100,000 mini power plants to substitute for 2 nuclear plants
Can small-scale replace large-scale? With 100,000 mini gas-fired generators in homes, the answer is yes.
Swing State Voters Support Renewable Energy Legislation
Looks like even Swing State voters are now lining up with environmentalists in support of renewable energy.
Two polls last month found public support remains very strong for legislation to help us move towards renewable energy and climate protection.
A Washington Post poll in August among a random national sample of 1,001 adults found that solar and wind power enjoy near-universal support; 9 in 10 people support funding further development. More than 8 in 10 favor requirements for greater fuel efficiency. Broad majorities also favor requiring increased energy conservation from businesses and consumers.
In a second poll in 16 battleground states; a Center For American Progress poll also found surprisingly strong support for renewable energy legislation, even in swing states among likely registered voters.
Greening your school
It’s great to see young ‘uns wanting to go green - and to get their schools involved too! If the state of your school is bugging you, here’s some strategies, tips and ideas you can take to your student council and school faculty.
Mining Hydrothermal Vents For Renewable Electricity, Drinking Water + Valuable Minerals
Only after I snoozed my way through high school science class did science become more compelling than science fiction.
There was just no compelling reason to pay attention. Just a browzy fly buzzing in a smelly boring lab full of long agreed-upon dull principles that were really neither here nor there. In those days there were no colliding continents or hydrothermal vents or extremophile lifeforms. We looked to sci-fi for that.
Who knew that our planet would soon be busting at the seams with 7 billion of us. That our fossil fuel use would threaten our survival with climate changes — on a level unseen on the planet since Cyanobacteria made it safe it for oxygen-breathers 4 billion years ago.
Or that we would not only discover vast strange heat sources under the ocean but that we’d actually consider mining these hydrothermal vents for renewable energy: That was the sort of story you’d only find in science fiction back then. But yet, here we are.
This is not science fiction:
