BESIDES ORGANIC & SUSTAINABLE FOOD GARDENS, ANOTHER POTENTIAL USE FOR SOME OF THE SPACE WASTED ON LAWNS...
If we believe the "fossil fuels" theory, every drop of oil on earth comes from millions of years of buildup from algae and other natural residue... buried, compressed, liquefied and eventually drilled up -- supplying our energy since the late 1800s. Now sure, this is just a theory, and anyone in the know is well aware most oil is of abiotic origin. But for all practical purposes, it's a useful theory.
So now consider this: In about 250 years, of which less than a 100 remain, we will deplete what took hundreds of millions of years to form... With this inevitable global depletion of oil, we obviously have no other choices than using alternative forms of energy.
In fact, we live amidst a boundless sea of energy, even if we do not really know how to retrieve it for practical uses. Or perhaps are simply not permitted to tap it. But to do so efficiently would often require technological advances which, for one reason or another, are not yet there.
However, solar, wind, HHO gas, and using plant-based energy are all choices we can make right now, as they do not need any radical new technologies.
When it comes to plant-derived energy (that is, indirect solar energy), research at leading universities suggests that algae could supply enough fuel to meet all of America's transportation needs in the form of biodiesel... using a scant 0.2% of the nation's land.
In fact, enough algae can be grown to replace all transportation fuels in the U.S. on only 15,000 square miles, or 4.5 million acres of land.
That's a mere 1/8th or less of the areas currently planted with a totally useless and often poisonous crop -- lawns.
How is this all possible?
Technology exists right now to cultivate algae that can be used as fuel, using all sorts of human and animal waste as fertilizer. A good part of what goes to landfills could be turned into algae food. This can be scaled from one person production plants to plants capable of treating all the biodegradable waste of NYC or Los Angeles. And needless to say, there will be lots of money to make with offering practical implementations that can produce biodiesel easily and steadily using our waste, turning it into fuel for our cars and to generate energy.
So, besides the obvious choice of "food, not lawns", what are we waiting for to start taking back some of the space, time, energy and money currently wasted on lawns, and start producing energy out of it?
Another of these interesting questions...
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If we believe the "fossil fuels" theory, every drop of oil on earth comes from millions of years of buildup from algae and other natural residue... buried, compressed, liquefied and eventually drilled up -- supplying our energy since the late 1800s. Now sure, this is just a theory, and anyone in the know is well aware most oil is of abiotic origin. But for all practical purposes, it's a useful theory.
So now consider this: In about 250 years, of which less than a 100 remain, we will deplete what took hundreds of millions of years to form... With this inevitable global depletion of oil, we obviously have no other choices than using alternative forms of energy.
In fact, we live amidst a boundless sea of energy, even if we do not really know how to retrieve it for practical uses. Or perhaps are simply not permitted to tap it. But to do so efficiently would often require technological advances which, for one reason or another, are not yet there.
However, solar, wind, HHO gas, and using plant-based energy are all choices we can make right now, as they do not need any radical new technologies.
When it comes to plant-derived energy (that is, indirect solar energy), research at leading universities suggests that algae could supply enough fuel to meet all of America's transportation needs in the form of biodiesel... using a scant 0.2% of the nation's land.
In fact, enough algae can be grown to replace all transportation fuels in the U.S. on only 15,000 square miles, or 4.5 million acres of land.
That's a mere 1/8th or less of the areas currently planted with a totally useless and often poisonous crop -- lawns.
How is this all possible?
Technology exists right now to cultivate algae that can be used as fuel, using all sorts of human and animal waste as fertilizer. A good part of what goes to landfills could be turned into algae food. This can be scaled from one person production plants to plants capable of treating all the biodegradable waste of NYC or Los Angeles. And needless to say, there will be lots of money to make with offering practical implementations that can produce biodiesel easily and steadily using our waste, turning it into fuel for our cars and to generate energy.
So, besides the obvious choice of "food, not lawns", what are we waiting for to start taking back some of the space, time, energy and money currently wasted on lawns, and start producing energy out of it?
Another of these interesting questions...
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