Which is better, the electric or fuel cell car in terms of cost, size, fuel, GHGs and efficiency?
This video compares the electric car to the fuel cell vehicle taking into consideration several factors such as purchase price, cost of fuel, fueling time, fuel range, weight and size, availability and GHG emissions. As far as efficiency, the fuel cell car appears to be better but in terms of costs, the electric car fares better. As the production of hydrogen gets cheaper and its availability becomes more plentiful, then we believe that the fuel cell car would be the better option compared to the electric car.
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Climate change is not an existential problem, we can solve it going nuclear
This video gets into the issue of refuting the idea that climate change is an existential problem. Everyone has their own belief system and also putting the burden of climate change on all of the individuals goes against the definition itself. We can all do our part, but it should be our choice and according to our own belief system. In addition, if those in charge are really concerned about having clean energy, we would be going towards nuclear power. The advantages of nuclear power are further discussed in the video.
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What industries are being affected by the eventual ban of natural gas in California
This video discusses the disadvantages of banning natural gas and the appliances that go with them. The most notable currently is the ban on natural gas stoves. This has the advantages of not only raising the utility bills but also making the overhead costs of restaurants more expensive. We estimated that it may cost 4 times more to make meals to cook with electric rather than gas. In some cities, new buildings or homes will no longer have natural gas hookups in them. So even if they wanted to change back someday to natural gas, it would be very difficult. Those and many more issues are covered in more detail.
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There are definitely some political issues associated with solar geoengineering projects
In this video we discuss some issues related to potential solar geoengineering projects. Most of this funding comes from people with a lot of money, such as billionaires, which are also backing universities to do this. International conflicts are already arising due to small experiments that are being done in their country without permission, such as what happened with the Make Sunsets and Mexico incident. Acid rain is yet another issue which is not being talked about that much. But we will be getting much worse acid rain if we decide to spray millions of tons of chemicals like sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
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The dangers of blocking the Sun's rays through solar geoengineering for climate change
This video describes the drawbacks of pursuing a world-wide solar geoengineering program meant to block or reflect solar radiation in order to cool the Earth for climate change improvement. The problem with this program is that once it starts we really don't know what regional weather changes could take place. It is generally accepted that there should be a cooling effect, but as far as weather, that is another animal in itself. Another problem is the amount of chemicals they want to use for this. It is estimated that we need at least 50 million tons of chemicals sprayed into the stratosphere for this to work. That is 5 times that amount of ash and chemicals that got spewed into the atmosphere from the well known 1991 Mount Pinatubo volcantic eruption. In addition, they are pretty sure that if we stopped the spraying all of the sudden, the temperatures would spike or rise dramatically. This would be a problem world-wide as we know that as heat waves occur, electricity commonly goes out causing even more problems. In addition, this practice doesn't solve the climate change problem, it only alleviates it. In order to solve it we would still need to reduce carbon emissions, something this program does not address.
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