Green Living Q & A

does anyone know any jobs in alternative energy?

looking to go back to school but i do not see any college programs like this yet?

How many jobs would mandating alternative energy cars provide? ?

Any sort of reports or facts on it would be useful in terms of infastructure, manufacturing, maintanence, etcetera. Thanks for the help!

What should I major in in college if I want to get a job developing alternative energy technology?

I’d like to get a job helping to develop alternative energy sources like wave, tidal, and geothermal energy, but I’m not sure what the best college major would be for a field like that. Any suggestions?

What type of job can u get in Alternative energy?

I am a sphomore in college and i am interested in alternative energy but im not sure how to start a career in it so i was wondering if anybody new what type of jobs there are involving alternative energy that would be a good career to get into when i graduate college in about 4 years.

High paying jobs in the alternative energy industry?

I can see alternative energy sources as being the future for United States energy consumption as gas and oil prices fluctuate drastically. I am currently 18 and am going to join the military so I can have a lot of my college paid for. Currently I have 10,000 stashed away in gold investments and mutual funds that i was going to put towards my 401k. Anyways I was wondering which alternative energy has the most money in it (six figures)? What jobs in the alternative energy industry can I go into with only a bachelors degree in college that will give me six figure potential? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I live near Sweetwater, Texas and wind energy is really big around here. I don’t know how much money is in it though.

Is this the solution to UK, EU & USA economic woes?

Just using the UK as an example. We have 61 million acres of land in the UK. Ten percent is built on land for cities, towns and industrial conurbations. Take off another ten percent for roads, railways and other current uses and we’re left with 48 million acres that are either used for farming or left as open countryside.
We have approximately 8 million families/couples that are unemployed or under-employed who can’t earn a decent living and are in constant need of taxpayer support.
We could allocate 5 acres of land to each of these families and help them build small, sustainable businesses thru the use of that land.
They wouldn’t own the land but they would have the freedom to work it and arrange their own accommodation. They would be assisted by tens of thousands of professionals who would assist with each stage of development.
Food production, trees, graveyards, community fabrication centres, the list is endless.
Unemployment would be practically non-existent. Taxes would be one third of what they are today. The whole Country would prosper hugely under such an ambitious scheme, what do you think?
Response to Avondrow:
Not serfdom. The profits of any endeavour will be shared between the landowner and the family and the Government would regulate those percentages.
Response to SDD:
This would be an act of legislation. There wouldn’t be any purchase. The benefit to the landowner is its sustainable development and his share of the profits.
Response to Dual777
The financing of any development would either come from direct investment by the landowner with favourable tax implications or local investors.
Where a family is allocated land that includes forestry, a proportion will be set aside for accommodation, the rest will be looked after by a dedicated arborist who will dictate thinning and sustainable harvesting.
Response to SpottyJ: Zimbabwe never did anything like this. They killed or ran-off the landowners and then just sat on the land and did nothing with it.
In fact, seeing as you have raised this issue, if the UK is willing to take a lead in this area and do it successfully, the model could easily be transported to other nations especially Zimbabwe…
Response to Macrocom:
Exactly right. Now consider the long-term aims of the UK gvmt with regard to the environment, sustainable development, energy security, over-crowded cities and a very frustrated populace.
This is more than a solution, it’s our only way out. Our industry is practically non-existent. The only thing we can do now is go back to the land but in a fair and practical way that will generate extraordinary prosperity for all concerned…

I Need Help on my English homework!!!!!!!!!!?

1.
When using the MLA style to format your list of citations, you should arrange the list in alphabetical order according to ___________.

A. the date of publication
B. the title of the book, paper, or article
C. the author’s last name
D. the number of times it appears in your paper

3.
You are writing a speech to deliver to a group of architects and your purpose is to convince them to design environmentally sustainable structures. Which of the following items would you use to persuade your audience of your argument?

A. more consumers are recycling every week
B. sustainable building materials are sometimes more expensive, but worth their expense
C. sustainable buildings last longer than other buildings
D. more consumers are seeking architects with a background in sustainable design

4.
Directions– For this question, consider the effective speaking techniques that you have learned in this section.

In a discussion, you should acknowledge the ideas of other participants, even if you disagree with them.

A. true
B. false

5.
Directions– For this question, consider the effective speaking techniques that you have learned in this section.

When sharing your opinion in a discussion, it is most effective to do so cautiously.

A. true
B. false

6.
What is the implicit message of the following passage?

Passage—
Jacob took an after school job walking the dogs in his neighborhood for $7 per hour. He has another job on the weekends, working at a car wash down the street. Sometimes, he works for his father, cleaning the house or organizing paperwork. Jacob’s father allows him to keep his jobs only if he maintains a high grade point average. Fortunately, Jacob makes good grades. Jacob is saving up to buy a bicycle. Currently, he gets up early to walk to school. It’s a long walk, but he consistently arrives before the first bell.

A. Jacob wants a bicycle.
B. Jacob is greedy.
C. Jacob is responsible.
D. Jacob is striving to be rich.

7.
Which fact would be an effective contribution to a discussion among consumers about conserving water?

A. The Earth has limited resources; don’t abuse them.
B. It’s foolish to run water while you’re brushing your teeth.
C. If your faucet is dripping at the rate of one drop per second, you can expect to waste 2,700 gallons per year, greatly increasing the cost of utilities.
D. Start a compost pile to dispose of food waste instead of using your kitchen sink garbage disposal, which can add 50% to the volume of solids in a septic tank.

8.
What is being inferred in the following passage?
Passage—

Jeremiah awoke early every morning to make his bed, put away clean laundry, and organize his desk. After making a meal, he cleaned the kitchen counter and washed the dishes. He liked cats, but preferred not to own any pets, as they shed on the floor and climbed on the furniture. Jeremiah also liked to organize his books in alphabetical order by author. He organized his music according the album’s release date, which most music lovers found unconventional.

A. remiah is very orderly
B. Jeremiah is obsessive-compulsive
C. Jeremiah prefers not to own pets
D. Jeremiah is afraid of germs

9.
The following sentence is an example of understatement: “Yeah, I had a pretty good day, considering I won the lottery.”

A. true
B. false

10.
Complete the following sentence with the best word:
At the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency, America was experiencing a serious _____.

A. collaboration
B. recession
C. introspective
D. case study

11.
An egocentric view relates a narrow, or self-centered perspective.

A. true
B. false

PLEASE help! with this?

. Which agency would you contact if you suspect that people are illegally hunting and fishing in a national park? (Points : 1)
Department of Defense
Department of Health and Human Services
Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

2. Which two agencies oversee homeland security and bioterrorism threats? (Points : 1)
Department of Health and Human Services; Department of Defense
Department of Energy; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Environmental Protection Agency; Department of the Interior
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; U.S. Geological Survey

3. Which government agency developed many of the technologies used to study and protect the environment but does NOT have environmental responsibilities? (Points : 1)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Bureau of Reclamation
Minerals Management Service

4. Which of these is NOT a valuable goal of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research into sustainable agricultural practices? (Points : 1)
to educate farmers and food producers about ways to grow healthy crops without harming wildlife
to reduce the amount of toxic chemicals entering human food sources and natural ecosystems
to increase the production of crops while decreasing the cost to farmers in any way possible
to identify practices that will conserve natural resources while providing plenty of food for a growing population

5. Match each government agency with its corresponding function.
1.Department of the Interior 1 : regulates the health and biodiversity of species that live on public land
: 2.Department of Energy 2 : facilitates discussion and research on scientific and technological solutions to national issues
: 3.Centers for Disease Control and 3 : the cleanup of polluted sites and enforces environmental protection laws4.National Academy of Sciences 4 : researches ways to reduce hazards to human health and ways to respond to health emergencies
: 5.Environmental Protection Agency 5 : regulates national parks, the use of natural resources, and wildlife safety
: 6.Bureau of Land Management 6 : researches development of reliable energy sources and ways to increase fuel efficiency

(urgen!!I will give many points if you answer.)How can I improve my composition?

My teacher ask me to write about an article about Hong Kong(a city in Asia, I have to find some information online!! It spend me lots of time!!!)

Here is the requirement:
“Being an international financial centre, Hong Kong should focus on progress (such as building new roads, big shopping malls and commercial buildings) rather than preservation (keeping old buildings)”. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper giving your opinions.
Start your letter with “Dear Editor”. Sign “Chris Lee”. Do not write any address.

Here is my article:

Dear Editor,
I am writing to express my attitude towards the controversy over the statement—-should Hong Kong focus on progress rather than preservation as Hong Kong is an international financial centre. From my point of view, I am entirely in favour of preservation.
First and foremost, old buildings reflect Hong Kong’s individual culture. Dotted with all kinds of boutiques operated by different countries’ businessmen, many people say Hong Kong has lost her individual culture—just copying other countries’ cultures. Why do they say that? Is it factual? Of course not. Hong Kong has a long history and owns thousands of cultural heritages, brimming with innumerable precious stories; however, majority of us has not noticed this. Archaic temples, markets and accommodations, which are the precious heritages of Hong Kong, have shown the prestigious culture of Hong Kong. Who can disclaim them? However, if we don’t treasure them, just focus on constructing new roads, building big shopping malls and developing commercial buildings, our precious heritages will be damaged and distinct in our city. For example, Old Wan Chai Market has been demolished because government wants to develop that region into other commercial purpose. Needless to say, Wan Chai will become more developed and attract more people to invest in Hong Kong; nevertheless, our treasure market will never come back. When I was in kindergarten, my mother always took me to that market to buy some food so I was impressed of it. Now I can’t see any thing in the same position, so I feel a little depression. We can see our Old Wan Chai Market in the photographs, but it is really extinct in our city. Our precious heritages are vulnerable, so we need to endeavour for preservation of them instead of annihilating them.
Secondly, old buildings, which can stimulate Hong Kong’s economics, can attract more tourists to visit Hong Kong. Tourism which is the main part of Hong Kong’s departments has contributed billions of dollars to our city and consolidated our international financial centre position in the world. If we annihilate the preservation region in order to let us build more International Financial Centres (IFCs) to boost our economics, will it really work? This method of soaring Hong Kong’s growth is rather foolish. We just like the man who wanted to get the golden eggs from the hen, using a knife to kill the hen; finally, we could get nothing, even the hen. We can’t just focus on the present profit and abandon fundamental thing, otherwise, we can’t sustain for a long time. So we should also focus on the long-term effect.
Last but not least, old buildings can remind us not to forget the history of Hong Kong’ spirit—-never give up. Hong Kong was a little fishing village in the past, but through hard working many Hong Kong’ generations, Hong Kong has transformed into an international financial centre. Old buildings can tell us the hash life in the past so it can remind ourselves not to give up even we are in recent trouble—-financial crisis.
In conclusion, preservation is more important than progress. As many people ignore the importance of preservation, we need to raise public awareness of preservation. Sustainable development is crucial for us so Hong Kong needs our efforts.
Thank you for reading my letter.
Yours Sincerely,
Chris Lee

can someone please help me with these guestions i cant find them for marine science?

what does a murky or amber color indicate in the ocean water?

what is the basic importance of phytoplankton?

How many cells/liter are produced by upwelling?

during summer, what effect does upwelling have on the weather?

Name the main immediate benefit of a south wind during the summer. What is the effect on upwelling?

What is the ratio of each food level in the food chain to each other? what is the energy loss due to?

Why are the centers of oceans the least productive? what is the exception of this rule?and Why…

Why isnt the ocean and unlimited supply of food?

What effect does pesticides and oil pollution have on plankton?

What is the average rate of production for all of the oceans?

What is ” maximum sustainable yield?

I plan to organize a baby shower for a friend. How to tell people that we prefer organic/eco-friendly gifts?

Eco-Friendly Gifts for my friend?

Hello! So my friend’s birthday is coming up and she is very eco–friendly. I wanted to give her something unique, that is also eco–friendly, like say a bag made from recycled materials. Keep in mind we’re only teenagers, so nothing that only adults would like. Any suggestions or links?

Thanks!
IDK…. I wasn’t really aiming for money, I was thinking more of a unique gift

Eco friendly gifts…eg buy a goat…?

theres these gifts you can buy as a christmas present for someone..
and its like they’ve bought a goat for someone in africa etc…
so its not a personal gift…but they’re helping the world with recieving that gift…
anyone know what the website is? or what the company is called?
its okay…
i’ve found the company..
its called present aid

Are you choosing Eco-Friendly gifts this season?

Good eco-friendly gifts for my friends?

Both guys and girls, everywhere from 13 on up. None of them are very “green” and I want to spread the Earth-love! (Please, no more than 30 dollars or so per person)

If you were to do a project on one of the following environmental issues, which would it be and why?

Rain Forest challenges in Brazil

Desertification/human interactions in the Sudan

Industrial pollution and human challenges in China

Global warming and potential effects in the South pacific islands
Waterways, ecosystems, and human challenges within Cambodia

Drought, poverty, and politics in North Korea.

Need help with current environmental issues?

I have to put together some case studies for my AS course Environmental Studies. I thought we were doing 3 and got those done in not time at all so I could enjoy my holiday, now it turns out we’re doing 10.

Basically, the names of any environmental issue (excluding the BP oil spill, China oil spill, Indonesian land slide, Russian forest fires, Niger Floods, Pakistan Floods, and the eruption of Mt Sinabung) would be pure gold. You don’ t need to explain them in great detail, I’m willing to do the leg work, but just finding some current issues is getting really tough since I’ve run out of ideas.

Thanks to everyone who helps! x

I am writing a college paper on AT&T’s business in China. Is there someone at AT&T I can interview?

What comparative advantage does AT&T have by operating in China? Are their any environmental issues or concerns.

If the United States took radical actions to deal with environmental issues…?

but China, Russia, India and most of Africa took NO actions to adapt…

would the US’s efforts be in vain?
Baccheus – I don’t disagree, but that isn’t the question.

Do You Check Ethical Problems of Manufacturers Before You Source Products from China?

Low labour costs and high profits, but make sure there are no ethical problems, such as use of child labour and workers suffer with daily exposure to the environmental issues. Most companies are looking for low labour costs in order to be competitive, but are keen to avoid unethical exploitation of workers. We take these issues very seriously, and take great care to recommend only organisations with high ethical standards. We are also advising and encouraging British companies to check ethical problems of manufacturers in China, before they source or manufacture products from China.

What is one alternative energy technology that you would like to see become more widespread?

I know we have a lot of alternative energy skeptics in here, but the reality is that point-source energy production using a wide array of energy technologies will be the way of the future. Large scale wind and solar operations are technological nightmares and cost-wise gigantic monstrosities, but wide-spread adoption of small scale usage by individual homeowners has gigantic potential. Also, methane re-uptake technologies for commercial farming operations and water treatment facilities are also likely to become significant contributors to our future energy basket.

What is one alternative energy technology that you would take a serious interest in if it were more cost effective. Also, if you invested in some kind of alternative energy technology, how long of a payback period (recouping of costs through savings on utility bills) do you consider to be reasonable? For the sake of this question let’s assume the unit you purchase will have a 30 year useful lifespan and your total return on investment would be 30/x, where x is your payback period, suggesting an average payback period of six years would imply a 500% total return on investment.

What is alternative energy and what are some examples?

I need a few examples of alternative energy and what it is.

What is the cheapest alternative energy to implement and how does it compare to existing conventional energy?

What are current energy prices of alternative and conventional techniques?

What is the name of this alternative source of energy called?

I recall hearing of some source of alternative energy that was based on the motion of the waves. Basically, the waves provided the energy(no giant turbines) and these things functioned like wind mills of the sea. Everything else was blah blah. The inventor of this ingenious device was some high school or college student, I think.
Whatever it is, just tell me the name of the inventor, the name of the thing he/she made, and how it works. I may have placed this question in the wrong place because there really isn’t enough about alternative energy to devote a link to. Remember, inventor, invention and how it works.

What are the potential alternative energy solution that we can use to replace gasoline in the long run?

This may sound ridiculous at this moment but we may need to face it sometime in the future , so what kind of alternative energy sources that we can tap into before we run out of gasoline? Do you think the oil companies or some other major corporations should really invest in such energy development since this is essential for the survival of our civilization.

What is the most widely used source of renewable energy in the world today?

is it
a.hydroelectric power
b. biomass fuels
c.tidal power

How can renewable energy benefit 3rd world countries?

What do you think are the disadvantages of the current non–renewable energy sources in the world?

yes the picture is me

Should we save the world by switching to renewable energy, or destroy it by sticking with oil?

Let’s hear from both sides of this question.
We have no onshore reserves left in the US.
The whole US economy depends on the health of the gulf coast. There is not a “red environment” and a “blue environment”
solar and wind.

What is the share of renewable energy sources (wind, solar and hydropower) in the world’s energy supply?

how could you write this paragraph in your own words?

Urban agriculture (UA) has been promoted over the last couple of years by a large number of local and national governments, urban actors and international agencies, such as UN-HABITAT’s Urban Management Programme, FAO, International Development Research Centre (IDRC- Canada), CGIAR-Urban Harvest and the International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF) as a strategy to promote food security and poverty reduction, sustainable resource use and environmental management, social integration and local participatory governance.

Urban agriculture takes place in a multi-sectoral environment, touches on a large number of urban management areas (eg. land use planning, environmental and waste management, economic development, public health, social and community development), and involves a large diversity of systems and related actors (input provision, vegetable production, aquaculture, livestock production, processing and marketing).

Why is the onus on consumers to be environmentally responsible, rather than producers?

The environment and carbon and climate change have been major issues recently. However, when we start to discuss methods in which to reduce our environmental impact and whatnot, the focus keeps coming back to what we as consumers can do, rather than what producers can do, to minimise things like carbon emissions.

Why is that?

Surely, a consumer can only use what is available to them. They can create demand for a product, but that doesn’t always mean the product will become available. If the only food my local shopping centre sells is either genetically modified or imported, then how can I be environmentally and socially conscious and buy the organic sustainably farmed fair-trade stuff?

So we can – and should – do things on an individual level in the short term (buy energysaver light bulbs, do our recycling properly, take reusable bags to the shops, recycle and compost) but what happens in a few years time if we’ve failed to properly plan and implement the major changes to the way we go about our business?

Okay, some things are still being developed for commercial use – such as solar cells which don’t use silicon – but what about the things we should’ve always been doing, like using organic permaculture practices (in short, you plant certain things together so the plants work together to provide all the natural pesticides and nutrients they need) rather than slowly degrading the soil with pesticides and fertilisers? In the long run it would be cheaper, wouldn’t it?

As a child, I never understood how letting the water run down the drain was ‘wasting’ water. I didn’t know we weren’t recycling the water.

Nature was doing a fairly good job before we butted in; why is it so hard to be sustainable now?

Can anyone read my paper and critique it?

This essay should be about the UN’s current involvement in a world affair. Does it fulfill the topic? It’s for a essay contest.
United Nations: The Chance for Millions

The United Nations (UN), founded in 1945, is a famous international organization that is dedicated to solving the problems that challenge humanity. These problems range on a wide variety of issues. Today, one of the biggest goal on the UN agenda is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

To achieve this goal, the UN has founded the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Program (WFP), and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Each is working to fulfill the World Food Summit’s aim of eradicating global hunger and poverty: WFP with food aid, FAO through its technical expertise in agriculture, and IFAD via international financial assistance. Increasingly, the three agencies are finding joint solutions to dealing with emergencies and promoting recovery and development. #

Of these agencies, the WFP is the UN’s frontline agency in food aid. The WFP is the world’s largest international food aid organization combating hunger in underdeveloped nations with severe food shortages. The operation aims to saving lives in refugee crises and other emergencies, improve nutrition and quality of life of world’s most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives, and enable development by (a) helping people build assets that benefit them directly; (b) promoting the self-reliance of poor people and communities.# The agency also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the right place by land, air, and sea 24/7. The WFP works to put hunger at the center of the international agenda, promoting policies, strategies and operations that directly benefit the poor and hungry.#

The WFP runs emergency and development projects in 78 countries worldwide. In 2006, they distributed food to 87.8 million of the poorest people in the world, including 58.8 million children. Of those, 24.3 million people are in development programs and 63.4 million are beneficiaries in emergency and protracted relief and recovery operations. Since it was founded in 1962, WFP has fed more than 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people and invested more than $30 billion dollars in development and emergency relief.#

The WFP’s innovative projects not only put food on the tables of the weakest and poorest: jobless mothers, school children, landless farmers and HIV orphans. They also help the hungry to secure food and an income by themselves so they can break out of the poverty trap and build a sustainable future. The WFP school meals encourage hungry children to attend school with their school feeding formula: food attracts hungry children to school. An education broadens their options, helping to lift them out of poverty. With the WFP’s development projects, workers are paid not with money, but with food rations to build vital new infrastructure that will increase the food security of households or communities. The special role of WFP food assistance is to give people the chance to take the first steps out of the hunger trap.#

With the help of the United Nations’ World Food Program, millions of people each year are given hope 365 days a year. They are given a chance to live and re-build their lives to support themselves and their families. Most of all, children are given a chance to change their future.

Private pay shrinks to an all time low, while Govt pay-outs are at all time high, Is this what Obama wanted?

Sounds like centrally run, Govt based economy, doesn’t it?
Look at this quote from the USA Today article…”Economist Veronique de Rugy of the free-market Mercatus Center at George Mason University says the riots in Greece over cutting benefits to close a huge budget deficit are a warning about unsustainable income programs. ” …Aren’t we headed in the same direction as Greece?

excerpt…
Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds.
At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

Those records reflect a long-term trend accelerated by the recession and the federal stimulus program to counteract the downturn. The result is a major shift in the source of personal income from private wages to government programs.

The trend is not sustainable, says University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes. Reason: The federal government depends on private wages to generate income taxes to pay for its ever-more-expensive programs. Government-generated income is taxed at lower rates or not at all, he says. “This is really important,” Grimes says.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-05-24-income-shifts-from-private-sector_N.htm
BOOKISH: If you wnat to question the numbers, I believe you’ll have to interrogate the USA Today, since this is their research.

Secondly, it’s easy t ounderstand, not difficult….private pay, NOW makes up the smaller part of income!! AND Govt pay-outs, the biggest…see, easy. You don’t need to try and confuse things when it’s this straight forward.
NOKILLI: How can you be so lost? Socialism is a result of free markets? You must be having a bad day…this is a result of Govt taking over most of the traditional roles of people and people becoming more nad more lazy, ignorant, and addicted to an easy, (albeit very low) level of income…because life is hard and things aren’t fair

Why can’t projects like this get funding?

Hello! Malawi and Mozambique two of the poorest African nations have identified and agreed to try to obtain assistance and funding to develop the Shire-Zambezi Waterway and the Milange District agricultural development project. This fertile land could not only provide food security for both countries, but could provide training centers to train the local farmers in organic, sustainable farming and using the Waterway to transport the surplus to the delta for export. (awjokela@yahoo.com)

what is a website where i can buy eco friendly clothing?

or a local or common store that sells eco friendly clothes? i know jc penney has them but anywhere else??

Is The Clothing Company IXCHEL eco friendly?

i bought a pair of overalls from a local store assuming that they were eco friendly, maybe recycled patchwork. I have seen a lot of recycled patchwork items like the overalls before and i bought them without thinking. now i wonder if they are eco friendly so i could get more because i really like them but at the same time i want to buy eco friendly clothes. i already e mailed the company and so far no answer.

Any organic or eco-friendly clothing stores in orange county?

For men that are fashionable and trendy.

how is eco friendly clothing good for the environment?

hey i wanted to now how is green clothing good for the environment
help please!! thanks

Why do eco friendly clothing cost so much?

i was trying to find eco friendly clothes and there all like £100-£150

what are some environmental issues right now today?

what are some environmental issues right now that i should be aware of?

What are some environmental issues we have today?

I know about some but I would like to expand more options.

Does the lack of attention to environmental issues by today’s churches disgust you?

What are the top 5 environmental Issues?

What do you think are the 5 most critical environmental issues today? and out of the 5 which one do you think is the greatest problem?

What are some of the major health and environmental issues plaguing Africa today?

Energy Crisis? It is a time for a Revolution? Bill Richardson?

It’s time for a revolution.
We have been hearing about this country’s energy crisis for years, yet our dependence on foreign oil has deepened, our fuel efficiency standards have stagnated, and our greenhouse gas emissions have multiplied exponentially. The time for incremental change and conventional thinking is long gone.
Today I’m calling for a New American Revolution – an energy and climate revolution.
I have a real plan to reverse global warming. Click here to endorse my bold new agenda.
There are five crucial elements to my plan:
Cut oil demand: 50% by 2020. Increasing the gas mileage of the average car to more than 50 mpg is just one way to help achieve this goal.
Change to Renewable Sources for Electricity: 50% by 2040. We could save customers $21 billion a year by 2020 by changing to alternative energy sources.
Dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions: 90% by 2050. We must set strict limits on emissions. We’ll do it by instituting a market-based cap and trade syst

Spain’s Green Jobs have FAILED so why is Obama Praising them and Copying them?

Going Green/Alternative Energy has failed in SPAIN and yet the Democrats in the Congress, Senate and even the Democrat President are copying this failed plan.

Spain has over an 18% Un Employment Rate and the Green Jobs didn’t create JOBS they added to the UN EMPLOYMENT RATE.

WHY?

Why can’t the Democrats in our Government use our Natural Resourse and stop going with a FAILED PLAN?

Below is the LINK:

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/editorials/stories/2009/06/24/will24.ART_ART_06-24-09_A11_MLE94UP.html?sid=101

Let’s not envy Spain’s green jobs

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:00 AM

By George F. Will

Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating “green jobs” in “alternative energy” even though Spain’s unemployment rate is 18.1 percent — more than double the European Union average — partly because of spending on such jobs?

Calzada, 36, an economics professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, has produced a report that, if true, is inconvenient for the Obama administration’s green agenda.

Calzada says Spain’s torrential spending — no other nation has so aggressively supported production of electricity from renewable sources — on wind farms and other forms of alternative energy has indeed created jobs. But Calzada’s report concludes that they often are temporary and have received $752,000 to $800,000 each in subsidies — wind industry jobs cost even more, $1.4 million each. And each new job entails the loss of 2.2 other jobs that are either lost or not created in other industries because of the political allocation of capital. Calzada says the creation of jobs in alternative energy has subtracted about 110,000 jobs from elsewhere in Spain’s economy.

The president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was asked about the report’s contention that the political diversion of capital into green jobs has cost Spain jobs. The White House transcript contained this exchange:

Gibbs: “It seems weird that we’re importing wind turbine parts from Spain in order to build — to meet renewable energy demand here if that were even remotely the case.”

Questioner: “Is that a suggestion that his study is simply flat wrong?”

Gibbs: “I haven’t read the study, but I think, yes.”

Questioner: “Well, then. (Laughter.)”

Actually, what is weird is this idea: A sobering report about Spain’s experience must be false because otherwise the behavior of some American importers, seeking to cash in on the U.S. government’s promotion of wind power, might be participating in an economically unproductive project.

It is true Calzada has come to conclusions that he, as a libertarian, finds congenial. And his study was supported by a like-minded think tank (the Institute for Energy Research, for which this columnist has given a paid speech). Still, it is notable that, rather than refute his report, many Spanish critics have impugned his patriotism for faulting something for which Spain was praised by Obama and others.

You can find similar conclusions in “Yellow Light on Green Jobs,” a report by Republican Sen. Kit Bond, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy.

What matters most is not that reports such as Calzada’s and the Republicans’ are right in every particular. It is, however, hardly counterintuitive that politically driven investments are economically counterproductive. Indeed, environmentalists with the courage of their convictions should argue that the point of such investments is to subordinate market rationality to the higher agenda of planetary salvation.

Still, one can be agnostic about both reports while being dismayed by the frequency with which such findings are ignored simply because they question policies that are so invested with righteousness that methodical economic reasoning about their costs and benefits seems unimportant.

For fervent believers in governments’ abilities to control the climate and in the urgent need for them to do so, believing is seeing: They see, through their ideological lenses, governments’ green spending as always paying for itself. This is a free-lunch faith comparable to that of those conservatives who believe tax cuts always pay for themselves by stimulating compensating revenues from economic growth.

Windmills are iconic in the land of Don Quixote, whose tilting at them became emblematic of comic futility. Spain’s new windmills are neither amusing nor emblematic of policies America should emulate.

Which candidate has this stance with regards to the environment?

The federal government has proven itself untrustworthy with environmental policy by facilitating polluters, subsidizing logging in the National Forests, and instituting one-size-fits-all approaches that too often discriminate against those they are intended to help.

The key to sound environmental policy is respect for private property rights. The strict enforcement of property rights corrects environmental wrongs while increasing the cost of polluting.

In a free market, no one is allowed to pollute his neighbor’s land, air, or water. If your property is being damaged, you have every right to sue the polluter, and government should protect that right. After paying damages, the polluter’s production and sale costs rise, making it unprofitable to continue doing business the same way. Currently, preemptive regulations and pay-to-pollute schemes favor those wealthy enough to perform the regulatory tap dance, while those who own the polluted land rarely receive a quick or just resolution to their problems.

In Congress, I have followed a constitutional approach to environmental action:

I consistently vote against using tax dollars to subsidize logging in National Forests.
I am a co-sponsor of legislation designed to encourage the development of alternative and sustainable energy. H.R. 550 extends the investment tax credit to solar energy property and qualified fuel cell property, and H.R. 1772 provides tax credits for the installation of wind energy property.
Taxpayers for Common Sense named me a “Treasury Guardian” for my work against environmentally-harmful government spending and corporate welfare.
I am a member of the Congressional Green Scissors Coalition, a bipartisan caucus devoted to ending taxpayer subsidies of projects that harm the environment for the benefit of special interests.

Individuals, businesses, localities, and states must be free to negotiate environmental standards. Those who depend on the land for their health and livelihood have the greatest incentive to be responsible stewards.

Since Bush could instantly overfund the military, aren’t his funding cuts worse than downsizing the military?

Clinton’s downsizing had nothing on the Bush administration’s cuts in funds from almost everything you could think of:
Funding has been cut for hospitals, Veterans’ Affairs (VA) programs, pharmaceutical companies, Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA), National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH), education K-12, education-education after high school, Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA), libraries, alternative energy projects, worker safety and health grants, cancer and AIDS research, public health advocacy groups, fire prevention programs, flood prevention programs, airports, etc…
The list goes on. He has used this to fund his “War on Terrorism”. Therefore, the extra funds have been wasted because he has only increased the terrorists’ recruitment drive and viciousness.
C B, this is why he has cut funds. He doesn’t cut taxes, but he does cut funds so that the debt won’t grow too huge and have congressment yelling at him for it.
Nice try C B, but you failed to contradict me.
2nd Answerer, I think if YOU check, we have only had this democrat majority for a measly 1.5 months. I am covering the entire 6.15 years our administration has been in power.
Mahal, you gave me an unsubstantiated reason against 1 thing that I said, out of the dozens of things I said. You are really full of it. You cannot contradict me. Do your homework and find out.
Maybe not Bush, but congress did overfund it instantly because most people were staunchly for the war. You know this.

how would you summarize this article?

China claims success in test of fusion reactor
Posted 9/28/2006 7:50 AM

By Alexa Olesen, The Associated Press
BEIJING — Scientists on Thursday carried out China’s first successful test of an experimental fusion reactor, powered by the process that fuels the sun, a research institute spokeswoman said.
China, the United States and other governments are pursuing fusion research in hopes that it could become a clean, potentially limitless energy source. Fusion produces little radioactive waste, unlike fission, which powers conventional nuclear reactors.

Beijing is eager for advances, both for national prestige and to reduce its soaring consumption of imported oil and dirty coal.

The test by the government’s Institute of Plasma Physics was carried out on a Tokamak fusion device in the eastern city of Hefei, said Cheng Yan, a spokeswoman at the institute.

Cheng said the test was considered a success because the reactor produced plasma, a hot cloud of supercharged particles. She wouldn’t give other details.

“This represents a step for humankind in the study of nuclear reaction,” she said.

U.S. and other scientists have been experimenting with fusion for decades but it has yet to be developed into a viable energy alternative.

“I think it is a considerable step ahead for China,” said Karl Heinz Finken, a senior scientist at the Institute for Plasma Physics in Juelich, Germany, who had no role in the Chinese research.

“China is speeding up with the development of nuclear fusion and I think at the moment they are making considerable progress,” he said.

The Chinese facility is similar to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, being built by a seven-nation consortium in Cadarache in southern France, according to state media. That reactor is due to be completed in 2015.

China is a partner in the ITER reactor, along with the European Union, the United States, Japan, Russia, India and South Korea.

A Tokamak reactor uses a doughnut-shaped magnetic field to contain the hot gas.

Several countries have produced plasma using a Tokamak or similar device, said Gabriel Marbach, deputy head of fusion research at the ITER facility. He said producing plasma was only one step toward the fusion that ITER aims to perform, and that the project could be helped by the Chinese experiments.

“It was important for China to show that it is part of the club, and that adds value to its participation in ITER,” Marbach said.

“That is not to say that it is at the level of the Europeans or Americans,” he said. However, he added, “We are rather admiring of the Chinese for conducting this test. It was conducted well, and they constructed (the machine) rather quickly.”

China is the world’s No. 2 oil consumer and its No. 3 importer, consuming at least 3.5 million barrels of foreign oil per day last year.

China plans to build dozens of nuclear power plants and is trying to promote use of cleaner alternative energy sources such as natural gas, wind power and methanol made from corn.

AP correspondent Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.

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