I agree with the guy who submitted the story that started this thread. Lots of "scientifically" inclined slashdotters seem to be unable to deal with what the climate scientists and their peer reviewed science is saying. Yes climate naturally fluctuates (and if current ice core evidence is true, sometimes very quickly), yes not all climate scientists believe in anthropenic components (fewer every year) to climate change, and yes the uncertainities get glossed over by the alarmist groups (of both pro and anti climate change persuasion). Yes its also true that climate is a non linear system with lots of negative and positive feed backs that are still unknown and/or poorly understood and yes lots of catastrophic events can and will happen (eventually) like big meteor impacts, flood basalt volcanism, etc that may dwarf the atmospheric changes that humans have made. But you know what? The research that has been done on this over the last 10 years or so is not zeroing on the no human influence on climate position. Just the opposite. It's funny how slashdotters celebrate human mastery of natural forces (ie quantum effects in chips), but don't want to face the possibility of human influence on climate, which could have tremendous negative (and yes maybe a few positive) consequences. And why should climate-change skeptic Slashdotters be proud to be associated with the fossil fuel economy anyway? That's like an electrical engineer from the 50's and 60's disparaging the switch from vacuum tubes to transistors. Fossil fuels are yesterday's energy source, decentralized renewables are tomorrow's. Now as for the aversion towards reducing energy use - again what gives? Energy wasting is yesterday's tech and yesterday's design and engineering. Energy efficiency is cool - it incorporates really cool tech along with innovative whole system design. There are some really smart people working on this. For a sample check out the Rocky Mountain Institute site (www.rmi.org). Finally for all the slashdotters who think that the climate change alarm givers want to make your life uncomfortable and take away your fossil fuel driven lifestyle, and our country's "way of life" - Please. It's time to make the change to better technology - and less CO2 emissions. Pull your heads out and support real progress.
The biodiesel industry is poised to expand (bigtime) in this country. The initial users will be fleets (buses, trucks) but there are supposed to be Merc/BMW diesel owners who order the stuff by the (55 gallon)drumful. Check out the WorldEnergy website: www.worldenergy.net for a example of the commercialization of this.
Yes biodiesel does have a evocative/irritating smell (depends on your pt. of view) but it does not produce the same level of carcinogenic particulates that diesel does.
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I agree with the guy who submitted the story that started this thread. Lots of "scientifically" inclined slashdotters seem to be unable to deal with what the climate scientists and their peer reviewed science is saying. Yes climate naturally fluctuates (and if current ice core evidence is true, sometimes very quickly), yes not all climate scientists believe in anthropenic components (fewer every year) to climate change, and yes the uncertainities get glossed over by the alarmist groups (of both pro and anti climate change persuasion). Yes its also true that climate is a non linear system with lots of negative and positive feed backs that are still unknown and/or poorly understood and yes lots of catastrophic events can and will happen (eventually) like big meteor impacts, flood basalt volcanism, etc that may dwarf the atmospheric changes that humans have made. But you know what? The research that has been done on this over the last 10 years or so is not zeroing on the no human influence on climate position. Just the opposite. It's funny how slashdotters celebrate human mastery of natural forces (ie quantum effects in chips), but don't want to face the possibility of human influence on climate, which could have tremendous negative (and yes maybe a few positive) consequences.
And why should climate-change skeptic Slashdotters be proud to be associated with the fossil fuel economy anyway? That's like an electrical engineer from the 50's and 60's disparaging the switch from vacuum tubes to transistors. Fossil fuels are yesterday's energy source, decentralized renewables are tomorrow's.
Now as for the aversion towards reducing energy use - again what gives? Energy wasting is yesterday's tech and yesterday's design and engineering. Energy efficiency is cool - it incorporates really cool tech along with innovative whole system design. There are some really smart people working on this. For a sample check out the Rocky Mountain Institute site (www.rmi.org).
Finally for all the slashdotters who think that the climate change alarm givers want to make your life uncomfortable and take away your fossil fuel driven lifestyle, and our country's "way of life" - Please. It's time to make the change to better technology - and less CO2 emissions. Pull your heads out and support real progress.
The biodiesel industry is poised to expand (bigtime) in this country. The initial users will be fleets (buses, trucks) but there are supposed to be Merc/BMW diesel owners who order the stuff by the (55 gallon)drumful. Check out the WorldEnergy website: www.worldenergy.net for a example of the commercialization of this.
Yes biodiesel does have a evocative/irritating smell (depends on your pt. of view) but it does not produce the same level of carcinogenic particulates that diesel does.