Thanks to technology we still have a chance

[nova_42]

not all hope is lost, but we need to do something NOW.
hat-tip The Nation
Global Warming Is Reversible
by Bernie Sanders
Scientists now tell us that the crisis of global warming is even worse than their earlier projections. Daily front-page headlines of environmental disasters give an inkling of what we can expect in the future, multiplied many times

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[jdack]

I'm holding out for a car powered by my hatred for my fellow man. :)

[nova_42]

now now, we really need to conserve the natural resource that is our hatred. try hating only half of you fellow man...republicans would be a good start ;)

[saphetiger]

I was watching Nova and I heard about a couple of interesting techonologies that you might not have heard about. There's a guy working on a paint that will be able to collect solar energy. Basically you'd have to lay down a foilesque base and then run some sort of wiring over that. Apparently is paint is applied over that and for a couple thousand dollars more than the cost of a normal roof you don't have to pay to run the A/C in the summer (probably the most expensive thing to run). In another lab their developing multi-band light cells. They say the problem with conventional solar-cells is that they can only use specific bands of light. To correct this, they make compound cells with multiple layers. Each layer is responsive to a different wave-length of light. I'm not sure how they avoid those other wave-lengths from being filtered out, but apparently the technology has already been used by NASA on a lander. It is still not practical from a cost to energy ratio for commercial/residential use.

[nova_42]

paint that collects solar energy!! sweet