Will you make the switch to help your Environment?

Question

You know by switching your regular light bulbs to CFL's you'll save energy. Also try buying Electronics with the Energy Star Approved stickers, on things such as Computers, Big screen and small screen Televisions, Stereos and Washers and dryers and Refrigerators. It can save the environment and your money on your energy costs. Why not a Plant a Beautifull Tree in your yard you have always wanted? Did you know Wal-mart and Target sell organic food and Eco-friendly Clothing? they do. There are also cars out there where you can get up to 50 miles per gallon without having to go Hybrid. Just spend some time and look.

Dear Enviro-Dude please take your complaint to the energy star organization not me silly.

Answer 1

A CFL requires 50 times the polution to "make" the bulb as opposed to traditional bulbs and every CFL is full of mercury and lead that is not present in a traditional bulb. Half of the polution savings of the energy saved is produced in making the CFL bulb so its not the bed of roses that the tree huggers hoped it is. Instead of reducing polution by 70%, considering the embedded polution at manufacturing time, it only ends up cutting pollution by 35%. (you can pay to have the mercury recycled, but it is not cheap and not anything a homeowner will want to do).

Same happens with the electric car. Except when the car is idling at a stop light, the electric car makes AS MUCH polution in motion as a gas car, only its poluted in advance at the power plant and stored in batteries for later use. Granted the powerplant has more efficient and greater air scrubbers then the gas engine and economies of scale means a unit of energy can be made cheaper at the powerplant as opposed to gas in your car, the greenhouse gas emissions of a electric car is only marginally lower then a gas car in long run.

I liked the "first" President Bush's idea, where he went out and planted 2 billion trees along US Federal highways as a way to reduce greenhouse gasses. You know when a tree grows, 95% of the weight of wood is carbon removed from the atmosphere. A tree can remove a profound amount of CO2 from the air, a 2000 sq ft plot of grass can provide all the oxygen needs of 8 people, a single oak tree can provide the oxygen needs of 20 people. It was estimated that the 2 billion trees original Bush planted offset the oil burning of the area of the USA west of the Mississippee River and most of those trees are still there and still cleaning the air. Florida's toll roads are cluttered with trees from Bush's initiative and his example is carried on by Florida DOT which continues to plant forests fulls of trees along Florida toll roads.

Answer 2

As of now I am a dependent college student, but once I have a job I plan to live in the country with my house powered by solar panels and wind turbines. I will eventually have a greenhouse to grow my own vegetables watered by rain water that I collect. As I created excess electricity I can use it to convert rain water to Hydrogen which can be converted back to electricity should I need it or in my car. What are you guys doing?

Answer 3

I lowerded my colesterol
I got them corkscrew lights I got them corbinmoxcide detecters
And I grow cannabis
and iam 420 hippie happy peace out