Are people educated about alternative energy sources?

Question

i need this answer by tonight to please!? yes or no and some info about it please!

Answer 1

I think the "green" movement has made alot of headway in the last 2-3 years, and that the momentum will continue exponentially. There is always more work to be done in this sector.

Answer 2

some are this admin us is run by oil men so they dont take t seriously ethanol has taken off but it has spiked food prices cause it requires corn that is also needed for animal feed and human consumption

Windpower is promising so is solar. But not all places have enough wind /sun Also wind turebines are ugly and kill birds. Nuclear is efficent and clean but also produces dangerous long lasting waste and risk for disaster. Some other techs are methane. Here in vt there is some power gotten from cow dung. Places with waterfalls hydro power is great although sometimes the daming of rivers causes problems. In Iceland they are running vehicles on Hydrogen. Brazil uses ethanol alot

Answer 3

Yes they are. But THEY PREFER THE EASY WAY to get what they need at home and to drive.

Everyone now a bit about difrent energy sources but many people do not own the house they live in and do not whant to put their own money into the house to improve it and others that do own their house are to occupide by paying their house payment and other bills that they do not have the funds to convert their house into something better.



If you get many people to answer you this question then you now quiet a bit of people now about alternative energy sources but are lazzy or not willing to change unless they see others do it first.

Well hope this helps.

Answer 4

No and they also think that any alternative energy will happen overnight be free not pollute,  and do everyting that happens now only better.

no one likes to compromise they want it all and they want it quick free and all that your willing to give.

Energy return on Investment

EROI I saw this accroynm on both a Green website as well as an engineering site

means if it takes more energy to do something its not worth doing as of so far there is verry little that makes out on this formula.

and i dont just mean you put gas in your hybrid car and your good to go while yes you are helping but makeing those batteries is wretched for the enviornment how much effort goes into synthesizeing the chemicals to make the batteries that sort of thing.

What I'm trying to say is there is a bigger picture going on behind what most people see ethanol for instance you need to grow the corn takes months takes up field space for other grains people could (COST OF OTHER FOODS AND SUCH INFLATED DEMAND)  eat or use as animal feed,  than its loaded on a big tri axle dumptruck (ENERGY INTO THE FORMULA) to be taken perhaps a hundred miles to a fermenting plant need a climate controled enviornment for that (ENERGY INTO THE FORMULA)  Then it needs to be distilled purified cetra  (ENERGY INTO THE FORMULA).

Finally delivery between mining pumping what ever with oil puting it on a billion ton displacement tanker that burns thousands of gallons of diesel an hour taken to a refinery where it needs to be heated to be put on a truck.

Gas might have an effeicency rating of about 30 %  by the time it reaches the pumps and its a fuel that needs verry little reclamation or adaption to systems that are all ready in place

Good ideas hoover d**n all but free power.

Solar hot water heaters absorb heat don't need to be converted to enegy like with a solar cell and can be used to heat your house the energy is made on your roof little transport cost.

Geo thermal heat exchanger not shure how well it would work but would be same thing as water heater in reverse for the summer time you have lines in the floors walls wherever in your house those lines absorb the heat through a meduim refrigerant water cetra and then pump said meadium out of your house and under the ground where it absorbs into it.

once again no or little transportation cost to transport energy its made on site only thing you have to do is power a pump

with all that said most breakthroughs will come from individuals I mean they are the ones that will profit and or save from it and or profit in the form of savings,  but no one is going to do it unless they can see the benifits of it.

the solar hot water heater geo heat exchanger could pan out but would have a high investment cost but would more than pay for itself in savings.

solar energy in electric form is a chemical reaction that means its DC needs to be converted to AC and needs to be phase matched to the grid.

more stuff goes into all this than most of the whinney people realise

asking why, why not this, and why not that  ,  why do i have to pay for any of it.

Answer 5

No.

Most don't know that nuclear power causes less deaths than any of our other major energy sources, such as coal, oil and natural gas.

Most don't know that Hot Rock Energy is a source of alternative energy that has been around for decades and can seriously reduce our dependence on oil without the negative side effects you see in bio-fuels, wind-power, etc.

Heck, most people don't even realize that electricity is produced by burning natural gas, which means that switching to electric will not reduce our oil dependence.  We must change the way we produce our electricity.

Most probably don't know that the new Honda vehicle that uses a hydrogen fuel cell actually uses more oil than a standard vehicle (when you account for the production,storage and transportation of the hydrogen).

Answer 6

A lot of people are ..... but not enough

Answer 7

not even close

Answer 8

No, of course not.  More people watch the Super Bowl than vote for the leader of their country.  They know more about American Idol than what could possibly save the planet.

Answer 9

Not even close. Energy management, demand response, alternative energy sources... so much out there with so little knowledge.

http://www.enernoc.com

Answer 10

No they are not. The average American is ignorant of what goes on at that level. I can only assume other countries are the same.

Maybe when insolvency finally and inevitably hits the US, we will then see people learning to take care of themselves and think for themselves like we are supposed to.

Answer 11

people don't know anything! they have fallen for the story about using corn as fuel and don't understand that it still takes oil to produce gas and this form is more expensive.  We also take corn away form the consumer for food