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For centuries indigenous South Americans living in the Amazon Basin used a combination of charred animal waste and wood to make "terra preta," which means black earth, in Portuguese. Thousands of years later, the terra preta soil remains fertile without need for any added fertilizer, experts say.

"These terra preta soils are older than 500 years and they are still black soil and very rich in carbon," said Steiner, a professor at the University of Georgia. By using biochar concepts, terra preta soils have been proven to remain fertile for thousands of years, preventing further harmful deforestation for agricultural purposes.

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Originally posted by rue:
Amazing - Zit looked on awesome information and saw --- the limited, puerile reflection of himself.

Enjoy your small boring cage, Zit. You and your bagel will be in it the rest of your life.

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Originally posted by rue:
Then you'll be there --- alone.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
My gut feeling in talking to a few friends in the solar industry is that we're about ONE "silicon microchip"-style revolution away from amazingly easy, amazingly cheap, amazingly efficient solar cells. Cells that will be so thin they can be used like window tinting on cars and houses (and also incorporate LCD/LED technology to vary darkness/opacity), cells that can be "painted" onto a house or sprayed on a roof. It's possible now, but still cost-prohibitive, at least for the moment. When that big breakthrough comes, cheap solar will be as prevalent as home computers became in the 80s and 90s.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Ways to solve it ? There is no solving of imaginary problems.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Oh great, the " WHAT IF IT'S TRUE " line of BULLSHIT reasoning.

Hell, while you're at it, why not throw in the fundie classic - " I'd rather believe in God and be wrong than not believe and pay for my mistake for all eternity.


Please, is that the BEST you got ?

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Originally posted by rue:
What he said was - even if it's NOT true there are still many benefits to alternative energy ("sustainable, non-polluting potentially cheaper power generation").

And why wouldn't you want that ?

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Originally posted by rue:
What he said was - even if it's NOT true there are still many benefits to alternative energy ("sustainable, non-polluting potentially cheaper power generation").

And why wouldn't you want that ?

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
you can shit where ever the hell you want, it's not gonna affect the climate in the slightest.

IT'S ALWAYS CHANGING, AND ALWAYS WILL BE. Humanity isn't affecting it one god damn bit.

MORONS.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Because it clashes with his Exxon stock.

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Originally posted by rue:
So, Rap

"What he said was - even if it's NOT true there are still many benefits to alternative energy ("sustainable, non-polluting potentially cheaper power generation").

And why wouldn't you want that ?"

Any answer ?

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Originally posted by rue:
So your short answer is oil, or coal or nuclear - and nothing else.

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello Rap,

Solar power can provide the energy you need to move a car just fine, as long as you can store it efficiently.

Electric vehicles are actually capable of doing everything your dinosaur burner can do.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

I do think Nuclear power is better for the environment than coal or oil. Nuclear waste is still waste, but its volume is astoundingly less than the amount of waste we carelessly disseminate throughout the globe with combustion powerplants. People worry rightly over containment of nuclear waste, but no one seems to worry about containing the waste you take big lungfulls of each day.

Given a choice between the two, I'll take nuclear power. Fortunately, it's not just a choice between those two.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Hey, I'm all for efficiency. I laugh at the stupidity of city folks who drive SUVs that never come closer to the wild frontier than rolling over the dirt spilled by a dump truck. But let the public choose what they want to drive, and dont' try to guilt us into driving crap cars that don't come anywhere near " saving the planet " unless that's what they truly want to drive.

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So, sure, there's some things we can do, but the hard core truth about power in the 21st century is that oil gives more bang for the buck than any other source, and it's not even close.

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Hello Rap,

Solar power can provide the energy you need to move a car just fine, as long as you can store it efficiently.

Electric vehicles are actually capable of doing everything your dinosaur burner can do.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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'as long as you store it efficiently'

Neither solar or battery power matches gas, and it's not even close.

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