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7604. jexster - 7/24/2008 10:13:48 PM I think Concerned wins the Climate Change argument
Arctic has enough oil to power USA for twelve years
I'm a faggot and I'll be dead by the time that reservoir's depleted and another discovered at the South pole
Why should I give a fuck about AC's grandkids, polar bears and fucking baby seals???? 7605. jexster - 7/24/2008 10:14:33 PM 7606. jexster - 7/27/2008 4:46:33 PM The Indian "Volkswage" $2500 Nano
 7607. jexster - 7/27/2008 6:25:49 PM Your windfall profit dollars at work
Play EnergyVille - an Interactive Game brought to you as a public service by Chevron 7608. concerned - 7/28/2008 4:26:07 PM Hydrogen is a great energy delivery system, but you still have to generate it using electricity (where do you get the electricity)
The short answer to that is 'nuclear power'. 7609. concerned - 7/28/2008 6:27:32 PM Number of gas and oil wells in Lake Erie: 480.
Number of gas and oil wells on US side of Lake Erie: 0. 7610. concerned - 7/28/2008 6:34:21 PM Re. 7590 -
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I know you don't like Lomborg's take on climate science, but is there anything you actually disagree with him about, factually? 7611. thoughtful - 7/28/2008 6:39:09 PM w or w/out nuclear power, electricity generation is far more efficient than internal combustion engines so even with using current technologies, we're better off with electric cars. 7612. concerned - 7/28/2008 6:51:53 PM Number of gas and oil wells in Lake Erie: 480.
Number of gas and oil wells on US side of Lake Erie: 0.
This is nothing to feel righteous about. 7613. jexster - 7/28/2008 7:42:27 PM Tata Nano Sets the Auto Standard
Macaca Mobile Debuts to Rave Reviews 7614. concerned - 7/28/2008 8:35:16 PM Makes good pothole filler when hit by another vehicle, too. 7615. concerned - 7/28/2008 8:42:19 PM Acceleration: 0 - 43mph: 14 seconds
Top Speed: 65mph
7616. alistairConnor - 7/28/2008 9:22:48 PM Sounds fine to me. If they start selling these little suckers in Yurrup, they'll sink four or five auto makers... who have been conspiring to keep the price of an entry-level car up to 8000 euros or so. 7617. jexster - 7/31/2008 6:23:52 PM Pickens on his energy plan
7618. jexster - 8/1/2008 2:33:31 PM Major Discovery at MIT Promises to Unleash Solar Power Revolution 7619. wonkers2 - 8/1/2008 3:38:11 PM Wow! I hope that one works out. It could save us from self-immolation. 7620. concerned - 8/1/2008 6:01:25 PM I've already read about this. Interesting that there's no mention that it exceeds the maximum 50% efficiency of electrolysis, which suggests, given the general adulatory tone of this puff piece, that it doesn't. That's a lot of wasted energy. 7621. concerned - 8/1/2008 6:02:22 PM It could save us from self-immolation.
Care to explain your reasoning? 7622. jexster - 8/1/2008 10:33:03 PM Under the Bonnet - Continental GT Speed
This puppy will melt some polar ice TD!
6L V12
The sooner we do Greenland the faster we can get to all that Arctic oil 7623. jexster - 8/1/2008 10:36:32 PM 7620...read the article for yourselves
Currently available electrolyzers, which split water with electricity and are often used industrially, are not suited for artificial photosynthesis because they are very expensive and require a highly basic (non-benign) environment that has little to do with the conditions under which photosynthesis operates.
More engineering work needs to be done to integrate the new scientific discovery into existing photovoltaic systems, but Nocera said he is confident that such systems will become a reality.
"This is just the beginning," said Nocera, principal investigator for the Solar Revolution Project funded by the Chesonis Family Foundation and co-Director of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center. "The scientific community is really going to run with this."
Nocera hopes that within 10 years, homeowners will be able to power their homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power their own household fuel cell. Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past.
The project is part of the MIT Energy Initiative, a program designed to help transform the global energy system to meet the needs of the future and to help build a bridge to that future by improving today's energy systems. MITEI Director Ernest Moniz, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, noted that "this discovery in the Nocera lab demonstrates that moving up the transformation of our energy supply system to one based on renewables will depend heavily on frontier basic science."
The success of the Nocera lab shows the impact of a mixture of funding sources - governments, philanthropy, and industry. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation and by the Chesonis Family Foundation, which gave MIT $10 million this spring to launch the Solar Revolution Project, with a goal to make the large scale deployment of solar energy within 10 years.
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