Watch it happen live on Monday, September 26, starting at 6 p.m. Such solutions would not have to be profitable breaking even would be sweet, given our present situation. Earth & Space Published Septem6:27pm EDT NASA spacecraft set to intentionally crash into an asteroid to help save Earth The Double Asteroid Redirect, or DART, spacecraft will be used as a battering ram to crash into a near-Earth asteroid. Perhaps its technology could be modified to more cleanly keep a coal-fired generator in operation until its financial life is over and/or to clean natural gas generation emissions. Profitably cleaning the emissions from a cement plantĪnd reclaiming the carbon dioxide from those emissions. There is a company in San Antonio that is We do not have viable technology to do away with conventional energy sources altogether unless we are willing to impoverish our nation by cutting our energy use to fit what can be made available with limited eco-capabilities. NASA’s journey to Mars was advanced in 2015 by valuable science findings from current missions traversing and orbiting the Red Planet. No one honestly denies cleaner energy is an important goal, but are we being realistic about our path? Conventional generation is in place and still has significant economical life left. The Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation. In our eagerness to go green with wind and solar energy, we ignored the transport part of the effectiveness equation, and the power was stranded. Unfortunately, the best sites for these projects are in places far from populated areas, and there were no facilities in place to transmit the power where it is needed. Such projects were subsidized heavily to encourage investors. NASA has several missions underway well above Earth's atmosphere, where the space agency is documenting the great unknown in ways previously. Wind and solar generators, logically, put many of their projects where there is ample sun or wind. 2015 was quite a year for space exploration. The end users pay the transport costs in the price of the oil- and gas-related products they use. So trucks, trains and pipelines move the products where they can be processed and where they are used. A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION. Most oil fields are not located where the oil and gas they produce is needed or used. 2023 NASA Alumni League is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization. Instead of picking the other guy apart, might we be better off cleaning up our own backyard? We don’t know how to deal with the air pollutants from fossil fuel use or how to recycle the batteries and windmill blades that clean energy bequeaths us.Ī lot of time, money and effort is expended trying to prove the other guys wrong. Green energy is peripatetic and requires backup. Coal and gas generation pollutes the air and adds to carbon dioxide levels. Wind generators and solar panels take up too much real estate and destroy natural habitats.
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