AboutAllan Yeomans Expertise I maintain that it is practical and economical to end global warming and completely halt climate change. By necessarily must include the elimination of our use of fossil fuels. The science on these issues is often deliberately distorted for marketing reasons. I can answer most questions on the science and mathematics of global warming. I can answer the questions on what we must do to restore climate and weather stability.
Experience Author of PRIORITY ONE Together We can Beat Global Warming. Published as paper-back in US and hard-cover in Australia. Agricultural consultant both in Australia and the US. Aviation meteorologist and lecturer.
Organizations American Association for the Advancement of Science Australian Gliding Association
Publications Various agricultural magazines and newspapers.
Education/Credentials No degree, but post graduate work on nuclear physics and early computer designs at Dept of Physics, University of Sydney. Numerous lectures and presentations at colleges both in Australia and the US.
Awards and Honors Several agricultural design awards at the Australian National Agricultural Field Days. Winner Queensland Gold Coast City 2001 Innovation Design Award
Question I have problems with this question "Consider which resources of energy offer the greatest potential as successors to the fossil fuels." i)Can you give some clear examples, please? ii) what are suggestion & area of discussion on the question? iii) whats your intrepretation of the question? I'm doing my own revision on essays, as my exams are coming very soon. I will my own research some more too. Thank you very much.
Answer To end global warming we must stop using geological buried fossil carbon for industrial power. We must switch to nuclear energy. Even the worst nuclear power station is safer than a coal fired power station generating the same power. Climate change chaos is killing several hundred thousand a year right now. They’re UN figures. Sunshine and wind will help but without nuclear energy civilization as we know it will come to a grinding halt and millions will die, and much younger than they should.
For transport, the only option we have for the next few decades is biofuels. The quantities we require means we need to clear about half the world’s rainforests, use the wood to replace plastics and metals where possible, and convert what is left into charcoal for steel production. That also means we cease mining and burning coal for steel production. Using wood for charcoal instead of coking coal means the iron produced is actually cheaper. They do that in Brazil.
Wave and tidal energy systems are ridiculously expensive and at best could only supply a fraction of the energy to power a modern industrial society.
For example; very roughly you need about a metre of sea shore to generate one kilowatt. Here in Australia we use about a kilowatt of power per person, twenty-four hours a day. Most Western societies use about the same. So a million people would require a thousand kilometres of coastline. A billion people would require a million kilometres. That’s the distance to the moon, and all the way back.
Solar thermal has a price structure that’s getting near nuclear power prices but over night energy storage, or storage needed for a week of bad weather, means solar is only feasible as a supplementary power source, or for remote locations backed up with diesel generators. I know these costs because I’m building a solar thermal power system myself.
If you want more information go to my web site yeomansplow.com.au. Read my book PRIORITY ONE Together We Can Beat Global Warming. I’ve even made the whole thing freely available to read on line. As a younger person you should read, at the same site - – “BORN AFTER 1975 You have a problem, because older generations have put global warming in their too-hard baskets.”--- Scroll down until you come to that link.
It costs at the most about $30 a barrel to pull oil out of the ground and put it in tanker, ready for delivery. The world consumes 85 million barrels a day so for every $12 above $30 they make a $1 billion dollars a day. So it’s chicken feed for them to spend, say, a billion a week to convince everybody that global warming is a natural effect-- is not happening anyway -- can’t be stopped so why try -- is good for us – sunshine and wind will solve all problems – rainforests fight global warming – and that a rare butterfly or monkey is more important than all world’s weather systems going into free fall.
