Green Options » WEST http://greenoptions.com/tag/west Posts tagged 'WEST' Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:56:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en WATER: #1 Global Security & Health Concern http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/07/1-global-security-health-concern-water/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/07/1-global-security-health-concern-water/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:56:31 +0000 Zachary Shahan http://ecoworldly.com/2009/10/07/1-global-security-health-concern-water/

Water scarcity resulting from climate change is the number one issue the world will have to grapple with in the future, according to chief climate scientist and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri.

On the one hand, we will have more water around us with sea level rising. On the other hand, though, drought caused by climate change will leave possibly billions of people without clean water.

This will cause great health and global security issues. Most of these problems will be caused by water imbalances.

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Wind Energy Systems Technology (WEST) will use old oil platforms to support new wind turbines. Herman Schellstede, CEO of WEST, holds sixty-seven U.S. patents and ten international patents, and is a naval architect and marine engineer. His partner, Harold Schoeffler, is a longtime Louisiana environmentalist, having co-founded Save Our Coast. The company is presently engaging in wind monitoring activities, shown in the picture at left. Still, I haven’t seen any announcement of any turbines actually being built on these recycled oil platforms. Wired has a nice story with great visuals dating from Feb. 2007. If anyone has more recent news, please comment below. Remaking old oil platforms into clean energy sources is a beguiling idea, but it would be even more charming to actually see wind turbines producing wind off the coast of Texas.

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