Industrial Revolution 2

Note from IR2: Worth a look….

Boing Boing

Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying

True story: A small college in the Midwest wanted to put up a wind turbine on their campus. The school, being on top of a hill in the middle of the prairie, had enough wind to produce upwards of 3/4 of their needed electricity, so the project made good sense. But when it came time to talk to the people living nearby, the school ran into some opposition. In particular, from a farmer who thought the noise and appearance of the wind turbine would lower property values.

The punchline: He was a pig farmer.*

Here’s the article…

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Green Policy, Wind Power

Sandia scientists successfully test a machine that creates fuel from carbon dioxide.

Note from IR2: A closed system that addresses multiple issues! Creating energy and decreasing CO2. I’d love more people thinking this way.

By Tyler Hamilton
Technology Review

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully demonstrated a prototype machine that uses the sun’s energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into the molecular building blocks that make up transportation fuels. The “Sunshine to Petrol” system could ultimately prove a practical way to recycle CO? from power and industrial plants into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, assuming the process can become at least twice as efficient as natural photosynthesis.

Here’s the article…

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Climate Change, CO2, Solar Energy