Is Green Energy Viable?

[rory_20_uk]

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.

[Old Geezer]

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.

[a completely inoffensive name]

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!

[PershsNhpios]

I have told you a hundred trillion times not to exaggerate!

[PershsNhpios]

Green energy?

Ba ha ha ha ha!

And I had my thread locked about Super Galatic Robots! Green energy!
I bet you want to live in a land where the sky is always blue, too!

[Avicenna]

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.

[Ramses II CP]

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.

[Centurion1]

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.

[Moros]

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?

[Viking]

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.

[gaelic cowboy]

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.