Gates talks about how cutting emissions down to half will get us nowhere because it will still mean global warming. We need to get down to 0 and we need to get down to it ASAP. Things to consider are (1) cost, (2) transmission, and (3) storage of energy.
He suggests that several companies should be concentrating on breaking through the current barriers, to encourage crazy ideas, especially with current battery technology which supposedly can only store 10 minutes of energy needed (if you combine all existing batteries today). Another crazy idea is using the 99% uranium waste (depleted uranium), where the amount collected in Kentucky is enough to power all of the USA for 200 years. He calls it TERRAPOWER, not sure if he coined it or someone else did.
Green Power Philippines is a Filipino-German Engineering Company founded in 2008. It acquired an established alternative energy company, ALTENSOL, to kick start its business.
It provides photovoltaic, solar thermal and solar pump systems as well as manufactures small and middle size wind turbines.
Here’s a really clever way of making your old phonebooks useful again if you think that sending them to the recycling bin is too boring of a strategy in your bid to help save the planet earth. This brilliant idea is brought to you by Chica and Jo who have lots more to share on their website. Aside from the green theme, they are really good at showing users in a step-by-step basis on how to go about creating masterpieces out of what normally gets tossed. Go check them out!
And voila! the finished product which I hope jumpstarts your brain into thinking of all sorts of other uses for your phonebook aside from being a door stopper although that’s always good too
