AboutDavid L. Russell, PE Expertise I`m a Chemical,Civil and Environmental Engineer and have a number of projects in all phases of the environment.
I have worked in the chemical industry and am active in professional societies, and am currently on an industrial wastes committee for the Water Environment Federation, and have taught courses in remediation in the US and abroad.
I have written one book on Remediation of petroleum Contaminated Sites, and have a second book on PRACTICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT to be published by John Wiley in September, 2006. I've also written over 30 articles on various elements of environmental problems and cleanup. Most Recently, I have addressed a NATO Scientific and Techical Conference on Ecoterrorism, and have worked with the same group on remediation of sites contaminated with Chemical Warfare Agent materials and othe materials as well. . I can answer q`s about Chemical and Environmental Engineering, land development, air pollution, water pollution, soil and water cleanup, combustion, international environmental problems, industrial processes chemical processes. Civil and Environmental and Chemical Engineering. Overall, I have over 35 years of experience in this area. Note: I do not answer homework questions
Experience I love work in the third world and developing areas
because it is challenging and one can get a sense of accomplishment.
Question QUESTION: Scientists claim that towards the end of the century a solution to the serious energy problem will be found. What will it be?
ANSWER: Who knows what the future will bring. There are a few possibilities.
1. a breakthrough which will allow us to have a true hydrogen economy. The current problem is that it takes more energy to produce hydrogen from water than we can get out of it.
2 A safe nuclear economy - possibly safe and controllable fusion reactions
3. Some as yet unknown method of tapping additional energy from the sun which includes the broader portions of the energy spectrum
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QUESTION: Hydrogen and nuclear are already known.A clue given is that it will not come from the earth itself. I liked your idea about the sun,but it is not the right answer (it is a Q+A radio program). Any other ideas?
Thanks Yiangos
Answer It depends upon how much you believe in science fiction. If one could build a magnetic bottle and figure out some way to store anit-matter safely, to say nothing of geneate it safely, it is possible that anti-matter = matter collisions could provide energy, but so far this has been confined only to labortory experiments in high energy physics research laboratories. There is still a long way to go on that issue. While you are at it you may want to believe in time travel as a possibility.
