| General Discussion / Solve the pollution problem | | Author | Message | | | July 5, 2010 - 2:33:02pm | 1 of 5 | | | Login |
| The only way to solve the world's pollution problem is through the use of nuclear power. Don't listen to the oil executives, they want you to use their product. Bio-renewable, tidal power, wind power, and solar power are too expensive to supply the world with energy. If this energy production method is improved upon, even better.
Americans used 126.1805 billion gallons of gasoline in 2009, according to the following website (when you multiply the gallons used per day by 365): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123957686061311925.html. That's 504.722 million tons, and used 1.0004 billion tons of coal in 2009 according to this website: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/page/special/feature.html. That's a combined 1.5 trillion pounds of carbon just for the US.
The polar ice caps will melt, and probably much sooner then the IPCC estimate of the end of the 21st century (Al Gore says just a few years, but he's probably wrong). Ninety years is a short-time to replace all current pollution-generating energy production, yet no steps are being taken.
World coal consumption was 6.7 billion tons in 2006 by the way. The rest of the modern world is building coal power plants very quickly though, especially Indian and China. In the next decade, China will be building 500 coal power plants and 8 nuclear power plants. |
| | | July 5, 2010 - 3:11:26pm | 2 of 5 | | | Login |
| | This doesn't matter. WW3 starts next month. Use all the gas you want and have your beans and beef jerky ready. |
| | | | I can't wait until I buy my very first uranium reactor powered car. |
| | | July 5, 2010 - 5:16:49pm | 4 of 5 | | | Login |
| | Natural gas + nuclear power as the bridge to cheaper/efficient renewables in the second half of the 21st century would make sense. The U.S. has gigantic natural gas reserves compared to it's oil reserves, and converting gas engines to natural gas isn't really that difficult. Who knows why this has never been a priority with all the talk of "energy independence"... |
| | | July 5, 2010 - 6:11:11pm (edit: 7/5/10 - 6:12pm) | 5 of 5 | | To: alterego | Login |
| | Energy derived from natural gas has been the most rapidly increasing sector of total US energy. It would be less economical for cars to run on gas, since they require more energy then gas could provide. However gas still causes pollution, just not as much as oil or coal. |
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