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exacute1268 asked:


What would America be like right now if we looked at alternate energy sources before the gas prices and everything. What would America be like right now if we made “Low Trans Fat” and healthy foods back then?

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rather jake asked:


The OPEC minister will look you in the eyes and say the following:

“We are at war with you infidels. Have been since the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you haven’t even recognized it. You have more missiles, bombs, and technology, so we are fighting with the best weapon we have and extracting on a net basis about $700 billion/year out of your economy. We will destroy you! Death to the infidels!

While I am here I would like to thank you for the following:

Not developing your 250-300 year supply of oil shale and tar sands. We know if you did this, it would create millions of jobs for US citizens, expand your engineering abilities, and keep the wealth in the US instead of sending it to us to finance our war against you bastards.

Thanks for limiting defense department purchases of oil and supplies from your neighbors to the north. We love it when you confuse your allies.

Thanks for over-regulating every segment of your economy and thus delaying by decades the development of alternate fuel technologies.

Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in Alaska, and anywhere there is a bug, bird, fish, or plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your people suffer! Glad to see our lobbying efforts have been so effective.

Corn based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham program! Perhaps you will destroy yourself from the inside with these types of policies. This is a gift from Allah, praise his name! We never would have thought of this one! This is better than when you pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Have them use more energy to create less energy, and simultaneously drive food prices through the roof.

Thank you, US Congress!!!!

And finally, we appreciate you letting us fleece you without end. You will be glad to know we have been accumulating shares in your banks, real estate, and publicly held companies. We also finance a good portion of your debt and now manipulate your markets, currency, and economies to our benefit.

THANK YOU, AMERICA!”
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dackongzilla asked:


what is the next best thing to crude oil? Everything has its caveats:
Wind energy requires lots of maintanence, lots of windmills, and all the surrounding trees in the area need to be cut down for them to get all the wind.
Nuclear energy-well, take a walk down Chernobyl(sp?). Its a high terrorist target and requires constant surveilance. Also, it produces a lot of waste.
Hydro-electric energy-easy to use, but destroys the other side of the dam, constant surveilance, easy terrorist target, and many places cant use it (anywhere from florida, Las Vegas, mountain areas, etc.)
Solar- not very strong, cant work at night, requires a lot of trees to be cut for more sunlight, break easy, and to power the us would require a panel the size of Texas. Not to mention very expensive to mantain.
Food sources- takes away crops and requires more water and space, plus has better uses, such as feeding over half of the population that is impoverished or hungry.

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Isabel Baldry asked:


It is unofficial - but around the world many of us agree on one thing: it is very likely that there will be an energy crisis in the future. We all know energy is a big issue in the contemporary world, and we have been convinced that humanity is at a crucial crossroads in its history because we face an energy shortage. Many experts believe this problem can only be solved by the use of alternative energy solutions.

By energy, I mean the fuel that drive our cars, give us electricity and enables us to enjoy modern amenities we feel so vulnerable without. Fossil fuels have been the prime source of energy for human society since the beginning of the industrial revolution. These fossil fuels have been the muscles, which have enabled us to progress and develop to such dizzying heights. We face a problem in the 21st century because our stocks and reserves of these fossil fuels are running low; this news is worsened by the fact that these reserves cannot be renewed. Many governments and private agencies have started promoting Alternative Energy Solutions to overcome the looming energy crisis caused by the depletion of the non renewal’s sources of energy that all fossil fuels - coal, all oil and natural gas - represent.

Alternative Energy Solutions include all prime movers that can use a renewable natural resource to produce energy. This may be wind, thermal energy from the earth, and wave action in the shores and solar energy from the sun. Alternative energy resources can also include new technology like fuel cells. However the primary fuel humanity has long depended on has been oil. We now know from our own projections that the oil reserves in the world are slated to be unviable by 2050. Simply put, the world is running out of gas! In addition, not to mention, time.

The utilization of other forms of energy is therefore very important. When we speak of alternative energy, it usually means the production of electricity via the use of some natural and renewable resource. What are these renewables, one may ask. Someone else may extend this line of questioning and say: Are these renewable resources as efficient as the fossil fuels? Below are some answers.

Wind energy is the word that comes to mind whenever people talk of renewable energy sources. Humans have harnessed the wind to drive machines since medieval times. In the 21st century we use wind turbines to produce electricity. As a source of power, wind is an excellent option. Wind turbines generate electricity by rotary motion that is caused by the airflow.

Some of the negatives associated with wind energy and wind turbines lie in the unpredictability of wind. For example, no wind means the turbine does not rotate and electricity is not generated. Sites are another problem; rows and rows of wind turbines are just not feasible in a city of a few million people. The most important issue however lies in cost effectiveness, most power companies are still reluctant to invest in or buy their power from companies that use wind turbines. This is changing as governments around the world have started subsidizing power generation through alternative sources like wind.

There are other possible sources of renewable energy; tidal energy uses the energy of the ocean and is an effective though rather geographically limited source of power, thermal energy from the earth taps geysers and other underground sources of heat. This is a very important source of energy in places like Iceland - it is also geographically limited in its suitability. Nuclear energy can be considered a potentially inexhaustible source of power. However, it could have many dangerous complications and most environmentalists fear its use.

New technological innovations like fuel cells are still a long way off from truly becoming substitutes to the fossil fuel powered internal combustion engines that have driven us all this far down the road. Indeed looking at all the possible sources of alternate energy and especially renewable, wind and hydroelectric projects are the only two viable long term sources, solar power is a potentially huge alternative source of energy but it has a technological handicap-we do not posses the engineering expertise to make better solar cells. Solar cells are also very costly to produce and are not cost effective - even less so than wind.

Given all the setbacks we currently are unable to overcome, it will still be some time yet before we can throw away the polluting but efficient, fossil fuel guzzling machines that we so fondly know as cars. The use of alternative energy sources is a very important area of research and demands humanity’s attention.

As soon as fuel supplies run out on us, we may have to go back to that ultimate transport machine to take us places: our legs.



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kcjk2007 asked:


1 Catalysts generally affect chemical reactions by
A increasing the temperature of the system.
B increasing the surface area of the reactants.
C providing an alternate pathway with a lower activation energy.
D providing an alternate pathway with a higher activation energy.

2 An activated complex
A always separates into the products.
B always re-forms the reactants.
C may either separate into the products or re-form the reactants.
D always evaporates.

3 Which process is used to speed up chemical reactions?
A calorimetry
B catalysis
C activation
D inhibition

4 Enzymes are
A heterogeneous in nature.
B consumed by the reaction.
C zero order in a rate expression.
D specific for both reactions and reactants.

5. The study of chemical kinetics requires concentrations that are measured
A once.
B in meters/second.
C using a scale.
D frequently.

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fengzengjason asked:


Should the state or federal government raise gas taxes as a means of showing global warming, as well as providing an incentive ti find alternate forms of energy and to promote conservation?

Would you guys give some opinions to me because I have a project to do. I hope ur opinions can help me to demonstrate the idea!
By the way, I want to know about some impact of Economy on this issue, so while you giving ur opnions, would you think about the economy?

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