[extropy-chat] Trees and EVs

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:39:46PM -0500, Dan Clemmensen wrote:
> Kevin Freels wrote:
> 
> >So who wants to start work developing a home solar/wind combo re-charging
> >station?
>
> OK, now we have it: Grow trees and leave them standing: they sequester 
> carbon as they grow.

Better: insulate your house. Put good passive absorbers on the roof for
heating your water. Build a winter garden, and other means for passive solar
heating.

Use efficient burners. Use hydrogen-rich fossil fuels (methane), or renewables (there
are now new clean wood powder burners, etc).

Use energy-efficient household machines.

This gives the best ROI. Everything beyond that is going to cost you more,
and give you increasingly diminishing returns (some local variations like
geothermia and microhydro or subsidized PV ignored on purpose).

Planting trees is a good idea on its own, though.

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