Heating, Air-Conditioning, Refrigeration, Lighting, cooking, cleaning, building, manufacturing, computing, and commuting are forms of energy usage. Power generation, Solar, Wind, Water, Bio-Mass, and Fossil Fuels are also forms of energy usage. All of these forms of energy usage we deal with every day, but only some of them are considered renewable. All of the above items are either finite or renewable, and all are required to make our lives as we know them possible. All of them are used to convert or move energy in one form or another, and all of them we can manage poorly or efficiently as Stewards of this Earth. Ultimately you and I are in charge of and responsible for what happens around us. You can have a definite effect on your utility costs and the environment by what choices you make, and an unseen effect on the economy around you that isn't noticed right away. You control how much you spend, and save, and where the money is used. This becomes a huge influence when multiplied by the multitudes of people on Earth. ( It is easy to move a brick, but try and move a brick building. ) People can make change one brick at a time, and together they are an unstoppable force.
Below is an example of wasteful energy usage in the Industrial Commercial World. There is defininately a hundred ways they could manage their energy usage more wisely, and effectively. It would actually improve their bottom line, and remove some of the load off of the local, and national utility markets. Our countries infrastructures are becoming overloaded, and we will pay dearly for it in the future, or our children will. The whole problem is as a society we need to change our thought process. The more it costs the harder it is to look down the road at what we will save, or benefit from it in the future. It is hard to move away from the instant gratification mode to the positive future out come mode. Our children are always affected later by what we do now.
Below is an example of wasteful energy usage in the Industrial Commercial World. There is defininately a hundred ways they could manage their energy usage more wisely, and effectively. It would actually improve their bottom line, and remove some of the load off of the local, and national utility markets. Our countries infrastructures are becoming overloaded, and we will pay dearly for it in the future, or our children will. The whole problem is as a society we need to change our thought process. The more it costs the harder it is to look down the road at what we will save, or benefit from it in the future. It is hard to move away from the instant gratification mode to the positive future out come mode. Our children are always affected later by what we do now.
An example of large scale energy use and waste. How much of a carbon footprint could be calculated and saved here?
Can you imagine how much energy this one plant consumes? Can you imagine how many homes could benefit from just a 10% reduction in energy consumed by this one business? Now imagine how much money they could save themselves in operating costs in a year. If I was the owner of this business it would give me plenty of incentive to do something about it. Just recycling some more of the steam, and heat lost could save alot on fuel costs , and electricity used to heat up more fresh water from 55 degrees to usable temp. in their processing. It would also lower their carbon footprint drastically, and that helps everyone.
Carbon Neutral fuels: Wood, Pellets, Bio-Mass pellets, and Vegetative plant waste. All are Renewable Resources.
Here is a picture of my air-tight wood stove located in my basement. I practice what I preach, and have a first hand knowledge of the work involved in evolving into a balance between life style, and principle. I was raised on a farm, and a stove similar to this was our primary source of heat with back up electric baseboard heating. It did serve a purpose though much larger than just the heat. On the farm we always had brush, and trees to clean up after, and this was one way to minimize waste, and ensure we stayed warm in the winter electricity or not. It also kept us from paying a huge electrical bill for a 5 bedroom farm house that was needed to house all of our family. The electricity to run all of the baseboard heaters was astronomical if there was no other source of heat. So that is why our airtight stove was the primary heat source. Now I live in town, and have been in the HVAC trade for a very long time. In my own home I have a gas furnace, with a very high efficiency air to air Heat pump for my primary source of heat. I use my Air-Tight Wood Stove to supplement, and only use the gas furnace as a back-up when the other two can't handle the job, and that isn't very often at all.
Bio-Mass Fuels: Wood Chips, Ground up Grasses, Cherry pits, Corn, Some forms of Garbage Waste, Manure, and Vegetable Matter. All of these things are renewable, and help find a use for waste.
Any form of Bio-Mass fuel can be processed into managed packaging that can be stored or transported short distances to it's point of use. It can be engineered or manufactured for an unimaginable amount of applications, and purposes. Bio-Mass can be just burned for heat or converted into a fuel to replace petroleum in it's uses. In some forms the decomposing of Bio-Mass can release a huge amount of heat as a secondary form of energy production, such as in digesters in processing. We are just beginning to tap the amazing amount of potential that waste products hold. I know with the current technology we hold we could do just about anything with it that we dare to imagine. Right now; electricity can be generated from Bio-Fuels in many different ways.
Green Natural Renewables: Solar, Wind, Water, and Geo-Thermal are natures definite ready to use forms of energy. It is closer to you right now than any other form of energy, and it can't be turned off, owned or controlled by anyone.
The Sun is the most stable source of energy imaginable. It never fails to come up, and is very predictable in how it's going to work. It's output is constant, and we just have to figure out how best to harness it's awesome power. Without the sun the other forms of energy simply wouldn't exist, and all of them depend on it to affect them every day. Water is the second most dependable source of energy to use. It is highly controllable, and dependable, and gravity always keeps it moving in one direction; down. Although we can harness wave movement, and current we cannot control how it performs or changes. GEO-Thermal or ground temperature energy is very predictable, stable, and constant.GEO-Thermal energy from the ground is pretty predictable in it's temperature output. The deeper you go the hotter it get's. Some areas are very fortunate in that the heat comes almost right to the surface. Can you imagine having to cool down a medium in order to make it usable or safe. Wind energy is a good form of renewable energy. The problem with wind, and Solar energy is that they both are greatly affected by local weather conditions,and fluctuate on output. The bonus with both of them is that normally one will supplement the other,and balance out when used together. On a cloudy day the wind is usually blowing, and on a sunny day the wind is usually calm. If you plan to use only one form you need to figure out which one best fit's into your location. That's where professionals in my trade can help out.
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This first page is just general information to allow people to understand the way we think. There are no certain rules in renewable energy concepts, just common sense application. There are a million ideas, and ways to use what we already have, and no use is to small or great to be considered. My company welcomes any idea that will help people, and our environment. If it saves money along the way everybody wins. Please visit my other pages and contact me. Thank you, Dan.