Search found 98 matches

Try the "Powerdown, the solution for peak oil" thread. I made a similar suggestion on page 5, and some discussion ensues page 6. Here's the link http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic34467-0-asc-60.html . ...

"What!?" you say. "How could that be?" "Instead of spending my money (energy) on a new Hummer that would use lots of energy (money), I spent it on windows that will save me a signifigant amount of ...

Here's one near Kitchener/Waterloo

http://www.goingcarbonneutral.ca/index.shtml

You have a lot of options for building, and no one is better than any other. The important thing to work with is sustainable building practices, and local climatic conditions.

If you want to build ...

I'd say no. In terms of scale, you'll run into the same limits as any other biofuel: there's only so much sunlight that plants can capture and store as energy. According to an article I read, all o ...

I'll pull together my thoughts, and post my projects and progress to date in the planning forum in the next few days.

As far as my tone in this thread....

Don't mean to be disrespectful, or sugg ...

For the past 5 years, I've been working with an architect, and other trades to develop plans for a home that is primarily heated and cooled by solar effect, instead of one designed to be cooled in t ...

If all it takes is a coffee a day to make the change, I've got no problem doing my part....

What if it takes actual sacrifice, such as actually reducing your personal carbon footprint by 80 ...

Nice, neat, rational numbers, David, but the real world doesn't work that way. Not remotely.

Also, the estimated cost is probably far short of what would be the true cost. That is an inflexible r ...

Whew! I was worried there for a minute. I thought solving the problem might involve some real money:

The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear p ...

(With a tip of the hat to Heinlein, Niven, Sturgeon, et all)

The Chinese space program launches a series of rockets (fueled by hydrogen slush as per NASA space shuttle) that meet in orbit to delive ...

You might consider The Barefoot Architect by Johan van Lengen. It has a lot of good, basic material... From making bricks to building houses.

Also provides a lot of good ideas for working with th ...

It all depends on the use you're putting the bow to, and what you think the future holds.

If you think there will always be composites available, and the specialized manufacturing and distribution ...

Anyone here read any Orwell?

Sounds like we're talking about the chocolate ration.

Overshoot is a function of both population and available resources. We are in overshoot if, and only if, our total resources available are less than the resources required per capita.

David, eit ...