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In Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit, author Tom Rand, (engineer, Cleantech authority, venture capitalist, pragmatic entrepreneur and philosopher) doesn t provide a ”three-easy-steps” approach to fixing our dependence on fossil fuels. But he does show it’s possible to do without them. By giving an in-depth look at ten technologies that together can bring a clean future, free of fossil fuels, Tom provides education and hope. This is a clarion call, a directive that we act quickly and collectively (governments, corporations and individuals) to provide future generations the opportunity to live in a sustainable world. Unique in being accessible to the general public, his message is not just important, but understandable and entertaining. His personal views and anecdotes are combined with a hardheaded engineering and business perspective. Beautiful color photographs bring the text to life. It is this generation’s job to save the world we know for the next. Kick t… More >>
Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World
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Filed under Gas-savings Products by on Mar 27th, 2011. Comment. 
High gas (and diesel) prices are the only thing that gets most Americans to stop wasting fossil fuels. This has been shown time and again in buying surveys, with V8 SUV sales picking up after a temporary lull in gas prices. Voluntary conservation seems to be perceived as a sign of economic weakness by the average bling-chaser.
There seems to be little serious awareness among Americans of Peak Oil concepts, or that oil peaked in the U.S. back around 1970 (including Alaska as a subset of total reserves).
Most people just seem to fixate on current pump prices, as if no other factors are in play except the moment. They get indignant when asked to conserve voluntarily, as if some birthright is being challenged. Is this a true assessment?
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Filed under Gas Conservation FAQ by on Jan 28th, 2011. 1 Comment.
First of all because it is a limited finite resource, at least in our lifetime. It takes millions of years to create oil, natural gas, or coal so we won’t be renewing that resource for a few millenia. A Shell scientist called Hubbert predicted that we would eventually reach a peak of oil production in the world and after that, no matter how much exploration was done by oil companies, the available oil will start declining. Some people believe we may have hit that peak already.
The other reason is because we use it for so many things. Oil is used to make gasoline and diesel, but have you thought about the other products we use oil and natural gas for, plastic like polyethelene, styrene, acrylics, carpeting, roofing material, roads, rubber in tires and shoes, fertilizer, lubricants, plastic pipe in house plumbing, plastic used in computer boards, fabrics like nylon, even household detergent, and if a product isn’t made directly from oil it is probably made with the help of oil for shipping or supplying energy in its manufacture.
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Filed under Gas Conservation FAQ by on Feb 24th, 2010. 2 Comments.
We can simply reuse nonrenewable resources when they’re spent. For fossil fuels this might mean using solar and wind power to power a methane reform unit that turns carbon dioxide back into the fuel methane.
Provide major prioritization of, and funding for, initiatives to change the way people power their lives and the production of their goods. Share these initiatives with poorer countries that can’t make it happen on their own. Make it a real and global policy priority, higher even than short-term economic growth.
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