Comments on: COAL WILL DESTROY US ALL! http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:29:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: kral oyunhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-89419 kral oyun Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-89419 thankss so muchh thankss so muchh

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]]> By: Kevin Eugene Holbrookhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-71785 Kevin Eugene Holbrook Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:01:21 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-71785 YouthBuild is a Youth and Community Development organization, targeting young "at-risk" adults ages 18 - 24 to help them get their GED and training in construction. Our local affiliate, YouthBuild Hazard, lies in the middle of Coal Country, Kentucky. It is a sub-culture here, coal miners and their families...their loyalties run deep and they protect their values and opinions on coal passionately...and sometimes violently. As an advocate for "Green Building" and in our position as an organization responsible for the construction of single-family dwellings for low-income families, I recognize our responsibility to the community and our environment. It won't be easy to change the minds of those that worship that "almighty" resource: coal. Regardless of what you believe, whether coal emissions are heating up the environment or whether the polar ice caps are melting as a direct result of that...the fact remains, buildings use 76% of all energy produced by these coal-fired plants. As we all know, coal is a non-renewable resource...so at the VERY LEAST, we should be thinking of alternatives to using it and ultimately using it up. Solar energy is a renewable resource that we are merely on the cusp of realizing its true potential. YouthBuild is a Youth and Community Development organization, targeting young “at-risk” adults ages 18 – 24 to help them get their GED and training in construction. Our local affiliate, YouthBuild Hazard, lies in the middle of Coal Country, Kentucky. It is a sub-culture here, coal miners and their families…their loyalties run deep and they protect their values and opinions on coal passionately…and sometimes violently. As an advocate for “Green Building” and in our position as an organization responsible for the construction of single-family dwellings for low-income families, I recognize our responsibility to the community and our environment. It won’t be easy to change the minds of those that worship that “almighty” resource: coal. Regardless of what you believe, whether coal emissions are heating up the environment or whether the polar ice caps are melting as a direct result of that…the fact remains, buildings use 76% of all energy produced by these coal-fired plants. As we all know, coal is a non-renewable resource…so at the VERY LEAST, we should be thinking of alternatives to using it and ultimately using it up. Solar energy is a renewable resource that we are merely on the cusp of realizing its true potential.

]]> By: Web Site Çevirihttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-65694 Web Site Çeviri Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:32:27 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-65694 There are big discuttions between politicions if they should close down the nuclear power plants, but at the same time, they stard building coal powerplants everywhere, wich are even worse.., There are big discuttions between politicions if they should close down the nuclear power plants, but at the same time, they stard building coal powerplants everywhere, wich are even worse..,

]]> By: kral oyunhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-65497 kral oyun Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:15:28 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-65497 I agree this article is very helpful. I have been reading about how to improve mt article writing, but it would be nice if I actually had some visitors which left some input. I think that could help me to improve my blog.. I agree this article is very helpful. I have been reading about how to improve mt article writing, but it would be nice if I actually had some visitors which left some input. I think that could help me to improve my blog..

]]> By: Jossarianhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-60766 Jossarian Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:12:08 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-60766 In 1982 U.S. coal-burning power plants, which collectively consumed 616 million tons of coal, released 801 tons of uranium and 1,971 tons of thorium into the environment -- virtually unnoticed. Roughly 11,371 pounds of the uranium was U-235. Moreover, global combustion of 2,800 million tons of coal that year released 8,960 tons of thorium and 3,640 tons of uranium, of which 51,700 pounds was U-235. Ironically, in 1982, 111 U.S. nuclear power plants used 540 tons of nuclear fuel to generate electricity. Thus, "the release of nuclear components from coal combustion far exceeds the entire U.S. consumption of nuclear fuels," Gabbard notes in the fall issue of the OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY REVIEW.See this: http://uncensored.co.nz/archives/2006/06/28/the-radioactivity-of-coal/ http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n14_v146/ai_16387382/Joss In 1982 U.S. coal-burning power plants, which collectively consumed 616 million tons of coal, released 801 tons of uranium and 1,971 tons of thorium into the environment — virtually unnoticed.
Roughly 11,371 pounds of the uranium was U-235.
Moreover, global combustion of 2,800 million tons of coal that year released 8,960 tons of thorium and 3,640 tons of uranium, of which 51,700 pounds was U-235.
Ironically, in 1982, 111 U.S. nuclear power plants used 540 tons of nuclear fuel to generate electricity. Thus, “the release of nuclear components from coal combustion far exceeds the entire U.S. consumption of nuclear fuels,” Gabbard notes in the fall issue of the OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY REVIEW.

See this:
http://uncensored.co.nz/archives/2006/06/28/the-radioactivity-of-coal/
http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n14_v146/ai_16387382

/Joss

]]> By: Patrick McGuinnesshttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-57541 Patrick McGuinness Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:09:30 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-57541 I said it on another article, might as well repeat it here.There is one design that could answer that challenge fully and dramatically: Designing and building safe, non-GHG-emitting nuclear power plants.Nuclear power can make the entire electrical energy sector carbon-neutral and de-link total energy usage from global warming. Seventy-six percent of all electricity generated by US power plants goes to supply the Building Sector. Building 300 nuclear power plants would be enough to make that entire portion of our energy consumption non-fossil fuel based, and this is not an impractical goal, as it is merely bringing the US up to where France and Japan are in terms of use of nuclear power for electricity production.As for "Nuclear = nuclear radioactive waste" - what is called 'waste' is actually used nuclear fuel, and 95% of it can and should be recycled. Currently that used fuel is stored safely onsite at nuclear power plants and longterm in a repository. If the environmental thing for aluminum is recycling instead of throwing it away, why not for nuclear energy as well. That used nuclear fuel takes up dramatically less volume than fossil fuel waste, since nuclear energy has about 1 million times the power density of fossil fuels. There is actually very little waste in nuclear energy comparatively."All the anti-nuclear activity in the past has really backfired, because now people have such an irrational fear of nuclear power that its hard to build them, so we just build coal plants instead."Correct. Let us hope and pray that people don't get so irrational over environment fears now in the future that they dont advocate more stupid things. I said it on another article, might as well repeat it here.

There is one design that could answer that challenge fully and dramatically: Designing and building safe, non-GHG-emitting nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power can make the entire electrical energy sector carbon-neutral and de-link total energy usage from global warming. Seventy-six percent of all electricity generated by US power plants goes to supply the Building Sector. Building 300 nuclear power plants would be enough to make that entire portion of our energy consumption non-fossil fuel based, and this is not an impractical goal, as it is merely bringing the US up to where France and Japan are in terms of use of nuclear power for electricity production.

As for
“Nuclear = nuclear radioactive waste” – what is called ‘waste’ is actually used nuclear fuel, and 95% of it can and should be recycled. Currently that used fuel is stored safely onsite at nuclear power plants and longterm in a repository. If the environmental thing for aluminum is recycling instead of throwing it away, why not for nuclear energy as well. That used nuclear fuel takes up dramatically less volume than fossil fuel waste, since nuclear energy has about 1 million times the power density of fossil fuels. There is actually very little waste in nuclear energy comparatively.

“All the anti-nuclear activity in the past has really backfired, because now people have such an irrational fear of nuclear power that its hard to build them, so we just build coal plants instead.”

Correct.
Let us hope and pray that people don’t get so irrational over environment fears now in the future that they dont advocate more stupid things.

]]> By: CScout Trend Consultancy - China Trend Blog » China's Solar Switchhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-55358 CScout Trend Consultancy - China Trend Blog » China's Solar Switch Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:20:45 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-55358 [...] The SIEEB houses the Sino-Italian Cooperation Program for Environmental Protection, a bilateral partnership for education, training and research, with a focus on energy conservation and emissions reduction. The building and the program are both intended to help define China’s future energy strategy, which is of global significance considering the country’s current heavy reliance on coal. [...] [...] The SIEEB houses the Sino-Italian Cooperation Program for Environmental Protection, a bilateral partnership for education, training and research, with a focus on energy conservation and emissions reduction. The building and the program are both intended to help define China’s future energy strategy, which is of global significance considering the country’s current heavy reliance on coal. [...]

]]> By: Inhabitat » Want to stop global warming? STOP COAL!http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-55036 Inhabitat » Want to stop global warming? STOP COAL! Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:00:22 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-55036 [...] is making their opposition to coal abundantly clear- continuing their anti-coal campaign, they’ve released a full page spread in The New York Times last Friday that read, “Want [...] [...] is making their opposition to coal abundantly clear- continuing their anti-coal campaign, they’ve released a full page spread in The New York Times last Friday that read, “Want [...]

]]> By: Coal will destroy us all! « Environment Newshttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-54747 Coal will destroy us all! « Environment News Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:09:19 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-54747 [...] read more | digg story [...] [...] read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: cep telefonuhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-54493 cep telefonu Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:54:18 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-54493 thanks you thanks you

]]> By: Inhabitat » SIEEB Solar Energy-Efficient Building in Beijinghttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-54191 Inhabitat » SIEEB Solar Energy-Efficient Building in Beijing Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:54:16 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-54191 [...] and the program both stand as an example for future energy strategies - a welcome trend in the coal dependent [...] [...] and the program both stand as an example for future energy strategies – a welcome trend in the coal dependent [...]

]]> By: Tuesday Travels: Eco-friendlier Skies with Coal?http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-53307 Tuesday Travels: Eco-friendlier Skies with Coal? Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:25:50 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-53307 [...] like overtaking food source land, but they certainly out-green coal as a fuel source. Coal is about as dirty as it gets. Environmental News Network reported that: “a key component of their solution is isolating [...] [...] like overtaking food source land, but they certainly out-green coal as a fuel source. Coal is about as dirty as it gets. Environmental News Network reported that: “a key component of their solution is isolating [...]

]]> By: Matthttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-53182 Matt Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:10:35 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-53182 Wind and solar are excellent ways to offset peak power demand (e.g. when we all crank our AC units in August). Unfortunately, tthey lack the ability to provide the steady output needed to cover base power needs. Nuclear power CAN meet those needs, and the waste issue isn't nearly as grim as people think. The total combined waste from the U.S. nuke plants for the last 40 years would barely cover a football field. At the moment it's mainly stored onsite, but a long-term solution is NOT unthinkable with such a small quantity.Get rid of President Gasman, smack Mobil, BP, Exxon and the rest with windfall taxes on their obscene profits, invest the money in REAL alternative energy solutions, (including fuel cells in cars) and coal will be a thing of the past. We need to learn to stop burning stuff to get power. Wind and solar are excellent ways to offset peak power demand (e.g. when we all crank our AC units in August). Unfortunately, tthey lack the ability to provide the steady output needed to cover base power needs. Nuclear power CAN meet those needs, and the waste issue isn’t nearly as grim as people think. The total combined waste from the U.S. nuke plants for the last 40 years would barely cover a football field. At the moment it’s mainly stored onsite, but a long-term solution is NOT unthinkable with such a small quantity.

Get rid of President Gasman, smack Mobil, BP, Exxon and the rest with windfall taxes on their obscene profits, invest the money in REAL alternative energy solutions, (including fuel cells in cars) and coal will be a thing of the past. We need to learn to stop burning stuff to get power.

]]> By: Kathttp://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/coal-will-destroy-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-52638 Kat Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:28:10 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/07/think-you%e2%80%99re-making-a-difference-think-again/#comment-52638 There are solutions to building and using existing coal plants> Wind Energy. You can support wind for your home and for your workplace. It is the only way NOT to use "black" energy, waste water, use electricity to "fire it up" or continue the wasteful infrastructures--then reclamations, which may take years in many communities.In the US, there are wind zones (like in Europe, Brazil . . .) where wind farms exist and are being built. I support municipal farms that support communities--not more big business that supports coal, and more big businesses. Look for them. My favorite and recommended is http://www.cleanandgreen.us. Green-e certified, municipally-based.Wind—it’s the best alternative. It's free, sustaining, there isn't a need for resource recovery or reclamation or displacement like hydro, coal, nuclear-- Act responsibly. It costs everyone time/effort/or both to recycle and reuse, so it does cost to support greening the grid, or offsetting coal with wind. For me, $9/mo. Pennies to do my part, being responsible for my "footprint" or square footage at home. Think and act smart. There are solutions to building and using existing coal plants> Wind Energy. You can support wind for your home and for your workplace. It is the only way NOT to use “black” energy, waste water, use electricity to “fire it up” or continue the wasteful infrastructures–then reclamations, which may take years in many communities.

In the US, there are wind zones (like in Europe, Brazil . . .) where wind farms exist and are being built. I support municipal farms that support communities–not more big business that supports coal, and more big businesses. Look for them. My favorite and recommended is http://www.cleanandgreen.us. Green-e certified, municipally-based.

Wind—it’s the best alternative. It’s free, sustaining, there isn’t a need for resource recovery or reclamation or displacement like hydro, coal, nuclear– Act responsibly. It costs everyone time/effort/or both to recycle and reuse, so it does cost to support greening the grid, or offsetting coal with wind. For me, $9/mo. Pennies to do my part, being responsible for my “footprint” or square footage at home. Think and act smart.

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