Major solar flare : class x7 released today (august 9 2011).

[William Gaatjes]

Al Gore is evil?

CO2 is more dangerous than a star?

should we take the star out?

Do not be such a dumb idiot.
Pollution is a serious problem. Yes it is. But the CO2 taxes proposed are just a crappy way to hide the financial interests that come to play when it comes to using oil.

For example, in the Netherlands after negotiation between political parties, the tax is lower for new to buy energy efficient (gasoline or diesel) automobiles. But as was to be expected, in the dutch government there is a concern that since energy efficient automobiles are being bought more and used more, less taxes is collected on the sale of gasoline and diesel fuel(higher mpl or mpg). This will reduce the tax income. Thus what happens in the near future. Gas guzzlers will get cheaper to buy and the tax on energy efficient automobiles will be raised. This is not a conspiracy, this is simple protecting several interests. Political and commercial.

CO2 idiots such as Al Gore do nothing to help nature. If you want to stop polluting, make sure that the pollution happens at a stationary place. For example a power station. Then all pollution is produced at a stationary site where it can be controlled and pollution is not created in moving vehicles.
Since it is stationary, a more complex and heavy filtering system can be created and used. This is not an option for a moving vehicle since it will reduce efficiency. Since systems to gather pollution also add weight and reduce efficiency for moving vehicles. Electric vehicles are a win win situation.

Invest in the storage of electrical energy.
And recently there is a new lithium air technology developed that allows for 4 times the amount of energy storage when comapred to current state of the art lithium batteries.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-batteries-energy-storage.html

Smog and other hazardous ultrafine materials (that log into lungs) are the real reason why we should not use gasoline or diesel if we do not have to. Polluting our environment is wrong but not because of some nonsense CO2 threat. But because of long term exposure to hazardous materials.

MIT researchers have found a way to improve the energy density of a type of battery known as lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries, producing a device that could potentially pack several times more energy per pound than the lithium-ion batteries that now dominate the market for rechargeable devices in everything from cellphones to cars.

The work is a continuation of a project that last year demonstrated improved efficiency in lithium-air batteries through the use of noble-metal-based catalysts. In principle, lithium-air batteries have the potential to pack even more punch for a given weight than lithium-ion batteries because they replace one of the heavy solid electrodes with a porous carbon electrode that stores energy by capturing oxygen from air flowing through the system, combining it with lithium ions to form lithium oxides.

The new work takes this advantage one step further, creating carbon-fiber-based electrodes that are substantially more porous than other carbon electrodes, and can therefore more efficiently store the solid oxidized lithium that fills the pores as the battery discharges.

"We grow vertically aligned arrays of carbon nanofibers using a chemical vapor deposition process. These carpet-like arrays provide a highly conductive, low-density scaffold for energy storage," explains Robert Mitchell, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and co-author of a paper describing the new findings in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

 

[werepossum]

True.

If you want to know something really scary...

Suppose a CME or solar flare hits the earth dead on. This will cause major damage to all global communication systems. Satellites and more. Also GPS will probably fail. Some RF bands can not be used because of to much RF interference. For example, A receiver just picks up signals, if a transmitter X somewhere sends with signal strength 2 and there is a noise signal produced in the atmosphere with signal strength 200, you will not be able to receive that transmitter X anymore. If someone speaks softly and another shouts, you will not be able to hear the soft speaking person.

This means that if someone would be so bold to do a violent attack, the US army (but also all other modern armies) no longer has electronic guidance for missiles and other remote controlled weapons.
Just to make it more scary :
Was it not Donald Rumsfeld that wanted a smaller army with a lot of fancy electronics ?

Would the F35 still be able to fly if something would happen just as in 1870 ?
Would the F22 still be able to fly ?
Would the F16 still be able to fly ?
And these are just US versions.

Would commercial airplanes still be able to land automatically ? Boeing , airbus ? Instead of listening to a thief such as Al Gore, have people made an inventory about what the possible casualties may be in todays life in such a solar flare event ? These are serious questions we in an electronic society have to worry about.

But thanks to the liars and the blind stupid idiot followers, CO2 is regarded more dangerous then a star that has to ability to wipe life on the earth out of existence if all wrong variables meet. Go figure...

Modern military electronics are heavily shielded against EMP, especially the E1 wave so damaging to electronics but also against the slower E3 that is so damaging to transmission lines and equipment, so I doubt a solar flare less than devastating to life on Earth would greatly damage them. The secondary effects on the military would be much more devastating. Much of our logistics is today delivered by subcontractors whose equipment is not so shielded, directed from warehouses by data centers on grid power with surface-mounted unhardened generators. We would have little capacity to transport supplies by air, and greatly reduced capacity to ship by sea or land. Our GPS-guided bombs would become dumb bombs, as most of our GPS satellites, though hardened, would undoubtedly be lost. Our second tier equipment, such as HQ generators and distribution, would probably be lost, though our forces are trained to fight without those. And any inherently unstable aircraft, such as the F-22, F-35, or even F-117, would probably be lost if struck while flying, since they rely on thousands of small corrections a second to maintain controlled flight.

The civilian damage would be much more profound, especially since so much of our infrastructure is no longer produced in America.