Comments on: Solving the energy crisis now

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:51:07 +0000

Hi Bradley, the problem is that you still have to grow hemp in sufficient quantities to be used as a fuel source, which will compete with food production.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:07:23 +0000

If we use hemp seed oil its a renewable and sustainable substance that burns cleaner than gasoline or tar sands oil and it wont get your engine dirty it can also replace nuclear, oil, and coal powered electricity from company’s

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:22:38 +0000

Tyler, this might come as a crushing surprise to you, but the reason we are ALL in this mess is because of “the political, financial and economic factors” you appear so eager to place your faith in.

Politics has singularly failed everyone, the world over. Copenhagen. Need I say more?

And what of the finances? Did you not bother reading this article before you decided to comment? You and I bailed out the real idiots, those being the bankers. Is that not an act of financial lunacy, or do you find yourself making a special case for finance and not the planet? I sincerely hope not.

We are past the point of incremental change, and beyond any margin from which politicians dare step, for fear of imperiling their reputations.

And what of the words of the politicians you so clearly prize the words of? Their actions are often worse than mere words on paper — they are often little more than thinly-veiled acts of betrayal and deceit.

Go count your money. Go write to you senators and ministers. See where all those things get you.

You’re blind, Tyler. Blind and inured by your life and too scarred to contemplate the inevitable.

Hope is no kind of plan. That’s the domain of idiots and you’re welcome to it.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:13:45 +0000

You’re an idiot. Ignoring the political, financial and economic factors of solving the energy crisis makes all of your suggestions nothing but words on paper. Yes we need to fix the energy crisis, but let’s think sensical about this and not ignore the very real technicalities of politics.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:00:30 +0000

I know it’s a much used (and almost throw-away) observation these days, but if we were to commit as much money to saving the planet as we spend on sophisticated methods of killing each other, there wouldn’t be an environment problem…

By: Step By Step Directions

Step By Step Directions — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:39:50 +0000

“Nations whose commercial interests are in direct conflict with broader environmental initiatives (such as Brazil and Indonesia who’re contributing most to deforestation and the loss of other natural resources and habitats) must either be coerced into cooperating, or have their civilian governments suspended, while international aid is provided to their people, if need be.”

I think it is a good idea to coerce to cooperate those countries whose economy is founded on industries that are in conflict with environmental initiatives. In addition to this, a law for the reduction of energy consumption should also be implemented io countries that consume most of the world’s energy, such as Japan and the US.