Got a life- or environment-saving idea?

Every new home or building MUST have solar cells covering the entire roof. The energy generated must be tied into the electrical grid, and must be available to the building if the grid goes down.

The University of Georgia (Athens, GA, US) is doing a huge project on developing biofuel from grasses and vegetative crops.

under the rubric of Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences.

@PerryDolia And on top of those solar celled-roofs, we must construct windmills! They won’t really get in the way of each other and think about all the extra energy!

I think every neighborhood should be built around a neighborhood geothermal installation (similar to this only slightly larger) that heats and cools all the houses in the neighborhood. City neighborhoods could be retrofitted block by block. I think government should give blocks that all cooperate on such a venture property tax breaks for two years or something.

Yes, bring back the EV1.

Double the tax on gasoline.

This is a serious and effective suggestion. Cars are the blight of our age.

Increasing the cost by increasing the tax is a way to deter usage and channel funds into research on improved energy technologies.

It would continue the migration to more energy efficient cars.

It would reduce consumption of fossil fuel which has a ton of economic, environmental and socioeconomic negatives.

Overall, we need to get ourselves out of our-last-century-technology, oil-based vehicles.

Don’t have kids. That’s one I’m following now.

@PerryDolia Sorry to burst your bubble, but cow farts contribute more to global warming than all of cars. So in reality cows are the blight of our age, not cars at all.

I have exercise induced asthma, which basically means my lungs have an excess of mucus in them… all the time. I’ve wondered if it wouldn’t be possible to invent a kind of vacuum that would snake down into the lungs and suck out all of the ick. This might help other lung issues, too, like cystic fibrosis.

I would like to have somebody invent a “bed extender” so people wouldn’t have to throw out perfectly good beds just because they want a longer one.

I stayed in one hotel that made their King beds out of two twin beds pushed together, with an insert down the middle to fill the gap.

Plant a tree. Planting a tree when you are young person gives you something to rest under when you are old. If you plant a tree as an old person, you are making shade for someone else who will appreciate it after you are gone.

We might not be able to save the world all by ourselves, but we can at least do a little something to make the world a little nicer place even after we are gone.

Industralize hemp to make hemp products as building materials,clothing,food source for animals/humans,medicinal purposes,fuel,etc

Thanks to all of you for answering!

@dynamicduo ”cow farts contribute more to global warming than all of cars.” Do you have any evidence to support this assertion? I’ve heard it before, but it sounds to me like it could be one of those urban myth type thingies. It smells like bad analysis or bad data (if you’ll pardon the pun).

Single-payer health insurance! (its very life saving)

@PerryDolia How about we qualify that statement with “any house that gets a decent amount of sunlight”. But I very much agree with the sentiment.

@benjaminlevi I agree with your tempered realism about only forcing solar on people who get sunlight. But, in my imaginary view of the suggestion, there are no loopholes and no exceptions; no weasling.

@daloon There is a whole list of sources to choose from, I picked this one

@PerryDolia Why would we waste resources and energy building solar panels that will be put in places where they would be nonproductive?

@benjaminlevi
Who is to say they are non-productive? remember this is just a discussion about ideas? I am not trying to debate I estimate that the number of builders who would seek exemptions for this reason or that, CLAIMING their location was nonproductive, would be way past the true number of non-productive sites. No exemptions means a huge wave of solar generating activity, which is what I am suggesting.

@PerryDolia Productivity can be determined by how many photons of light would be hitting that area in a day.