Comments on: Study Finds That Climate Change Causes Wars http://inhabitat.com/study-finds-that-climate-change-may-cause-wars/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Fri, 24 May 2013 13:04:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: caeman http://inhabitat.com/study-finds-that-climate-change-may-cause-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-351731 caeman Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:21:46 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=292420#comment-351731 And here I thought that it was people that started wars. Can I blame my car problems on climate change? And here I thought that it was people that started wars. Can I blame my car problems on climate change?

]]> By: lazyreader http://inhabitat.com/study-finds-that-climate-change-may-cause-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-351484 lazyreader Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:18:55 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=292420#comment-351484 All of these experts are all predicting wars will break out over resources. Typically the one they talk of most is water. But the supposed water wars of the future will never erupt. Water is too heavy and dense a substance. A gallon of water weighs over 8 pounds, so transporting it accounts for most of the costs, so the idea of Mad Max style bandits running off with water jugs is ridiculous, they would have to drink a lot of it sweating from the workout carrying it. It's not cost effective to do it in the long run compared to spending the money/resources on developing new supplies of potable water. A month's worth of fighting between Israel and neighboring nations over water sources would be as costly than if Israel built several desalination plants and ran them for a year producing billions of surplus gallons. Human activity consumed 3000 cubic kilometers of water in the year 2000, up from 600 cubic km in 1900. Yet the world contains 1.38 billion cubic kilometers of water, 461,000 times more water than the human race currently requires. Since future demands for water coincide with a future growing GDP, water access and cleaning will increase in the future not decrease. Desalination is expensive no doubt and recycling waste water is less expensive than the latter but more expensive than traditional water, but the costs are becoming more competitive, desalination costs have declined by half in the last ten years and no doubt will decline even further in the next decade. In the near future we’ll recycle all our waste water for immediate human consumption. The same technology that is used aboard the space station. In the not to distant future, all current and expected water treatment or desalination technologies are gonna be rendered obsolete by a new technology; Nanotube membranes. They function on the size of the gaps of linked carbon atoms to restrict most particles to flow through it. Water molecules are barely small enough to fit through thus must be forced through at high pressure, but prevent larger particles like bacteria, prions, poisons, viruses, salts and other particles which are too large to fit. Treatment or desalination will be interlinked to provide water needs and with far less energy and labor needed to do it and the costs of doing either is gonna be comparable and superior to previous technology which require lots of mechanical parts to separate and lots of chemical separators and disinfectants. If nano membranes can be mass produced we can distribute portable units that are hand or animal powered to provide drinking water to developing nations. Example: In the 1970's and 80's, computer and telecommunications was rapidly growing requiring a huge demand for copper to wire the world. Fears regarding copper price surges and monopolies hoarding stockpiles to sell to select few. But by the 90's copper prices experienced a decline in price largely due to the invention of optical fiber which has all but replaced copper for the telecommunications market and billions of miles of fiber optics have been strewn across the country and around the world in far greater excess than copper could have provided. Being largely made of glass (i.e sand) and I doubt wars will ever be fought over something as ubiquitous as kitty litter. All of these experts are all predicting wars will break out over resources. Typically the one they talk of most is water. But the supposed water wars of the future will never erupt. Water is too heavy and dense a substance. A gallon of water weighs over 8 pounds, so transporting it accounts for most of the costs, so the idea of Mad Max style bandits running off with water jugs is ridiculous, they would have to drink a lot of it sweating from the workout carrying it. It’s not cost effective to do it in the long run compared to spending the money/resources on developing new supplies of potable water. A month’s worth of fighting between Israel and neighboring nations over water sources would be as costly than if Israel built several desalination plants and ran them for a year producing billions of surplus gallons. Human activity consumed 3000 cubic kilometers of water in the year 2000, up from 600 cubic km in 1900. Yet the world contains 1.38 billion cubic kilometers of water, 461,000 times more water than the human race currently requires. Since future demands for water coincide with a future growing GDP, water access and cleaning will increase in the future not decrease. Desalination is expensive no doubt and recycling waste water is less expensive than the latter but more expensive than traditional water, but the costs are becoming more competitive, desalination costs have declined by half in the last ten years and no doubt will decline even further in the next decade. In the near future we’ll recycle all our waste water for immediate human consumption. The same technology that is used aboard the space station. In the not to distant future, all current and expected water treatment or desalination technologies are gonna be rendered obsolete by a new technology; Nanotube membranes. They function on the size of the gaps of linked carbon atoms to restrict most particles to flow through it. Water molecules are barely small enough to fit through thus must be forced through at high pressure, but prevent larger particles like bacteria, prions, poisons, viruses, salts and other particles which are too large to fit. Treatment or desalination will be interlinked to provide water needs and with far less energy and labor needed to do it and the costs of doing either is gonna be comparable and superior to previous technology which require lots of mechanical parts to separate and lots of chemical separators and disinfectants. If nano membranes can be mass produced we can distribute portable units that are hand or animal powered to provide drinking water to developing nations.

Example: In the 1970′s and 80′s, computer and telecommunications was rapidly growing requiring a huge demand for copper to wire the world. Fears regarding copper price surges and monopolies hoarding stockpiles to sell to select few. But by the 90′s copper prices experienced a decline in price largely due to the invention of optical fiber which has all but replaced copper for the telecommunications market and billions of miles of fiber optics have been strewn across the country and around the world in far greater excess than copper could have provided. Being largely made of glass (i.e sand) and I doubt wars will ever be fought over something as ubiquitous as kitty litter.

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