Two pronged attack Energy Efficiency and Conservation

The total energy efficiency of the United States is less than 50% and the total amount of energy produced by oil and coal together is almost 75%. Now let’s pretend we would like to put less carbon into the atmosphere and as a given oil and coal happen to be the sources that put most [...]

Small Space Sustenance: 5 Foods for Your Apartment Garden This guest post was written by Shawn Jenson who is also a staff writer for radiologytechnician.com and is an advocate of taking free online courses Ah, to have a garden. A space all your own to use your green thumb to its full advantage, providing fresh, [...]

Sky Farms

Sky farms – The new Green farm? Sky farms are quite literally multilevel agricultural farms, much like skyscrapers. These sky farms are springing up all over the world, and the economics of sky farming are already showing positive results. Sky farming is basically a form of hydroponic farming. It includes significant potential for organic farming, [...]

Natural Gas to hydrates for transport and back to gas

A while back I wrote a post HERE and HERE on collecting natural gas hydrates from the sea floor.  I was not really in favor of the idea because of the possible/probable dangers.  For good or bad like drilling at 5000ft for oil, extracting these frozen naturals gasses is going to happen so might as [...]

Geothermal energy waste into lithium batteries

Most geothermal energy plants inject water deep into the ground where the earth’s heat energy turns it into steam used to generate electricity. The wastewater from this process is full of elements that are not abundant on the surface and that includes lithium.  Without going too far into battery technology lithium batteries last four times as long as conventional [...]

How to feed the world

  stop having so many kids sorry to be callous but the planet is already way above capacity, if we were a restaurant the fire department would shut us down. Better use and conservation of water, less petrol-fertilizers, genetic engineering, etc. are all good ideas but can come nowhere near solving the problem of global [...]

Pollution in the Charles River

pollution I just read a book called Zodiac by Neal Stephanson and I liked it very much mostly because it takes place in Boston, the rivers and harbor which I know quite well. It made me realize how different things are now in terms of pollution. In the eighties even the Charles and the Inner [...]

Conflicting results

I got some harsh feedback from the last post, particularly because of the idea that sea levels are not rising. The UN hired some scientists to research levels rising and when they found no positive results they were fired and replaced with scientists who found results more in line with the rest of the report. [...]