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  Lovely idea

  This concept is very graceful. Along similar lines, I'd wondered about placing solar panels along the tracks of sunny stretches of railway line - the number of trains passing over would have minimal effect upon energy created due to the minimal amount of time they take to pass through. Electricity generated could also feed into the grid, and railways contain large amounts of unused space which would be thus utilised....On Upgrade freight rail: Save 12 percent of oil, 4 percent of emissions, and jumpstart renewable grid posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago 16 Responses

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  I support my opponents....

  Global warming always makes me an opponent of those whom I wish to be right.

  I fervently hope that global warming is a massive error and does not really exist. However all the data seems to lead me to oppose those who assert this position.

  I desperately hope that we do not need to engage in geo-engineering strategies to promulgate any semblance of current patterns of life on earth. However all the current data seems to suggest that even a best case scenario in which emissions are practically stopped tomorrow will not be enough to continue any credible continuance of instituted living systems. Maybe you 'optimist's are right in this case, however I fear not....

  The question, then, is what counts as 'geo-engineering'. Increasing agricultural uptake and soil storage is often treated as a 'non-geo-engineering' phenomenon, when it is clearly artificial. It seems much better to 'piggyback' current natural cycles of carbon uptake, if possible, than to institute radical artificial methods of planet cooling. However, I want to see the arguments for different models seriously discussed, rather than endless discussions of 'is eo-engineering a good idea or a nightmare waiting to happen?'. It is quite clearly both, depending on the situation.

  Again, I hope those I oppose are right....On Desperate enough to contemplate geo-engineering posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago 22 Responses

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  Economy

  I think there is a massive opportunity for an optimistic message being missed in all this.
  A huge amount of the value of money (it sounds stupid but think about it) is raw energy. For instance - The ability to extract iron from ore gives it value. The ability to move olives from Spain to Britain gives them an increase in value. The ability to turn sand into glass gives it value. OUR ECOMONIES HAVE BEEN ABLE TO EXPAND ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY BECAUSE OF ENERGY. That is the story of the growth of Western civilization.
  The replacement of limited fossil fuels with the comparatively limitless energy of the sun, then, will usher in value to our economies that will be able to provide a modern standard of living to the rest of the world, a situation which will enrich our lives nearly as much as theirs.... The rewards of this change, which will cost us a few years of current artificial growth at most, are massive and unimagineable - just as a Playstation 3 would be incomprehensible to Louis XIV.On Climate action advocates need a simple, compelling message on costs posted 1 year, 5 months ago 15 Responses

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  seal?

  When I originally saw a headline and thought it meant Seal (as in 'a Kiss from a Rose'), this story was even more interesting.....On There's a metaphor in here somewhere posted 1 year, 6 months ago 4 Responses

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  Public Travesty

  Wanted green for their farmies or whatever,
  Picture me giving a damn - I said never.On I read a letter to the editor, the other day, I opened, and read it, it said they was suckas posted 1 year, 6 months ago 22 Responses