Posted by Kent in KC on February 25, 2008 at 07:37:28 from (68.143.51.46):
In the Kansas City area we've had one of the coldest and snowiest winters anyone can remember. It has frequently hovered below 20F (unusual) and we've averaged a snowfall every 3.5 days, with no let up in sight.
It ain't global warming gents, it's climate change. It's not just fuel that's going up either, look for electricity - indeed any kind of energy - to go up in price sharply over the new few years. Al commodities and all prices will continue to rise because everything we eat, use, drive, wear or sleep in requires energy to operate,produce, maintain or dispose of.
Last year my wife and I built an active/passive superinsulated house with radiant floor heat (love it) earth cooling tubes (amazed by them) and are looking at making a Solar Thermal power generator (focused sunlight heats anti-freeze in glass tubes, circulated to a flash boiler to produce steam for a turbine driving a generator/alternator).
Here's a big idea: build levees along the seacoasts to protect agsinst rising ocean levels. Make large tidal basins inside the sea walls and use them for managed reefs/fish farms. Put huge tubes in the seawall for the tides to move through, powering electric turbines on both the rising and falling tide.
When a hurricane approches, lower the level in the basins at low tide, cap the generator tubes so the basins are nearly empty and let the basins absorb the overspill, minimizing flooding of populated areas.
Get your thinking caps on boys and girls. Us common people are going to have to find the solutions, the oil men running (ruinning) our government sure aren't.
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