except that it's not just developing nations, it's the USA as well. Now saying Canada should be bound to pay penalties for it's 2% contribution (penalties to be paid to non-participating countries) while more than half of GHG emissions are by non-participating countries really doesn't make sense
I've looked into it. GHG emissions per capita have actually gone down in canada. Oil sands aren't the problem, comprising only 5% of our emissions. What has been the problem is an expanding population and the fact that we use so much energy to heat our homes. Fluctuations in winter temperature account for up to 8-10% fluctuations in our emissions. There's not much anything a government can do to prevent people from heating their homes and our building standards keep getting stricter and stricter, so the solution has to be somewhere else.
BTW, I don't like the harper government, but can't really fault the logic of their move. Canada accounts for ~2% of global emissions. Enacting any cuts to try and meet the targets (almost impossible without "carbon credits" which are just stupid) coupled with the penalties that would be imposed for not meeting targets, would potentially destabilize our somewhat stable economy in a totally unstable global economy while achieving nothing as the China, USA, India, etc... continue with unchecked emissions.
Really? Being in theater and a lector doesn't automatically mean you can enunciate. I've met plenty of both who couldn't (some theaters can't even utter a peep!). As well, what does shakespeare have to do with modern english pronounciation? Have you ever tried using the buttons? I haven't found a system yet that you couldn't just input stuff with the buttons for numbers, then again, i don't have to deal with US'ian systems. There's something seriously wrong with companies and people in the US.
Helical vertical wind turbines. Easier to build, high efficiency compared to small horizontal turbines. Can work in lower and faster wind speeds as well as more chaotic wind than horizontals, safer in operation. Ever wonder just how much resources and specialized training it takes to transport those huge blades and assemble the turbines? As well, large scale wind farms block airspace for birds.
I do see a place for companies to make the inverters though, that's something i really don't want to wire up myself.
As well, i didn't mention anything about solar panels. I see those as part of the problem. Why use solar panels to inefficiently produce energy to power my hot water tank when i can just heat up my water directly from the sun without all the loss?
What has to happen is a re-organization of domestic appliances. How many of our appliances have their own transformers? Heat sources? Cooling sources? Motors? The world would need a hell of a lot less energy if our houses and appliances weren't so badly designed and engineered.
Difference is, I can build my own wind turbine. There's also power loss over distance and maintenance for all those towers and distribution.
On top of that, what do you think is more important, big companies trying to save money so they can make more profit while depleting our resources or building a sustainable future?
Or perhaps some people need to work on their enunciation? There should be a website to collect voice samples of everybody that complains about voice recognition systems that don't work. Nice data set to set loose some genetic algos.
Traveling through the states there are several places where i can't understand what the person is saying.
It's obvious this person has an agenda as they don't take water recycling into account, whether within systems or within nature.
However, this deals with renewable energy as touted by big business. They make big huge systems that consume lots of resources so that they can sell them and make money. A passive solar house isn't going to use all these rare precious resources. Geothermal energy that is designed into the house going down 10 to 20 feet using convection isn't going to require the same massive resources that a huge power plant going hundreds of feet into the ground nor is there any fracking required. A personal wind turbine or hydro isn't going to need rare earth magnetics to squeeze out every drop of possible energy because energy use will already be reduced and you can just take the inefficiency of normal magnets/em into account when designing the system.
Besides the obvious slant of the article what we should realize is that large, centralized, hi tech renewable energy products are unsustainable. The way to go is smaller, decentralized, personal systems. Decentralization reduces the need for large quantities of any resource to be taken from any given area, making it sustainable. Is it a bother to have to wipe down your mirrors 2 or 3 times a year on your passive solar oil collection system, sure, but you won't need 600 acres of water in your back yard, just a damp cloth.
Unfortunately that involves designing tech that can be put together/serviced by your average joe and that simply isn't going to happen without government or industry help to educate the masses which won't happen because there's no money in teaching a man how to fish instead of selling him a fish everyday for the rest of his life.
Which is unfortunate. I'd love to see bamboo sand biofilm water filters with added activated carbon (provided by gov't/business) in homes for cleaning water instead of huge water treatment plants and plastic encased water filters that are non-renewable by the customer.(activated charcoal is renewable, if they let you get at it)
Michael has done his part and reached his audience, an international audience of geeks. Level of detail. Your job is not the same as michaels nor on the same level. You need to take that information and disseminate it further. everybody has to do their part.
Sheesh, did you grow up without parents? If you don't believe you can accomplish something then you can't.
Try it. A written letter from one person does nothing. Organise something, get it on the media, have your member present at the event, there's no way they can ignore an invitation when a large part of their constituency is present. That will accomplish awarenness and awareness is always the first step to change. Don't write go there in person, you might be suprised by how easy it is to talk to your member and how much more effective. BTW, I used to work for our government.
The point is do something about it. Most of the great benefits of our country came about because people believed in them and actualy took ACTION instead of whining about it. If you think the masses are ignorant and it's important to you then it's you're responsability to educate them. Simple. Do, don't whine.
No, I don't like what the conservatives are doing. I'm just saying the truth. Imagine if a product launched and exactly 0 sales were made in canada.
The problem is that all these whiners are a bunch of wusses. Gauranteed.that all of them will buy the products anyways because they're more concerned about their entertainment. Seriously, if you're worried then do something about it. Boycot products, set up information websites. Create a facebook group. Get a petition in your community going to put forward to your member of parliament. Organise flash mobs or picketts on launch days. Do anything except sit on your ass whining on slashdot.
I'm very concerned for Canada. The conservatives are in power because the other parties are afraid to take strong stances on issues and the voters are becoming more apathetic as they focus more on their own interests than what's good for the country. It makes me both sad and disgusted. A little more apathy and egocentrism and we won't escape the path that leads us to be exactly like the states.
Which makes me long for the days of Chretien. At least he had the balls to go against the whole stupid let's go invade Iraq, you know by pulling our US troops out of the country where Osama is.
You can always vote with your money. Really, if it's so important to you don't buy the product. If you'd rather have the product and just like whining, well grow up.
is a facility to edit submission summaries. This way we can avoid all the posts complaining about the seriously inaccurate summary as well as all of the posts from people who can't be bothered to read the article and so are ranting and raving and opinionating about false information.
Granted, this would probably leave only a handful of posts.
What I always wonder about, is how long it'll take US'ians to stop calling natives indians. It's only been, what almost 400 years since you found out it waan't india?
is how much energy does it take to produce the membrane, what is their effective live span, and are you actually 'producing' any energy. Hopefully with the boost from the waste feeding bacteria the answer is yes.
Your westernstuck up definition of comfort is different than the majority of the population on this planet. I really hope you're having a bad day, otherwise you're just an ass.
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oil sands are only 5% of canadian emissions which are less than 2% of global emissions. That's just political rhetoric.
except the nastiness isn't so nasty. A cold winter causes higher emissions than the oil sands.
Tar sands account for about 5% of Canadian emissions, less than 0.1% of total global emissions. It's not the reason.
except that it's not just developing nations, it's the USA as well. Now saying Canada should be bound to pay penalties for it's 2% contribution (penalties to be paid to non-participating countries) while more than half of GHG emissions are by non-participating countries really doesn't make sense
BTW, I don't like the harper government, but can't really fault the logic of their move. Canada accounts for ~2% of global emissions. Enacting any cuts to try and meet the targets (almost impossible without "carbon credits" which are just stupid) coupled with the penalties that would be imposed for not meeting targets, would potentially destabilize our somewhat stable economy in a totally unstable global economy while achieving nothing as the China, USA, India, etc... continue with unchecked emissions.
You're obviously young and know nothing about autists.
Really? Being in theater and a lector doesn't automatically mean you can enunciate. I've met plenty of both who couldn't (some theaters can't even utter a peep!). As well, what does shakespeare have to do with modern english pronounciation? Have you ever tried using the buttons? I haven't found a system yet that you couldn't just input stuff with the buttons for numbers, then again, i don't have to deal with US'ian systems. There's something seriously wrong with companies and people in the US.
I do see a place for companies to make the inverters though, that's something i really don't want to wire up myself.
As well, i didn't mention anything about solar panels. I see those as part of the problem. Why use solar panels to inefficiently produce energy to power my hot water tank when i can just heat up my water directly from the sun without all the loss?
What has to happen is a re-organization of domestic appliances. How many of our appliances have their own transformers? Heat sources? Cooling sources? Motors? The world would need a hell of a lot less energy if our houses and appliances weren't so badly designed and engineered.
On top of that, what do you think is more important, big companies trying to save money so they can make more profit while depleting our resources or building a sustainable future?
Traveling through the states there are several places where i can't understand what the person is saying.
However, this deals with renewable energy as touted by big business. They make big huge systems that consume lots of resources so that they can sell them and make money. A passive solar house isn't going to use all these rare precious resources. Geothermal energy that is designed into the house going down 10 to 20 feet using convection isn't going to require the same massive resources that a huge power plant going hundreds of feet into the ground nor is there any fracking required. A personal wind turbine or hydro isn't going to need rare earth magnetics to squeeze out every drop of possible energy because energy use will already be reduced and you can just take the inefficiency of normal magnets/em into account when designing the system.
Besides the obvious slant of the article what we should realize is that large, centralized, hi tech renewable energy products are unsustainable. The way to go is smaller, decentralized, personal systems. Decentralization reduces the need for large quantities of any resource to be taken from any given area, making it sustainable. Is it a bother to have to wipe down your mirrors 2 or 3 times a year on your passive solar oil collection system, sure, but you won't need 600 acres of water in your back yard, just a damp cloth.
Unfortunately that involves designing tech that can be put together/serviced by your average joe and that simply isn't going to happen without government or industry help to educate the masses which won't happen because there's no money in teaching a man how to fish instead of selling him a fish everyday for the rest of his life.
Which is unfortunate. I'd love to see bamboo sand biofilm water filters with added activated carbon (provided by gov't/business) in homes for cleaning water instead of huge water treatment plants and plastic encased water filters that are non-renewable by the customer.(activated charcoal is renewable, if they let you get at it)
Have you ever watched people walk? You can't see what you don't understand.
Sheesh, did you grow up without parents? If you don't believe you can accomplish something then you can't.
Try it. A written letter from one person does nothing. Organise something, get it on the media, have your member present at the event, there's no way they can ignore an invitation when a large part of their constituency is present. That will accomplish awarenness and awareness is always the first step to change. Don't write go there in person, you might be suprised by how easy it is to talk to your member and how much more effective. BTW, I used to work for our government.
I guess it's good to see it mainstreamed. I just wonder what people with complete faith in genes believed activated genes.
The point is do something about it. Most of the great benefits of our country came about because people believed in them and actualy took ACTION instead of whining about it. If you think the masses are ignorant and it's important to you then it's you're responsability to educate them. Simple. Do, don't whine.
The problem is that all these whiners are a bunch of wusses. Gauranteed.that all of them will buy the products anyways because they're more concerned about their entertainment. Seriously, if you're worried then do something about it. Boycot products, set up information websites. Create a facebook group. Get a petition in your community going to put forward to your member of parliament. Organise flash mobs or picketts on launch days. Do anything except sit on your ass whining on slashdot.
I'm very concerned for Canada. The conservatives are in power because the other parties are afraid to take strong stances on issues and the voters are becoming more apathetic as they focus more on their own interests than what's good for the country. It makes me both sad and disgusted. A little more apathy and egocentrism and we won't escape the path that leads us to be exactly like the states.
It was the equivalent of
Bush:'Your either with us or against us'.
Chretien:'Whatever'
You can always vote with your money. Really, if it's so important to you don't buy the product. If you'd rather have the product and just like whining, well grow up.
Granted, this would probably leave only a handful of posts.
Yes, I'm sure hardware staff will get right on developing software.
What I always wonder about, is how long it'll take US'ians to stop calling natives indians. It's only been, what almost 400 years since you found out it waan't india?
is how much energy does it take to produce the membrane, what is their effective live span, and are you actually 'producing' any energy. Hopefully with the boost from the waste feeding bacteria the answer is yes.
btw, growing up my family of five did grow up comfortably in less space. Not everybody is a spoiled brat, and this is growing up poor in canada/
Your westernstuck up definition of comfort is different than the majority of the population on this planet. I really hope you're having a bad day, otherwise you're just an ass.