Energy

Energy Consumption

Industrialised countries consume around 25% of the world's energy resources.

This is made possible by people in these countries having faith in unbridled self-interest of a few, as long as they benefit enough from it themselves. This "abundance" allows for inefficient and ineffective use of energy sources.

Fossil Fuels

More than half of the electricity generated for inductrialised countries still comes from coal, petroleum and natural gas.

Coal contributes to smog, acid rain, and in some locations, is still won by strip mining. Coal miners run the actual risks for which they, unlike shareholders to the mining companies, are not sufficiently compensated. And the efficiency of energy production from coal is at best around 40%. Petroleum and natural gas paints a similar picture.

Some people claim there are "more than enough" fossil fuels, but the worldwide consumption is around 50,000 times faster than Earth's forming of these resources, and our entire system is based on it ...

Nuclear Power

Nuclear energy is not a viable alternative, as the recent events at Fukushima show. The entire world is now engulfed in gamma radiation. Nuclear fusion is portrayed as attractive and not producing waste products. But we don't really know. And even if, this energy source would likely be arrogated and appropriated, thereby continuing the current zero sum co-dependency games through artificially created scarcity.

Alternative Energy Sources

Many "alternative" forms have been explored like solar energy, tidal power plants, hydro-electric dams, geothermal tapping, biomass fuels. What are the efficiency of these? And what is the real price consumers pay? Can we do these ourselves locally?

What if ...

What if we can find bottom up solutions to the world’s most pressing problem that will work because it changes the fundamental flows that are damaging?

What if we were to look for simple and efficient solutions that do not require individuals to be dependent on current economical zero-sum games, and that are synergistic ~ congruent with self, life and others for seven generations to come?

What if the increasing extreme weather conditions are seen as opportunities for catching lightning and riding storms?

Playlist

Links

• Global Energy Statistical Yearbook 2011
• Seven generation thinking is... 
• Whole Systems Foundation: Taking an Integrated View of the Biosphere
• Wikipedia: Homeostasis

Tags

Fossil fuels, nuclear power, solar energy, tidal power plants, hydro-electric dams, geothermal tapping, biomass fuels, heating, air conditioning, light, ignition systems, efficiency, safety.