what are possible solutions to fix global warming?

Question

im doing a project for school and i need to come up with ways to solve the problem of global warming

any advice?

Answer 1

Global warming is caused by the sun (99%). The earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. The earth is still warming. The only way to stop global warming is to extinguish the sun. But, that might cause unwanted global cooling.

Mars is experiencing global warming. The polar ice caps are melting. This has nothing to do with greenhouse gasses. The sun is producing more solar energy.

To answer your question, there isn't much man can do about it.

Answer 2

Replacing conventional farming methods with hydroponics and aeroponics which grows food indoors leading to agricultural land to be reforested. Switching to algea instead of palm oil which also also for land to be reforested and both it and hydroponics can be grown locally cutting down on energy costs.also switching to renewables such as geothermal.
Check out both "will work for free 2013" and " technological unemployment 60 minutes" on youtube and facebook page for will work for free I've left notes on further environmental issues there

Answer 3

Using reused batteries (not recycled, but dead batteries that have been rejuvenated) in an electric vehicle.


‘Unusable’ batteries power pickup

By Michael McQuillan
NewsLeader
Feb 23 2007

The problem with electric cars is they’ve always been so expensive that they aren’t practical.

Two local men are working on a solution that could change that.

Gary Tang of Burnaby and Rob Matthies of Vancouver recently completed work on a 1982 Chevy S15 truck that runs on what would be considered unusable batteries. Earlier this month the two drove the pickup around Burnaby, making it the first time a four-wheel has run only off scrap or revived batteries.

It doesn’t sound like much, but there are potential implications that could make the pair’s drive around Tang’s neighbourhood history making.

“It looks like we are the first ones on the planet to have a licensed pick-up truck to run exclusively off so-called dead batteries,” said Matthies, who, like Tang, is a member of the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association.

“It’s pretty close to free energy because these batteries cost us nothing. So it’s a free ride,” he said.

If the battery revival technology could be improved on it could be used throughout the world, especially in Third World countries. It would also lower the cost of electric cars, since batteries would have a longer life.

Over two-thirds of the cost of an electric car is for the batteries.

According to Matthies there are approximately 100 million automobile batteries used up every year.

“We’ve taken batteries that most people would consider have exhausted their lives and are no long usable. And by a secret process we have revived them.

“We’ve been doing this for years with electric bikes and scooters and we find we can revive them between five and six times.”

Electric cars could be an important tool in stopping or slowing down global warming. Gas powered cars are the single largest source of carbon emissions in many countries, including Canada. Electric cars have no emissions.

“Canadians have to cut down their carbon emissions by 96 per cent to be just to the other nations of the world who are catching up to 96 percent reduction,” said Matthies. “Our view is that there is no price high enough to stave off global extinction, because that’s what we’re facing with global warming if we don’t do something about it.”

But electric cars still have a ways to go, said Tang, a mechanical engineer. An electric truck requires 1,600 pounds of lead-acid type batteries to drive in the range of 60 to 80 kilometres an hour. More expensive batteries like nickel metal hydride and lithium ion can increase the car’s performance and decrease the weight.

mmcquillan @ burnabynewsleader.com
colleen flanagan/newsleader

Answer 4

1. Stop Nascar races. Who needs to waste gas racing and having thousands of people going to the racetrack.

2. Stop sports attendance at such events. You can see them better on TV anyway.

3. Stop selling gas with money. Rather everyone will have to have a credit card with the car VIN on the card, and previous transactions. Based on the compiled mpg, the gas will be charged based on the mph, with gas-guzzlers being charged a premium in proportion to their mph compared to more fuel-efficient cars.

4. Consider free mass-transit. Most mass-transit runs at a deficit, so you might as well go all the way and maximize your capacity or even add some should the demand be great enough.

5. Consider shuttle service from park and go lots to large-sized industrial installations where many people work. Subsidize people who use it by "paying" them per ride.

Answer 5

the main cause of global warming, that is greenhouse gasses, are coal burning electricity plants (make up about 60 percent of emissions). Ideally we could turn to an alternative method of producing electricity such as :fuel cells, hydroelectric power, PV, wind, or solar.