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Who Is Scott Markham?
Hi, my name is Scott Markham and I'm an average Joe who happens to be passionate about the environment. Cutting edge forms of renewable energy (solar power being just one of them) are of particular interest to me.
I wholeheartedly believe that exploring new forms of energy is the best way to pass on a positive legacy to our offspring while preserving the environment.
I like to share my online research findings and discoveries with others through my blog that you're reading now...
No doubt, I can see this Solar Energy coming. Oil makes so much profits they not going to let it go that fast….. basically until its destroy half of the ozone. Then they will focus on Solar…
The real problem with solar is there in no real market for it. People have no incentive to purchase it. Its expensive and you won’t get your money back so whats the point. Governments need to subsidize solar focused on individuals, not big business. The market can start to compete within itself and create new technologies and ideas. Competition needs to be created in the solar industry. We need to create the technology before we NEED to create it. We shouldn’t wait for oil to run out to start.
I wish someone could get the Canadian PM to give this vid a watch….
I guess “can” is the keyword in your reasoning. And you completely missed climategate 1 & 2, removal of terrestrial measuring stations from cooler places to bring up avg temps, glacier gate, lies about the amazon, lies about polar bears, IPCC admitting to fearmongering and conclusions from Jr scientists using flasified data and most recent facts that show polar caps are NOT melting more than they do every summer only to re-build every winter again.
Yep, I figured that was AGW denialism I was hearing.
Yes, CO2 by itself has only a small effect… and in a complex system of delicate balances like our climate, that can be enough to set off chain reactions with big effects, which is what’s happening. This is basic climate science, long accepted by most researchers in the field. That you either don’t know this or ignore it makes me wonder why anyone should listen to anything you have to say on this or any related subject.
CO2 has been proven to only affected temp with .002 degree the rest is just political game. (Like when Kaku praised EU as the next step in evolution BWAHAHA)
Cpl other errors; Hubbert made the prediciton in the mid-50′s not the 60′s. Secondly he didn’t pick the exact year US production peaked. He gave a range and the peak was within that prediction. And the number of new Saudi Arabias needed is just based on a certain repalcement qty and does not include continuing demand growth.
No kidding; shingles are painful.
Which comments on CO2? He only touches on it briefly here, and from my relatively well-read layman’s POV, I can’t hear anything wrong with what he says. ‘Splain yourself, please.
I’ve heard of an artificial green “leaf” that can actually store solar power. Somewhere in Time for Kids.
how often does Michio Kaku videos on Bigthink get uploaded?
There is a novel way of biofuel creation which should turn down price of it quite a lot.., unfortunately authors didn’t received no grant’s to put in into practice, thanks to our government which is not opened to new energy sources at all.. here is some brief description
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maybe solar panel shingles?
Wow Kaku finally manages to get in on the peak oil debate. Gee, just 15years after thriving communities were formed at a number of peak oil sites, association of studies of peak oil was formed and the peak for light sweet crude already has been passed… Not very impressive.
And his comments on CO2….just embaressing. On par with his praising of EU (other clip)
Does he? Last I heard him speak he was praising EU as the evolution to a higher state of market. Pheew.
he inspired me to be intelligent…
Having solar panels doesn’t eliminate the need for shingles…
Dr. Kaku believes in the free market… my god it’s beautiful.
I’d like a future with solar panels instead of shingles.
I think that hydrogen will come after oil because with solar power & fusion etc there is no money to be made.
I read somewhere about possibility of building a solar power satellite that collects energy then converts it into microwave signals then beams it down to earth to a receiver station ,which then converts the microwave signals back to electricity. Would that work better ?
Dr Kaku, you need the world to get on it as one and all pitch on a global network that shares power as we harness the Earths power world wide yah!
In his 1999 book, “The Deep Hot Biosphere,” Dr. Gold presents compelling evidence for inorganic oil formation. He notes that geologic structures where oil is found all correspond to “deep earth” formations, not the haphazard depositions we find with sedimentary rock, associated fossils or even current surface life.
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They made a playlist for him.
Hahaha great comment!
The biggest obstacle we’re facing with the greenhouse problem are climate change deniers. But as the curve of ignorance declines (they study science or die off) it will meet the rising curve of scientifically literate people, and only then we’ll be able to efficiently tackle a solution, whether it be solar, fusion power, or something else.