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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Greening_your_diet,_before_greening_your_car
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http://digg.com/environment/Meat_Is_a_Global_Warming_Issue - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15In accordance with your wishes I clicked the red button.
- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I don't see why iomegaboy is getting dugg down. It would be a great way to reduce CO2 levels, In fact, when the human race goes extinct, all greenhouse gasses would be cut back extraordinarily, as well as all the other problems. Starvation, disease and war would all cease to exist. It's a perfect solution.
- whiteEEnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Don't digg him down. He is posting other related information, not saying this is a dupe.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Ok, you first.
- davidrools, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How about a 600W microwave that operates for 10 minutes a day (6000-W-min/day) which is using 2W on standby (for the LED clock and keypad ready to go) for the other 1430 minutes each day (2860W-min/day) gives you 2860/6000=46.67% of the power used for standby operation.
A DVD player used for 3.5 hours a week, drawing 13W under use and 2W on standby for the other 165 hours in the week will actually use 7 TIMES MORE ENERGY on STANDBY than it does actually playing a couple DVD's each week. That's 700% of the energy spent on standby rather than under use.
And how many seconds per day are you looking at your Alarm clock? The rest of it being "wasted"
the figure's actually pretty reasonable. And 2W on standby isn't absurd. try checking it with one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-Kill-Electricity-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU/sr=8-1/qid=1164085646/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1004379-8546366?ie=UTF8&s=electronics
i've got one ;) - PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thank you for that insight. You've obviously done a lot of research. Here's a little something to contribute to your ever-expanding quest for knowledge.
joke /jok/
–noun 1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
2. something that is amusing or ridiculous, esp. because of being ludicrously inadequate or a sham; a thing, situation, or person laughed at rather than taken seriously; farce: Their pretense of generosity is a joke. An officer with no ability to command is a joke.
3. a matter that need not be taken very seriously; trifling matter: The loss was no joke.
4. something that does not present the expected challenge; something very easy: The test was a joke for the whole class. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the storage of nuclear waste *is* an issue. It's just a much smaller and more easily managed one compared to CO2 emmissions. Nuclear power is a step in the right direction, but we still need to watch where we're putting our trash.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3go ZERO emmission:
Ride a bicycle!!
clearly not feasible for a few people, but in urban and suburban areas, this is an amazing solution. How many of you will drive to the gym to work out for a few hours? If you rode a bike, you'd get the cardio without having to pay for fuel and membership. The bicycle is the most effecient vehicle on the planet when the entire supply chain is taken into account.
If you absolutely *must* have a car or truck though, only get as large a vehicle as necessary, make it a biodiesel, and only drive it when you absolutely cannot accomplish the same thing on a bike. I sold my car and bought a bike trailer; I couldn't be happier :o) - magebomb11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3oh, how that hurts my heart.
i consider myself a very frugal, energy conscious person. nobody every told me about wall warts :(
i think i'll put a few things on surge protectors and do the hard-switch off.
that'll work, right?
thank you for your prompt and seemingly knowledgeable reply. go digg! - TexMexMatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@simondotcalvin
I agree completly. The biggest problem to the planet is not the environment but the population. There are too many people. Sure, we can be more if more of us starve each day but that is not a solution. Less people = better world. Sad but true. - AnthonyAtHome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Compact fluorescents are a great idea... but they're missing the biggest piece of the equation... lights that are on needlessly. Making these more efficient means less waste.. .but we're still using lights in so many situations that aren't really justified.
We've all seen the picture of the Earth at Night (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg)
The cost for the US alone is climbing past $10 billion annually... and this represents just the figure for light going up into space. How much more money is being wasted on outdoor lights that are on for absolutely no reason whatsoever? You know what I'm talking about. Malls and auto dealership with every stinking light on from dusk to dawn. Schools that are lit up all night long even though the last student/teacher left between 3-5pm. Homeowners who have every single exterior light on from dusk to dawn every single night... even though they rarely (if ever) receive guests at night.
You want to cut CO2 emissions? The single most effective piece of technology that we have is called a light switch. Use it. Turn your lights off when you're not expecting company. If you're afraid of the dark... err... I mean concerned about security... install a motion sensor. This will alert you and your neighbors when their is activity outside your home.. .and keep the lights off the other 99+% of the time. - jaydj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Although it seems that the marriage of the two technologies will get us a great result with a lot of manufacturers looking to create biodiesel hybrids.
Win. Win.
Kudos to anyone that puts forth the effort to even think before they buy. - kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In the past few months I've gone completely fluorescent in every room of the house. I've replaced bulbs with either 27W white or 13W soft white bulbs.
In the living and dining room there used to be 600W worth of energy being used, now it's only 78W. My main reason for going fluorescent? To knock down my electric bill, because at 14 cents per kwh we get screwed on power her in RI. My bills went from $160 to $100 a month. Not bad. - Notluf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Those cell phone chargers are converters, they convert AC to DC, and even when not plugged in (to the device, but still in the wall outlet) they do consume electricity, almost the same amount even if they are not recharging a device. Wallwarts are a menace to the planet. Unplug any wallwart you can find that is not used. They drain lots from the electrical grid while in use or not. Same goes for laptop power supplies, and any TV that has a "standby" mode, or any mode that allows you to use your remote to turn it on.
- Nipplelesshorse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So I should stop gunning my '66 mustang from street light to street light? But then... why bother driving?
- Scottamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Stop lights and stop signs force me to create more greenhouse gases. That's why I don't stop at them anymore. Just imagine how much energy would be saved if everyone blew thru them.
All kidding aside, making lights that handle traffic more efficiently and replacing some these stupid stop signs with yields would cut down on emissions considerably. - nermal0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Do not use the Wiiconnect24 service on your Wii, as it doesn't do anything but waste power. Turn the console off completely when you don't use it, e.g. using a switchable plug board. If all 4 million Wii owners that will buy this console before the end of the year do that, 40 million watt are saved, that is about 350 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
- Notluf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm, I checked that page and it referred me to a page to see how my community rated with regard to greenhouse gasses. It seems that I am 100% nuclear, so my electrical power is greenhouse gas free! Suck it. Not that I comfortable with nuclear, but for now it is better than coal.
- miaow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1switch to a green electricity tariff
use wireless remote-controlled plug sockets for products you usually use standby
if you can't move the fridge away from a heater, turn its back to it if you can.
once you start seeing ideas to save energy, it becomes enjoyable. - Vincenze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey check out video reviews of the top 10 green cars, G-wiz, Prius, Civic etc... might be of interest.
- davidrools, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ouch
- Harbinger67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can buy a Prius and do the same thing at a fraction of the speed and only release a fraction of the evil planet-killing gasses into the air.
I mean, only if you CARE about the enviornment, that is.
ThAAA-aaanks!
*smells own fart* - magebomb11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FTFA:
"How many times have you left your cell-phone charger plugged in, even when your phone is not? Wall chargers for things like iPods and cameras suck energy out of the socket, even when not attached to their mates. With the national average at five chargers per person, unplugging adds up."
...are there any..electricians here that could verify/debunk this? what kind of usage are we talking about?
thanks. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You are not that ridiculous. American's eat at least 1 billion land animals a year. I think more, but I don't have my references near me. Cows do give off enough methane to effect our atmosphere measurably and in a bad way. Livestock raised in the numbers and way they are raised is not natural. A massive amount of pollution is generated in production and distribution.
If people ate less meat about a billion animals or more a year would not exist and the atmosphere would indeed improve.
See my links to earlier digg articles earlier in this thread. - xoip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The problem is peoples perception of others and their own self interest... Why should I save when others don't etc... is the biggest hurdle to over come.
- waahooo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Patrick, you know as well as I that sometimes sarcasm is not so easily detected on the internet. There are people who believe in what you joke about. I thought you were one of them.
- thepen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2If you really want to affect carbon emissions, the single greatest choice you can make is to use biodiesel. If you include the CO2 absorption of plant feedstocks in the carbon cycle, there is actually negative net carbon emissions using a diesel vehicle on bioidiesel. Imagine using a waste product, a more powerful proven technology (compression ignition), and effecting less emissions than your whizbang hybrid owners. I love that my huge 5,9L cummins diesel is lower in net carbon emissions than my prius owning friends drive.
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html - Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3so wait, cutting back on my electical use will lower my electric bill?!?!?! no ***** way!!!
- simondotcalvin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Better yet, stop breeding.
http://www.vhemt.org
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. - wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Um, 40% of all power is parasitic loads? Methinks no ***** way. Some of this stuff is decent, but others is just friggin nuts. And you really don't save all that much with CFLs. I've replaced my entire house (with the exception of dimmed lights) with them. Didn't do much for the bottom line.
- floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1go ZERO emmission:
Ride a bicycle!!
With the added benefit of population reduction.....because you smell like a gym all day no one will date you. - vorsicht, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Clipped from the article -
"incandescent light bulb turns only about 10 percent of its electricity into light. The rest is wasted heat. Compact fluorescent lamps—use two-thirds less energy and produce 70 percent less heat. "
It's called conservation of energy guys. Chapter 2 of any physics 101 text book. You might want to read it before publishing stupidity like this in the second paragraph.
There in NO chemical reaction and NO potential energy change. 100% of any light bulb's electricity is turned into heat. Compact fluorescents use two-thirds less energy so it uses two thirds the heat. - antron, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3How 'bout stop flying around the world in your private jet Al?
- palindrome12, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Kill more cows... Their flatulence contributes to global warming. I'll take a filet mignon, medium rare please.
- thomasrex, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3These "cut back your electrical use" solutions are BS. Sorry, they don't work, because sooner or later, people get lazy and their electric usage just pops back up again.
What is needed is CO2 reduction methods that are permanent, structural changes to our power grid.
And we already know how to make those power grid changes. It's already been done...one of the major western nations already eliminated ALL of their CO2 emissions from their electric power grid. They did it quickly, cheaply, 20+ years ago. And we still refuse to pay attention.
It's called NUCLEAR POWER and France ALREADY switched their entire power grid and it's working FINE. Get a clue, stupid americans.
We could switch our entire economy to nuclear. We could do it any time. We just don't choose to do it.
And please don't frickin waste my time yapping about nuclear waste. It's a totally bogus "issue".
Thank you. - waahooo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@PatrickFisher
The thing is, we're trying to find a solution without killing ourselves. Hell, we could just kill off a billion other animal species and that would reduce CO2 emissions. Kill all the cows and that would reduce methane levels in the air. But we want to find a solution that's not ridiculous or environmentally damaging. - sambtravis, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3@ Iomegaboy
That was actually the first thing that came to mind for me too. Just i was going to say "Kill yourself." Not as polite as "stop breathing" but still functional. - iomegaboy, on 10/12/2007, -18/+13Stop breathing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1heres one, stop breathing
- brlagniappe, on 10/12/2007, -21/+2Looks good, go green!...but don't vote green (it just helps republicans) ;)
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