I hope you don’t like seafood, bceause it might not be around long. How does CO2 cause ocean acidity and why does that affect world seafood supplies?
Are we witnessing an oceanic fisheries collapse?
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Sellers offer “Green” Incentive Package to Buyers
Boca Raton, Florida (PRWEB) March 5, 2008 — With headlines reading “Home prices to post another decline in ‘08,” residential home sellers are between a rock and a hard place. In order to set their home apart from the 235 houses on the market in their price range in the Boca Raton, Florida area, Tara and Daniel Biller devised a “green home” incentive plan for potential buyers. They are offering buyers a slew of environmentally friendly upgrades and products including a solar water heater system.
“Tara and Daniel Biller are in the same situation as millions of American’s with a home to sell,” said Torm Martinson, broker/agent for Campbell & Rosemurgy Real Estate. “They’ve lowered their asking price, made home improvements and have been patient waiting for an offer - any offer.”
“We realized it was time to do something different to set our house apart,” commented Tara. “I’m in the process of starting up a residential ‘green home’ consulting service and I have been doing a lot of research on solar panels and outfitting the home with more environmentally friendly solutions. Daniel and I devised this plan to see if this would peak the interest of potential buyers.”
For those that are interested in learning more about the Biller’s home and the “green home” incentive package, please contact Torm Martinson at 561-504-6200, or torm@campbellandrosemurgy.com.
With all the discussion about the impact of the giant Columbia Town Center development project in Columbia, MD, you would think that residents would be outraged at the negative effects on traffic and resources that the over 5,000 additional residential and commercial units would cause.
Worst of all, are Howard County residents being asked to foot the bill to help subsidize General Growth Properties profit-driven project? Specifically, the development has a very good chance of pushing the wastewater system beyond its limits, with the consequences being ecologically damaging raw sewage spills into the Little Patuxent River, and its adverse effects on our quality of life, safety and comfort.
Alternatively, Howard County can use our tax dollars to expand the existing sewer lines, clear-cutting paths through park areas and leaving unsightly construction equipment, holes and mud-pits near our jogging trails, tot lots, and picnic areas.
But why should we taxpayers bear this increased tax burden at a time when we are already paying higher fuel and food costs, not to mention subsidizing our government’s bail-out of the financial system, and over $ 300 billion farm bill subsidy which only further increases food prices by handing over money to large corporate farms.
If General Growth Properties is going to benefit from construction of a mega-development project, then they should be responsible for the cost of the wastewater solution. While asking GGP to pay for or build the sewer line expansion might not be practical or entirely fair, General Growth Properties could examine more sustainable, environmentally-friendly solutions such as gray water recycling.
We at Maryland Green Power Co. are proposed a plumbing system where wash water (known as gray water) from dishwashers,showers and clothes washing machines gets pumped back to the toilets to be used for flushing. This would save over 30% in water usage and disposal. Why should clean drinking water be used to flush toilets anyway? Someday in the future, our descendants will look back on our wasteful times with dismay; after all, over 1 billion people on Earth do not have adequate access to clean drinking water, and that number will grow, and might soon include drought-ridden areas of our own country!
Yet, we have become apathetic, as the professor played by Robert Redford in the film “Lambs for Lions” tries to communicate to his gifted, but lazily comfortable student. The question is, will you write to your local, State and National politicians, or will you acquiesce to pay the ever-increasing bills you are receiving and believe the politicians when they tell you they have an “Energy Plan,” “Healthcare Plan,” etc.? The fate of our Nation depends on you. When your grandchildren ask you, “what did you do to help?” hopefully you can answer that you did more than just watch the evening news.
This summer, the U.S. Congress left Washington without addressing the energy crisis, gas prices or solutions to the climate crisis. Why did they miss that opportunity? Because YOU did not contact them before their vacation. Now our Congress is playing the fiddle while Rome burns.
You must contact your politicians today. As we have seen, tomorrow can be too late.
While you are at it, write a letter to your local and regional papers using the tools on the We Can Solve It website.
In the final analysis, General Growth Properties should be commended for their commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship. If you haven’t seen it yet, the plan for Columbia’s Town Center is remarkable, and improves on an already environmentally-friendly planned community. If there were only more towns like Columbia, Maryland, the world would be in better shape.
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Now that bottled water companies are attempting to increase their profits by charging “fuel-surcharges” to their customers for water bottle delivery, Maryland Green Power Co. offers a solution which is both economical, and solves the plastic water bottle waste issue.
The Liquid Air device will supply 5 gallons of pure, filtered drinking water per day by removing humidity from the surrounding air, something Maryland has plenty of.
5 gallons of day from a bottled water supplier would cost about $ 160 per month, and create 30 plastic bottles per month of waste
The Liquid Air system can be leased for $ 122 per month, and does not use any bottles, which makes it more convenient to operate, and prevents the leaching of chemicals from the plastic water bottles which is possible with other systems.
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I recently visited a couple websites which tried to explain how to run a car on water. The sites are selling e-books or manuals on how to do the conversion yourself for a few hundred dollars. They even claim that you will qualify for Federal tax credits for converting to a “hybrid” car, as this one infers:
http://water-for-gas-reviews.com/RunYourCarOnWater.html
(I do not even want to link to them on the fear that it will legitimize their scheme, but you can make your own decisions.)
I won’t even address the possible trouble with the IRS on this topic, since in effect you are designating your car as a a hybrid without any certification. Check the tax code yourself on the IRS.GOV website. You will have to stretch your, and your auditor’s imagination a bit to get that one.
After deciphering the poorly written explanations of how the technology is supposed to work, it appears that the proponents (shall we call them snake-oil salesmen?) are telling you to use your car’s electricity to create electrolysis, or the process of breaking water down into its component parts of hydrogen and oxygen. Hopefully, they have two paths of collection for the gases so they remain separated prior to injection into the fuel line, but I doubt it. That would be quite a modification to do by yourself.
Then, some of these site discuss the resultant gas, HHO as increasing the combustion rate of engines. I wonder why the automobile manufacturers couldn’t figure that one out? Oh, I forgot - these sites are implying that the automakers are knowingly creating inefficient cars! If that were the case, Toyota wouldn’t have had to sell its Prius to conquer the fuel-efficient car market - Toyota could have done this couple-hundred-dollar modification itself and saved the money on the hybrid drive system and the expensive batteries. Of course, that’s part of the conspiracy - Toyota wants to sell these expensive cars to us unsuspecting customers!
Another thing that concerns me, is that if this system does inject hydrogen into the combustion process, wouldn’t that create more moisture in the engine? Yes, moisture is created in gasoline and diesel combustion too, and can be a major problem if you don’t run your engine long enough to create the heat necessary to evaporate the moisture from the engine and exhaust systems. This is called wet stacking and will reduce the engine’s life. I suspect that if the gas-to-water system really works, then it would only aggravate that problem.
Another consideration is whether the hydrogen adds power to the fuel-air mix? Maybe it adds a little bit, but since energy is neither created nor destroyed, it had to come from somewhere. Did it come from the water? No - water is a stable molecule which does not burn, and thus, does not give any energy via combustion. Then, the extra energy had to come from the hydrogen, right? Yes, it did. But the hydrogen was separated from water by adding energy via the electrolysis process. That energy came from the car battery, which was charged by taking energy from the drive train, which derives it from the engine, which is powered by the gasoline or diesel fuel. Since a perpetual motion machine has never been developed due to frictional and heat losses, we have to assume there are losses in this system too. Reference the Wikepedia article on HHO, which clearly states: “The energy required to generate the oxyhydrogen always exceeds the energy released by combusting it. (See Electrolysis of water:Efficiency).”
This would be similar to a homeowner trying to generate his own electricity by buying an electric motor connected to his home utility grid, and connecting it to a generator into which he plugs his appliances. Sure he generates electricity, but the power ultimately comes from the utility grid, and he loses some of the power due to friction in the drive train between the motor and generator, and the resistive heat losses of the circuits. By the way, I have seen this proposed on the internet as a way of “generating free electricity.” The inventor of that system, like the inventor of the gas-to-water system, also mysteriously disappeared due to another conspiracy.
Here’s my challenge: While the engineers reading this are probably agreeing with me, the snake-oil salesmen are probably outraged.
I would love to hear comments from both sides of this argument, and I will publish all opinions as long as they are not SPAM or overtly commercial.
Let’s see if someone convinces me and I wind up eating crow on this issue!
hho