Environment - July 2007

like a viable alternetive to conventional engines?
http://www.articleated.com/Article/Electric-Cars--What-Are-They-Up-To-/552

2007-07-25 14:41:43 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

What uses less energy - Swapping out all of your lightbulbs at once and replacing them with CFLs (and throwing out all of the old energy guzzling lightbulbs that still work in the process) OR using the old energy guzzling bulbs until they burn out and replacing them with CFLs 1 by 1?

2007-07-25 14:23:43 · 5 answers · asked by voodoo 2 in Green Living

The power comes from a power plant producing electric power that looses about 75% of the energy in the fuel when converting to electric power that goes to your house. There is another efficiency loss when charging the batteries. There is another efficiency loss in the motor.

It seems to me although the electric cars are great in reducing pollution in the city, they may produce more pollution overall. What do you think? I do know from physics you can't create energy from nothing. Am I missing something?

2007-07-25 13:30:13 · 11 answers · asked by GABY 7 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

recognizing that the entire planet is affected by what we do in our back yards, it's more important than ever to act 'wisely' on an individual level.

what environmental philosophies or plans of action allow us to act wisely, taking into account our local needs and resources? and why is it so important for each of us to do this on a strictly 'local' (not global) level?

2007-07-25 11:53:48 · 28 answers · asked by patzky99 6 in Green Living

I think it's the enviroment. Pollution and stuff is really causing damage!

2007-07-25 10:19:48 · 14 answers · asked by fun fun fun .... you know the rest 5 in Other - Environment

if it does, how long long from now?

2007-07-25 10:08:23 · 12 answers · asked by fun fun fun .... you know the rest 5 in Global Warming

2007-07-25 09:36:13 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

2007-07-25 09:35:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

We have tons of it that the idiotic liberals dont want to drill it. We still have a good amount.

2007-07-25 09:13:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Conservation

Global Warming is the most talked about topic on the news...and it should be...besides the war in Iraq.

The people that believe it is just a theory and its not happening:
-the earth has gone through periods all the time..
-1970s thought there would be an ice age
-theres been many mini-ice ages in the past

For people that believe global warming is real:
-polar bears dying
-ice caps melting
-worse weather soon to come [katrina]

i still believe in global warming, because it IS our faults one way or another...all the co2 is in the atmosphere. that IS making things worse, no matter what people say. The predictions for the future might not be as bad as many say, but it's real...and people need to join together to stop it...even the people that only think it is a theory...do you really want our earth to have a discusting atmosphere & have water levels rise, wiping out parts of the country? even thouhg it might not happen...dont u wanna be prepared?

2007-07-25 08:52:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

because part of NYC is an island. [manhatten.] so if the polar icecaps rose in water level, would this state be wiped out?

2007-07-25 08:48:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

i havent lived long....only 14 years....

but will the polar ice caps recover? & will the bad weather lessen? Less hurricanes like hurricane Katrina?

2007-07-25 08:34:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-07-25 08:22:56 · 16 answers · asked by johnny s 2 in Conservation

I'm thinking of the future!!

2007-07-25 08:12:35 · 13 answers · asked by peter p 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

With all that talk about conserving energy, and going green.

Would people give up comfort for less?

Is it too late to make changes?

2007-07-25 08:05:55 · 18 answers · asked by JC 2 in Green Living

I picked up this yellowy-brown shiny rock in the driveway and Mum says that it is probably radioactive sludge. (The driveway is in New Mexico) How can I tell if this is in fact radioactive sludge, and if it is should I get rid of it?

2007-07-25 07:49:27 · 4 answers · asked by bodhran42 2 in Other - Environment

2007-07-25 07:42:42 · 7 answers · asked by brk 4 in Other - Environment

A Global Disaster ---- It I' wrong please correct I could stand to be corrected?
A huge android are a huge meteorite was to hit earth traveling at a high speed know matter where it hits on earth it would be a global Disaster . But I dont understand why we dont take this matter seriousley we wait until this happen and then we start to panic trying to figure out what we could do at the last minten the same Disaster that kill the dinosaurs will in a matter of time take us out people the way it could be today tonight tomorrow are right now. but one thing for sure this is going to happen.sciencetists know this it true the reason why they do not let the public kno, they dont wont to cause a global panic.

2007-07-25 07:41:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-07-25 06:31:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

I don't doubt that global warming is happening but how come we still had "unexpected" weather all those years ago? Perhaps all the debris from the Second World War poluted the atmosphere and caused a mini nuclear winter or perhaps is was just we had bad weather! I'd just like to know since we keep being told it's the worst flooding since 1947.

2007-07-25 06:25:22 · 14 answers · asked by yundaquest 2 in Global Warming

I recently saw "Who Killed the Electric Car?" It is a complete and total outrage. Given the extreme probability that this Hydrogen Fuel Cell nonsense is all smoke and mirrors, and that by their vision at least we'll still be driving gas powered SUV's 15-20 years from now, when do the patents on the Impact run out so someone else can use them to make a 20 year old car that runs better than what they will probably have 15-20 years from now?

2007-07-25 06:05:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

With all this hybrid cars and electric cars we're building, and when that time when fossil fuels are no longer needed (probably not in the immediate future). Will the price of electricity go up since it will be the dominant source of fuel?

2007-07-25 05:59:14 · 9 answers · asked by cavin c 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/
Note, too, that if the IPCC is correct, then it is possible that warming will continue for the next millenium, and that positive feedback of natural greenhouse gasses will render much of the Earth uninhabitable for hundreds of years. I'm not saying this doomsday scenario is likely, I'm saying (along with a majority of climate scientists)
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11654
that it is possible. If you are certain this cannot happen, what is the basis of your certainty? Is it religious? Is it because someone on the radio told you that this scenario is impossible? Do you actually think that the warning issued by a majority of experts is wrong, for a certainty?

Please, let's avoid bad science, and that includes simple but invalid arguments such as: "Mars is getting warmer, therefore the Earth cannot be getting dangerously warm", or "There are lots of natural cycles."

2007-07-25 05:55:48 · 13 answers · asked by cosmo 7 in Global Warming

to prevent global warming or protect the environment? These people live lifestyles of waste that the average person only dreams about but they have the gall to say we should "only use one square of toliet paper" or "not eat tangerines" or "should take public transportation, walk, or ride bicycles". Would the message seem a lot more meaningful if the person saying it was actually living the way they expect us to live such as an Amish or Mennonite person?

2007-07-25 04:44:49 · 10 answers · asked by Truth is elusive 7 in Green Living

I twiddle with my hair.

2007-07-25 04:44:36 · 18 answers · asked by D 7 in Other - Environment

has anyone here read the green book?

it tells you all about different products and teaches you how to live without them adn what substitutes are good for them like organic things or just different things to buy and use.

i dont have it but last time i went to the book store i read like half of it and if anyone here wants to ñearn about that sort of thing its really a great book to try!

if you do look for it its pretty easy to find its a small bright green book called "the green book" and its authors are foamous celebrities as well so you learn what they have to say to!

bring us to a better world and live in green!

:) peace.

2007-07-25 03:58:39 · 2 answers · asked by DarwinDog 1 in Green Living

http://attach.re3.mail.yahoo.com/us.f570.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter/?box=Inbox&MsgId=5168_5906146_77737_2248_6790199_0_711_8803962_3769459562&bodyPart=2&filename=&tnef=&download=1&YY=15509&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&Idx=2

2007-07-25 03:56:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

How will we survive that?

2007-07-25 03:43:58 · 26 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6 in Global Warming

2007-07-25 01:39:31 · 10 answers · asked by nicensimplejuls 2 in Global Warming

Raise the driving age to 18, you get less cars on the road, less CO2 emmissions, gas prices go down, fewer oil wars, less teen pregancies and more time to study for a good education. Sure 'small buisness' would be hurt, but then you realize that is mostly fast food joints which is behind Americas fattening which lead to higher health costs. Not to mention all the deaths related to teenage drivers and all the dumb teenage posters wanting to stop global warming by changing lightbults. I think I just save the world. Al Gore can kiss my a**!

2007-07-25 00:46:06 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming