our world today

Chava Energy will completely change the way we provide and consume power. Just think about it: The cumulative cost of energy in every product and service we consume daily, every move we make, every bite we take, and even every sip we drink has an enormous energy footprint throughout its supply chain.

It starts with the exploration of raw materials, shipping, manufacturing, shipping again, treatment, shipping once more, packaging, shipping, etc… Each activity consumes a fair share of energy, adding to the cost of everything we produce, buy, and use.

The current economic model of this planet is based upon the perpetual continuation of growth. As we have seen over the last year, once growth is interrupted, regardless of what caused the interruption, it causes a severe global economic impact.

Unfortunately, our growth is contingent upon the ever increasing demand for natural resources needed to power the economy. With rising energy prices, products and services become more expensive with no additional value to the producer or consumer. After all, our prosperity is directly related to our combined labor productivity. The more value we are able to create within a given hour, the more wealth we can disburse, leaving us more time to spend with our friends and families or other quality aspects of life.

The introduction of clean, abundant, and inexpensive energy accessible to anyone on this planet will provide an unprecedented quantum leap in efficiency, economic abundance, and harmony. Replacing expensive fossil-fuel generated energy with low cost, renewable, non-interruptible energy changes the economics of energy provisioning that currently is under threat through energy cartels.

Secondly, the dynamics of world politics have shown increasing signs of energy-related considerations. The tangled dependencies between energy security and political interests have not served society very well. It is rather alarming to observe how world peace can potentially move to second priority, if energy related interests are at stake.

Thirdly, the pollution caused by exploring for, producing, transporting, and burning fossil fuels continues to effect everyone’s health, security, and future. Coal mining poisons the water table of large areas of land ultimately making its way back to us through the food-chain. Oil production and transportation leave untold millions of gallons in spills every year and burning of all fossil fuels leaves thousands of harmful toxins in the air we breathe. Although we have made substantial progress in cleaner-burning technologies, all advancement has been surpassed by the rapid growth in global demand, accelerated by the world’s emerging economies.

A recent study found toxic pollution from power plants, contributing to rising rates of asthma, cancers causing nearly 24,000 deaths in the United States alone each year.

Fourth, the ongoing debate regarding climate change seeks to sort out the causes and possible solutions. While Carbon-dioxide (CO2) is not considered ‘poisonous’, Chava understands the passions, fortunes, and futures that depend on arguments around this subject and that conclusions will never satisfy everyone.

At this juncture it is undisputed that CO2 and other gases are contributing to climate change. However, it is disputed by a minority that man-made CO2 emissions really make a difference and they claim that there have always been natural cycles of climate change.

The majority of scientists, politicians, and ordinary citizens are convinced that the vast amount of man-made greenhouse gases is a major contributor to climate change and the undisputed melting of polar ice.

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Here are some quotes:

“The energy climate change problem is one of the major things science and technology has to solve in the coming years.”
–Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy, March 9th, 2009

“We’re toast if we don’t make major environment changes quickly.”
–Top NASA Scientist James Hansen warned in a Congressional Hearing on 24th June 2008.

“Climate change is already happening, with rapid melting of the Arctic and glaciers worldwide. Climate scientists have anticipated an increase and intensity of extreme weather events, and this is what the insurance industry is experiencing.” Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP)

“It is possible that even present levels of greenhouse gases maintained for long periods may lead to dangerous climate change . . . When you start to look at these temperatures, I get very worried indeed.”
- David Stainforth of Oxford University, chief climate study scientist


Is it truly real, this Climate Change or Warming?

Well, it is undisputed that burning of fossil fuels emits a vast amount of CO2 into the atmosphere, which is proven to increase the planet’s average temperatures.
A minority argues that natural forces in climate cycles are greater than man-made contributions and that there is little we can do about it.

Chava firmly believes that man-made carbon emissions have a negative effect on climate change and that it is indeed our responsibility to do everything we humanly can to fight it!

But we do respect the fact that some people point out certain ‘missing links’ in the science around climate change, just like some people don’t believe in evolution due to ‘missing links’. Our technologies will ultimately benefit everyone on this planet, whether it is economically, health-related, climate change-related, or simply by reduction of international conflicts and wars by eliminating geopolitical dependencies of carbon-supplies.

Regardless of any political perspective or belief system, one common theme amongst all of humanity is everyone truly does desire to breathe clean air, enjoy the Earth’s magnificent natural beauty, and seek peace and prosperity. Bringing forth technologies that remove our dependence on fossil fuels serves all of these worthy desires and is perhaps singularly one of the most important objectives for mankind in this century.

Scientific studies and views:

More recent Reports under the auspices of the United Nations underline the urgency. The latest of the three suggests that a very substantial reduction in fossil fuel use must take place in the next eight years.
Severe consequences are already being felt. Scientists have long predicted the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere by increasing greenhouse gases would spawn extreme storms. Weather-related disasters in 2004 cost the global insurance industry more than $35 billion – a record loss, according to United Nations and industry officials (One World US, 12/16/04).

In October 2003, a group of scientists from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine published research concluding that about 160,000 people die every year from side-effects of global warming ranging from malaria to malnutrition – and the numbers could almost double by 2020.

A Worst Case Scenario?

John Atcheson, a Department of Energy geologist, issued the most ominous alert in an article entitled Ticking Time Bomb – A Growing Threat To Life On Earth (Baltimore Sun, December, 2004). Atcheson postulates that global warming could trigger the release of large amounts of methane trapped in Arctic ices and the permafrost.

Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times stronger than carbon dioxide. Once started, Atcheson suggests that such a release of methane could cause an uncontrollable and irreversible chain reaction leading to a mass extinction of life on earth – an extinction rivaling those that appear to have taken place twice before, 55 million and 251 million years ago.

Within the last five years the surface permafrost in an area in Siberia, the size of France and Germany combined, has started to melt for the first time since the last ice age, 11,000 years ago.

One estimate suggests that all mammalian life could be snuffed out in the arctic in as little as 15-25 years.
Worst case, the Oxford study indicates many human lives could be extinguished on earth by about 2050. According to one well informed individual, the correct date may prove to be even earlier. “In some areas, it took more than 100 million years for ecosystems to reach their former healthy diversity… If we trigger this runaway release of methane, there’s no turning back. No do-over. Once it starts, it’s likely to play out all the way.”

Myles Allen of Oxford University captures the essence of the situation in one sentence: “The danger zone is not something we’re going to reach in the middle of the century; we’re in it now.”

Opinions of key industry representatives:

BP (British Petroleum) is the largest oil company in the UK, and one of the largest in the world, and they have publicly stated, “There is an increasing consensus that climate change is linked to the consumption of carbon based fuels and that action is required now to avoid further increases in carbon emissions as the global demand for energy increases.”

Shell Oil (yes, the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company) also has publicly stated, “Shell shares the widespread concern that the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities is leading to changes in the global climate. Source is their annual report on Page 10.

Eighteen CEOs of Canada’s largest corporations had this to say in an open letter to the Prime Minister of Canada, “Our organizations accept that a strong response is required to the strengthening evidence in the scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We accept the IPCC consensus that climate change raises the risk of severe consequences for human health and security and the environment. We note that Canada is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.”

Organizations that urge to act:

- NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
- The Royal Society of the UK (RS)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Joint statement (PDF) that specifically and unequivocally endorses the work and conclusions of the IPCC Third Assessment report. The statement was issued by:

  • Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias (Brazil)
  • Royal Society of Canada
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Academie des Sciences (France)
  • Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
  • Science Council of Japan
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society (United Kingdom)
  • National Academy of Sciences (United States of America)

You can also read a statement, which includes all the above signatories plus the following:

  • Australian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
  • Caribbean Academy of Sciences
  • Indonesian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Irish Academy
  • Academy of Sciences Malaysia
  • Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences