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Greenhouse Effect,. Part III. Deforestation,. and. Global Warming. Why do WE need to Reduce?. Global Warming is a fact China and India will soon surpass U.S.A. in Greenhouse gas emission If we do nothing, they will continue to do nothing ( The Economist 9/9/06). What can we do?.

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  1. Greenhouse Effect, Part III Deforestation, and Global Warming

  2. Why do WE need to Reduce? • Global Warming is a fact • China and India will soon surpass U.S.A. in Greenhouse gas emission • If we do nothing, they will continue to do nothing (The Economist 9/9/06)

  3. What can we do? • Build Green

  4. Build Green

  5. What can we do? • Build Green • Use Electricity not from Fossil Fuels

  6. Green Electricity

  7. Deep Heat Mining http://www.dhm.ch/dhm.html and http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/01/29/the_power_of_rocks/?p1=email_to_a_friend • Geothermal energy is the only renewable source of energy which can be tapped round the year and the day with no need of storage facilities • one injection well and one production well. • cold water is pumped down and circulates through the fractured reservoir • natural heat exchanger delivers hot and pressurized water to the production wells • energy is converted into power by means of a turbine-generator unit • excess heat is used for space heating • cooled water is then reinjected at depth • closed-loop system provides CO2-free energy.

  8. DeepHeatMining http://www.dhm.ch/dhm.html

  9. What can we do? • Build Green • Use Electricity not from Fossil Fuels • Hydrogen or Solar-Powered Vehicles

  10. Hydrogen Powered Vehicles

  11. What can we do? • Build Green • Use Electricity not from Fossil Fuels • Hydrogen Powered Vehicles • Invest in Green Companies

  12. Invest Green Financial Analyst Journal • Annual Return 1995 to 2003 • Portfolio of Companies • Non Green Companies – 8.9% • Green Companies – 12.2%

  13. What can we do? • Build Green • Use Electricity not from Fossil Fuels • Hydrogen Powered Vehicles • Invest in Green • Remove the CO2 from the Atmosphere

  14. Carbon Sequestrationhttp://sequestration.mit.edu/technology_overview/index.html • Three primary types of carbon sequestration. • Enhancing natural processes (Plant a tree) • Carbon dioxide capture and storage • Baking Soda • [Encyclopedia of Energy (2004)].

  15. Carbon Sequestrationhttp://sequestration.mit.edu/technology_overview/index.html The Sleipner project in Norway's North Sea is the world's first commercial carbon dioxide capture and storage project Started in 1996, it sequesters about one million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year http://www.statoil.com/STATOILCOM/SVG00990.NSF/web/sleipneren?opendocument

  16. Can Baking Soda curb Global Warming? Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 27, 2007, 4:00 AM PST “Jones, the founder and CEO of Skyonic, has come up with an industrial process called SkyMine that captures 90 percent of the carbon dioxide coming out of smoke stacks and mixes it with sodium hydroxide to make sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda. The energy required for the reaction to turn the chemicals into baking soda comes from the waste heat from the factory. The system also removes 97 percent of the heavy metals, as well as most of the sulfur and nitrogen compounds, Jones said.”

  17. What can we do? • Build Green • Use Electricity not from Fossil Fuels • Hydrogen Powered Vehicles • Invest in Green Companies • Remove the CO2 from the Atmosphere • Encourage Ratification of Kyoto Protocol

  18. Goals of Kyoto Protocol Reduction of greenhouse gases to below 1990 levels: 5.2% world wide reduction on average by 2008-2012 6% for Canada by 2008-2012 When sufficient countries ratify the Protocol (at least 55 countries comprising at least 55% of emissions), Protocol comes into effect USA - 25% of emissions

  19. What can we do? • Build Green • Use electricity not from fossil fuels • Hydrogen Powered Vehicles • Invest in Green Companies • Remove the CO2 from the Atmosphere • Encourage Ratification of Kyoto Protocol • Cut back on the eating of Red Meat

  20. Carbon dioxide Methane Nitrous oxide 250 200 Index (1900 = 100) 150 100 1990 2000 2025 2050 2075 2100 Year

  21. Contribution to Greenhouse Effect

  22. Cattle and Methane • Cattle and other ruminant animals • Methane is by-product of digestion • Organisms in their stomachs break down fiber in grasses and grains they eat

  23. Environmental Protection Agency

  24. Methane is 20 to 60 times as strong of a greenhouse gas as CO2

  25. This is the Island known as Earth Do not trash it

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