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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6921580" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>As individuals, our options are limited. Many of the tings we are asked to do as individuals are not particularly effective, or efficient, and at best serve as "marketing" for the overall effort. This is akin to early home-recycling programs, which were actually more wasteful than just hauling materials to a landfill. But, once homeowners were doing it, there was pressure for it to happen on corporate scales, and that led to economy of scale and advances in process to make recycling at least marginally worth the effort. "Plant a tree in your yard," would be similar to early recycling, in that sense, more about publc relations than effective carbon sequestration.</p><p></p><p>As a culture - prioritize the conversion of our energy generation. We are, thank the powers that be, finally at the point where solar and wind energy are competitive with fossil fuel energy in terms of cost per KWH. That means we can convert without necessarily tanking the economy in the process. Continuing to push on that, and on development of other new energy technologies, is our best bet, imho.</p><p></p><p>There will be some hard issues - you can't to *anything* on this large a scale without having impacts. Solar installations need space. Wind farms take space, and have a tendency to kill birds flying into them, or have impact on shipping if put offshore. And some folks think they are ugly, and noisy. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are still experiments going on with different business models for home-solar power generation, including some in which, rather than you buying panels and installing them, a company actually leases your roof space from you, paying you in electricity. It is yet to be seen which of these are viable, but whichever model comes out on top, as the market grows, the price of panels drops. It might be worth looking at, for example, the next time you have to put a new roof on your home. There are solar shingle technologies that may catch up for you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6921580, member: 177"] As individuals, our options are limited. Many of the tings we are asked to do as individuals are not particularly effective, or efficient, and at best serve as "marketing" for the overall effort. This is akin to early home-recycling programs, which were actually more wasteful than just hauling materials to a landfill. But, once homeowners were doing it, there was pressure for it to happen on corporate scales, and that led to economy of scale and advances in process to make recycling at least marginally worth the effort. "Plant a tree in your yard," would be similar to early recycling, in that sense, more about publc relations than effective carbon sequestration. As a culture - prioritize the conversion of our energy generation. We are, thank the powers that be, finally at the point where solar and wind energy are competitive with fossil fuel energy in terms of cost per KWH. That means we can convert without necessarily tanking the economy in the process. Continuing to push on that, and on development of other new energy technologies, is our best bet, imho. There will be some hard issues - you can't to *anything* on this large a scale without having impacts. Solar installations need space. Wind farms take space, and have a tendency to kill birds flying into them, or have impact on shipping if put offshore. And some folks think they are ugly, and noisy. There are still experiments going on with different business models for home-solar power generation, including some in which, rather than you buying panels and installing them, a company actually leases your roof space from you, paying you in electricity. It is yet to be seen which of these are viable, but whichever model comes out on top, as the market grows, the price of panels drops. It might be worth looking at, for example, the next time you have to put a new roof on your home. There are solar shingle technologies that may catch up for you! [/QUOTE]
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