Consumers are making the move to renewable energy, however, there is still a lot of dependence on fossil fuels. Take the poll and in the Comments section, let us know what you think can be done to make the shift to renewable energy easier.
yes. I hope there's a great new technology out there that can handle our (unrealistic - skewed by the temporary abundance of cheap high-density energy sources) habits.
My take is that it will not be an invention, but good old engineering. Real relevant funding for engineers will come when fossil fuel stock is no longer capable to keep us on our current living-life level.
economics and managing-to-stay-alive (= Darwin) will solve this. We know that our current sources are finite. And getting that energy at an affordable price even more finite. Big brains procrastinate.
Many years ago, pop 'tronics ran an article on smart plugs that eliminated the need for power supplies in appliances. Even washing machines could use DC moters because they'd just request alternating current synchronized with reversing their drums. Basically you'd get a couple hots and a digital line to request a voltage and amperage from a smart panel at your distribution point.
I suspect this never went anywhere because the initial cost was high, and appliance makers didn't want to commit to it until it was already ubiquitous.
When will we send waste into space??! There are enough types of waste capable of producing quite bad. I don't work in the field, but the green people know something. Seriously now, in my country (and we are part of the EU), garbage trucks are "imported". We have a wonderful nature, but when I hear news about an idea to make a garbage dump in the middle of a forest, I don't feel sorry for those rich people who just want anything and everything, at any price.
I think it's more or less the motivation of the people in the country. I'm new and shy I really want to create something that will do good for my daughter. I need to save her.
Motivating people can be tricky. Have you got any ideas in mind ?
One inspirational story is that of Eva Hakansson, who in order to promote awareness of electric vehicles, set out to break a land speed record in a home-built electric vehicle.
the question of cheap (practically free) energy is not a question of the benefits of large corporations of traditional energy sources, but a question of their complete destruction, as well as the destruction of capitalism in general, as global financial slavery. After all, energy in a generalized sense is any movement, in any form. Therefore, the cost of energy completely determines the entire system of relations. If total access to free energy is opened, universal material abundance will come very soon. And this means that money (and everything related to it) will not be needed. And this is a complete loss of power of the current "masters of money and the world"!
The only way to achieve renewable energy is by not impacting the earth to the point that it can't renew itself if we take more then we need or if the processes to make those energy sources takes more then it gives its not Renewable. Cooperation for a solution can't be marginal it has to be profound everyone from company to consumer has to realize their impact. Tesla said it the earth is the ultimate source energy "a giant capacitor" greed and control among other things limits our view of potential.
in Australia we mine megatonnes of coal to sell to the world market. We thus indirectly shoot ourselves in the feet.The CO2 still gets into the atmosphere and we share the outcome with those who burn it. To cut off this resource would increase coal prices and perhaps influence others to phase it out. Our puny efforts to go green are dwarfed by our coal exports.But ... the lost coal revenue and jobs is not something that the industry and governments care to think about. There is some hope perhaps that nature somehow be a bit compassionate, turn down The Sun and deliver us a convenient frame in which to wind back our emissions!
