Environment - October 2006

They say that energy saving bulbs (like the ones you can buy everywhere now - with small flourescent tubes) consume less than 20% of the power of normal bulbs. This is great from an environmental point of view - apparently. But doesnt anyone ever stop to think about the energy processes gone into making them? The chemicals used and the resources needed to manufacture them? Surely making a PCB, assembling the components, manufacturing the tubes, coating them with phosphor etc. etc. is far more damaging to the environment than using a spherical blown bulb with a bit of tungsten in it? I'd like to do some research into this to find out exactly how much energy these so called energy saving bulbs actually save???

2006-10-31 23:23:37 · 9 answers · asked by Charlie Brigante 4

for me i think people have to love life not money and that well help us with this problem of global worming let us try to love the earth and its beauty

2006-10-31 23:13:14 · 9 answers · asked by carol r 1

The environment is a chaotic system already changing and in cascade. The possitive feedback from permafrost methane release will make any effort we make insignificant. This cannot be stopped. So why bother curbing carbon emissions? Shouldn't we build arcologies instead?

2006-10-31 21:05:21 · 2 answers · asked by mince42 4

2006-10-31 20:17:02 · 2 answers · asked by g_metuanghan 1

The glass usually breaks when you throw it in anyway, especially with the larger banks. I don't know much about glass recycling, but surely the bottles aren't kept in their original form?!

2006-10-31 20:09:57 · 13 answers · asked by YourLocalGP 2

2006-10-31 18:01:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-31 17:57:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-31 17:55:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok im 19 and im not gonna lie, I often throw clothes under my wooden bed, and the other day I seen a small bug on one of my white t-shirts that was sitting under my bed for at least 4 months, and the bug was very small, almost microscopic, and itwas brown with little legs, it looked like a baby rollie pollie but it was apparently feeding on something under my bed, was he attracted to the wood, or the shirt?

2006-10-31 17:20:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or does is it have too many chemicals that may harm humans? :-|

2006-10-31 17:04:42 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

i wanna buy some instruments for my lab...so i want to have the list of all the varieties of instruments and their description ...available in the market for testing tail pipe emissions

2006-10-31 16:39:42 · 1 answers · asked by garimella r 1

I am building a subdivision and the minimume size pond must be half acre.I want my entry road to go through the middleof the pond with a huge 10 foot colvert pipe style bridge.The problem is that a person says i have to ponds under half acre.I say i have one pond covered with a bridge.how do i prove that ??Plus is that still one ecosystem??

2006-10-31 16:09:33 · 2 answers · asked by Irene D 1

2006-10-31 15:19:31 · 9 answers · asked by leprechaunsbitemytoes 1

I hear all the time that the water is running out. Surely it's just a matter of distribution, or is it really being destroyed? Is it being created?

2006-10-31 15:14:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-31 14:24:54 · 4 answers · asked by vinitkumar 1

2006-10-31 14:01:20 · 1 answers · asked by Terry-Ann W 1

2006-10-31 13:47:46 · 9 answers · asked by Raycious 2

2006-10-31 13:36:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

that night all were there unsettled and sqaking through out the night. on the morning i shot a short film of the tree which i wish to attach but dont know how to. i have kept it zipped n ready. they were never seen before in that number. i am surprised what might be the reason?

2006-10-31 13:35:12 · 3 answers · asked by subodh_phanse 1

in what ways do the following human activies affect ecosystems?
1.clearing farmland to build a new housing development
2.cutting down trees to make paper and building materials.
3.transporting crude oil across the ocean
4.buring loges in a fireplace
5.growing an apple orchard to sell apples
6.harvesting rare plants to make new medicanes from the chemicals they contain

2006-10-31 13:23:52 · 4 answers · asked by kogmu 3

I am trying to figure the amount of water that passes through our creek in a given minute.

2006-10-31 13:21:35 · 2 answers · asked by doodlydoo 1

2006-10-31 13:08:00 · 1 answers · asked by geetony1 1

2006-10-31 12:48:51 · 4 answers · asked by Carpe Diem (Seize The Day) 6

2006-10-31 12:43:08 · 8 answers · asked by Illegals Are S*** 3

2006-10-31 11:51:13 · 8 answers · asked by Sunny D 1

2006-10-31 11:38:36 · 9 answers · asked by sdtgfwabf 1

2006-10-31 11:36:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you seen An Inconvenient Truth yet?

2006-10-31 11:27:07 · 10 answers · asked by ba 2

all living things have an effect on ecosystems as they go about their daily lives..........how would you give examples of this?

2006-10-31 11:21:18 · 4 answers · asked by kogmu 3

When our vehicles and thermal electricity plants burn fossil fuels they produce carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide which according to some scientists are harmful to the environment, hydrogen burns and produces water. There have been suggestions to mass produce hydrogen from sea water using the electrolysis method by harnessing tidal or wave power to generate electricity needed for the process. Despite the obvious advantages why haven't governments in the developed world taken hydrogen as a viable alternative to crude oil?

2006-10-31 11:09:06 · 25 answers · asked by maxdrobot 1