The Singularity Saints Podcast

022: Environment, Energy, and Stewardship

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With all the noise surrounding environmental discussions, can we cut through it all and see the potential that emerging technologies offer for new sources of energy and a clean world?

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Topic:

  • Avoiding partisanship on a politically charged topic
  • Alternative energy
  • Viability, variability, and
  • Solar power
  • Timeline of viability
  • Paul Rodgers: Solar Power Viable Within A Decade, Says IEA
    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/09/30/the-rise-of-solar/#78424dc57e58
  • Projected technological take off and International Energy Agency expectations
  • Estimated costs
  • Salt and Energy
  • NY Post: Salt could be the future of renewable energy
    • https://nypost.com/2019/05/09/salt-could-be-the-future-of-renewable-energy/
  • Salt-based heat storage and an energy back-up
  • Berlin’s Reuter Thermal Plant by Vattenfall and SaltX
  • Challenges in adopting and implementing new energy sources
  • Reliability, Infrastructure, and cost
    • https://ourrenewablefuture.org/chapter-3/
  • Difference in name-plate capacity to actual output
    • Comparing solar, wind, hydrogen, and fossil fuels
  • Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  • What happened to this promised technology?
  • How hydrogen fuel cells work
  • Advantages and Disadvantages
  • Elon Musk and hydrogen fuel cells
    • CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/21/musk-calls-hydrogen-fuel-cells-stupid-but-tech-may-threaten-tesla.html
    • Infrastructure and cost
  • Professor Antonelli, Lancaster University, on development and cost
  • Emerging technologies for environmental clean-up
  • Nano-technology and clean-up
    • https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-and-the-environment.php
  • https://interestingengineering.com/graphene-nanobots-clean-pollutants-ocean
  • Risks of nano-technology to the environment
    • Over saturation
  • Absorption of toxins and pollutants
  • Unpredictability in natural environments

    • For the Church

    • The dangers of hyperbole and fear
  • Dealing with disagreement
  • “In Essentials Unity, In Non-Essentials Liberty, In All Things Charity”
  • Christian’s relationship to creation
  • The inherent value of the created world
  • Eschatological perspectives related to creation care
  • Creation revealing God’s glory
  • Responsibility of stewardship
  • Implication of the Imago Dei
  • Christian ethics and competing needs
  • Balancing competing needs
    • IRD interview with Vijay Jayaraj
  • https://juicyecumenism.com/2016/02/17/christianity-the-environment-economic-development/

    • Looking Ahead:

    • Laboratory-evolved bacteria consuming carbon dioxide
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191127161450.htm

    • Passages Referenced:

    • Genesis 1:31
  • Psalm 19:1-6
  • Psalm 24:1

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