Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Antarctic Ice Melt
Question: According to a recently published report, how much faster is the Antarctic ice melting today than it was 10 years ago?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: As shown in this video, if the current rate of increase in melting continues unabated, many of the world’s coastal cities will be uninhabitable by 2050.
Hi Craig,
Okay, I can understand your concern about Polar ice meltn and warming sea levels. I’m sure you’d like to prevent that happening, yes ?
So, the real question is how ?
If you attribute the largest cause of Climate Change to fossil fuels creating environmentally harmful and pollutant emissions, that still brings you back to the question of
how ?
Can we agree the answer is new, non pollutant, clean (or cleaner)technology, yeah ?
I think it’s safe to assume safe assume opinion is divided into two basic approaches.
1) The position adopted by the more extreme activists and advocates, which seems to rely upon a massive global social revolution involving a global disruption of industry and economics.
This plan calls for the imminent abolition of fossil fuels, especially coal, and the adoption of 100% replacement by renewable energy, primarily Wind and Solar. (How am I doing so far ?).
2) On the other hand, there are those, equally commuted environmentalists, who point out that the above proposal is completely impractical for a number of reasons.
a) Renewable energy lacks the logistical, economic and practical ability to meet rising energy demands, especially in developing nations.
b) Experience has proved the people will not accept a lower standard of living, poverty and de-industrialization.
These environmentalist don’t see environmental technology as “either/or” but as each contributing where it’s best suited. They support Wind and Solar technologies where feasible, but also are eager to support the development of new technologies to mitigate and eliminate environmentally harmful emissions created by fossil fuels such as Coal.
(Are you still with me, or have you put your fingers in your ears ? 🙂 )
The second group are excited by the possibility of vastly greater environment benefits from the by products these technologies offer. Such advantages go far beyond the simple advantages of cleaner electricity generation.
So, can we find common ground ?
Here’s an exciting new technology from a company run by the young and outstanding UK entrepreneur, Julian McIntyre.
The company is Arq Group Ltd, and it’s patented process transforms coal waste into high value,
low cost fuels ready for today’s market.
to quote from Julian’s Mission statement;
” A unit of energy generated from oil is currently valued at six times the value of the same unit produced by coal. Arq Technology™ and Arq Fuels™ present an opportunity to upgrade coal into higher value fuel products.
We estimate that closing the difference in the value of a unit of energy produced between coal and oil is a market worth up to $2 trillion a year.”
Arq technology to unlock purified, micro -fine hydrocarbon from coal discard to has helped to reduce the the emissions in bunker fuel etc. Coal fields, even old long closed mines and sites will be able to reuse all that pollutant slag into high value, low-emission products, ensuring coal can help to provide essential base load power to compliment and help renewable power sources become integrated economically.
Arq’s technology arrives at a time when a huge transformation is occurring in zero emission fossil fuel technology. New advanced technologies are being announced almost daily.
C’mon Craig, aren’t these new technologies worth researching ?
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/energy-giants-pour-millions-into-uk-coal-waste-start-up-arq-xng5pwbgf]
[http://www.arq.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/investment_opportunity_nov_27.pdf]
[http://www.arq.com/]