As you go to the grocers and pay more for your food, here's a thought...

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

There's an upside to the extreme cold temperatures northern Canadians have endured in the last few weeks: scientists say it's been helping winter sea ice grow across the Arctic, where the ice shrank to record-low levels last year. Temperatures have stayed well in the -30s C and -40s C range since late January throughout the North, with the mercury dipping past -50 C in some areas. Satellite images are showing that the cold spell is helping the sea ice expand in coverage by about 2 million square kilometres, compared to the average winter coverage in the previous three years. "It's nice to know that the ice is recovering," Josefino Comiso, a senior research scientist with the Cryospheric Sciences Branch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, told CBC News on Thursday. [...] Winter sea ice could keep expanding. The cold is also making the ice thicker in some areas, compared to recorded thicknesses last year, Lagnis added. "The ice is about 10 to 20 centimetres thicker than last year, so that's a significant increase," he said. If temperatures remain cold this winter, Langis said winter sea ice coverage will continue to expand.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/02/so_polars_bears_arent_drowning.html

We just spend four days with no power as ice storms socked the area logging trees and snapping off telephone poles. This January was one of our coldest ever and February is simply not warming up and since 1998, neither is the earth's temperature, but still, Congress is determined to steal more of you money to throw at a problem that simply does not exist and Communist China is demanding the lion's share of your tax dollars for victimizing them with your pollution.

Corn for fuel was not just a bad idea; it was a stupid idea used to by the votes of both conservationalists and the farmers who grow the corn. The former never realized how much more chemical and water would be needed to grow and process their green fuel which has put more vacant land to the plow, put more poisons into the eco-system, and takes more water out of our aquifers than we can afford in the long run.

 

[Songcatcher]

Hotter summers and colder winters, with more powerful hurricanes and snow brizzards.

 

[dolf]

algae is the biofuel of the future.

uh huh.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Hotter summers and colder winters, with more powerful hurricanes and snow brizzards.

And the Sargasso Sea will experience the calmest of calms...

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

algae is the biofuel of the future.

uh huh.

No matter what the source, biofuels pollute and take space to grow as well as artificial nutrient...

 

[Songcatcher]

And the Sargasso Sea will experience the calmest of calms...

British weather will not feel as extream as ours.

 

[dolf]

No matter what the source, biofuels pollute and take space to grow as well as artificial nutrient...

hmm...

sewage!
and algae can be grown in tanks pretty much anywhere.

or...

we could work on some perpetual motion.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

It grows in my fishtank, but you're gonna need a lot of algea and then there's still the problem of getting enough water to process plus the waste disposal...

 

[Songcatcher]

we could work on some perpetual motion.

Jogging women with big tits.

 

[dolf]

It grows in my fishtank, but you're gonna need a lot of algea and then there's still the problem of getting enough water to process plus the waste disposal...

algae could be part of the cleaning process?
sewage plants already have tanks where bacteria are used...

 

[dolf]

Jogging women with big tits.

but this is a much better idea!

pink could power my house

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

algae could be part of the cleaning process?
sewage plants already have tanks where bacteria are used...

It would be better to harness and burn the methane, like we do on our farms...

 

[dolf]

It would be better to harness and burn the methane, like we do on our farms...

you could do both

...or just put pink on a treadmill.
i've got huge, bouncing boobs on my mind now.

 

[ksmybuttons]

I still watch Changing World Technologies. I really like the idea of using carbon based garbage for fuel.

It's hard to find too much information, though, as it's a privately held company.

Do you know anything about it?

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

I'm Lit's dumbest stump.





Personally, I think hydrogen fuel-cell technology will come about before too much longer, then the Arabs can go pound sand...

 

[Cheyenne]

I still watch Changing World Technologies. I really like the idea of using carbon based garbage for fuel.

It's hard to find too much information, though, as it's a privately held company.

Do you know anything about it?

Methane gas from landfills is already being used as fuel in many places.

 

[kbate]

Personally, I think hydrogen fuel-cell technology will come about before too much longer, then the Arabs can go pound sand...

Right and wrong.

Hydrogen fuel cells will be in limited production by 2011 and production models should enter the market within 10 years after that. The problem of separating hydrogen from water in sufficient quantities to matter and without burning coal or oil to get the energy needed (and with the no nuke congress) has not been solved. I see wind turbines in SF harbour and a big Plastic pipeline!

Oil won't go away for a long time and as long as the Arabs have it - someone will buy it.

 

[Saint Peter]

Nuke the no nuke congress!

Atoms are the stuff power is made from.

 

[rosco rathbone]

So global warming isn't happening? Excellent.

 

[Saint Peter]

So global warming isn't happening? Excellent.

Colorado is going to have some of the best coastline in the world.

Buy high, sell low. Or get some scuba gear.

 

[Problem Child]

Right and wrong.

Hydrogen fuel cells will be in limited production by 2011 and production models should enter the market within 10 years after that. The problem of separating hydrogen from water in sufficient quantities to matter and without burning coal or oil to get the energy needed (and with the no nuke congress) has not been solved. I see wind turbines in SF harbour and a big Plastic pipeline!

Oil won't go away for a long time and as long as the Arabs have it - someone will buy it.

That is the problem - you can't just pump hydrogen out of the ground like you can oil, it has to be "manufactured" and that takes huge amounts of energy. It may be cleaner because more eco-friendly energy sources can be used to produce the hydrogen, but our gov't seems to be content to sit on its ass instead of creating a "Manhattan Project" approach to the problem.

The ethanol push in this country is the biggest hoax perpetrated on the American public in decades. There are serious questions as to whether there is even a total net energy gain from ethanol, yet it's touted by politicians and the agri-business lobby as the solution to our oil independence.

As usual, money in politics is at the root of the problem...

 

[dolf]

boobs are renewable!

 

[rosco rathbone]

Colorado is going to have some of the best coastline in the world.

Buy high, sell low. Or get some scuba gear.

Brush up on your 6G. Nuke plants are going to be making a comeback!

 

[KRCummings]

Brush up on your 6G. Nuke plants are going to be making a comeback!

They most certainly will be making a huge comeback. Maybe once people become less ignorant of how it works or maybe if they find a solution to waste disposal or both. It'll take a little while but they'll come back with a vengeance.

 

[Ham Murabi]

The ethanol push in this country is the biggest hoax perpetrated on the American public in decades. There are serious questions as to whether there is even a total net energy gain from ethanol, yet it's touted by politicians and the agri-business lobby as the solution to our oil independence.

As usual, money in politics is at the root of the problem...

I've read that the crops for fuel program is also increasing hunger around the world because there is less food to export.