| CaptainExplosion said: I'd get an electric car if possible, and I unplug my laptop when it says it's charged. There's also a solar farm in my area, but I don't know whether or not any of the energy collected there goes to my neighborhood. |
Build yourself an ebike instead?
Cheap, avoid traffic, clean and speedy.
I am on wind power here... (One of the windiest places in the world, you would hope so!) But the Baseload is provided by a Solar Thermal Plant half way across the state.
They are currently building a Hydrogen plant as well, which will be used to capture excess wind energy to create hydrogen for power generation when the wind isn't blowing. - Excess hydrogen will be exported to other hydrogen plants around the state too. - Should make things interesting in the event of an accident, haven't had to deal with Hydrogen before.
| CaptainExplosion said: Not to mention having to cut down on all the smog in China. Is it still so bad there that people have to stop on the street to use oxygen tanks? |
China is actually improving on this front, they are rolling out green energy wherever practical.
..Not only that, but they are building a giant green wall to stop desertification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Program
TLDR:
* They started this project in the 70's and it will be completed around 2050. (About 60~ years)
* 4,500km/2,800 miles long. - That's longer than the width of the USA.
It does have a ton of caveats though, they lost a large % of planted trees in 2008 and ground water can be impacted.
Interesting to see how things look in a decade or two.
| Qwark said: If all the ice on the north and Antarctica would melt the sealevel is expected to rise with over 70 meters. This is including the thermal expansion of the ocean water, which will occur by the higher global temperature to make that happen. That's enough to wipe some small nations of the earth like The Netherlands. |
Not to mention the oceans are absorbing CO2 at an astonishing rate... Meaning our oceans are becoming more acidic.
https://coastadapt.com.au/ocean-acidification-and-its-effects
But as the Oceans warm... They will also release allot of that CO2... Which is going to add significantly to the global warming issue... Which will also mean more thermal expansion.
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