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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

If gas displaced coal in electricity generation, a quadrupling of gas-fuelled power stations gives another wedge. An additional 700 one-gigawatt nuclear power stations worldwide could displace enough coal for another power-generation wedge, as could introducing 'carbon capture and storage' (the pumping of C02 captured from chimneys underground into geological reservoirs) at 800 similar-sized coal plants. Remember, we need seven of these wedges just to stabilise global emissions at their current levels.

The Secret History of the War on Cancer Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts

With respect to the risks to children from living close to electromagnetic fields from power stations or high voltage transmission lines, some well-respected researchers, like Dan Wartenberg of Rutgers and others from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, believe a growing Table 15-1 Risk of Breast Cancer and Workplace Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields13 Reference, Country Cohort Description Exposure Classification Males No. of Cases RR (95% CI) No. of Cases (Tynes et al., 1992); Norway (Guenel, et al.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

This in turn will put ever more stress on energy systems, which could pour more greenhouse gases into the air if coal- and gas-fired power stations ramp up their output, hydroelectric sources dwindle and renewables fail to take up the slack. Still more pollution may come from seawater desalination plants in desertifying countries like Portugal and Spain, unless these are powered exclusively by solar energy.

Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work Dr Ron Roberts See book keywords and concepts

The human body is now forced to cope with constant health hazards in the form of water and air pollution, noise, stress, radiation and dangerous chemicals, forced upon us from factories, power stations, agriculture, mines and waste disposal. Environmental pollution has brought about an alarming increase in respiratory diseases and this alone may well be the major cause of today's high incidence of asthma, particularly in industrial areas.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas See book keywords and concepts

An additional 700 one-gigawatt nuclear power stations worldwide could displace enough coal for another power-generation wedge, as could introducing 'carbon capture and storage' (the pumping of C02 captured from chimneys underground into geological reservoirs) at 800 similar-sized coal plants. Remember, we need seven of these wedges just to stabilise global emissions at their current levels. Socolow and Pacala's approach is especially useful because it illustrates the importance of scale.

Pouring investment into quadrupling the numbers of gas-fuelled power stations to achieve a wedge would be unwise if gas supplies are close to peaking. Energy efficiency measures have fewer drawbacks - but improving efficiency in cars and buildings can have the surprising effect of increasing power consumption overall by making energy cheaper than it would otherwise be. Wind turbines are visually intrusive, and onshore wind farms tend to be sited in highland areas which are visible for great distances.

We need to dramatically increase the efficiency of buildings and fossil-fuelled power stations. We need to construct 2 million 1 MW wind turbines to generate electricity, and cover 2 million hectares of land with solar panels. We need to stop the destruction of tropical forests, and we need to dramatically increase tree cover elsewhere. And we need to make a difficult choice between injecting billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide underground and investing in 1,400 new gas power plants to produce electricity.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

Northern towns also built hydroelectric power stations at what today would be considered a very small scale of operation. Electrification in the South happened differently. In 1900, the South had few cities, not many factories, and many agricultural trading towns without the means to supply their own power. The enormous flat expanses afforded few exploitable hydroelectric sites. Lack of electricity across vast reaches of the South kept the region mired in backwardness through the 1920s —just when a depression in farm commodity prices occurred as a result of mechanization.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

This new approach is a "post-industrial" power-generation methodology: fewer industrial-style power stations, lots of analysis and feedback loops, lots of new technology like microturbines, combined solar-and-wind energy, lots of financial modeling to convey the real cost of options. Rather than one-size-fits-all, 120V from every socket, powered by a single continent-spanning grid, highly granular power delivery could direct power from the best available resources to each location: microturbines for some kinds of factories, solar/wind for some parts of a city, and so on.

Classical power stations that raise steam to turn turbines that run generators that ultimately deliver electricity through the grid necessarily consume 3-4 units of fuel per unit of electricity delivered, and even the most efficient combined-cycle plants decrease this ratio to only about 1.8. Electricity is therefore a far costlier form of energy than direct fuels: in 2000, for example, the average kilowatt-hour (kWh) of U.S. electricity was delivered at a price of $0.

The dogs —built from robotics kits and fitted with devices that measure environmental variables such as radioactivity and air quality—are let loose at Superfund waste sites and English power stations. "Because the dog's space-filling logic emulates a familiar behavior, i.e. they appear to be 'sniffing something out,'" says the project's Web site, "participants can watch and try to make sense of this data without the technical or scientific training required to be comfortable interpreting [an] EPA document on the same material." Amy Franceschini's "Soil Sampling Shoes" and "F.R.U.I.T.

The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health Walter Last See book keywords and concepts

The seven main chakras are comparable to central power stations, while the acupuncture meridians can Cultivating the Energies Learn to sense subtle bioenergies and use them to energize your body. be seen as power transmission lines. Chakras are vortex-like energy centers. Commonly, seven major chakras are mentioned, six of which are rooted along the spine and one at the top of the head, as shown in figure 7-1. The chakra vortexes suck in energy from the universal energy field that is all around us. Each chakra modifies the vibration rate of the energy and that gives it a certain color.

Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty! F. Batmanghelidj See book keywords and concepts

If the rate of water flow is more than adequate, the extra energy that is manufactured is stored in the batteries, like the coal and coke dump reserves next to the power stations that manufacture and distribute electricity. The widely scattered batteries that store the extra energy are called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and guano-sine triphosphate (GTP). A third area where energy is stored is in the calcium dumps in the cells. These areas are known as endoplasmic reticulum.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

Environmental concerns also fed the first local opposition to the building of nuclear power stations, when the Sierra Club in 1961 opposed construction of the Bodega Head plant near San Francisco on a site that was not only part of a local nature reserve, but also on an earthquake fault.

Hemp Today Ed Rosenthal See book keywords and concepts

If this were so, electric power stations or methanol plants could start by using biomass waste which is now a problem to dispose of. Newsprint contains a very high percentage of cellulose and is an ideal candidate for burning since there is a glut resulting in low prices. Hemp producers cannot match the low prices of waste paper. Even if paper prices rose due to recycling demand there would be other sources of fuel for recycling.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

In 1987 Doll presented the findings of a study on "Cancer near nuclear installations" in Nature,31 which looked at the cancer rate in the vicinity of all Britain's 15 nuclear power stations (made up of 36 nuclear reactors). Predictably it concluded that there was "no increase in childhood leukaemia near any nuclear power station." However, very shortly afterwards reports clearly demonstrating the existence of leukaemia clusters around nuclear installations began to appear.

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications David Deutsch See book keywords and concepts

If we say that we owe our electric motors and dynamos in part to Faraday, and that the repercussions of his discovery are being felt to this day, we have in mind a picture of the repercussions beginning in 1831 and sweeping consecutively through all the moments of the rest of the nineteenth century, and then reaching the twentieth century and causing things like power stations to come into existence there.

Intelligent Medicine: A Guide to Optimizing Health and Preventing Illness for the Baby-Boomer Generation Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

We live surrounded by increasing levels of electromagnetic radiation from appliances, TV sets, computers, and power stations. Some environmental dangers, like those from PCBs and asbestos, have been clearly documented. Others are being newly discovered or are the subject of speculation. Even when the risks are not always well established, they warrant our attention. We do know that some chemicals and environmental stressors can cause specific ailments, like cancers, heart disease, and emphysema. Also it is possible that environmental factors contribute to the increase in autoimmune diseases.

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