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    Default Re: Is Green Energy Viable?

    First off, I think that the viability depends on the country where it is being instigated and the electricity network in the country. Green energy has less need for a centralised system than say nuclear, where small reactors are not a great idea.

    If countries such as the UAE / Saudi invested in the technology they would be able to reduce their need for other forms of power; such places have the double bonus of not only producing electricity, but reducing the need for air conditioning which uses masses of electricity.

    The cost is great at the moment, but with increased research and volume of production this will decrease. This of course is true of all forms of green energy.

    Reducing the need for energy supplies from areas of the world that is energy rich is of course another important factor to bear in mind.

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    Windmills kill 500 million birds every month in the USA and that means there are so many bugs that will will be smothered by 100-foot-high tide of the litlle buggers before the year 2012. Solar power will be destroyed by solar flares soon after 2012 so even if we build bird-friendly windmills, we are all doomed to die in the dark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Geezer View Post
    Windmills kill 500 million birds every month in the USA and that means there are so many bugs that will will be smothered by 100-foot-high tide of the litlle buggers before the year 2012. Solar power will be destroyed by solar flares soon after 2012 so even if we build bird-friendly windmills, we are all doomed to die in the dark.
    500 million every month? 6 billion every year? Just in the U.S.? You must be credible, you don't even need to site sources!
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    I have told you a hundred trillion times not to exaggerate!

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    Green energy?

    Ba ha ha ha ha!

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    Default Re: Is Green Energy Viable?

    Simply improving energy generation won't do.

    The underlying problem is that the human population is skyrocketing, and Earth simply cannot support it.

    In addition to improving/revolutionising our ways of getting energy, we have to manage to cut the human population, or our planet will do so for us. It's happening either way.
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    Default Re: Is Green Energy Viable?

    Quote Originally Posted by Avicenna View Post
    Simply improving energy generation won't do.

    The underlying problem is that the human population is skyrocketing, and Earth simply cannot support it.

    In addition to improving/revolutionising our ways of getting energy, we have to manage to cut the human population, or our planet will do so for us. It's happening either way.
    Precisely right. Population control is at the heart of all the 'green' movements. If we don't figure that out everything is a short term solution.


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    Default Re: Is Green Energy Viable?

    green energy has to be the future. I personally dont care about the ozone. But we will eventually run out of oil.
    Solar power- Nope
    Wind Power- nope
    Water power- less of a nope but still nope
    Hydrogen- that's where its at baby, figure a way to produce hydrogen without using petro-chemicals and you've got the invention of the century.

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    Default Re: Is Green Energy Viable?

    Quote Originally Posted by Centurion1 View Post
    green energy has to be the future. I personally dont care about the ozone. But we will eventually run out of oil.
    Solar power- Nope
    Wind Power- nope
    Water power- less of a nope but still nope
    Hydrogen- that's where its at baby, figure a way to produce hydrogen without using petro-chemicals and you've got the invention of the century.
    You don't care about the ozone? So you don't mind getting cancer then?

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    Cancer might be battled.

    There's also the prospect of the eco system in the ocean getting severely damaged due to the increased amount of UV radiation.
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    Default Re: Is Green Energy Viable?

    The earth is a sphere everthing inside a sphere is finite that includes the wind and solar power there is only so much to go around the best solution is a massive depopulation of the planet but that is some way off yet.
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