Energy Ideas

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What's your idea?

Do you mean ways of creatin/adapting energy for use by humans?

Idea: Large Scale Incinerators+Greenhouses

You burn trash instead of putting in a landfill to generate electricity, and run the filtered exhaust through big a greenhouse to suck up CO2. Last but not least, if you plant a relatively fast growing tree that can be processed to make coarse paper you can also make paper housing like that in Japan for homeless people in regions with a relatively mild climate. With any luck, the money from the electricity generated and the trash disposed of, the housing can be provided for a nominal cost or free.

Boil the excess population for their calories.

Idea: LiIon car batteries

Electrical motors can propel a car for far less expensive (and far less polluting) energy than internal combustion engines can. The problem is with cars you need a way of storing that electricity. LiIon batteries can give vehicles about a range of 300 miles which makes it pretty competitive with the range of gasoline powered cars. Instead of going to gas stations you can go to LiIon battery exchange stations, and swap out the batteries. You would just pay for the degradation of the battery that naturally occurs with use and the electricity used to charge the battery, both which would be far less than a tank of gas.

The more I think about this one the more I wonder why the f'ck we aren't doing it already, or something similar, it would be far better for everyone. If we burn up all our oil in cars we won't be able to make things that use oil (plastic for example).

Had a few ideas over perpetual motion spinning through my head, but nothing advanced. Just in the early stages of a few theories...

It's possible to make something that, at first, seems like a perpetual motion machine. It doesn't work without sunlight though.

I was thinking more of things like the orbit of the moon. It's perpetual. Maybe we could harness such a thing. But then how would we get the energy back to earth? (Don't mind me, I dropped space as a subject. ^^U)

Also, gravity. But I've played with the idea and found nothing that doesn't involve the centre of the earth...

I was thinking of harnessing photosynthesis and cellular respiration maybe. Then I remembered solar pannels had been invented. Would give us more oxygen though.

Here you have what a 15 y.o. aspie does on her way home from school.

A logical tax on trash, pollution, that would be available to anyone to recycle, process, then there would be competition for waste.

A tax on producers would reflect the true social cost of their products, then that tax could fund recycling.
As price affects markets less waste would be marketed.

Build houses from local earth, with additives, rammed earth blocks can make strong, long lasting, fireproof, insulated homes. Low cost retirement cities, a safe place where the old would be relativy rich. Cheap housing, food, medical care.

Support Aspie Acres, a low cost retirement for aspies of all ages. We will never fit in, so why not build a place where we do? It is not hard to become fully self supporting.

We have the brains to build an experimental other culture, a model of alternate futures. Once one group does it others will see the possibilities.

The existing culture is set up to fight change, or steal it, no hope for dealing with them. Quality of life will never improve in a mindless runaway culture. Quality of life can be very high for small groups. They control local issues, shelter, food, economy, and can feed off the large culture.

In Tesla's essay, The problem of increasing human energy, his main focus is on human mental energy. We are dragged down by the mindless, we are the energy. WP is great, where to now?

Nuclear is safe and efficient.

And for dealing with the waste... designate an area of land (or under land) to be Permanently Ruined and stick with it. It's better than our current strategy of ruining the entire atmosphere. It's better to localize all by-product!

Realistcial pebble bed nuclear reactors are the only practical way to make large scale
energy in the near future in a cost effective and green house friendly way.

In the case of transporation fuel its unlikely any major change will happen that will reduce energy cost or carbon dioxide emissions in the near future. Ideally a practical
"Model T" electric car will appear in the the near future but no telling if that will happen.

I've always wanted to build a gasoline powered flashlight.

I like the idea of better use of resources. We seem to live in a throw away society where many usefull things are just thrown away. I see good computers 1GHz plus machines thrown into the trash by companys. Desks, Cars etc just wasted rotting away. While we get more resources from the planet and waste what we already have.

It kind of disgusts me how the consumer society seems to work no change is made unless some one profits out of it. If it just helps people or helps the planet in the long run then nothing is done because there is no imediate benifit.

Honestly with the ammount of waste there. Just to name a few McDonalds Packaging, Boxes plastics bags etc from a supermarket, Car fuel (goes into the atmoshpere and adds to the global warming problem.). I wonder what is going to happen.

I think that the social and monitary motivation has to be changed. After all I think what sepirates humans from animals is our ablity to think and invent. So why not work for a better future rather than just getting a few more dollars in the bank. Unlimately every one would benift.

I've often toyed with the idea of using heat pumps on things such as PC, ovens/cookers, fridges/freezer and just about any household appliance that creates excess heat. They could then be used to provide space heating in the domestic setting.
Got put off the idea, since I believe you would essentially need the appliances all plumbed into the 'heating network', giving you little flexibility for where you placed them