Your Questions About Green Living

Is John Mccain practicing the “Audacity of Hope”?

With the Mccain campaign’s recent push to connect Obama with “terrorist” Ayers and re-visit any Muslim connections, however tacit and tenuous, Obama has had in the past It would appear to me that Mccain himself is actually practicing “audacity of hope” that Obama has become so famous for.

Does anyone think that is being audacious in hoping that these desparate tactics will provide him the voter support he needs appear to be a viable candidate in this election, let alone give him any chance of being elected?

The entire Republican machinery has handled Mccain and Palin so poorly in terms of creating a viable and sustainable brand that the American people can stand cleanly behind and feel confident in that now it truly does look like Mccain is grasping at straws. Does anyone else agree?

Finally, at first I held a great deal of animosity towards Sarah Palin because of the vitriolic way she entered this race attacking Obama as if he was the anti-christ incarnate. Now I feel only waves of sympathy for her. I know that she thinks she understands what shes gotten herself into but the truth is after this election, at best she will be consigned to some nominal position in the Republican party serving some fringe, fear mongering faction. She nor her children will have any chance at normalcy and I believe she will become a caricatured footnote in history. I’d love to hear others views on this.

So the Mccain camp is audaciously discreditting Obama in hopes that it will save his chances for the whitehouse. Am I incorrect in this?

I need help on my essay based on green power(non viable energy sources for the future)?

My essay is based on the following questions and so far I have….
1. What is “green power”?
2. Do you believe that we need to find alternate, environmentally friendly energy sources?
3. How many possible “green power” options did you find in your research?
4. What were the options you found?
5. Are any of these options being used today?
6. Which, if any, do you feel are viable energy sources for the future? Why?
7. Which, if any, do you feel are not viable energy sources for the future? Why?

1. What is “green power”?

Green Power is a method to make and also help the Earth be a better place to live in. It is without a doubt the highest environmental benefit. We have to take very good of the earth and use the resources the earth gives us. Simply by doing that we are creating green power. Green Power is made possible by using natural resources that are renwable in order to create more engery. All being done without polluting and hazardous technologies. That can polute the earth and damge it in the end. A few examples of green power energy is solar,wind,and water. Those energy example are not only helpful abundant energy sources to the earth but very concvient because they are the top three the earth acutally provides for us. They are energy sources that are replenished at a sustainable rate by natural processe and will never run out if we take good care of the earth. It is very important to support green power because not only does make the Earth a better place for us to live in but also for out grandchildren and great grandchildren. Not keeping the earth in its top shape can destroy the earth everybody and everything in it. By creating green power we prevent global warming something that is already occuring. Also at the same time of making green power come to action we are contrbuting to cleaner air and water.

2. Do you believe that we need to find alternate, environmentally friendly energy sources

I dinitely think we need to find alternate environmental friendly energy sources. It could all help stop global warming. We do already have environmental energy source but the effciency and percentage of installtions must go up, and soon. The quick and most simple soultion is by using renewable energy. The planet gives us so much flowing water, it gives off so much solar energy and strong winds that we need to put it all in energy effect. I diffently thing we need to lower down the use of propane coal that only seems to pollute the earth. Instead use the abundant and free to use these friendly environmental energy sources that we are naturally provided with. Not only use these energy sources but convert them and use them in an eco friendly way the will not hurt our earth. everyone as an individual or even as a community need to show that this can be done and put words and imagination to action.

I have beed doing research and have found numerouse green power options. Ive gotten as far to 12 and as more research i did the number went up. If every contributed to to green power the options could go up endlessly. Solar is an energy that has been given to us for billions of years. Solar can generate electricity in several ways it can convert light to electricity. Solar can heat water to create steam, which turns turbines to generate electricity. One simple way an individual can alternate from propane oil to solar and use the friendly engery source by driving an eco-friendly car. The car can get its energy from solar and that person itself help stop polluting . Wind is also another environmental friends energy source is wind it can be harnessed to generate electricity using wind turbines of many different sizes and applications. Many farmers use this enegy with putting thier windmills to work. Water can be used as hydropower turbines to generate electricity. As waves go up and down it gets the turbine to generate electricity. When the ocean water moves up and down and the energy is captured it spins a turbine that can power a generator.

4. What were the options you found?
sun
wind
water
earth
tide
waves
oceans
renewable energy
biofuel
uranium
coal
natural gas
oil
tires
biomass

5. Are any of these options being used today?

yes world wide

6. Which, if any, do you feel are viable energy sources for the future? Why?

I need help on question 6 and 7

Am I going about the right way on this???
Help please this is my final paper with this class and Im trying to score 100
p.s its my ruft draft so ignore the grammer or wrong spelling

how can i finish this letter politely? emergency help! thanks?

MAY 9 2011
Stephen Chu
US Energy Secretary
blank(my name)
blank(my school)
Greetings Mr. Steven Chu

I am a freshman in ………….. Recently, I have studied energy sources that are sustainable and renewable. I have a project that is talking about renewable energy and I have to send three sources energy that I think it is good for the future to you. The purpose is for you to consider about my 3 options.
The first option is solar energy. This type of energy source can produce electricity by sunlight and the solar panel. We can use it in many ways such as heat the house, convert sunlight into electricity, heat fluid, and heat water. If we compare this to fuel, coal and gas, solar power is better because it does not cause any pollution, we can use it again and again. It works without any sound. It doesn’t pollute the air at all. When we install it at home, it doesn’t cause any impact to the environment. Anyway there are some problems in this energy. Solar panel is very costly, some low economic countries or families can’t afford to buy solar panels. The second impact is that it can only produce energy in the day time and sunlight is not stable.
Second option is tidal power, it is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into electricity or other useful form of power. Tides are caused by the gravitational of moon, sun and the rotation of the earth. Tidal power can give energy to us for billions of years because moon and sun might not vanish. When tidal power is working, we may able to control the level of storms and tsunamis. It can generate a high amount of electricity with 80% more than coal or oil. The concerns of tidal power are the availability of tidal energy and the complicated ocean life. We can only have tidal energy in the areas that have strong tidal waves which some areas don’t even have ocean. The blades of turbine frames can injure or kill animal in the water and the population of fishes can reduce.
Wind power is also a renewable energy source. Most wind energy comes from turbines that can be as tall as a 20-story building and have three 200-foot-long (60-meter-long) blades. The wind spins the blades and turns a shaft connected to a generator that produces electricity. It is the same as other clean energy; it doesn’t produce air or water pollution. Since the wind is free, the operation doesn’t need any money. Wind energy produces no byproduct that can cause global warming. We still have some problems with wind power. The turbines can damage by thunderstorm because they are too tall. It can also kill the birds that intentionally fly through the blades.

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The European Union the superpower of the 21st century, the European Century?

What do you think?

An extract from an article by Mark Leonard, from the Irish Times Newspaper from 2005.

For all the talk of the American Empire, the past two years have been more about the limits of American power. Its economic lead over Europe is disappearing (in 1950 its GDP per capita was twice that of Western Europe, while today it is almost the same size), while the political price for saying no to the superpower has never been lower (as Germany, France, Mexico, Turkey and Chile found over Iraq). In fact, the US leads the world in only two ways: it has the biggest army in the world, and the most popular “popular culture”. But the combined might of the US military could do nothing to stop 9/11 or halt terrorism in Iraq, and the more America’s presence around the world becomes militarised, the less attractive the American way of life becomes.

Meanwhile, across the pond, Europeans – often by accident – have been developing a new kind of power that cannot be measured in terms of military budgets or smart-missile technology. It works in the long term, and is about reshaping the world rather than winning short-term tussles. And when we stop looking at the world through American eyes, we can see that each element of European “weakness” is in fact a facet of its extraordinary transformative power.

In just 50 years, Europeans have made war between European powers unthinkable; European economies have closed the gap with the US; and Europe has brought successive waves of countries out of dictatorship and into democracy. If you look at a map of the world, you can see a zone of peace spreading like a blue oil slick – from the west coast of Ireland to the eastern Mediterranean; from the Arctic Circle to the Straits of Gibraltar – sucking in new members in its wake. Around the 450 million (as of 2009 it’s 500 million) citizens of the EU, there are another 1.5 billion people who depend completely on an EU that is their biggest trade partner and their biggest source of credit, foreign investment, and aid. These two billion people (one-third of the world’s population) live in the “Eurosphere”: Europe’s zone of influence, which is gradually being transformed by the European project and adopting European ways of doing things.

Europe’s power is easy to miss. Europe doesn’t flaunt its strength or talk about a “single sustainable model of progress” as America does. Instead, like an “invisible hand”, it operates through the shell of traditional political structures. The Dail, Irish law courts, and Irish civil servants are still here, but they have all become agents of the European Union, implementing European law. This is no accident. By creating standards that are implemented through national institutions, Europe can take over the world without becoming a target for hostility. The same is true of European troops abroad who often serve under UN or NATO flags rather than the European one.

While every US company, embassy and military base is a terrorist target, Europe’s invisibility allows it to spread its influence without provocation. The fact that Europe does not have one leader, but rather a network of centres of power united by common policies and goals, means it can expand to accommodate ever-greater numbers of countries without compromising their independence, while continuing to provide its members with the benefits of being part of the largest market in the world.

Europeans are not interested in classic geo-politics when they talk to other countries: instead, they use the law to change them from within. Instead of talking about the war on terror or the balance of power, they look at what kind of government they have. What values underpin the state? What are its constitutional and regulatory frameworks?
Europe’s obsession with legal frameworks means it can transform the countries it comes into contact with, instead of just skimming the surface. The US might have changed the regime in Afghanistan, but Europe is changing all of Polish society, from its economic policies and property laws to its treatment of minorities and what gets served on the nation’s tables. The lonely superpower can bribe, bully, or impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its potency wanes. The strength of the EU, conversely, is broad and deep: once sucked into its sphere of influence, countries are changed forever.

I Need Help on my Geography Homework!!!!?

1.
Even without climate change issues, buildings built on permafrost have potential structural issues because:
A. buildings generate heat which can cause some of the ice in the permafrost to melt
B. buildings sway and create cracks in the ice
C. the weight of the building is dangerous to permafrost
D. the permafrost moves and shifts the building

2.
Which of the following is true about the events in Yugoslavia?
A. As communism began to fail, more non-communist leaders were elected.
B. With new non-communist leaders, each ethnic group began to assert itself.
C. Ethnic fighting and tensions turned to crisis level as the Serbian minority took over.
D. all of the above are true

3.
The Ring of Fire is where:
A. 75% of the earth’s volcanoes can be found.
B. volcanic ash is volatile and subject to flash fires.
C. tectonic plates collide and create new mountains.
D. thunderstorms cause flash fires.

4.
Which of these is true about the Himalayan Mountains?
A. This immense mountain range began to form between 40 and 50 million years ago.
B. This mountain range formed when two large landmasses, India and Eurasia, driven by plate movement, collided.
C. Both A and B are true.
D. Neither A nor B are true about the Himalayas.

5.
The Japan Current is also known as the Kuroshio Current.
A. true
B. false

6.
Which of the following bodies of water is integral to the Great Barrier Reef?
A. The Southern Ocean
B. The Coral Sea
C. The Tasman Sea
D. The Gulf of Carpentaria

7.
“Big Spenders” in the tourist industry of Southeast Asia often want air conditioned hotels with English-speaking staff and imported food from their home country.
A. true
B. false

8.
If earthquakes occur below or close to the ocean, they may trigger:
A. tidal waves – also known as tsunami
B. volcanic eruptions
C. massive thunderstorms because of the drop in pressure
D. a rise in the riverbanks

9.
Swidden agriculture is:
A. the new style agriculture borrowed from Sweden
B. a successful approach to government owned land and farms
C. a slash-and-burn style of agriculture still in common practice in many parts of Southeast Asia
D. the preferred method for sustainable farming in Southeast Asia

10.
Which of the following is NOT part of the Western Africa region?
A. Botswana
B. Cape Verde
C. Mali
D. Senegal