Wind farms, depleting the worlds green energy

RE: Wind farms, depleting the worlds green energy

e14 Contributor — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:34:59 GMT

Why don't very tall trees and their considerable amount of surface area (leaves and needles) produce the same "green-energy-sapping" effect? Wouldn't the "harvesting" of many,many millions of tall first growth trees (deciduous,tropical and fir) free up a great deal of said system-wide energy? The component data for such a study seem available, as we (mankind) have done a bang-up job eliminating a enormous segment of the vast forests that covered the Earth before the advent of urbanized human society. A cynical person might wonder if this study is more a knock on wind-power than an expression of ecological concern. I readily concede that I have done little more than glance at Kleidon's thesis, and that I have been known to be cynical.

RE: Wind farms, depleting the worlds green energy

e14 Contributor — Tue, 03 May 2011 05:21:35 GMT

interesting...

RE: Wind farms, depleting the worlds green energy

DAB — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:38:44 GMT

The best truely Green solution I ever read was described by SciFi author Larry Niven for his Fleet of Worlds series. He postulated that you could use the digested by products of food to generate heat, methane and water.

It sounds a little crazy, but if you look at what ants and termites do in thier nests, it is very close to what Larry envisioned. If we just copy thier design, we could go a long way too improving the environment and solving some of our energy problems. The approach has already been tested for a couple of million years through many planetary ecological cycles.

I have always believed that the simple solutions are always the best.

Thanks

DAB