I'm looking for new article topics, any ideas?

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if you knew of any ground-breaking / interesting topics I could write an article on as I'm currently lost for intrriguing ideas at present.

Note that I'll be sending them off for publication in the Gecko (Gold Coast and Hinterland Environmental Council's newsletter over here in Aus i I'm taken by it.

Thanks in advance.

Peace Jess

 

I got the perfect thing!

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14449289.htm

Crude oil from pig poo. 3.1 gallons per pig per day. And it says there are 100 Million pigs in the US.

 

Hey, FreakerSoup, thanks a lot for the link and info.

 

There's an amazing company called Changing World Technologies, who have technology that's up and running and proven, which can convert just about anything into oil and gas. (As well as it being self-running on the steam it generates in doing so)

Agricultural waste, pig manure, human sewerage, turkey offal, medical waste even (which comes out sterile of course!), and also old even tyres, and old fridges?!

If Agricultural waste was used as the only "raw material" source to create oil and gas, and it was used all over the USA, then it could apparently create approximately 4billion barrels of oil per year. Ie: USA would not need to buy oil from overseas! And the cost? Apparently, they expect to be able to *just* equal the cost of buying a barrel of oil, by making it themselves, and perhaps even cheaper.

It seems ridiculous and too good to be true but apparently not. There's a lot of publicity about it on the net to be had, and has been for a while now, in magazines etc.. too.

One example of a press-related site:
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/eco/zwaste2.html

Official Site of the company:
http://www.changingworldtech.com/

Imagine not having an oil crisis..there'd be no need for wars in Iraq and petrol prices could actually stay static and you could have such massive benefits on a global economic scale, that poverty in third world countries could be addressed on a large meaningful scale.

That's what makes me sick sick SICK about politics tough, it seems so bloody futile. That nice logical scenario probably won't happen and everyone knows it...too many people get rich from the oil industry...Too many good juicy cuts from wars to be had in countless ways.
Politics and endless meetings and 'talks' and compromises until any gain from a fantastic invention like this is totally wiped out, whilst we pretend the earth doesn't exist beyond our suburb or television-headspace.

Cliched rant over.... but anyhow, I read this about 9 months ago and thought it was AMAZING and I guess it suits what you're looking for!

 

Thanks a lot for that, Sundew. I'm going to their offecial site now and will contact them soon.

Thanks again

 

You're welcome.

 

ever hear of the perry people mover. it runs on narrow gauge rails and uses energy stored in a big flywheel for propultion. it's being or has been being field tested on one of those little preservationist slate railways over in wales. the ffestiniog i believe.

that's one.

the intigration of alternative sources of energy, just as conventional ones are is another.

the big argument we so often hear about alternatives is that no single one of them alone is adiquite. this is one of those arguments that while not untrue, totaly distorts the reality that electrical power isn't being generated now by any one and only one method of doing so.

combine wind, solar AND hydro, and the smaller scale odds and ends can and will take up whatever slack remains.

and the use of combustion to generate energy and propell transportation IS the PRIMARY cause of 'global warming'.

you could also point out what global warming really means, instead of simple minded off the beam assumptions like longer hotter summers intuitively and subjectively experienced. (and what it really means are shifting weather PATTERNS, signifigantly shifting ones, universaly observable shrinking glaciers, and real consiquences of both).

you might even point out how reality is more statistical then linear. maybe even design experiments or site examples to illustrate this. although that's a little more advanced then the scope of what you're looking for or i would feel myself ambitious enough to attempt.

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Themnax,

Thanks a lot for your reply. The idea of writing an article on what global warming *really* means is a good one, although as the topic is so broad, I would have to focus on one aspect for a short article.

The Perry People Mover also sounds interesting, although I have never heard of it; do you know the name of the company who manufacture it so I can contact them with queries?

I also thought of writing an article on Nuclear power and the implications it would have, both here in Australia and world-wide if it became the primary source of energy. What are all your thoghts on that idea?

Any more suggestions are welcome thanks a lot for all your replies.

Peace Jess

 

This was posted somewhere else on this forum
http://media.putfile.com/HHO-GAS
A guy with what might be an economically feasible water engine of sorts, the media and congress are taking interest at least.

 

Thanks a lot for that, drumminmama, that's given me something to look into and base articles on.

Thanks again