thinkprogress.org

 

A large umbrella group of churches representing more than half a billion Christians worldwide announced Thursday that it would pull all of its investments in fossil fuels, saying it had determined the investments were no longer ethical.

Thank you.

Good, and this means a new step towards renewable energy source and the rise of the green industry.

I hopeif this will have an affect on the Tea Party and other Christian Republicans who oppose Climate Change.

I am not living in the US, so I am not very sure about this fact but I have always heard of Tea Party and The Republicians and I have an impression of they are crazy from some news I have heard in Malaysia.

I hopeif this will have an affect on the Tea Party and other Christian Republicans who oppose Climate Change.

Yes. The effect will be to convince them that the mainstream Christian denominations have, indeed, been corrupted by the Devil.

 

On a side note, I'd like to think that those forum members who believe religion is universally bad and useless and counterproductive and filled with unthinking fools will turn of their DogmaKneejerk^TM button for a moment and reflect.

This really does give me a great deal of hope. I applaud this decision based on ethical treatment of our environment, and the acknowledgement of the threat of unchecked burning of fossil fuels. Bravo, World Council of Churches!

Very good news. I applaud this decision. There is hope.

I am also finding it very encouraging.

Now, they need to invest in scientists to create free (never patented) cheap, and effective (>15%) solar panels,

create (or buy) solar panels creating companies, and sell them as cheap as possible to the all people on the world, or simply give them away for free (with clause not for resale).

how about 36% efficiency

 

http://solarlove.org/amonix-achieves-world-record-for-pv-module-efficiency-in-test-at-nrel/

 

however the above uses concentrators and is not available for residential applications.

 

there is a research paper that discusses a possible method to get a 30% boost for a total of 60% efficiency

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jz500676c

 

site coverage of the above article published 2 days ago

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186176-solar-singlet-fission-bends-the-laws-of-physics-to-boost-solar-power-efficiency-by-30

 

here is another alternative to fossil fuel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientists-turn-algae-into-crude-oil-in-less-than-an-hour-180948282/

 

Algae biofuel can help meet world energy demand, researchers say

http://phys.org/news/2014-05-algae-biofuel-world-energy-demand.html

 

there is also the problem of battery storage to deal with

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153614-new-lithium-ion-battery-design-thats-2000-times-more-powerful-recharges-1000-times-faster

Edited July 14, 201411 yr by Mordred