Efficiency is key for climate

The story in the Daily Herald on Oct. 25 on climate change attributed the majority of current global warming to carbon dioxide. Though I won’t argue that it does have some effect, the major generator is in fact heat. All energies’ final state is heat. This is elementary.

With globally more cars, heated homes air-conditioned homes and energy generation soars whether fossil fuel driven, or nuclear driven heat is generated and fed into the environment. The key must become efficiency. When current power generation loses 20% of its energy through transmission as heat, the current smaller nuclear transmission makes sense feeding a local need with low losses.

Also, hybrid vehicles provide local power generation for electric car use simultaneously to mobility.

The best example of why heat is the biggest issue is rather simple to explain. Most people have heard of global hot spots. These are areas where the thermal heat is consistently higher than surrounding areas.

In all cases except things such as volcanoes, they are large cities where energy consumption in cars, homes and other buildings use high amounts of energy to heat or cool.

As more developing countries such as China, India, Russia and parts of Africa and South America add energy capabilities the continued thermal rise is unavoidable. The key is efficiency.

Richard Francke

Bartlett