| Recently there has been a controversy about | | | | power, nuclear power, and biofuels; but there is a |
| hackers who hacked into the UN site dealing with | | | | technology that is superior to them all. It has not |
| climate change and found some data fudging and | | | | been in the news, but it should be. What if I were |
| sloppy research. Some have used that to claim | | | | to tell you that there is a technology that will |
| global warming to be a fraud. There is a problem | | | | provide both the energy and the water needs of |
| with that. The UN body is just one out of many | | | | humanity, abundant, clean, round-the-clock, |
| bodies, academic, governmental, business, and | | | | on-demand, and unlimited, using a process that |
| private, that have evidence of global warming. | | | | only requires the sun and the ocean water and |
| And if some fools at UN have cut some corners, | | | | produces at the consumer end only clean energy |
| says nothing about the reality of global warming, | | | | and clean water to be recycled back into the |
| which has far more credible evidence behind it | | | | environment? |
| than what was provided by the UN. | | | | What if I were to tell you that this mechanism will |
| These people are now claiming global warming to | | | | have twice the energy efficiency of the electric |
| be a fraud. Tell that to the people of Malawi and | | | | grid; will end the burden on lakes, rivers and |
| Kiribati, whose countries are sinking into the sea | | | | ground water resources; will replace two systems |
| as a result of the melting glaciers. Tell that to the | | | | with one system, realizing huge economic benefit; |
| people of New Orleans. Tell that to the people | | | | and will allow oil resources to last longer and be |
| who died in Europe's heat waves and Australian | | | | used for more profitable higher-end goods? |
| forest fires. Tell that to the people in cities as big | | | | What if I were to tell you that this technology |
| as Jakarta, that are now constantly being flooded | | | | has been reviewed and found to be economically |
| as ocean waters rise. | | | | and technically feasible, and to be a vast |
| There are some who see these events as not | | | | improvement over the status quo? |
| being related to carbon emissions and postulate | | | | There is in fact such technology. It is called the |
| other explanations, such as natural weather | | | | Hydrogen Transmission Network (explained in |
| cycles. There is nothing cyclical about there being | | | | depth at ). In Hydrogen Transmission Network, |
| the highest amount of CO2 in the atmosphere in | | | | solar power will drive electrolysis of ocean water, |
| 450,000 years. There is nothing natural about | | | | breaking it down into Hydrogen and Oxygen. |
| ocean water becoming acidic and killing all the fish. | | | | Oxygen will be released into the air; hydrogen will |
| When one cuts down the forests and raises | | | | be sent through pipes to houses, offices, farms, |
| carbon emissions, the carbon dioxide has only two | | | | and places of industry and commerce, to be |
| places to go to. One is the oceans, where it | | | | reacted using fuel cells with oxygen in the air to |
| makes the water acidic and no longer | | | | create clean energy and clean water at once. |
| life-supporting. The other is the atmosphere, | | | | Hydrogen also will be piped to fueling stations to |
| where it reflects sun's rays from reflecting off | | | | power hydrogen-based vehicles. All of humanity's |
| the earth's surface and into the outer space and | | | | water and energy needs can be met through a |
| bounces them back to the earth's surface, | | | | process that takes nothing that can't be replaced |
| causing it to become hot. On planet Venus, whose | | | | and creates nothing that is in any way harmful. |
| atmosphere is largely carbon dioxide, this | | | | And since transmitting hydrogen through pipes is |
| greenhouse effect is so bad that its surface | | | | almost loss-free, this mechanism will have energy |
| temperatures are 500 degrees. And if this is not | | | | efficiency over twice that of the electric grid. |
| addressed now, then that's the direction in which | | | | There are other parts to solution that aren't |
| we are going. | | | | discussed much, but should be. Sahara is a vast |
| As for the people who are awaiting the | | | | desert where no human or animal lives except in |
| Armageddon, I have hard news. Burning down the | | | | oases. It is not ecological anything; it is a |
| planet will not get you to heaven or anywhere | | | | manmade creation, put in place by Berbers who |
| near heaven. These people should not be eagerly | | | | used slash-and-burn agriculture in what was then |
| awaiting the Armageddon; they should be terrified | | | | rainforest, much like the Brazilians are using |
| of it. They want to do away with their children's | | | | slash-and-burn agriculture in the rainforest now. |
| future and their children's right to a livable world in | | | | Right now, Sahara is the most empty, most |
| order that they could themselves have their | | | | worthless, most barren, stretch of land on the |
| selfish salvation. No god would look kindly on such | | | | planet. What if it were converted into forests and |
| a thing. | | | | farmland? How much CO2 would be taken out of |
| In 20AD, a Roman named Hero of Alexandria | | | | the atmosphere, and how much food would be |
| invented the steam engine. The Romans thought | | | | produced to feed the African people then? |
| that the slave labor was cheap enough, and that | | | | How much CO2 would be taken out of the |
| there was no need for this invention. If they | | | | atmosphere, and how much human benefit would |
| thought ahead, they would have been able to | | | | be realized, if the same is done to the deserts of |
| industrialize 1800 years early, abolish slavery, and | | | | Arabia, Mongolia, Rajasthan, Australian Outback, |
| create military machines that would have made | | | | and the parts of the American Southwest that |
| mincemeat of any invading army, and the world | | | | were deforested by the Anasazi? |
| would be speaking Latin to this day. Instead they | | | | These solutions not only realize benefit by |
| kept the horrible institution of slavery that was | | | | reducing global warming. These solutions realize |
| the rightful source of resentment and hatred | | | | economic, technical, and environmental benefit in |
| against Roman Empire as well as the world, and | | | | themselves. Even if there are other ways to |
| Roman Empire went down to flaming ruin. There | | | | address global warming, these solutions are |
| are now technologies available to meet all of | | | | beneficial both to humanity and to the |
| humanity's energy and water requirements in | | | | environment. It is intelligence that is the true |
| processes that are totally non-polluting. In choosing | | | | saving grace of humanity. And with application of |
| to embrace these technologies, or to keep the | | | | real intelligence, a viable future for humanity and |
| status quo, humanity faces similar choice but on a | | | | the planet can be on its way. |
| much larger scale. | | | | The solution to global warming is not denying it or |
| There are real solutions to global warming. And I | | | | misrepresenting it any more than it is doing away |
| do not mean going to subsistence agriculture any | | | | with the economy or the civilization. The real |
| more than I mean positive thinking or asking | | | | solution to global warming is using better |
| Jesus or aliens to save us. I mean real, technically | | | | technologies in place of the outdated technologies |
| and economically viable, technological solutions that | | | | that have created the disaster in the first place. |
| will allow people to keep all that they have while | | | | One stands to fear nothing from these solutions |
| drastically reducing the burden on the planet. What | | | | and has much to hope for from them. |
| solutions are these? | | | | It is time to put into place real solutions for global |
| Much has been written about solar power, wind | | | | warming. |