Seriously Is Earth Cooling Down Or Warming Up?

Global warming has been a hot issue for the past few decades. Most of the reports I read in the past few years, showed and blamed human for global warming. I have never read anything about the other sides of the story, earth cooling down, and global warming is not caused by human.

A recent report published on the BBC website, questioned the scientific community about global warming. The BBC Climate correspondent Paul Hudson asked what happened to global warming? He said, in the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. In fact, 1998 was even warmer than 2008 or 2009, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

Climate change skeptics argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. Further more, they said that the warming we observed was down to the energy from the sun increasing, and the solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted. After all 98% of the Earth’s warmth comes from the Sun.

But Piers Corbyn, a solar scientist completely disagrees with this argument.

Global warming skeptics admitted that the planet temperature has increased in 1980s and 1990s, but that increase was due to a positive cycle in the oceans. However, In the last few years the Pacific Ocean has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down. This indicates that our planet temperature is not going to increase, but its going to decrease.

Is this theory correct? We don’t know, but we know that it wasn’t given much attention for many years.

Lets say it was correct, then what about all the money that countries spent to fight the effects of global warming? Was it a waste?

A new way to speed up biofuel production

Researchers around the world are racing to find new ways to replace the gasoline in automobiles. Gasoline is getting more expensive and its not environment friendly. So, researchers at Ohio State University have found a new method to double the production of biofuel butanol, and they are hoping that it soon will replace gasoline in automobiles.

bacteria could only produce a certain amount of butanol — perhaps 15 grams of the chemical for every liter of water in the tank — before the tank would become too toxic for the bacteria to survive, explained Shang-Tian Yang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State.

Yang and his colleagues developed a mutant strain of the bacterium Clostridium beijerinckii in a bioreactor containing bundles of polyester fibers. In that environment, the mutant bacteria produced up to 30 grams of butanol per liter.

Right now, butanol is mainly used as a solvent, or in industrial processes that make other chemicals. But experts believe that this form of alcohol holds potential as a biofuel.

Once developed as a fuel, butanol could potentially be used in conventional automobiles in place of gasoline, while producing more energy than another alternative fuel, ethanol.

Yang said that this use of his patented fibrous-bed bioreactor would ultimately save money.

“Today, the recovery and purification of butanol account for about 40 percent of the total production cost,” explained Yang, “Because we are able to create butanol at higher concentrations, we believe we can lower those recovery and purification costs and make biofuel production more economical.”

Currently, a gallon of butanol costs approximately $3.00 — a little more than the current price for a gallon of gasoline.

The engineers are applying for a patent on the mutant bacterium and the butanol production methodology, and will work with industry to develop the technology.

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Garbage For Gas As Alternative Fuel

Many U.S companies have announced plans to build plants that would take in material like wood chips, garbage or crop waste and turn out motor fuels. With the insane increase of gas prices which reached over 130$ a barrel and gasoline above 4$ a gallon, the waste-to-fuel industry now is working to develop a new system to convert waste into usable energy “fuel”.

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