Is there another of like mind?

Question

I have a company, and a sincere desire, to make a significant impact on the issue of global warming. So far, I have come up with solutions from the traditional to truly unique from parabolic mirrors heating water to power a generator for electricity to a booster forcing something called Brown's gas with petrol to increase gas mileage. Other problems are as yet unsolved. So I am just asking to hear from those who are of like mind. Comment is invited from others who think alike.

Answer 1

Your goals are fundamentally flawed.  Global warming is a natural phenomenon, not caused by man.  Trying to stop the planet from going through its normal cycles is like trying to stop a tidal wave from hitting the coast line.  It is not based on carbon emissions, and even if it was, all living things are carbon based life forms, trying to reduce carbon emissions it akin to denying our own existance.  

I like your ideas involving increasing gas milage though.  We need new technology to reduce our dependance on forign oil.  America should strive to be self sustained on the energy side, for terrorists and tyrants will kill us long before Al Gore's "global warming" will.

Answer 2

Turning solar energy into steam energy into electric power is far more inefficient than current solar technology.  Brown's gas???  You should have no difficulty finding a like mind....there's one born every minute.

Answer 3

I have an ornamental thing in my yard that consists of a pole with a thing on top that spins with the wind.  It has stars, moons, and suns on it and looks quite nice.  I would like to get a kit that would convert it into a wind turbine to generate electricity for my house.

Answer 4

Hoptoad City, how can you say that? I don't get how people like you can see pictures and graphs like the ones in An Inconvenient Truth and say it's bogus. There is so much scientific research that strongly supports global warming. Yes, it's a natural cycle, but we are speeding it up. Carbon dioxide levels are already up higher than they've ever been. This is unnatural. It's like tides. Yes, they come in and out, but when a tsunami comes in a lot further than any tide ever did you can't call that normal. We're causing the tsunami of global warming.

Check out this neat video one of my friends made on global warming's causes and effects. It is really powerful. The pictures are absolutely incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpD3-Uu9j...

Answer 5

First of all, do you have a website?  If so, share it, flaunt it, let us see!!  I've added sites created by Yahoo Q&A respondants to my list of useful sites, because this kind of grassroots effort can be useful.  

If you're starting to hit a wall, and the initial rush of ideas is slowing down or stalled, you may want to look for workshops or programs that can help you recharge.

I'm interested in hearing more about your progress.  This is a long term situation, and maybe you need to narrow your focus to carve out a niche and make a difference at the same time.  Good luck!

Answer 6

This isn't quite an answer, but you may be interested in a recent MIT demonstration with a parabolic array of mirrors heating water that could generate electricity or heat buildings.

http://www.dailytech.com/MIT+Students+De...

Answer 7

LOL Global warming is caused by man.  This is how:  Water is found in 3 forms on earth;  ice/snow, water, and vapor.  Dirt/Stone is found in the ground, just like metal elements. Green/Vegetation is found ontop of the Earth.  

Plants utilize the minerals in the earth, to create food for use to eat.  They neutralize ill effects because they themselves feed on them, thats why plants contain minerals...duh.  We harvest these foods.  Trees and all green plants big and small convert Carbon Dioxide into Oxygen through photosynthesis...Plants also give off vapor through cellular respiration, just like a human when we sweat.  

when companies release CFS or other manmade gasses into the atmosphere changes drastically occur.  Sunlight Radiation comes to earth and for the most part is reflected and sent back out into space.  HOWEVER now, because of pollution radiation is captured here on Earth because it is unable to reflect back to space because it is trapped between the denser chemically filled air and clouds.  Making things worse, Trees are cut down in the rainforest which constitutes for over 76% of the WORLDS OXYGEN PRODUCTION.  If you take away oxygen you are left with an abundance of Nitrogen and Carbon and Sulfur.  With not enough plants to use the condition worsens.

Changes in atmospheric pressure are the results of less water being able to be turned into vapor, meaning with bodies of water being used for irrigation, pleasure, household use, natural ecosystems are being destroyed. Less vapor means less rain, which means less growth, and less life.  Animals leave areas to go to places that are now inhabited by lesser forms and they destroy their ecosystems.

Glaciers are melting because of our changing climate.  We are heating up!  Why because the Ozone layer is unable now to protect us because the 03 is being converted gradually because of the fact that chemicall pollution is preventing the UVRadiation from bouncing back. So our ground is getting hotter.  When these glaciers of fresh water melt greatly they desalinize salt water...make it less salty. This kills off species that need salt water to live throwing off the larger ecosystem.  Changes in water salinity changes ocean currents, because salt water is denser than freshwater.  This changes weather patterns because cold water creates a different air pressure than warm water, and the same between fresh and salt water.

so the idiot that said that this is natural is just well that...an Idiot.  Nothing we do on this earth is without consequence. NOTHING.  If humans didnt strive for mere conveinence they wouldnt be greedy and wouldnt be using up resources.  Gasses, oils and Dirt all have a purpose to keep things where they need to be.  digging inside the earth changes its composition like comparing Neptunes' core composition to the Moons.  Internal composition plays a part in the orbit around the sun and magnetic pulls, which are responsible for tidal currents in water on earth.

Your company would need to not use fuels at all. Using them at all is depriving them from the earth.  Electricity must be made and unless you do that without first using resources then you are defeating the whole purpose. Mirrors require what to make?  Again you will only benefit by using resources already found on top of the ground and that are only used on the ground, meaning they dont release anything back into the air, no matter even if it is already found in the air.