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 [...]

Supermodels for a good cause, 350.org

350.org A friend of mine made this video and I think it is a good way to get people’s attention…clearly we need a new approach to get people to take climate change seriously. The production was done very well and  Bill O’Reilly doesn’t like it so that’s a good sign.

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. [...]

“It offends the human ego that nature is indifferent to our dreams”

This post is somewhat dated, I’ve been moving and haven’t had internet. I forget where I heard that quote but if you haven’t guessed it relates to the G8′s “decision” not to allow an increase in global temp of more than 2C This is dumb because it implies that we have a lot more control [...]

Why burning carbon is bad, Chaos Theory and Laws of Thermodynamics

Givens: The Earth is a closed system exposed to radiation. Second law of thermodynamics, about entropy: The total entropy of any isolated thermodynamic system tends to increase over time, approaching a maximum value or equilibrium. First law of thermodynamics, about the conservation of energy: The change in the internal energy of a closed thermodynamic system [...]

A short discussion of Cap and Trade

Emissions trading (or emission trading) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. It is sometimes called cap and trade. A central authority (usually a government or international body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be [...]

The Carbon cycle

Go back two hundred years The carbon cycle has been occurring for four billion years.  Plants take carbon from the air and store it in themselves. When the plants die the carbon is either composted or trapped underground to become coal. Animals take carbon from plants and become oil in death. As a result the [...]

Who will stop burning coal? Transferring our Carbon footprint to the Third World

Nobody. By most estimates we have used about a third of the coal deposits on the planet. Led by western Europe, industrialized nations are moving towards a sustainable future.  Unfortunately this may mean that developing nations will reject sustainable technology in favor of the technologies we left behind. With the rise of Nanosolar it may [...]

Gas Hydrate solid methane

collected from the bottom of the ocean. vast amounts. Why can’t drill for it like we do for oil? Those were the questions I had about the large amount of natural gas trapped mostly on the bottom of the ocean by the pressure and cold temperatures. One obsticle with drilling is the extreme depths…not like offshore oil drilling which [...]

The thing about logging

Logging as practiced by Americans and Canadians in places like New England and the Pacific Northwest is done right.  The trees they currently harvest were planted by loggers fifty to a hundred years ago and they will plants new trees after they cut old ones down. I don’t think cutting down boreal forest is acceptable [...]