tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752027331714385066.post1738748681305451953..comments2024-03-19T14:38:21.141-07:00Comments on Terra Forming Terra: Bare Knuckled Environmentalism Will Not Workarcleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942529252160087271noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752027331714385066.post-17754500009864412542010-08-25T22:01:20.933-07:002010-08-25T22:01:20.933-07:00Many so-called energy experts continue to report f...Many so-called energy experts continue to report fossil fuel industry myths that ripping the tops off of mountains in order to provide a few days of coal, or drilling for toxic oil and natural gas must continue because there is simply no other energy option available. However, the technology to extract hydrogen from water with electricity generated by the wind was developed by scientists and engineers in the 1800s, but oil and gas industry lobbyists made sure their very profitable but highly-toxic products would continue to be used and needlessly contaminate virtually every person and animal worldwide. <br /><br />As bad as the 200 million gallon Gulf oil spill is, according to a “Oil in the Sea” report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), over 1.3 trillion gallons of oil is released each year into the oceans worldwide not from accidental spills, but from hundreds of millions of people who use oil-based fuels like gasoline to power their vehicles and lubricate their engines, most of which ends up in rivers and eventually the oceans. <br /><br />Moreover, the NAS scientists have documented that the oil spills are only the tip of the iceberg of profound problems that are caused by the production, transportation and use of oil and other fossil fuels, which now generate over 3 billion pounds of atmospheric carbon dioxide every day in the U.S. alone. This is why NAS scientists have warned that humanity is in the final stages of making the Earth itself uninhabitable -- and none of this needed to happen.<br /> <br />The first hydrogen-fuelled automobile, which is pictured on our PhoenixProjectFoundation.US website, was developed in 1807 in Switzerland, and by 1892, Poul la Cour, a Danish scientist, produced the first wind powered “electrolytic” hydrogen production system. Professor J.S.B. Haldane proposed at Cambridge University that coal and other fossil fuels could and should be replaced with hydrogen made from the wind and water, and in the 1970s, the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE.org) was established, which now has over 2,000 distinguished scientists and engineers from over 45 countries who are involved in every aspect of hydrogen production, storage, transmission and end use as a fuel or chemical feedstock that is needed to make everything from gasoline to semiconductors. <br /><br />I have been an Advisory Board Member of the IAHE for the past 30 years, and in 1984 I first proposed to the national news media a “Phoenix Project” plan for the U.S. to rise from the ashes of non-renewable fossil and nuclear fuels to a Solar Hydrogen Economy with wartime-speed in my Congressional campaign against John McCain. <br /><br />Less than 2 million 5 MW wind systems would be needed to displace all of the fossil and nuclear fuels now used in the USA, which means approximately 8 million systems would displace the use all fossil and nuclear fuels worldwide. The cost of the 2 million units for the USA is estimated to be $10 trillion, and given the USA now spends approximately $1.5 trillion for fossil and nuclear fuels, the wind systems would pay for themselves in less than 7 years by producing hydrogen from water, which is both pollution-free and inexhaustible. The only question is whether the trillions of dollars that will flow essentially forever from this solar hydrogen macro engineering project should primarily to private companies like Exxon or BP, which have no responsibility for the public welfare, or to the U.S. Treasury, so the U.S. government could actually pay for government services while also paying down the national debt each year. <br /><br />Thus to suggest that some new renewable energy source needs to be discovered is absurd. Any biological scientist should know that photosynthetic bacteria and plants have been successfully extracting hydrogen from water with solar energy on a global scale with no pollution for over 3 billion years.Harry Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01698816170790837704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752027331714385066.post-61654686133355970942010-08-25T21:56:47.477-07:002010-08-25T21:56:47.477-07:00Many so-called energy experts continue to report f...Many so-called energy experts continue to report fossil fuel industry myths that ripping the tops off of mountains in order to provide a few days of coal, or drilling for toxic oil and natural gas must continue because there is simply no other energy option available. However, the technology to extract hydrogen from water with electricity generated by the wind was developed by scientists and engineers in the 1800s, but oil and gas industry lobbyists made sure their very profitable but highly-toxic products would continue to be used and needlessly contaminate virtually every person and animal worldwide. <br /><br />As bad as the 200 million gallon Gulf oil spill is, according to a “Oil in the Sea” report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), over 1.3 trillion gallons of oil is released each year into the oceans worldwide not from accidental spills, but from hundreds of millions of people who use oil-based fuels like gasoline to power their vehicles and lubricate their engines, most of which ends up in rivers and eventually the oceans. <br /><br />Moreover, the NAS scientists have documented that the oil spills are only the tip of the iceberg of profound problems that are caused by the production, transportation and use of oil and other fossil fuels, which now generate over 3 billion pounds of atmospheric carbon dioxide every day in the U.S. alone. This is why NAS scientists have warned that humanity is in the final stages of making the Earth itself uninhabitable -- and none of this needed to happen.<br /> <br />The first hydrogen-fuelled automobile, which is pictured on our PhoenixProjectFoundation.US website, was developed in 1807 in Switzerland, and by 1892, Poul la Cour, a Danish scientist, produced the first wind powered “electrolytic” hydrogen production system. Professor J.S.B. Haldane proposed at Cambridge University that coal and other fossil fuels could and should be replaced with hydrogen made from the wind and water, and in the 1970s, the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE.org) was established, which now has over 2,000 distinguished scientists and engineers from over 45 countries who are involved in every aspect of hydrogen production, storage, transmission and end use as a fuel or chemical feedstock that is needed to make everything from gasoline to semiconductors. <br /><br />I have been an Advisory Board Member of the IAHE for the past 30 years, and in 1984 I first proposed to the national news media a “Phoenix Project” plan for the U.S. to rise from the ashes of non-renewable fossil and nuclear fuels to a Solar Hydrogen Economy with wartime-speed in my Congressional campaign against John McCain. <br /><br />Less than 2 million 5 MW wind systems would be needed to displace all of the fossil and nuclear fuels now used in the USA, which means approximately 8 million systems would displace the use all fossil and nuclear fuels worldwide. The cost of the 2 million units for the USA is estimated to be $10 trillion, and given the USA now spends approximately $1.5 trillion for fossil and nuclear fuels, the wind systems would pay for themselves in less than 7 years by producing hydrogen from water, which is both pollution-free and inexhaustible. The only question is whether the trillions of dollars that will flow essentially forever from this solar hydrogen macro engineering project should primarily to private companies like Exxon or BP, which have no responsibility for the public welfare, or to the U.S. Treasury, so the U.S. government could actually pay for government services while also paying down the national debt each year. <br /><br />Thus to suggest that some new renewable energy source needs to be discovered is absurd. Any biological scientist should know that photosynthetic bacteria and plants have been successfully extracting hydrogen from water with solar energy on a global scale with no pollution for over 3 billion years.Harry Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01698816170790837704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752027331714385066.post-62844660554335473462010-08-25T15:59:00.265-07:002010-08-25T15:59:00.265-07:00My hero name: Lady Life Grows
My legal name: Esthe...My hero name: Lady Life Grows<br />My legal name: Esther M. Cook<br /> <br />I am a biological scientist. I have been angry for years at the lies told about fossil fuels and their most beneficial product--carbon dioxide. Energy is the second most beneficial product, but carbon dioxide has done even more to extend our lifespans and provide food. Recently, I did a literature search to find out what results have been gotten on animals similar to the thousands of studies proving the obvious--carbon dioxide increase causes increased plant growth. There are zero studies showing the effects of doubling or tripling CO2 on animal well-being other than bugs. The average rodent burrow has 50 times the CO2 present in air, and chicken eggs hatch faster in 50X enriched CO2 as well. Preemie human babies are often incubated with 7% CO2 so their lungs mature faster.<br /> <br />If the fuss were really about the environment, not tax and control, then there would be hundreds of studies on terrestrial vertebrates.<br /><br />I have seen horrifying contortions as biological scientist argue that increasing animals would raise their risk of extinction (college class, Summer 2010) and wild speculations on how increased temps would harm critters. The actual science is that increasing temps raise primary production and that is the biggest single factor in biodiversity. That is why higher average temps used to be called "climate optimum" before Algore's and others' screaming about AGW.photinacookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00558990721740419836noreply@blogger.com