/2007 6:32:27 PM
From: miraje  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36917
 
Tidal power alone can give us 5 times what the world currently uses.

Be fine if it becomes technologically and economically feasible. I hope it does. Do remember that sea water is very corrosive and that marine plants and critters would like to set up shop on any under water facilities..

Conservation alone will give a 35% cutback.

Without debating numbers, conservation will occur when price dictates it. The market will actually work in this regard if the various "churches" and pols let it..

GM thought higher standards would; now Toyota is the biggest car company in the world.

LOL! Is that because Toyota is advertising the hell out of their new, huge, V8 powered, gas sucking Tundra pickup and running NASCAR with the good ol' boyz?? Too funny!

My daughter is doing a research paper on sequestration.

She and you might be interested in this link. It's five years old and I don't know why, if their 20 cent a gallon cost is accurate, nothing has been done to deploy it..

sciencedaily.com