What are your ideas to tackle the most pressing issues of our day in energy, purified water, and logging?
My example: No one wants nuclear power plants in their back yard, but nuclear power is a cheap and very effective method of using technology to increase our power supply without leaving a large carbon trail. My solution: Build stationary off shore nuclear submarines with the sole intent to send power to major coastal cities, as well as use the excessive heat to evaporate sea water into a piping system that'll send fresh purified H20 to cities increasing their supply of needed purified water.
All ideas are welcome, even emerging technologies, but please focus on proven practical methods in your answ
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Nuclear power is the future. It can be put on coasts, dry land, to createe purified water and to creat hydrogen to power cars. The technologies will also work for inland lakes and streams.
Wind farms are not possible because they kill too many birds and there is just not enough wind. And solar is not possible yet because it is just to inefficient. As of yet.
Logging will be done I personally think with specially breded trees. Or whatever the process is called. Where we will make a tree that grows to a certain number of feet tall in less then a decade and just cycle through a forest cutting one area while the others grow. But that is an if; but it is proven technology because corn at one point was just grass but by humans forcing natural selection we made it what it is today.
I would take exception to the notion that nuclear energy is a proven practical method. It is extremely dangerous, has proven difficult to control, and has no practical long-term waste storage solution. The only reason it is at all economical is that it is so heavily subsidized by governments.
I believe that we will need to develop much more efficient energy technologies. The amount we waste is a large part of our problem. Different technologies will likely prove best adapted to different locations. Wind, wave and tidal energy will work in some areas, geothermal in others, solar in yet others. Of course we will need to keep developing these technologies. If there were a solution we could just pick off the shelf, we wouldn't have such challenges.
Efficiency will also go a long way toward addressing the logging issue. Much of what goes into landfills is paper and contruction waste. Burying thousands of tons of paper every day while we cut down the last of our trees is staggeringly foolish. For new wood, we'll need to continue moving toward plantations of fast-growing trees, where harvests are rotated as farmers rotate crops. We can't continue to log natural forests.
Water is the toughest problem. We will need to implement large-scale tertiary wastewater treatment. We will likely need to invest in large-scale desalinization. In many areas, however, access to good clean affordable water is going to be tough.
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