I was just reading this article about power saving processors:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8508116370.html
and started thinking about the ways we waste electricity on the small scale that add up to much larger amounts of waste in the long run.
Scientists are coming up with more and more ingenius ways of cutting power as we can see in that article. Unfortunately, as many innovations as there have already been, we rarely use energy saving devices and we waste energy in our homes.
The Democratic Party has been pushing a scare-tactic approach to Global Warming. Research has yet to be concrete and conclusive. Many scientists are not sure , why the globe is on a warming trend or how much it will warm. They are also unsure if Global Warming is an actual threat or just another cycle in the long chain of ice ages and big melts. Noone is sure what will happen to the environment in the long run, if animals will adapt or die out.
While global warming is a hot topic, we still forget that we're running out of oil and are using our coal supplies at an alarming rate for energy. There are many alternative technologies available to coal burning power plants but coal remains the power source of choice in the US.
Nuclear technologies such as
fission using pellets and even fusion using [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_fusion_energy]magnetic containers[/url] are on the horizon. Politicians, however, seem to want to stay away from the stigma of nuclear energy.
How would you rate our attempts at creating a greener earth (A,B,C,D,F) and what do you think we did well or still need to do to protect the earth? What are your predictions for our future energy needs as well as the future of our environment?
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