This is really an important issue. Actually it is not an issue only if we don't care about our children and grandchildren. At the rate that the earth is being devastated, it is not likely that humans will be around in far less than 100 years.
Anyway, back to the main subject. For me, I have replaced all lightbulbs with the new fluorescent swirl looking ones. Result is that I am saving a LOT of money on energy costs!
And now I'm starting to look at new cars, since my current one is very old and it may not make it for much longer. All I know right now is that it will be a hybrid. Probably a Lexus hybrid or maybe an Accord hybrid. At any rate, that doesn't just help the environment by reducing gasoline consumption. Once again, it will also save me a lot of money!
**The great thing is that going green (trying to conserve & do things in a more enviromental friendly ways) also saves a lot of money! Most businesses are finding that out...finally.
Posts: 1884 | Location: San Francisco, CA, USA | Registered: August 20, 2003
Originally posted by Ron Sanders: it is not likely that humans will be around in far less than 100 years.
You have to be joking. I think Al Gore's fear mongering has really swindled you.
Actually you have to take RS's point in perspective.
Certain areas of the world are increasingly prone to sea shore erosion and flooding. Humans will have to move away from those areas to higher ground.
Certain areas of the world are increasingly susceptible to drought and desertification. Famine and fighting over food and water are taking their toll in these places.
Al Gore won a Nobel prize and an academy award.
Now that may be lost on many curmudugeons, crusty old men and the kids here that still smell of mother's milk and soaked diapers.
I tend to scoff at reactionaries. I would not want even one of them on a desert island with me. Too useless, too argumentative, too control freak.
QM Quality does not occur by chance. It is the result of intelligent activities.
Posts: 8033 | Location: Cigar land | Registered: March 10, 2003
Originally posted by QM: Certain areas of the world are increasingly prone to sea shore erosion and flooding. Humans will have to move away from those areas to higher ground.
Evidence shows that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
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Certain areas of the world are increasingly susceptible to drought and desertification. Famine and fighting over food and water are taking their toll in these places.
Is this something new? This has been going on for centuries.
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Al Gore won a Nobel prize
So did Yasser Arafat.
Posts: 2282 | Location: WI | Registered: November 16, 2007
Sorry to sound like a dumb ass, but it's the truth.
Yeah, but you can't wear those. Now, if Cameron Diaz could figure out how to make a fashion statement out of her water heater temperature, then you'd really be onto something.
lol. I'm designing a hot water heater t-shirt for her right now.
-aphexafx
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
Originally posted by SteveSurimmers don't save electricity. They dissipate in heat what power is not used (when the lights are dimmed).
Dimmers chop the AC wave. They generate very little heat.
Now if you had a rheostat (variable resistor) that would generate heat.
Yes, very important to point out, thank you - lighting dimmers (at least modern ones) are extremely efficient, acting like power inverters not like resistors!
-aphexafx
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
, winks, pats him on the back and walks off.
