Any other articles on this? I mean... an article off a site that has numerous ads doesn't seen quite reliable in my opinion.
There are other sources that will confirm the information here. As to your statement that sites with ads aren't credible... that would mean the Wallstreet Journal, New York Times, London Times, and Le Monde aren't credible. Frankly, it's a silly statement because most newspapers in the world have ads. It is how they fund themselves primarily.
however, I would say that the opinions in the article are nothing more then opinions... and the article is doing little more then reporting what someone said.
But, if what this scientist has said is true, and the countless others that disagree are wrong, then maybe we shouldn't do anything about greenhouse gases.
If greenhouse gases aren't a problem then you don't need to worry about them.
that does not however relate to toxic cases that many countries emit.
Again, as always, human beings will not do anything to prevent a problem, until the problem effects them. I still don't understand why, just to be on the safe side, we do not take action with this current situation. In the LONG RUN, our economies would benefit from it and we would stop using so much oil (thus preventing the need for pointless wars...)
I think you're oversimplifying complex issues to the point where they've confused you.
The only war I know of that was about Oil was Saddam's war against Kuwait. You can claim the US war against Saddam was about oil, but you'll just be parroting a political slogan with no real truth behind it.
that said, there are a lot of degenerate countries that are allowed to get rich off of their oil deposits... and hte world would probably be a better place if they didn't have that money. However, it should be noted that we don't have a viable alternative to oil at this point.
Solar and wind power won't power cars, trucks, ships, trains, or planes. Chemical batteries are expensive, don't hold enough power, discharge too slowly, are too heavy/bulky, and are EXTREMELY TOXIC when disposed of. In fact, hybrid cars are WORSE for the environment then typical cars are... If you actually examine the situation there's no way you can say otherwise.
Hydrogen powered cars suffer from much the same problems that hybrids suffer from only worse... they have LESS power because hydrogen engines output much less power at a slower rate then do combustion engines. They're also very heavy and bulky.
Biofuels while a nice way to recycle aren't really any better for the environment then anything else no matter how you look at it. And what's more there isn't enough bio fuel to power any economy or transit network unless it was specifically cultivated to be biofuel... which means you're not recycling any more. When you take into consideration the tractors, the water, the pesticides, etc etc of a cultivated biofuel system it's not very good for the environment either.
I can go on and on... but the point is that this tech isn't up to the problem. Neither can you say 'we need to cut back'... cutting back means you get paid less. It means you have less money... it means the government has less money (if you're a socialist, then that might mean something to you)... in poorer countries it will mean that people will starve or die because they can't afford medicine. It also means there will be less money for investment and research... It will be bad all round.
The one tech that looks promising to me is nano capacitors. A capacitor is vessel for storing an electric charge between two plates that are insulated from each other. Capacitors are great for a few reasons. One they can charge and discharge almost instantly their entire power load. The current problem with electric engines in cars is not that electric engines are weak but that the batteries can't feed power to them fast enough to get respectable acceleration. This also means that unlike batteries which take HOURS to charge because they store power chemically, a capacitor could charge basically as fast as the station can feed power to it. So you could charge your capacitor up in a couple minutes or perhaps a few seconds depending on how fast they wanted to feed power to your capacitor. The primary reason you'd want to slow that down a bit is to prevent dangerous arching or magnetic fields. You could be dealing with power line level charges plugged directly into your car.
The limitation of capacitors has always been their capacity... that is how "much" they could store which was generally pretty low. The limitation of storage however is based upon the surface area of the capacitor. Much like the human lung's ability to absorb is based upon it's internal surface area. The human lung has a LOT of surface area... I think it's something like 40 square meters or something like that... which it accomplishes by having a mesh of highly articulated fibrous tissue that is designed to expose as much blood as possible to the air at any given point. The Human lung is articulated down to the microscopic level... Likewise, a nano capacitor is articulated down to the microscopic level. That allows for greatly increased capacity. In fact, such capacitors already have greater capacity then our finest chemical batteries.
Taken all together you get a device that can store more power then a battery, discharge/recharge almost instantly, won't wear out from use, and probably won't be especially toxic... it will be made out of metals and metals are never very environmentally friendly... but they won't be in the highly reactive and corrosive types that batteries must have...
There are some other techs out there that are also interesting... one of htem is a compressed air system that I think the french are selling to the Indians... hte idea being that the car runs on compressed air... that would probably be fine for most cars especially in a city... but that won't work for trucks, trains, boats, or planes.
Ultimately planes are going to have to run on bio fuel if they can't get petroleum. But I don't think that's going to be a problem for several hundred years at least. Ships might be able to run on massive nano capacitors stored in their hulls as the energy density is comparable to fuel... The same can be said of trains and trucks.
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