Comments on: Happy Earth Day http://mrmatt57.org/happy-earth-day/ Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Matt http://mrmatt57.org/happy-earth-day/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Matt Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:42:18 +0000 http://mrmatt57.org/?p=58#comment-123 @Bob - That is a really good question. I think I would lean towards conservation. I see technology almost as a band-aid to our problems; conservation seems to get more at the root. It still takes energy/resources to make technology, sometimes more: “As Matt Power notes in this month's issue of Wired, hybrids get great gas mileage but it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline before it reaches the showroom. Think of it as a carbon debt -- one you won't pay off until the Prius has turned over 46,000 miles or so.” - http://tinyurl.com/5jwkuu @Bob – That is a really good question. I think I would lean towards conservation. I see technology almost as a band-aid to our problems; conservation seems to get more at the root. It still takes energy/resources to make technology, sometimes more:

“As Matt Power notes in this month’s issue of Wired, hybrids get great gas mileage but it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline before it reaches the showroom. Think of it as a carbon debt — one you won’t pay off until the Prius has turned over 46,000 miles or so.” – http://tinyurl.com/5jwkuu

]]> By: Bob http://mrmatt57.org/happy-earth-day/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Bob Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:11:27 +0000 http://mrmatt57.org/?p=58#comment-121 Hi Matt, if you had to choose from 2 broad strategies to protect the environment, which would be most likely to succeed, conservation or technology? Hi Matt, if you had to choose from 2 broad strategies to protect the environment, which would be most likely to succeed, conservation or technology?

]]> By: Matt http://mrmatt57.org/happy-earth-day/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Matt Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:55:04 +0000 http://mrmatt57.org/?p=58#comment-82 BTW, Yes... this is the same Hummer that doesn't fit in the parking garage :) BTW, Yes… this is the same Hummer that doesn’t fit in the parking garage :)

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