DO you believe...?

Question

...that there is reasonably simple, effective, functional, cost effective way to do the following:

Solve our energy problem for electricity production, automobile propulsion and truck propulsion, balance of payments deficits with the Middle East, clean air, reduced human disease due to air pollution, STOP CO2 emmisions into the atmosphere, reduce premature deaths due to respiratory distress, STOP water pollution, among other things.

Yes or No? And a brief idea as to HOW to do it. This COULD be the most important question to be asked on this format...EVER.

Answer 1

Yes.  Gradually phase-out our use of coal and other fossil fuels, replacing it with renewable energy sources like solar, wind, wave, geothermal, etc., and also nuclear power to a lesser degree.

Transportation can be solved by phasing out use of the internal combustion engine and replacing it with electric vehicles.  We've already started this with hybrids, and soon plug-in hybrids and affordable, long-range, high-speed fully electric vehicles will become available.  For details on this technology, see my answer in the question linked below.

Answer 2

ha ha very funny

Answer 3

If there was a way to do that, we'd already be doing it.  That may require the reorganization of the entire economic-political world as we know it.  If we somehow manage to do that safely and without repercussions then I'm all for it.

Answer 4

Paranoia much???

Answer 5

Yes. Corn, wind, solar, hydro/water. Corn can be made in the United States; SOME American cars are hot in East Asian, thus it may help provide more of an economic plus/positve for our economy. I've heard from commercials and other sourcs that wind in the Mid-West can provide a ton of power. Even in cities like Seattle and Chicago, solar energy can be utilized to provide more than just what problems were listed in the question, i.e. costs for the "El" or public transportation trains in Chicago. Hydro/Water can be used to provide a vast area with power and possibly a new type of attraction/real estate.

Answer 6

YES!!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY

3 points - 1. Personal power production using the free falling solar energy from the sun will liberate all.   2. Capturing at the source CO2 and other pollutants will halt the accelerating degradation of the environment which will heal over time.   3. Moving huge sums spent on oil wars, 300 billion USD, to alternative research will stimulate wealth expansion and make the transition quicker.

For me personally using solar dish concentrator to offset heating with fossil fuels and run chemical reactions to create hydrogen.  Switched to compact fluorescent which use 1/4 the power of conventional incandescent (adds up to an  800 pound reduction in CO2 over one bulb's lifetime).  Converting mower and generator engines to operate on hydrogen and building special tanks to make hydrogen (which is totally competitive with fossil alternatives).   Also, spend a lot of time debunking myths about hydrogen.  

Thanks for the great question.   Good luck and each drop of oil, coal, gas that isn't burned is a drop of Victory!

Answer 7

reorganization = as one of your answers already said. Unless we get people that aren't bought and sold by special interest groups and can get people in office who our concerned about energy and fuel problems and cleaner air then I'll have to say no.

But one day we might get a president who cares about America and the constitution and the American people.