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OK - I want to put my green house on 100% solar - what do I need to know about solar panels and what do I look for?

Then I was curious about my home - if I wanted to offset some costs what do I look for. I see lots of kits just don’t know which to get.

Lastly - storage can you store solar energy in a battery of some sort.

Do you really think 95% of Americans will be getting a tax break against what we have now? Just in household energy it is predicted to cost each household 0 to 00 more a year…this does not include prices of everything else going up and opens up a new trading sector much like another Wall Street commodity. Is there any proof that is actual fact instead of concensus to back up the need for Cap and Trade? Seriously green house gas scientists did a ten year model over the last ten years and were entirely wrong.

Any useful information on cubas green house gas percentages, or anything like that.
General facts or sites would be greatly useful, thanks : )!

When light heats up a green house what type of energy do you start with & what energy do you end with?

Classify as an extensive property, intensive property, or chemical property:
fruit ferments to make alcohol
the specific heat of water is 4.18
the iron absorbs 39J of heat
photosynthesis
respiration

Why does water remain at a constant temperature at certain points even when heat is added?

I’ll appreciate any help & I will award 10 points!

This question comes after reading an article where China says that poor countries should not sacrifice their growth to the general concern about global warming and other environment issues. They have a point by adding that most of the green house emissions comes from the richest countries and that the effect of slowing their economy is far worst than the global warming effect. I belief that if we are able to travel to the moon and orbit the earth, we can find a better way to produce our goods and energy needs in a more efficient and cleaner way than today. Because of the fundings needed for research and development it needs to be done by the governments of the wealthiest nations. We as individual also need to play a part to be more efficient in the use of energy, water and goods. And this is not only is good for the environment but also for your own family budget.

Something of a what if question here, but it’s something I’ve wondered about for a while.

Hypothetical:

A clean burning fuel is found that has almost zero emissions of green house and hydrocarbon gasses, and its waste is negligible. While the fuel is perfect in every way, there is a problem. Getting to the fuel requires clear cutting and strip mining, as current mining technologies are unable to reach the deposits. While this can be environmentally sound, with reclamation of the land and replanting of trees; there’s something of a more pressing issue. It turns out that a nearly extinct animal lives in the land that needs to be clear cut and mined. The animal has never bred in captivity, and the mining would destroy its habitat and ultimately eradicate it.

You’re in charge of the operation, and mining begins in three days unless you say no. It’s do or die, so what do you do?

Do you go ahead and mine, and hope for the best, chalking the species up to "for the greater good"; or do you hold off mining, knowing that it could cause fuel riots and would further strengthen your country’s dependence on oil.

So, what do you do and why?

The tree huggers want everyone to drive around in electric cars, do they realize that they need to be plugged in to charge???

If generating energy causes green house gasses (just like al gores a*ss) where will the electric come from??

Not oil, that also causes warming (of al gores a*ss)

So does this mean that al gore can blow it out his a*ss or that we will all die from roasting and flooding??
So far the left does not like oil, coal, nuke, wind (just ask kennedy) water (might kill a fish) so where will it all come from???

You want everyone to change to Compact flourecent bulbs.
These take three times as much energy to produce and produce poluting chemical biproducts. They also contain mercury that is very lethal and they are more harm to the environment than any amount of global warming if they are broken.

You want people to drive electric cars that use acids that must be disposed of because they can not be recycled. And if disposed of improperly they are not healthy. Or if the vehicle gets in a wreck it could leak and be even worse. Plus they do not use any less energy because they have to recharge, so your gas bill goes down a little but your electric bill goes up to compensate.

Or you want people to use Hydrogen power that has a biproduct of water vapor, that just happens to be the one substance that has been scientifically proven to be an actual green house gas.

And don’t get me started on waterless toilets. We’ll be returning to the days of black plague with that one.

I read in a sci-fi novel that if one end of a tungsten rod is heated, and the other is chilled, there will be an apreciable electical current along the length. And, with a very, very large beam of tugsten, you can sink one end in a deep body of water, put the other end in a green house on the surface, and draw off the current by a wire in the middle. Voila! "Free" energy.

Of course, i have no idea if this is even vaguely factual. That’s where you come in.

Dear Sir,
Green cars are practical solutions to green house gas reductions in the future .
But we need to overcome long lasting problems of electrical cars either by technology or by proper planning .
I am a 42 years old energitic chemical engineer, oil and gas and energy specialist , and I am really worried about tremendous devestation of our environment by CO2 accumulation.
In fact we are making money by oil exploration, oil refining , and enjoy driving petrol cars .
we try to raise our children with higher income of oil engineers but we are producing CO2 to destroy the earth in future by global warming and by tornados of climate changes.
I believe the key to solve the milage problem of electric cars and HP requirements of them is proper type of heavy duty batteries with quick recharge time with liquid change.
By this method 300 miles and 3 to 4 minute charging time can be achieved in the fuel stations …..
Any supporting institute you know to provide fund to complete my research to make these batteries?
Also "multiple electric car leasing" or MECL is a way to use large no, of electric cars in large cities , for taxi service .
Any one knows of supporting institutes in one large city to provide fund to complete my research to realize this ?
Regards
S.Beheshtinejad
Chemical Engineer

As a green house gas and the global warming situation, is there anyway that we can create something or modify something to extract carbon from CO2 or "scrub" the air of mass harmful gases? Please make sure these aren’t obvious answers like "Be more fuel economic" or "Conserve energy"; these are obvious ones that anyone with common sense can figure out.

i have noticed on a lot of home remodeling shows, diy, hgt etc. that a lot of people are saying things like, we want a green house, we care about the environment, we want a smaller carbon foot print and every other green key phrase you can think of. so they buy environmentally friendly products……like bamboo flooring, ecofriendy cabinets and counter tops, enviro tiles etc…..but they rip out the old and throw it in the trash, where it is carted off to a landfill….wouldn’t the better option be to refinish existing floors instead of replacing them? rehabbing existing cabinet by putting on a new finish and new hardware, and things like that? how does replacing something that is already there, with something else lower your carbon foot print? the bamboo still had to be cut down, it still had to take a large amount of energy to cut them to size, they still had to have tons of chemicals applied to them, they still had to be shipped thousands of miles, and the old still ended up in a trash heap. if you replace something that is not consuming energy with something that is considered environmentally friendly, then aren’t you still increasing your carbon footprint? i mean you should upgrade your old appliances to efficient appliances, but recycle the old instead of throw them away. but appliances consume energy, so by replacing them with efficient models, you would lower your energy consumption, but floors and cabinets do not use energy.

i have noticed on a lot of home remodeling shows, diy, hgt etc. that a lot of people are saying things like, we want a green house, we care about the environment, we want a smaller carbon foot print and every other green key phrase you can think of. so they buy environmentally friendly products……like bamboo flooring, ecofriendy cabinets and counter tops, enviro tiles etc…..but they rip out the old and throw it in the trash, where it is carted off to a landfill….wouldn’t the better option be to refinish existing floors instead of replacing them? rehabbing existing cabinet by putting on a new finish and new hardware, and things like that? how does replacing something that is already there, with something else lower your carbon foot print? the bamboo still had to be cut down, it still had to take a large amount of energy to cut them to size, they still had to have tons of chemicals applied to them, they still had to be shipped thousands of miles, and the old still ended up in a trash heap. if you replace something that is not consuming energy with something that is considered environmentally friendly, then aren’t you still increasing your carbon footprint? i mean you should upgrade your old appliances to efficient appliances, but recycle the old instead of throw them away. but appliances consume energy, so by replacing them with efficient models, you would lower your energy consumption, but floors and cabinets do not use energy.

I use green tomatoes in one of my cake recipes and can only use my own from my garden…but now i have ran out of stock over the winter…and don’t know if there is a green house etc. that i can get them from at this time of the year in my area…or no cake for mother till mid summer…;-(

In 2006 Al Gore’s home in Tenn. used 191,000 kilowatt hours ( monthly bill averaged ,200) when the average home in that area only used 15,600 kilowatt hours. For someone that is so certain that we are all screwed if we don’t drastically cut our use of energy he sure seems to not care when it comes to his own life. Mabey he doesn’t actually believe what he preaches. He has made millions from his movie telling you to change your life so drasticlly that you would end up living like a cave man. All the while he’s getting driven around in a Limo and using more energy at his home than 12 average homes. How about practicing what you preach. Even if he knows everything he says is crap ( wich he does ) you would think he would still attempt to limit his share of green house emmitions to playcate his followers if nothing else. I think I know what Al Gore is full of. Global bull@#$#.

This could include exhausting or releasing or creating as a byproduct - pollutants, green house gasses, toxins, excessive heat, or any other harmful item or even using too much energy to perform the process, or wasting too much raw product or natural resource.

If we don’t reduce our GHG(green house gas) emmisions by 70 percent by 2050, civilization as we no it may not survive the next century. Is it so hard to save money and the world be being more energy efficient?

We have to be fair here. We as consumers do a lot of things that add to the degradation of our environment.

This could include exhausting or releasing or creating as a byproduct - pollutants, green house gasses, toxins, excessive heat, or any other harmful item or even using too much energy to perform the process, or wasting too much raw product or natural resource.

What do you think the worst thing is and how can we fix it?

Growing up, my grandfather told me he painted things green when he wanted to keep wasps and hornets from nesting there. (bird houses, shelves in the green house. the deck for the pool.) has anyone else heard this?

I want to use wasted energy from junk mail etc. to produce energy to run grow lamps for green house. Steam seems like one way. Other suggestions welcome, or if someone has an old working steam engine I am interested.

I see a lot of people in this forum concerned on how they can reduce their energy consumption, reducing green house emissions, blaming the problem on our society , or even complaining about their tenant refusing to recycle. I would imagine if we were to band together and fight to have NAFTA shut down, the positive impact to the global environment would be 10 folds greater.

When a company transfers it operations out of the U.S. , it has to follow the regulations of its host country. A lot of countries laws show little regard for the environment, and these companies will cut what ever corners they will be allowed to.

Should we not strive to bring them back onto the U.S., so we can keep a closer eye on them ?
julvurg - read my question before answering.
Linda - you said ending NAFTA, would cost us a lot of jobs…. NAFTA has allowed a lot of companies to leave the U.S., and hurt our economy.

I think it is the greatest source for energy. No green house emissions, safe, and produces a lot of energy.

If he was truely worried about ommissions he would hav a green house correct?

or is he just lying to you laughing about all the money he took from you?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

green-house producing sources like coal, although we have centuries of coal reserves, will place our future at very high stakes in aiding in global warming.
What is the best alternative to energy production that will be abundant and sufficient enough to prevent global warming?

I'd like to grow vegatables all year around…can i do this if i use solar energy to heat my green house?…has anyone tried this? If so is there a book or website that gives good info on building one?

Thanks!