Non Carbon based energy sources
As anyone who has watched the news lately for 5 minutes knows there is a huge push for newer cleaner sources of energy in this country. People such as Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens are among the many with plans to implement these technologies, and the idea of spewing less carbon in the atmosphere is a good one to me. However living in Alaska an area the ranges from Rain forest to Arctic conditions there are many questions I have. Such as what happens when the first blade of a wind turbine is exposed to -40 temperature becomes brittle and shatters due to the stress of the wind blowing on it. Also how well will hybrid cars start at extremely cold temperatures that are common in Alaska. Also what about the hydrogen, when does it solidify. I know from experience that propane becomes a liquid at -40 below. These are all questions that I probably will not receive answers to until I am forced to adopt this new technology, and further more find the solutions to theses problems, instead of scientists thinking forward about these problems. All that I know for sure at this point is internal combustion has been proven to work in arctic climates. Not to say that these new technologies won’t work up here, but as far as I know not much research is going on concerning this technology in northern climates.
