Click HERE for peakoilX which is paired with this web page       Return to peakoilz   HOME PAGE
Salon duc Tape on the topic: Global Warming versus Peak Oil:   Who is winning?   Who is Losing?    What is being ignored?

The first two questions above are ambiguous and/or misleading!

Another hand-out gives a list down-the-left-8.5-inch-end of a legal sheet of paper; a list of possible responses to Global Warming, Peak Oil and some other concerns.
(See below for comments on  that list of possible responses ---  with brief comments about each such possible response.)

Along the long-edge   are-headings-of-columns   also-noted-below.    All pertain to all of God's Finite-Space-Ship-Earth  orbiting God's nearby star call the "Sun".
(See on the other side of this sheet     those  headings-of-columns --- with brief comments about each such heading.)

Military-Industrial-Complex ===> Diplomacy        It was Republican Dwight Eisenhower who warned first about "The Military-Industrial-Complex and its risky behaviors!

Nuclear Weapons into Nuclear Reactors             The U-235 in nuclear weapons could be diluted to make it suitable for use in Nuclear Reactors to make electric power.

Mitigate Consumerism <==> Buy-Play-Throw-Away     Such consumerism is responsible for a lot of oil consumption and land-fill junk accumulation!

Clarify True-Virtues and Alienative-Vices         In the absence of such clarity religions and corporations engage in alienative behaviors that consume energies!

Prudently use Wind-Power-Opportunities            Wind power is a form of solar energy which can be harvested all around the world with high Net-Energy-Returns.

Insulate Buildings  Build-Underground             Such efforts offer some of the highest available levels of    Net-Energy-Returns   on  Initial-Energy-Investments!

Passive-Solar-heating  with  Triple-pane-windows  Such efforts also offer some of the highest available levels of  Net-Energy-Returns on  Initial-Energy-Investments!
 
Re-Use and Recycle Most-Manufactured-Stuff        Stuff should be manufactured initially to facilitate such Re-Use and Recycling!      Planned obsolescence is terrible!

Geothermal-Heating and Cooling                    In Fruita, Colorado in a new housing development --- Geothermal-Heating and Cooling is the standard installation 

Solar-Electric-Thermal-Installations              Solar-Electric-Panels can be combined with Pre-Heating of  Water for Water-Heaters and House-Heating

Grow-Foods-Locally                                Avoid the very high energy consumptions to transport foods for thousands of miles; MITIGATE  Peak-Oil-Pains!

Solar-Electric-Generation                         Large such generation facilities are in development states, and as yet have not proven to be commercially profitable.

Ethanol from Switch Grass                         May have a higher Net Energy Return than for corn; but will still take up much land needed for growing food for us to eat!

Mine more Uranium and build Nuclear Power         In an age of rampant terrorism nuclear power plants may continue to be Faustian Poor Bargains.

Ethanol from Grains like corn and wheat           The Net Energy Return is likely to continue to be marginal and deprive poor people of basic foods to eat to survive!

Ethanol from Sugar Cane and Beets                 Better Net Energy Return than above, but will deprive poor people of basic foods to eat to survive!

Exhaust Hydro-Power Opportunities                 In many parts of the world there are few left to be exhausted; and environmental costs can be pervasive in many other places.

Use Coal instead of oil                           Net Energy Return on doing so is compromised and is likely to contribute to Global-Warming world-wide in most instances.

Pump Oil Faster                                   Will SPEED the arrival of and AUGMENT Peak-Oil Suffering on the part of the world's most vulnerable people.

Pump Heavy Oils                                   Net energy Return on doing so is low and is likely to contribute to Global-Warming world-wide in most instances.

Harvest Tar Sands                                 Net Energy Return is bound to be LOW and the sizes of tailings ponds could expand beyond imagination!

Extract Shale Oil                                 Net Energy Return is bound to be LOW and the sizes of tailings ponds could expand beyond imagination!

Build Perpetual Motion Machines                   The Third Law of Thermodynamics is the Official statement of concession that this is impossible.

Extract Hydrogen instead of oil                   Net Energy Return is NEGATIVE, and useful only in limited circumstances where full-honesty is possible and is practiced.

Document: Energy-Action-Relevance-Addenda-20071219

Documents prepared by Dr. Paul A. Smith for Salon duc Tape at Muggs Coffee Shop at College and Olive  in Fort Collins on Friday night, December 21, 2007

See also the web site:     www.essayz.com       and   especially the web pages there:      www.essayz.com/peakoil.htm    &     www.essayz.com/peakoilz.htm   - - -   with many relevant on-line-resources

Click HERE for peakoilX which is paired with this web page       Return to peakoilz   HOME PAGE