Article list for the ‘Answers to your questions’ Category

Is it right for the developed world to impose climate rules on the developing world?

In light of the science on the causes of global warming being questioned, is it right for the developed world to impose its environmental rules on developing countries when they have income levels way in excess of countries like Indonesia, emit far more carbon dioxide and consume far more of the world natural resources?

Alan Bruce Davies

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Why can’t we get to clean energy without using nuclear power?

Why can’t we get to clean energy without using nuclear power?

Russell Frerichs

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What were the carbon dioxide levels before the industrial revolution?

What were the carbon dioxide levels before the industrial revolution?

Benjamin Dutil

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Would ocean thermal energy conversion be a great sustainable technology for harnessing the stored solar power in the oceans?

Question: Would OTEC – ocean thermal energy conversion – be a great solution for harnessing the stored solar power in the oceans?

Fachina

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Question: How expensive is a widespread district heating network for, say, 100,000 inhabitants?

Question: Just curious, but how expensive is a widespread district heating network for, say, 100,000 inhabitants?

Alessandro De Mida

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Question: Why is it hottest in the late summer?

Question: Why is it hottest in the late summer when the days are getting shorter, rather than around the summer solstice when the days are the longest?

Edward Stalnaker

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Question: Why should I accept nuclear power with no strategy for its wasted disposal?

How are you going to persuade people like me to accept new nuclear power plants when no-one seems to have a strategy for dealing with the radioactive waste from the old installations?

Caroline Westgate

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Question: Why don’t we introduce a fiscal-neutral carbon tax, like that proposed by Prof James Hansen?

Question: Why don’t we introduce a fiscal-neutral carbon tax, like that proposed by Prof James Hansen?

Alessandro De Maida

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Question: What do you think about “alternative” nuclear technologies”?

Question mark #2

Have you ever looked at “alternative” nuclear technologies, for example molten salt reactors (or liquid fluorides as today are termed)?

Allessandro De Maida

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Question: What is Nigeria’s contribution to the global annual greenhouse gas emissions?

Question mark #2

What is Nigeria’s contribution to the global annual greenhouse gas emissions?

Edy

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