Exactly. No effect.
So why not burn the one truly renewable resource we have.
Trash.
We don't need coal or oil, we have trash. Seriously.
(With souped up air scrubbers)
Gets rid of trash problem and fossil fuel problem. 2 birds, 1 stone.
Cars...nevermind electricity. .used cooking oil. We can grow it, cook with it and dispose of it. Renewable.
Nevermind just drill.
Just burn. No effect.
Seriously. ( there it is again)
Note: the whole Al Gore thing is messed up. IMO.
Hound,
I'm no expert in these fields. I only know what I have read or heard. So whatever I repeat here may or may not be wholly correct.
Burning trash, from my understanding, brings with it a whole new set of problems. For instance, power plants with scrubbers can only burn a certain type of trash so the scrubbers can be effective. Burn something that the scrubbers are not designed to deal with and you get more and different types of pollution. Also, there are a lot of trash types that power plants cannot burn such as metals and some plastics. Also, my understanding is that they have to be very careful what they burn as they can burn items that can make people sick. Maybe something like plastics, rubbers or heavy metals? All of this increases greatly the cost of burning trash due to having to separate the good from the bad items. So there will also always be items we cannot burn and must put into the landfill. So unfortunately this is not a perfect solution and we have to burn fossil fuels in order to supplement what trash cannot provide. Or actually, it is vice versa.
The high cost of recycling, IMHO, is the cost of separating the desirable from the undesirable items. I believe that unless recycling is taken to a huge scale it is not cost effective.
We do however, have LPG in abundance here in the U.S. As a matter of fact I believe we might have the world's largest supply of it. But we only have 75 or 80 years of it left. So converting to this clean burning fossil fuel is really only a short temporary solution.
Burning cooking oil in vehicles, to me, is a great solution but still not a perfect one. A company here in the U.S. makes a device that can take used cooking oil and process it so you can burn it in diesel vehicles. Only problem is that it takes electricity for a few hours to process it so it is not completely renewable. Plus there is the leftover sludge/crud/solids that has to be removed and it must be disposed of properly. So again, it fills up our landfills. But it would sure be cool driving down the H1 with everyone burning used cooking oil so the air smells like french fries or malasadas!!!
BTW, I believe we still have a small enough population here in Hawaii that we could really cut down on our fossil fuel usage if we just make that necessary concerted effort. Which unfortunately is quite costly in time, effort and dollars.
My opinion is we can only slow down the inevitable. But we do have a couple hundred years of development and exploration before we run out. So we have the time. This is what pisses me off about the Al Gores and the global warming climate preachers. People believe the hysterics of the leftist Gores and climate preachers and become hysterical themselves. Which is what makes them sound so radical and nonsensical. It is not common sense when you allow your emotions to take over your argument about the planet.
Unfortunately, there is no perfect solution except maybe negative human population growth to the point that solar/wind/ocean current/algae/mac nut shells/trees/geothermal/burning trash can be used and renewed fast enough to maintain the small populations. Wars between larger countries will occur before that happens, however. We are past the point of no return IMHO. That is why we are countering with space exploration. It is thought that the solution to our problems lie on other planets. Maybe leading to a War of the Worlds type of scenario? Either we will be attacked or we will be the attackers. Or maybe a Twilight Zone favorite of mine "To Serve Man".
