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Quote:Just like you, the squirrels in my front yard are going to be working on their houses again today, but up in the oak trees. The squirrels, just like you, are not worried about money.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you have a brain defect or something, son?
I'm going to be working on my house again today. I haven't had a job since summer of 2019 and even in Biden*'s economy I'm not worried about money.
Have fun at work today so you can pay off all your interest, honey.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you have a brain defect or something, son?
I'm going to be working on my house again today. I haven't had a job since summer of 2019 and even in Biden*'s economy I'm not worried about money.
Have fun at work today so you can pay off all your interest, honey.
Better to be a squirrel than an ant.
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Capping global temperature rise at two degrees Celsius over baseline is no longer seen as enough to avoid a catastrophic rise in sea levels that would decimate the earth’s coastlines and displace hundreds of millions of people, climate scientists warn.
A report released Thursday by the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, compiled by more than 60 scientists and policy experts, is sounding the alarm on new modelling data that indicates the 2015 Paris Agreement is woefully out-of-date. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QOqYHI0ezrmMCUrmCDV03rF-1aIYE6VB/view
The consortium is urging world leaders to take stock of new research ahead of the United Nations’ COP28 climate conference later this month. According to the report, the only road forward is ensuring that global temperatures do not rise over 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, much lower than the two degree maximum set at the Paris Climate Accords.
“We have time, but not much time. We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice,” reads the report’s preface.
If global average temperatures rise by two degrees, the Earth faces a sea-level rise of more than 12 metres, or 40 feet — and that’s the conservative estimate.
The report states sea levels could rise up to 20 metres, or 65 feet, citing a “compelling number of new studies, taking into account ice dynamics, paleo-climate records from Earth’s past, and recent observations of ice sheet behavior.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/10098366/sea-level-rise-20-metres-report-cl
imate-change/
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Capping global temperature rise at two degrees Celsius over baseline is no longer seen as enough to avoid a catastrophic rise in sea levels that would decimate the earth’s coastlines and displace hundreds of millions of people, climate scientists warn.
A report released Thursday by the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, compiled by more than 60 scientists and policy experts, is sounding the alarm on new modelling data that indicates the 2015 Paris Agreement is woefully out-of-date. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QOqYHI0ezrmMCUrmCDV03rF-1aIYE6VB/view
The consortium is urging world leaders to take stock of new research ahead of the United Nations’ COP28 climate conference later this month. According to the report, the only road forward is ensuring that global temperatures do not rise over 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, much lower than the two degree maximum set at the Paris Climate Accords.
“We have time, but not much time. We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice,” reads the report’s preface.
If global average temperatures rise by two degrees, the Earth faces a sea-level rise of more than 12 metres, or 40 feet — and that’s the conservative estimate.
The report states sea levels could rise up to 20 metres, or 65 feet, citing a “compelling number of new studies, taking into account ice dynamics, paleo-climate records from Earth’s past, and recent observations of ice sheet behavior.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/10098366/sea-level-rise-20-metres-report-cl
imate-change/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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-This message sent from my new iPhone I replace every 2 years which was made by slave labor in China where you can cut the smog with a butter knife.
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Quote:Every Trumptard I know is stupid like you are, 6ix, but none of them know that being stupid is the cause of their multiplying mental/financial/health/family/personal problems. None see the connection because they are stupid. Why should there be a connection since all Trumptards think they are bright?
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-This message sent from my new iPhone I replace every 2 years which was made by slave labor in China where you can cut the smog with a butter knife.
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I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/climate-change-report-us.ht
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By Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at the environmental nonprofit Project Drawdown and a lead author on the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated. Did we really need another warning of the dire consequences of climate change in this country? The answer, legally, was yes: Congress mandates that the National Climate Assessment be updated every four years or so. But after four previous assessments and six United Nations reports since 1990, I was skeptical that what we needed to address climate change was yet another report. https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/
In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.
Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory. But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.
I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.
In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all. For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism. And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.
Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.
And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair. The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.
I was wrong about those previous reports: Th
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The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate emergency, a report says. The report: https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/climate-equality-a-planet-
for-the-99-621551/
The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year, accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019 – enough to cause more than a million excess deaths due to heat, according to the report.
For the past six months, the Guardian has worked with Oxfam, the Stockholm Environment Institute and other experts on an exclusive basis to produce a special investigation, The Great Carbon Divide. It explores the causes and consequences of carbon inequality and the disproportionate impact of super-rich individuals, who have been termed “the polluter elite”. Climate justice will be high on the agenda of this month’s UN Cop28 climate summit in the United Arab Emirates.
The Oxfam report shows that while the wealthiest 1% tend to live climate-insulated, air-conditioned lives, their emissions – 5.9bn tonnes of CO2 in 2019 – are responsible for immense suffering.
Using a “mortality cost” formula – used by the US Environmental Protection Agency, among others – of 226 excess deaths worldwide for every million tonnes of carbon, the report calculates that the emissions from the 1% alone would be enough to cause the heat-related deaths of 1.3 million people over the coming decades.
The corporate shares of many super-rich are highly polluting. This elite also wield enormous and growing political power by owning media organisations and social networks, hiring advertising and PR agencies and lobbyists, and mixing socially with senior politicians, who are also often members of the richest 1%, according to the report.
In the US, for example, one in four members of Congress reportedly own stocks in fossil fuel companies, worth a total of between $33m and $93m. The report says this helps to explain why global emissions continue to rise, and why governments in the global north provided $1.8tn to subsidise the fossil fuel industry in 2020, contrary to their international pledges to phase out carbon emissions.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-
for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says
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The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%
No shit.
But Democrats are constantly finding ways to punish the poorest 66% instead of fixing the actual problem.
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Quote:Fossil fuel is too cheap and the rich are displaying conspicuous consumption by burning too much fuel. The proper amount of fossil fuel the rich should burn is zero, nada, zip. The proper amount for poor white trash also happens to be zero, just like the amount of sewage the poor should dump into everybody's drinking water supply should be zero.
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Originally posted by second:
The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%
No shit.
But Democrats are constantly finding ways to punish the poorest 66% instead of fixing the actual problem.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Bullshit.
By reducing emissions and enhancing absorption - not thru geo- engineering but agricultural, ranching, and forestry practices- we can reach equilibrium
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Fossil fuel is too cheap and the rich are displaying conspicuous consumption by burning too much fuel. The proper amount of fossil fuel the rich should burn is zero, nada, zip. The proper amount for poor white trash also happens to be zero, just like the amount of sewage the poor should dump into everybody's drinking water supply should be zero.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%
No shit.
But Democrats are constantly finding ways to punish the poorest 66% instead of fixing the actual problem.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Oh yeah? I wonder how many anti-psychotic pills you're supposed to be taking that are being flushed down you're toilet so everybody gets a free buzz, you fucking waste of carbon.
Please die already. I don't need you breathing any more of my oxygen.
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Eco-Friendly Breakthrough: Single Atom Catalyst Transforms CO2 Into Ethanol
By Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | November 21, 2023
A recent breakthrough in CO2 reduction research involves a newly developed Sn-based catalyst that efficiently produces ethanol, representing a significant step forward in renewable energy technology. (Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn, in case you are angry poor white trash who doesn't know better.)
The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) into carbon-based fuels provides a promising strategy to mitigate CO2 emission and promotes the utilization of renewable energy.
More at https://scitechdaily.com/eco-friendly-breakthrough-single-atom-catalys
t-transforms-co2-into-ethanol/
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Eco-Friendly Breakthrough: Single Atom Catalyst Transforms CO2 Into Ethanol
By Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | November 21, 2023
A recent breakthrough in CO2 reduction research involves a newly developed Sn-based catalyst that efficiently produces ethanol, representing a significant step forward in renewable energy technology. (Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn, in case you are angry poor white trash who doesn't know better.)
The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) into carbon-based fuels provides a promising strategy to mitigate CO2 emission and promotes the utilization of renewable energy.
More at https://scitechdaily.com/eco-friendly-breakthrough-single-atom-catalys
t-transforms-co2-into-ethanol/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I look forward to the Thunderf00t video debunking this "breakthrough" that probably breaks one if not all the laws of thermodynamics, as these fake stories always do.
I'm sure it will be as successful a venture as the Waterseer or Solar Freakin' Roadways.
But you keep pretending that the dumbest guy in the room outside of Ted is the smartest guy in the room, Mr. Wizard.
I'm so glad for you that you had a "smart"phone so you could google the periodic table and get the symbol for Tin. We're all very impressed with you right now.
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Quote:Huh.
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Eco-Friendly Breakthrough: Single Atom Catalyst Transforms CO2 Into Ethanol
By Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | November 21, 2023
A recent breakthrough in CO2 reduction research involves a newly developed Sn-based catalyst that efficiently produces ethanol, representing a significant step forward in renewable energy technology. (Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn, in case you are angry poor white trash who doesn't know better.)
The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) into carbon-based fuels provides a promising strategy to mitigate CO2 emission and promotes the utilization of renewable energy.
More at https://scitechdaily.com/eco-friendly-breakthrough-single-atom-catalys
t-transforms-co2-into-ethanol/
What's NOT in the article: "Efficiently" doesn't mean "energy free". In this case, the reaction between formic acid and CO2 is promoted by energy from an electric current.
sECOND, I see you're riding your tech hobby-horse again. Still looking to make a killing on climate tech, hmmm??
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Tiny Fraction Of Global Elites Emit As Much Carbon As Bottom Two-Thirds Of Humanity
Critics who rail against the hypocrisy of wealthy global elites jet-setting on carbon-spewing private planes while pontificating about the need for the rest of us to cut our climate footprints just got a boost from a new study.
Jets airplanes are parked at the Dubendorf Air Base, east of Zurich on Jan. 18, 2023. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images)
It turns out that the world's richest 1 percent emit about the same amount of carbon as the world's poorest two-thirds, according to an analysis from the nonprofit Oxfam International.
This means that a small sliver of global elites, or 77 million people, have produced as much carbon as the 5 billion people that make up the bottom 66 percent by wealth, per the study.
The study also estimates that it would take roughly 1,500 years for someone in the bottom 99 percent to produce as much carbon as the wealthiest billionaires do in just one year.
The study was based on research compiled by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and examined the emissions of various income groups up to 2019. In summary, it suggested that the private jet-setting class of global leaders and policymakers, who take private planes to lead summits addressing the assumed dangers of climate change, may warrant charges of hypocrisy.
The analysis was published as global leaders prepare to meet for climate talks at the COP28 summit in Dubai later in November, where, much like other climate conferences, some elite participants will likely pontificate on the need for ordinary folk to end their reliance on cheap fossil fuel energy to make their ends meet.
'Ludicrous Hypocrisy'
Global leaders and policymakers fixated on fighting the supposed ills of carbon emissions because of models predicting dangerous climate change have often drawn criticism for their use of carbon-spewing private jets.
For instance, private jet use during last year's meetings in Davos, Switzerland, pushed up carbon emissions by four times over the average week.
During the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos between May 22, 2022, and May 26, 2022, 1,040 private jets flew in and out of airports serving Davos, according to a January report by Greenpeace.
The number of jets going in and out of Davos doubled during that week, resulting in 9,700 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which is equivalent to roughly 350,000 average cars.
The majority of these jets were attributed to private flights undertaken by participants for the WEF meeting.
Klara Maria Schenk, a transport campaigner for Greenpeace’s European mobility campaign, called the private jet use at Davos a “distasteful masterclass of hypocrisy,” given that the WEF claims to be committed to the Paris Climate Target of keeping climate warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“Davos has a perfectly adequate railway station, still these people can’t even be bothered to take the train for a trip as short as 21 [kilometers]. Do we really believe that these are the people to solve the problems the world faces?” Ms. Schenk said.
MORE AT https://www.theepochtimes.com/science/tiny-fraction-of-global-elites-e
mit-as-much-carbon-as-bottom-66-percent-5533213
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Quote:It is all about money, Signym. I'm going to go a step further: most people don't know what they are doing because they can't know any more than a pack of chimps knows the meaning of their furry little lives. There is nothing new about that for the last 300,000 years which is why the top 0.1% of humans invented gods to give the lower 99.9% of hairless apes a purpose and a direction in life vastly superior to chimpanzees.
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sECOND, I see you're riding your tech hobby-horse again. Still looking to make a killing on climate tech, hmmm??
What to Expect at COP28 on Fossil Fuels, Climate Finance, and the Paris Agreement
By Nigel Purvis | November 24, 2023, 6:00 AM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/24/cop28-climate-change-united-natio
ns-dubai/
The second storm in Dubai could be about money. Traditionally, developed nations have provided funds to developing nations to both help them adapt to climate change and mitigate increases in climate pollution. During COP28, nations are expected to argue over at least three issues relating to this international climate finance.
The first dispute will be over the adequacy of total climate funding. In 2009, donor countries agreed to mobilize by 2020 $100 billion a year to support climate action in the developing world. While international climate finance has more than doubled and some say tripled over this decade and a half, donor nations failed to reach the $100 billion mark until this year, although the official accounting for 2023 may not be known until 2025. Thanks to recent analysis by the International Energy Agency and others, we now know that greening the energy economy will require mobilizing an additional $2.7 trillion annually from public and private sources. It’s difficult to know what share of that total needs to come from public coffers, but most experts agree that $100 billion in public funding will not suffice to decarbonize the developing world; more than double that may be required over the next decade, although there’s no global consensus on the number at this time. Most likely, COP28 will kick the can down the road on a major new funding pledge, such as by agreeing that nations should agree on a new funding target in 2024 or 2025.
The second dispute over money will center on whether developed nations should do a better job of delivering climate aid to the least-developed nations, particularly for climate adaptation and resilience. Today, only a tiny fraction of international climate finance goes to the poorest nations—3.7 percent by some estimates. Rapidly developing emerging economies gobble up the lion’s share. Over the past decade, in addition, only 23 percent of international climate finance funds adaptation and resilience programs instead of emissions mitigation. This is because reducing climate pollution helps people in donor countries, too, whereas most adaptation funding primarily benefits local communities in poor nations. Plus, reducing emissions means less climate change and less need for adaptation. With climate change driving international migration from Africa and elsewhere, however, developed nations are starting to understand the need for more adaptation and resilience funding. But it’s not at all clear that nations are ready to agree at COP28 on how to rebalance climate aid and direct a larger share to the poorest nations.
The third international climate finance controversy at COP28 will relate to operationalizing the new “loss and damage” fund nations agreed in 2022 to create. Unlike traditional climate aid, the loss and damage fund is meant to provide financial assistance to developing nations that are already suffering from adverse climate impacts, such as more severe hurricanes, floods, droughts, and sea level rise. For the past several months, nations have argued over how much money should go into the fund, how the fund should be capitalized, who should decide how funds are spent, and where the funds should sit to protect against waste, fraud, and abuse. Earlier this
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The United States may prove to be the largest obstacle to reaching agreement on all three of these international climate finance issues. The Biden administration presumably would prefer to delay decisions on big new foreign aid programs until after the U.S. presidential election in November 2024, since Republicans would surely use any new pledges against the president in the general election.
The election is already over and Biden* already lost.
If he were half the man you think he was, he'd just go ahead and do it right now.
And since when has even legality stopped Biden* from passing unpopular policy?
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Quote:With you Trumptards, bluntness is the only effective way to communicate with you: if Trump is not the GOP's candidate in 2024, then Biden will graciously submit if he should lose the election. But if Trump is the GOP's candidate and Biden loses, he should not politely turn the office over to Trump. If Biden doesn't have the intestinal fortitude, the guts, to stop Trump from taking office after Biden loses, he deserves to lose. If Biden won't violently prevent America's own Nazi leadership from taking power, he is a worthless, cowardly person. We will discover who Biden truly is if Trump wins. Keeping it blunt, Biden kills Trump rather than let Trump be President. There have been Presidents who died soon after being sworn in. Trump will be just one more:
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The United States may prove to be the largest obstacle to reaching agreement on all three of these international climate finance issues. The Biden administration presumably would prefer to delay decisions on big new foreign aid programs until after the U.S. presidential election in November 2024, since Republicans would surely use any new pledges against the president in the general election.
The election is already over and Biden* already lost.
If he were half the man you think he was, he'd just go ahead and do it right now.
And since when has even legality stopped Biden* from passing unpopular policy?
• 1 1841: William Henry Harrison.
• 2 1850: Zachary Taylor.
• 3 1865: Abraham Lincoln.
• 4 1881: James A. Garfield.
• 5 1901: William McKinley.
• 6 1923: Warren G. Harding.
• 7 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 8 1963: John F. Kennedy.
• 9 2025: Donald J Trump. (PENDING)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_
who_died_in_office
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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions
How Jesse Jenkins is helping Congress get serious about the power grid
By Peter Fairley | 20 Nov 2023
https://spectrum.ieee.org/jesse-jenkins
In the past two years, the U.S. Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C in this century.
Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins, a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is.
In 2021 and 2022, during the high-stakes negotiations over what became the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, the ZERO Lab and the San Francisco–based consultancy Evolved Energy Research operated a climate-modeling war room that provided rapid-fire analyses of the likely effects of shifting investments among a smorgasbord of clean-energy technologies. As legislation worked its way through Congress, Jenkins’s team provided elected officials, staffers, and stakeholders with a running tally of the possible trade-offs and payoffs in emissions, jobs, and economic growth.
Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades.
As TheWall Street Journal noted in a July 2023 profile, Jenkins has played an “outsized role” in determining where federal cash can have the biggest impact, and politicos like White House clean-energy advisor John Podesta name-drop the professor and his numbers to sell their ideas.
IEEE Spectrum contributing editor Peter Fairley recently spoke with Jenkins via Zoom about where the U.S. energy system needs to go and how the latest energy models can help.
Jesse Jenkins on:
• How REPEAT influenced Congress
• How energy-system modeling has evolved
• Why energy modeling is useful
• The value of open-source energy models
• The importance of power grid expansion
• Climate resiliency for the grid
• The role of HVDC transmission
• How the U.S, can meet its emissions goals
More at https://spectrum.ieee.org/jesse-jenkins
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SECOND: It is all about money, Signym. I'm going to go a step further: most people don't know what they are doing because they can't know any more than a pack of chimps knows the meaning of their furry little lives. There is nothing new about that for the last 300,000 years which is why the top 0.1% of humans invented gods to give the lower 99.9% of hairless apes a purpose and a direction in life vastly superior to chimpanzees.
So much for all of your virtue - signaling!!
Money is your god. Whoever invented money is smarter than you bc they gave YOUR life "meaning" when it had none.
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.... With you Trumptards, bluntness is the only effective way to communicate with you: if Trump is not the GOP's candidate in 2024, then Biden will graciously submit if he should lose the election. But if Trump is the GOP's candidate and Biden loses, he should not politely turn the office over to Trump. If Biden doesn't have the intestinal fortitude, the guts, to stop Trump from taking office after Biden loses, he deserves to lose. If Biden won't violently prevent America's own Nazi leadership from taking power, he is a worthless, cowardly person. We will discover who Biden truly is if Trump wins. Keeping it blunt, Biden kills Trump rather than let Trump be President. There have been Presidents who died soon after being sworn in. Trump will be just one more:
• 1 1841: William Henry Harrison.
• 2 1850: Zachary Taylor.
• 3 1865: Abraham Lincoln.
• 4 1881: James A. Garfield.
• 5 1901: William McKinley.
• 6 1923: Warren G. Harding.
• 7 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 8 1963: John F. Kennedy.
• 9 2025: Donald J Trump (PENDING)
I see you let REAVERBOT out today. Did you have a less- than- stellar Thanksgiving day, hmmm?
Or are you just trying to derail the discussion away from the profligracy of the wealthy?
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That whole 2nd part of Second's latest rant is just saying that Biden* should do exactly what Democrats claim Trump would do when he's President.
It's so funny watching these lunatics self-own at every opportunity.
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Jeff Bezos' Superyacht Generates 447 Times The Yearly Carbon Emissions Of Average US Household
Jeff Bezos’ superyacht produces 7K tons of carbon emissions per year: report
Published Nov. 25, 2023, 7:53 a.m. ET
So much for smooth sailing.
Jeff Bezos — who has pledged to spend billions of dollars to help fight climate change — nonetheless owns a $500 million superyacht that generates thousands of tons of carbon emissions each year, according to a new analysis by Indiana University researchers.
The Amazon founder’s 417-foot sailing yacht “Koru,” produces an astounding minimum of 7,154 tons of greenhouse gasses annually — roughly 447 times the entire annual carbon footprint of your average American, the Indiana researchers found.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' triple-masted $500 million superyacht is far from climate-friendly, generating hundreds of times the annual carbon footprint of a typical American household.
At 417 feet, "Koru" is the world's largest sailing yacht. It produces a whopping 7,154 tons of greenhouse gasses on a per-annum basis, or about 447 times the entire annual carbon footprint of the average US household, the New York Post reported, citing Indiana researchers.
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He wouldn't be a Democrat if he wasn't a hypocrite.
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Quote:You remembered that I'm in the fossil fuel business. Good for you!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He wouldn't be a Democrat if he wasn't a hypocrite.
There are a few ways to reduce fossil fuel use:
1) volunteer to stop buying fossil fuel because you care about the planet
2) raise the price of fuel for fossil fuel users who don't care about anything except price
3) forbid the sale and also the use of machines that burn fossil fuel because fossil fuel users are pigheaded
4) Command the fossil fuel sellers to limit how much they sell (which is actually option #2 in disguise)
The United States is poised to extract more oil and gas than ever before in 2023, a year that is certain to be the hottest ever recorded, providing a daunting backdrop to crucial United Nations climate talks that hold the hope of an agreement to end the era of fossil fuels.
The US’s status as the world’s leading oil and gas behemoth has only strengthened this year, even amid warnings from Joe Biden himself over the unfolding climate crisis, with the latest federal government forecast showing a record 12.9m barrels of crude oil, more than double what was produced a decade ago, will be extracted in 2023.
Records will also be broken this year for gas production, with a glut of new export terminals on the Gulf of Mexico coast facilitating a boom that will see US exports of liquified natural gas (or LNG) double in the next four years.
Tellingly, the US government expects this frenzy of oil and gas activity to continue at near-record levels right up to 2050, a point at which scientists say planet-heating emissions must be eliminated to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown. A third of the world’s planned oil and gas expansion in this period will occur in the US, a recent report found.
At the Cop28 climate summit, starting in Dubai this week, the European Union and a cadre of “high ambition” countries that range from Kenya to Samoa will push for an agreed “phaseout” of fossil fuels. António Guterres, secretary general of the UN, has called fossil fuel production the “poisonous root” of the climate crisis that should be dismantled. “Cop28 must send a clear signal that the fossil fuel age is out of gas, that its end is inevitable,” he said.
The US’s surging fossil fuel production casts a pall over such ambitions, however. “It’s particularly alarming to see the projections of record US oil and gas production year after year until 2050,” said Michael Lazarus, a senior scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute, which helped produce a recent UN report finding the world is planning double the amount of fossil fuel production consistent with remaining within a 1.5C (2.7F) global temperature rise compared with pre-industrial times.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/27/us-oil-gas-record-
fossil-fuels-cop28-united-nations
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You remembered that I'm in the fossil fuel business. Good for you!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He wouldn't be a Democrat if he wasn't a hypocrite.
That one wasn't for you. That was for Jeff Bezos.
This one was for you:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64887&mid=11842
65#1184265
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Russia’s attempt to artificially create a migrant crisis at the Finnish border appears to be failing due to Finnish authorities’ swift response. Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo stated on November 27 that the Finnish government will close the last border crossing with Russia “if necessary” and reported that the Finnish government is ready to take unspecified additional measures in response to Russia’s artificially generated migrant crisis.[20] Finland previously closed three checkpoints on the Finnish-Russian border on November 23, leaving only its northernmost border crossing open.[21] Several other Finnish government officials also signaled their support for closing the entire border with Russia.[22] A Russian insider source claimed that Russian Presidential Administration First Deputy Head Sergei Kiriyenko instructed Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) Head Vladimir Kolokoltsev to gather migrants from the Middle East, Africa, and other regions to send them to the Finnish border.[23] The insider source complained that Finnish border authorities stopped most migrants from crossing into Finland and that Russian authorities must now settle the migrants in Russia.[24]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-november-27-2023
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Good for the Finns.
Stopping Putin from doing to them what Democrats do to their own People every day.
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I have some free time today. Let's address your points.
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There are a few ways to reduce fossil fuel use:
1) volunteer to stop buying fossil fuel because you care about the planet
You first.
Actually. Me first. I'm not installing a windmill in my back yard or solar panels on my roof, but I've driven an average of about 1,500 miles per year for years now. Every one of my monthly energy reports for gas and electric combined show that I use anywhere from 20% to 60% less than my Efficient Neighbors.
Alternative energy is expensive, unreliable, high-maintenance, and completely non-recyclable. Until all of the above change, it will not ever be adopted en masse. And until we start throwing nuclear power back in the mix we will never be free of fossil fuel. Wind and Solar are nothing more than a good supplement to REAL power, whether it be from fossil fuels or nuclear plants.
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2) raise the price of fuel for fossil fuel users who don't care about anything except price
You already did that. And with no genuine alternatives in place, you're reaping the benefits of this decision.
How are those polls treating you?
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3) forbid the sale and also the use of machines that burn fossil fuel because fossil fuel users are pigheaded
Deeply, deeply unpopular whenever it's enacted. Be my guest and try it.
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4) Command the fossil fuel sellers to limit how much they sell (which is actually option #2 in disguise)
Outside of raising the prices artificially through taxes, the Government doesn't get to do that. Your party has made everything cost much more than it did only 3 years ago, and this isn't the only reason for those price increases.
But by all means, please raise them some more before the election.
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The United States is poised to extract more oil and gas than ever before in 2023, a year that is certain to be the hottest ever recorded, providing a daunting backdrop to crucial United Nations climate talks that hold the hope of an agreement to end the era of fossil fuels.
And Democrats are running the show with an upcoming election showing red flags all over that they're about to be pummeled. Imagine that, huh?
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The US’s status as the world’s leading oil and gas behemoth has only strengthened this year, even amid warnings from Joe Biden himself over the unfolding climate crisis, with the latest federal government forecast showing a record 12.9m barrels of crude oil, more than double what was produced a decade ago, will be extracted in 2023.
Democrats being Hypocrites being Democrats.
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Records will also be broken this year for gas production, with a glut of new export terminals on the Gulf of Mexico coast facilitating a boom that will see US exports of liquified natural gas (or LNG) double in the next four years.
Gotta get those prices down before we lose the 2024 elections!
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Tellingly, the US government expects this frenzy of oil and gas activity to continue at near-record levels right up to 2050, a point at which scientists say planet-heating emissions must be eliminated to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown. A third of the world’s planned oil and gas expansion in this period will occur in the US, a recent report found.
There's just as many scientists out there that would argue this opinion. You just don't ever hear from any of them because they're shut out of the government/media apparatus.
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At the Cop28 climate summit, starting in Dubai this week, the European Union and a cadre of “high ambition” countries that range from Kenya to Samoa will push for an agreed “phaseout” of fossil fuels. António Guterres, secretary general of the UN, has called fossil fuel production the “poisonous root” of the climate crisis that should be dismantled. “Cop28 must send a clear signal that the fossil fuel age is out of gas, that its end is inevitab
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He wouldn't be a Democrat if he wasn't a hypocrite.
SECOND: You remembered that I'm in the fossil fuel business. Good for you!
There are a few ways to reduce fossil fuel use:
You forgot at least a dozen other ways to reduce fossil fuels use, and at least a couple dozen ways to either enhance carbon dioxide sequestration or reduce non-anthropogenic carbon dioxide/ greenhouse gas emissions.
One bad forest fire year undid EIGHTEEN YEARS of CA decarbonization efforts
You keep trying to narrow the options. That's the mark of a small mind. Or a devious one.
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One reason why U.S. politics is so contested is because a battle is taking place between two rival growth models. One growth model is represented by the economies of the two coasts – software, media, government, finance, real estate, and the like. The other model is found in the part of the country going from Alaska down the Dakotas through Appalachia, Texas, the panhandle, and so on. This has a growth model based around the transformation, excavation, and derivatives of carbon: farms, fertilizer, and fuel.
These two growth models are in fundamental conflict. The coasts would love green energy, but the more that the U.S. turns green, the worse it is for parts of the country that are heavily invested in carbon assets. As Jeff Colgan, Jessica Green, and Thomas Hale have argued, this gives rise to “existential politics.” Getting to cheap green electricity would effectively devalue or defund North Dakota and Shell. This existential fight is reshaping the Democratic and Republican coalitions.
Which is likely to win?
It’s on a knife edge. If the Democrats win next time around, they can keep on putting facts on the ground – building battery factories and associated technology plants in states like Georgia and turning them blue, or breaking off part of the Texas vote with benefits and infrastructure for wind power. But it’s enormously fragile. If Trump and the Republicans win, it may be the end of the green transition in the U.S. I don’t think people have woken up to that yet.
If Trump wins and the U.S. goes big on the carbon growth model, people there will get a massive short-term return on investment, because the world is carbon short right now, and it needs American liquid natural gas. But as the rest of the world decarbonizes, you know what it won’t need in a decade or so? Very much oil.
https://goodauthority.org/news/how-will-the-world-pay-for-the-green-tr
ansition/
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I already answered this in another thread
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One reason why U.S. politics is so contested is because a battle is taking place between two rival growth models. One growth model is represented by the economies of the two coasts – software, media, government, finance, real estate, and the like...
Except that is not "economy", that is FINANCE. Ignorant people conflate them all the time. Finance is fiddling with money in FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate).
An ECONOMY is based on production of real things: food, timber, steel, cement, fiber, batteries, chips, machine parts, and the like.
Not having an ECONOMY is why the USA is losing the war in Ukraine. Not having an ECONOMY is why we're dependent on China and the value of our dollar, so we can buy things on credit and run a negative balance of trade "forever".Quote:Except that's a stupid characterization.
The other model is found in the part of the country going from Alaska down the Dakotas through Appalachia, Texas, the panhandle, and so on. This has a growth model based around the transformation, excavation, and derivatives of carbon: farms, fertilizer, and fuel.
These two growth models are in fundamental conflict. The coasts would love green energy, but the more that the U.S. turns green, the worse it is for parts of the country that are heavily invested in carbon assets.
Farming, ranching, and forestry has a positive impact, and can have a highly positive impact on GHG, if managed properly.
Industry does need fuel, but there are ways to make it more efficient. One way to make it more efficient is to stop producing wasteful products, like superyachts, private jets, dysfunctional military hardware, and shoddy irreparable consumer goods.
Building production plants that are efficient and that make useful things of durable value is a lot better for the environment AND for our nation than offshoring it to China, India or wherever and having THEM emit GHC.
Part of the reason why "the coasts" might be in love with "green" is bc they have no idea where the "things" in their lives come from.
Food comes from farms. Chocolate milk does NOT come from brown cows! Electrcity comes from power plants. Solar cells come from factories. Clothes are made of fabric, and fabric is made on looms from thread, which comes from mills. Bread comes from bakeries.
Having source tested at all kinds of industries, I'm a lot more aware than most about how stuff is made.
It should be part of every high school curriculum, beside reading, writing, math, homemaking skills, critical thinking, and personal finance, to learn about the world of production. There should be a course on "how things are made" and nothing drives that point home like visiting something big: a refinery, a coking plant, a power plant, a cement kiln, a steel mill, a farm, a water purification plant, even a landfill.Quote:Again, misrepresenting the "sides". "Shell" is not ALL of production. There is a lot of production that ISN'T "Shell", or Exxon, or BPArco.
As Jeff Colgan, Jessica Green, and Thomas Hale have argued, this gives rise to “existential politics.” Getting to cheap green electricity would effectively devalue or defund North Dakota and Shell. This existential fight is reshaping the Democratic and Republican coalitions.
And getting clean cheap electricity?
GREAT, if it happens. But right now that's an irrelevant point bc it hasn't happened yet, and is not likely to happen in the foreseeable future. And in addition, there is lot of production that can't use electricity. You're not about to grow wheat or make cement with electricity.
This article is stupid beyond belief and plays to people's general ignorance and bias.
But the article is right about one thjng: this is existential for everyone, bc people can't exist without th
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Open secret at climate talks: The top temperature goal is mostly gone
Researchers injected a sobering finding into global climate negotiations Sunday by saying the world will likely fail its most important warming test.
By Chelsea Harvey | 12/03/2023 07:00 AM EST
Leading scientists worldwide delivered a striking dose of reality to the United Nations on Sunday: it’s “becoming inevitable” that countries will miss the ambitious target they set eight years ago for limiting the warming of the Earth.
The ominous estimate points to the growing likelihood that global warming will shoot past 1.5 degrees Celsius before the end of this century, inflicting what scientists describe as an overwhelming toll from intensifying storms, drought and heat on people and the economy. It also injects an urgent message into global climate talks in Dubai, where the debate over ramping down fossil fuels is set to flare over the next two weeks.
Surpassing the temperature threshold — even temporarily — would be a major blow to the international Paris climate agreement from 2015, which called for nations to keep global temperatures well within 2 degrees Celsius of their preindustrial levels, and within 1.5 degrees if at all possible. The findings come amid climate talks that for the first time are focused on taking stock of whether almost 200 nations are meeting that goal. Early indications offer a bleak picture.
The 1.5-degree target has become a rallying point for nations attending the COP28 climate talks, despite rising certainty among scientists that the world will spill over that threshold, potentially within a decade. Temperatures have already risen between 1.1 and 1.3 degrees.
It may be possible to bring global temperatures back down again, using still-unproven technological means to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But at least some overshoot is probably unavoidable, scientists said in the new report to the U.N.
The looming shadow of overshoot is one of 10 stark warnings the researchers presented Sunday in an annual report on top climate science insights from the past year.
More at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/03/cop28-global-temperature-goal
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Quote:Why not just write that "Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax"? It is shorter and makes your position clear.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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A Brief History of President Trump's Stance on Climate Change
https://people.com/politics/a-brief-history-of-president-trumps-stance
-on-climate-change-lies-misstatements-misspellings/
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India calls for more action on climate change at COP28
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Commensurate to its rising influence in international economic and geopolitical affairs, India has, in the last few years, become increasingly proactive at the annual climate change conference, also known as the Conference of Parties (to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), or simply COP.
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-climate/cop28-in
dias-role-at-the-climate-conferences-9045917/
In the meantime, India produced a record amount of electricity from coal
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India turns to coal as hydro generation falls
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/india-turns-coal-hydro-gen
eration-falls-2023-11-30/
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India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/india-produced-record-amounts-electr
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And is using COP28 to beg for money
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Emerging world needs climate finance and to burn coal, India says
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/coal-will-remain-an-important-part
-indias-energy-needs-govt-official-2023-11-30/
So apparently the issue for India isn't REALLY about climate bc they want to burn more coal, and they want others to burn more coal. They just want to get money.
Anything that Modhi days is bullshit
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India has walked the talk when it comes to climate action: PM Modi ahead of COP28
https://m.timesofindia.com/india/india-has-walked-the-talk-when-it-com
es-to-climate-action-pm-modi-ahead-of-cop28/articleshow/105633735.cms
BUT THEN, THAT'S TRUE OF MOST WESTERN ELITE.
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Trump repeatedly denies climate science and says ‘we shouldn’t be worried about global warming’
Dec 6, 2023
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-climate
-change-global-warming-b2459167.html
Trump has previously also called climate change ‘nonexistent’ and ‘make-believe problem’
The former president also attacked US climate envoy John Kerry during the town hall and alleged that “he is destroying our country”.
He has posted numerous tweets on X/Twitter implying that cold weather contradicts the concept of climate change, even though the World Meteorological Organization has reported that the 20 warmest years on record occurred in the past 22 years.
He said: “We have to fire up our factories. Wind is not going to fire up our factories and it’s the most expensive energy, even solar. I like solar from a concept standpoint, but it’s massively expensive and we can’t allow China to build a factory a week and we do nothing. They build a coal plant and they’re obvious about it. And then [Joe] Biden goes to see them about global warming.”
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Global Emissions Are Set For Another Record This Year, Thanks To China And India
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/global-emissions-are-set-another-reco
rd-year-thanks-china-and-india
Outsourcing our manufacturing to other nations who will emit on our behalf isn't a solution for climate change, and everything our government proposes to do is either a scam on behalf of the uber wealthy or a way to deprive everyone else.
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Trump repeatedly denies climate science and says ‘we shouldn’t be worried about global warming’
Dec 6, 2023
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-climate
-change-global-warming-b2459167.html
Trump has previously also called climate change ‘nonexistent’ and ‘make-believe problem’
The former president also attacked US climate envoy John Kerry during the town hall and alleged that “he is destroying our country”.
He has posted numerous tweets on X/Twitter implying that cold weather contradicts the concept of climate change, even though the World Meteorological Organization has reported that the 20 warmest years on record occurred in the past 22 years.
He said: “We have to fire up our factories. Wind is not going to fire up our factories and it’s the most expensive energy, even solar. I like solar from a concept standpoint, but it’s massively expensive and we can’t allow China to build a factory a week and we do nothing. They build a coal plant and they’re obvious about it. And then [Joe] Biden goes to see them about global warming.”
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Unless We Cut Emissions, Ice Sheets, Forests and Ocean Currents Are Headed for Catastrophe
Chelsea Harvey, E&E News | Dec 6, 2023
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unless-we-cut-emissions-ice
-sheets-forests-and-ocean-currents-are-headed-for-catastrophe/
CLIMATEWIRE | The melting Greenland ice sheet is the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise — and some experts are warning it could soon cross the threshold into a slow but irreversible death spiral.
A sweeping new scientific report, with contributions from more than 200 researchers, finds that continued warming could trigger not only the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet but a wide variety of tipping points in the Earth's climate system. Once crossed, those thresholds would have unstoppable consequences. https://global-tipping-points.org/
That means today’s climate efforts — or failures — could commit the planet to centuries of change, affecting human societies for generations to come.
Chief among the report’s recommendations is a rapid phase-out of greenhouse gas emissions from human land use and the burning of fossil fuels. Countries have agreed to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, or as close to that target as possible — a goal that requires global emissions to reach net zero by 2050.
Greenland is one immediate worry. While it’s still unclear exactly how much warming it would take to push the ice sheet over the edge, some experts say it could be as little as 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels. Temperatures have already risen between 1.1 and 1.3 degrees.
Other tipping points could also be triggered at 1.5 degrees of warming, including unstoppable ice loss in West Antarctica; rampant thawing of permafrost; widespread coral die-offs; and the collapse of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre, a circular ocean current that helps distribute heat through parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
None of them is definite yet. And not all would happen quickly: The collapse of the Greenland ice sheet could take hundreds or thousands of years to unfold.
But if triggered, the tipping points would lock in a future world that’s dramatically different from today’s.
“This report is the most comprehensive review to date on tipping points in the Earth System,” said Sina Loriani of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, one of the report’s lead authors, in a statement. “Crossing these thresholds may trigger fundamental and sometimes abrupt changes that could irreversibly determine the fate of essential parts of our Earth system for the coming hundreds or thousands of years.”
Averting a crisis
The report evaluates a total of 26 tipping points across the Earth system, including ice sheets and glaciers, forests, grasslands, ocean currents, monsoons and even tropical clouds. Many could have dire consequences for human life if activated.
Rampant ice melt could dramatically raise global sea levels for centuries to come. The shutdown of major ocean currents could disrupt weather patterns around the globe.
Permafrost — a frozen layer of soil common in the Arctic — releases large volumes of carbon dioxide and methane as it thaws. Unstoppable thawing could unleash a torrent of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, further accelerating global warming.
Continued warming and drought could drive the Amazon into an uncontrollable transformation from lush rainforest into dry grasslands. That, too, would release huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the air. It would likely drive massive losses in biodiversity, and could further warm and dry the local climate, threatening agricultural production. https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2022/03/08/amazon-ra
inforest-nears-dangerous-tipping-point-00014831
For most of the 26 tipping points, it’s uncertain exactly how much warming it would take to trigger them. Several could be imminent once the planet warms by 1.5 degrees, while others are likely more distant possibilities.
And if one tipping point is triggered, the report warns, others could fo
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So,when are you going to get off your tech hobby- horse "investment/ market", elite- privilege, pro- endless war, pointless zero- carbon, and empty virtue- signalling agendas, and start promoting practical action that will really help?
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Quote:A message to the thing signified by "Signym": even for a machine, you are crazy and stupid and impossible to change. If "Signym" were a human, you would be even less sane, less rational, and less flexible than that postulated machine.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So,when are you going to get off your tech hobby- horse "investment/ market", elite- privilege, pro- endless war, pointless zero- carbon, and empty virtue- signalling agendas, and start promoting practical action that will really help?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A message to the thing signified by "Signym": even for a machine, you are crazy and stupid and impossible to change. If "Signym" were a human, you would be even less sane, less rational, and less flexible than that postulated machine.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So,when are you going to get off your tech hobby- horse "investment/ market", elite- privilege, pro- endless war, pointless zero- carbon, and empty virtue- signalling agendas, and start promoting practical action that will really help?
OH, TOUCHE!
Yeah, you really got me with that name-calling!!
Especially since you implied I was too sane, too rational, and too flexible to be human!
Now, how about addressing THE TOPIC?
PS: Reality is what it is. All your blather and brainwashing isn't gonna change it.
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Quote:You have heard of synergy? Right? I know people in the real world with the same opinions as yours (Signym's, 6ix's, etc.) on climate change, Trump, Ukraine, etc. but I don't have their commentary, their reasons for why they hold those opinions. I know all about their screwed-up lives but not their "reasoning" for screwing life up. This is where the synergy comes in.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
OH, TOUCHE!
Yeah, you really got me with that name-calling!!
Especially since you implied I was too sane, too rational, and too flexible to be human!
Now, how about addressing THE TOPIC?
PS: Reality is what it is. All your blather and brainwashing isn't gonna change it.
For Signym, 6ix, and the other Trumptards at fireflyfans.net I have gotten extensive commentary on why they hold their opinions on climate change, Trump, Ukraine, etc. but I don't have much knowledge about how screwed up their real lives are.
I put the parts together: commentary/reasons from one group with specifically screwed up ways of living from the other group to achieve a whole representation of the people in both groups that hold the same opinions. You people are really fucked up both in the head and in real life. That is synergy. I thank you (Signym, 6ix, etc.) for explaining Trumptards to me. I now have the whole horrifying picture at last of what you are. I have all the pieces to explain why Trumptards are bitter, estranged, troubled, even diseased people. You are a danger to yourselves.
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How about THE TOPIC?
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Second is a garbage human being and a waste of carbon.
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Second is a garbage human being and a waste of carbon.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
Of course.
This is what SECOND does when he's wrong and he knows it.
And now he's going to post a wall of gibberish to try and bury this exchange.
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Quote:I know you get this from Trump. Or is it the other way around? Trump repeats back what you want to hear?
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Second is a garbage human being and a waste of carbon.
Trump Slams John Kerry In Wild Town Hall, Insisting Climate Change Isn’t A Problem
By Claire O'Hare | Dec 7, 2023
https://www.stateofunion.org/2023/12/07/trump-slams-john-kerry-in-wild
-town-hall-insisting-climate-change-isnt-a-problem-2/
Former President Donald Trump reiterated his denial of climate change during a town hall in Iowa, criticizing John Kerry’s efforts on climate and dismissing the urgency of the climate crisis.
Trump also opposed the Green New Deal, advocating for continued use of fossil fuels and making additional attacks on electric vehicles.
“Our country can be rich again. John Kerry has to be stopped. He’s destroying our country,” Trump said.
“The only global warming we should be thinking about or worrying about is nuclear global warming, not global warming,” Trump added.
Trump claimed that when Kerry talks of climate change around the globe, people “treat him with respect,” but then say, “what an idiot, what a jerk” when he is gone.
“I am an environmentalist, but we’re going to destroy our country with this Green New Deal stuff that doesn’t work just to finish, we have so much wealth and power under our feet. No other country has it,” Trump said.
The comments come amid the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, where there is ongoing debate about the future of fossil fuels and the need to address global warming.
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Quote:I've been dealing with dullards like you for decades and they require positive and negative reinforcement (or simply Carrots and Sticks) to train them to do useful tricks. Persuasion and scientific evidence do not work with lower animals. It's always Carrots and Sticks. That's how it will have to be to adjust dull-witted Americans to climate change. They will have to be offered some rewards such as cheaper electricity (the Carrot) and some agony such as raising the price of gasoline (the Stick) to teach them tricks about how to live without destroying the world. Showing them the truth that they are destroying the world will never move them to learn a new trick. It has got to be Carrots and Sticks.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Of course.
This is what SECOND does when he's wrong and he knows it.
And now he's going to post a wall of gibberish to try and bury this exchange.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Of course.
This is what SECOND does when he's wrong and he knows it.
And now he's going to post a wall of gibberish to try and bury this exchange.
SECOND: I've been dealing with dullards like you for decades and they require positive and negative reinforcement (or simply Carrots and Sticks) to train them to do useful tricks. Persuasion and scientific evidence do not work with lower animals. It's always Carrots and Sticks. That's how it will have to be to adjust dull-witted Americans to climate change. They will have to be offered some rewards such as cheaper electricity (the Carrot) and some agony such as raising the price of gasoline (the Stick) to teach them tricks about how to live without destroying the world. Showing them the truth that they are destroying the world will never move them to learn a new trick. It has got to be Carrots and Sticks.
Son, you don't have the capacity to apply carrots and sticks bc posting from your mom's basement doesn't count.
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Farmers Are Turning To An Ancient Practice To Improve Agriculture
Sunday, Dec 10, 2023 - 05:10 AM
Authored by Steve Gillman viaq RealClear Wire,
From ancient Egypt to medieval England, cultivating one or more crops in the same field was common practice among many farmers for thousands of years. However, in the last century, food producers largely stopped ‘intercropping’ and moved towards an industrial type of agriculture – a shift that contributed to 34% of the world’s farmland being degraded today.
“Interest is growing in intercropping [again] because farmers increasingly understand it improves their soil health,” said Jerry Allford, an organic farmer and advisor from the Soil Association, a UK charity promoting sustainable agriculture. Jerry thinks this renewed focus can “open up a whole new way of farming” because it can bridge profitability with regenerative agriculture practices.
“In the case of growing a legume and cereal together, we know there is nutrient transfer between the two crops,” he said, adding that this reduces the need for synthetic fertilisers and its associated costs. Other potential benefits include reduced weeds, pests and diseases as well as higher resistance to extreme weather from climate change – all of which can improve farmers’ bottom line.
To understand and amplify the potential of intercropping, Jerry is running a range of trials where farmers grow a mix of crops on the same stretch of land. This is part of an EU project called LEGUMINOSE which is researching the benefits of intercropping in eight European countries, as well as in Egypt and Pakistan. In total, there will be 180 ‘living labs’ where farmers in monoculture systems introduce a strip of intercropped cereals and legumes, such as wheat and peas or barley and broad beans.
Each living lab will be tailored to its region with the farmer choosing the techniques and crops most relevant to their area, such as drilling depth, seed mix and planting methods. The idea is that this will enable food producers to produce more practical results, something which LEGUMINOSE wants to use to attract others to intercropping.
One of the UK’s living labs recently finished and Jerry says it has already provided an insight into intercropping’s promise. The test farm planted wheat and beans, reporting a 27% increase in the intercropped plot compared to the monoculture strips on the same farm. Less weeds were also reported while a preliminary analysis of the soil showed less plant disease present between the two, meaning less need to buy and use agricultural chemicals.
The economic potential of intercropping does not stop there either. Farmers can choose to grow a secondary crop for the market, such as a legume for human and animal consumption, or a plant that can enhance the quality of a primary crop.
“We're also finding that intercropped wheat is meeting UK milling specifications easier, so it could produce a premium price for the farmer,” Jerry said, adding that he hopes this drives an uptake of intercropping and the practice becomes mainstream in the agriculture sector.
Models for scale
In Europe, only 2% of farmers currently use a legume-cereal intercrop. Shamina Imran Pathan, LEGUMINOSE’s project coordinator, says it will not be easy to make the practice go mainstream, but providing farmers with the right information and tool can help them switch quicker from a monocultural farming system to a more regenerative one.
“Many farmers still don’t know what intercropping is,” Pathan points out. “That’s why we need to involve more and more farmers to increase their knowledge about mixing crops together.”
The living labs are designed to galvanise discussions among farmers and boost uptake that way, but LEGUMINOSE will also reinforce this knowledge through seven additional research fields that explore the benefits of intercropping in precise detail. Academics from several European universities will collect soil samples from farms and conduct a range of physical, chemical and biological analyses t
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The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future
By Robert Chris and Hugh Hunt, Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge | December 8, 2023 11:37am EST
https://theconversation.com/the-disagreement-between-two-climate-scien
tists-that-will-decide-our-future-217759
In his new paper, James Hansen argues that if the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases remains close to its current level, the surface temperature will stabilise after several hundred years between 8°C and 10°C above the pre-industrial level.
https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889?searchresult
=1&login=false
Of this, at least 2°C will emerge by mid-century, and probably a further 3°C a century from now. A temperature increase of this magnitude would be catastrophic for life on Earth. Hansen adds that to avoid such an outcome, brightening Earth is now necessary to halt the warming in the pipeline from past emissions.
Time for reflection
The differences between Mann and Hansen are significant for the global response to climate change.
Mann says that allowing emissions to reach net zero by mid-century is sufficient, while Hansen maintains that on its own it would be disastrous and that steps must now be taken in addition to brighten the planet.
Brightening Earth could also reverse the reductions in reflectivity already caused by climate change. Data indicates that from 1998 to 2017, Earth dimmed by about 0.5 watts per square metre, largely due to the loss of ice.
Given what’s at stake, we hope Mann and Hansen resolve these differences quickly to help the public and policymakers understand what it will take to minimise the likelihood of imminent massive and widespread ecosystem destruction and its disastrous effects on humanity.
While 1.5°C may be dead, there may still be time to prevent cascading system failures. But not if we continue to squabble over the nature and extent of the risks.
More at https://theconversation.com/the-disagreement-between-two-climate-scien
tists-that-will-decide-our-future-217759
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The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future
Why, oh why, do you keep posting such ridiculous narratives?
The western elites, who control so much of what happens in the western world, dont give a crap about climate or climate science, and ESPECIALLY NOT climate scientists. Yanno, all they really want is more power.
And most of the non-western world at this point doesn't give a fuck about western world concerns.
Dood, get a grip on your fantasies.
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Quote:I wondered which "western elites" want more fossil fuel and power? Oh! I suddenly remember this guy: “You know why I wanted to be a dictator? Because I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill.” - Trump
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Originally posted by second:
The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future
Why, oh why, do you keep posting such ridiculous narratives?
The western elites, who control so much of what happens in the western world, dont give a crap about climate or climate science, and ESPECIALLY NOT climate scientists. Yanno, all they really want is more power.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/11/dona
ld-trump-dictator-one-day-reelected/71880010007/
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Financiers, big pharma ... auto mfrs, MIC, transportation, electronics mfrs, ... NONE of the elites REALLY want to slow down climate change. If they really wanted to, they would cut back on THEIR OWN excesses and wasteful products.
Not seeing any real impetus to fix things, just a lot of self-serving virtue signalling.
WEF just wants to depopulate the globe and impoverish the remainder. Others just want more profit.
Please manage your fantasies better.
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Quote:You keep repeating your fantasy, over and over. Perhaps because Russia is both a huge fossil fuel seller and a frozen wasteland that Russians would love to turn into the tropics, as Siberia was back in the days of the dinosaurs. And Russians bitch and moan about the Evil Capitalists, the same as Signym does. There's a connection!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Financiers, big pharma ... auto mfrs, MIC, transportation, electronics mfrs, ... NONE of the elites REALLY want to slow down climate change. If they really wanted to, they would cut back on THEIR OWN excesses and wasteful products.
Not seeing any real impetus to fix things, just a lot of self-serving virtue signalling.
WEF just wants to depopulate the globe and impoverish the remainder. Others just want more profit.
Please manage your fantasies better.
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Here you go, idiot...
But keep driving around that fake Ford not-F-150 that can't haul anything and smelling your own farts.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Financiers, big pharma ... auto mfrs, MIC, transportation, electronics mfrs, ... NONE of the elites REALLY want to slow down climate change. If they really wanted to, they would cut back on THEIR OWN excesses and wasteful products.
Not seeing any real impetus to fix things, just a lot of self-serving virtue signalling.
WEF just wants to depopulate the globe and impoverish the remainder. Others just want more profit.
Please manage your fantasies better.
SECOND: You keep repeating your fantasy, over and over. Perhaps because Russia is both a huge fossil fuel seller and a frozen wasteland that Russians would love to turn into the tropics, as Siberia was back in the days of the dinosaurs. And Russians bitch and moan about the Evil Capitalists, the same as Signym does. There's a connection!
WOW.
Not on topic.
Not even meaningless virtue-sigalling.
Just an attempted smear job.
Way to go, 'tard!
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The U.N. found global emissions need to fall 42 percent by 2030 to put the world on track to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 or by 28 percent to hold temperature increases to the 2 C targeted by the Paris Agreement. Doing so would require a sudden reversal in global emission trends, which have risen steadily in recent decades. The longer it takes the world to meaningfully cut emissions, the more carbon dioxide removal technology will be needed to stabilize global temperatures, the U.N. said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/world-pace-blow-past-paris-climate-tar
gets-united-nations-says/
Investment in renewable energy ($659 billion) now exceeds money spent on oil and gas production ($508 billion), according to IEA.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cop28s-climate-rhetoric-is-
in-stark-contrast-to-our-dependence-on-fossil-fuels/
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After a short walk from my house, I can see the red blinking light at the top of the Calpine Baytown power plant smokestacks:
Calpine to receive up to $270M from DOE for carbon capture at Baytown power plant
By Claire Hao, Staff writer | Dec 15, 2023
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/calpine-carbo
n-capture-baytown-doe-funding-18554862.php
The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding up to $270 million in a cost-sharing agreement for a new carbon capture and storage project in Baytown to be built by Calpine, a power generation company based in Houston. https://www.energy.gov/oced/carbon-capture-demonstration-projects-sele
ctions-award-negotiations
The project would capture carbon dioxide emissions from Calpine’s 896-megawatt natural gas power plant in Baytown, which provides power to the Texas electric grid as well as steam and power to the adjacent Covestro chemicals facility, according to a company statement. One megawatt can power about 200 Texas homes, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state's grid operator.
Calpine’s Baytown carbon capture project would capture and store approximately 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year, the company said. Carbon capture equipment will reduce the intensity of emissions at two of the plant’s three combustion turbines at a design capture rate of 95%, the statement said. https://calpinecarboncapture.com/calpines-baytown-ccs-project-selected
-by-the-department-of-energy-to-advance-carbon-capture-and-storage-infrastructure/
The captured carbon dioxide is to be transported and stored in saline storage sites on the Gulf Coast, according to the DOE. The project might also use gray water, wastewater from showers, tubs, bathroom sinks and washing machines, for cooling the power plant instead of fresh water, according to the DOE.
“Facilities like Baytown will be part of our energy infrastructure for the foreseeable future, and now with (carbon capture and storage) technology, we can decarbonize them,” Caleb Stephenson, Calpine’s executive vice president of commercial operations, said in the statement.
The Baytown cost-sharing agreement is one of three carbon capture projects receiving up to $890 million from the DOE as part of the agency’s Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program. The others are a Calpine natural gas power plant in California and a coal-fired power plant in North Dakota being developed by Minnkota Power Cooperative.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOEOCED/bulletins/37dd8ec
As of September, the only utility-scale carbon capture facility affixed to an electricity-generating plant in the country was the Petra Nova project attached to NRG’s WA Parish Plant southwest of Houston.
The Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program aims to advance commercial demonstration of advanced carbon capture technologies, which the agency calls “critical to addressing the climate crisis.”
The power sector is the second-largest contributor (after transportation) of greenhouse gases in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions
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By 2030, solar and wind is forecast by RMI to supply over a third of all global electricity, up from around 12% today. Based on the forecasts, this would see solar and wind generate 12,000-14,000TWh by 2030, 3-4 times higher compared with 2022 levels. It would also surpass recent calls running up to COP28 for a tripling of total renewable energy capacity by 2030.
Meanwhile, fossil fuel demand for electricity will be in steep decline, according to the RMI analysis, down as much as 30% from the 2022 peak by 2030, as renewable electricity further outcompetes hydrocarbons on cost.
RMI forecasts that what is already the cheapest form of electricity in history will roughly halve in price again by 2030, falling as low as $20/MWh for solar from over $40MWh currently. That is 2 cents per kilowatt-hour in the unit most common on electric bills. Check your bill to see what you are paying.
https://rmi.org/press-release/renewable-energy-deployment-puts-global-
power-system-on-track-for-ambitious-net-zero-pathway/
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Lies.
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The largest clean energy project in US history closes on $11 billion in financing and starts full construction
By Michelle Lewis | Dec 28 2023 - 10:38 am PT
SunZia Wind is the largest wind project in the Western Hemisphere. The 3,500-megawatt (MW) wind farm is being built across New Mexico’s counties of Torrance, Lincoln, and San Miguel.
SunZia Transmission is a 550-mile ± 525 kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line between central New Mexico and south-central Arizona. When complete, it will have the capacity to transport 3,000 MW of clean energy.
SunZia Transmission will enable SunZia Wind to supply customers in Arizona and California during early evening hours when demand is high but available renewable energy supply is low. It’s going to use the same corridor as the Western Spirit Transmission Line.
Wind turbine giant Vestas announced yesterday that it’s secured a firm order from Pattern Energy Group to supply 242 4.5-megawatt turbines for SunZia Wind.
The 1.1-gigawatt (GW) order is Vestas’ largest order to date in the US market and its largest single onshore project globally. It’s also the largest order globally for Vestas’ newest high-capacity factor turbine.
More at https://electrek.co/2023/12/28/largest-clean-energy-project-us-sunzia/
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This year saw record-breaking solar output | Published on 29/12/2023
Led by new solar power, the world added renewable energy at breakneck speed in 2023.
Clean energy is often now the least expensive option, explaining some of the growth. Nations also adopted policies that support renewables, some citing energy security concerns, according to the International Energy Agency.
The IEA projected that more than 440 gigawatts of renewable energy would be added in 2023, more than the entire installed power capacity of Germany and Spain together.
Solar panel prices fell a whopping 40 to 53 per cent in Europe between December 2022 and November 2023 and are now at record lows.
In the US, solar manufacturing grew as well. “We have seen the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act in terms of fuelling investments... More than 60 solar manufacturing facilities were announced over the past year,” says Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Much more at https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/12/29/europe-us-china-where-instal
led-the-most-wind-and-solar-power-in-2023
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Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49
December 2023 was the warmest December on record for the Contiguous U.S. by a wide margin using Prism Climate Group data. It was 0.67°F (0.37°C) warmer than December 2021.
10:07 AM · Jan 1, 2024
https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1741853667270205936
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Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49
December 2023 was the warmest December on record for the Contiguous U.S. by a wide margin using Prism Climate Group data. It was 0.67°F (0.37°C) warmer than December 2021.
10:07 AM · Jan 1, 2024
https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1741853667270205936
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Dood. You don't need to convince me about climate shift.
Too bad you ruined your credibility on EVERY ISSUE you post about. By lying. Constantly.
If you really cared for any of those "issues", you'd try for SOME semblance of truthiness. But your overwhelming impression is that you only care about virtue signalling and hating everyone who isn't you.
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Disclaimer: This article is written from a very pro-Leftist take on the issue. But this is why I go out of my way to take in news from both sides of the issue instead of just being in an echo chamber all day long.
That being said...
https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-lightning-ev-pickup-truck-p
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You might have seen the news today: Ford is slashing production of its theoretically popular F-150 Lightning EV pickup due to tumbling demand, amid slowing growth—not a downturn!—in EV sales. As Automotive News reports (subscription required), Ford sent a message to suppliers to expect that Lightning production would be cut to 1,600 units a week, half of the line's full capacity of 3,200 units per week. Thing is, Ford's not telling what the line is actually running at now (it could be spitting out fewer than 3,200 trucks), so without that number, the news is either as dramatic as it seems or not. Either way, that Ford's hyped electric truck will be produced in half the numbers it was originally slated to less than two years after its launch is news.
By next year it will be less than that.
The price is far from the only barrier to entry on Electric Vehicles. Add to that the fact that at least half the country knows how much carbon emitted from mining the materials necessary and for feeding the electricity grid since electricity isn't magic and this isn't Hogwarts. Also add the fact that there will be no used car market because nobody will buy a used EV at a discounted price when they know the battery can go out at any moment and cost them $26,000 to replace. Add again to that the average full coverage insurance policy for an EV is north of $5,000 per year. Then just add the factor of the fear of the unknown as well as the unwillingness of many to change the little things in their life let alone something big like switching to an EV.
EVs are a product that might work in the future, but we aren't there yet, and our government forced the product when it wasn't ready and the car companies are all messed up because of that now.
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The Lightning was supposed to be somewhat affordable, with a starting price of $41,669 when it went on sale in May 2022. That price was a mirage; the truck started at $52,000 when it went on sale (and snagged our 2023 Truck of the Year award).
Right. That's exactly what I told you was going to happen. I see you forgot to mention that immediately after the Biden* Administration announced a $7,500 subsidy on the purchase of a new EV that GM and Ford immediately raised the prices on their new EVs by $7,500. You should probably mention that.
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Quote:Signym, the only solutions you have forwarded to climate change are to plant one trillion trees, cut back the Pentagon's fuel budget by 90%, stop the rich from owning private aircraft, and install solar panels on your roof in California. If you live in California, solar panels are great, but your other "solutions" won't happen. This can happen:
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Dood. You don't need to convince me about climate shift.
Too bad you ruined your credibility on EVERY ISSUE you post about. By lying. Constantly.
If you really cared for any of those "issues", you'd try for SOME semblance of truthiness. But your overwhelming impression is that you only care about virtue signalling and hating everyone who isn't you.
Airloom Energy, a Wyoming-based wind energy startup backed by Bill Gates, created a revolutionary wind-powered technology that it claims can slash energy costs by nearly 70%.
While wind energy continues to get cheaper as more wind farms come online, the turbines themselves are outrageously expensive — a standard utility-scale 2.5 MW horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) can cost roughly $2.1 million, according to an example cited on the Airloom website.
In comparison, the startup’s unique wind power system — simply called AirLoom — comes in at just under $225,000 for a 2.5 MW system. It estimates an entire 20 MW AirLoom wind farm would cost less than $6 million — only about 25% of what conventional wind farms normally cost.
The cost savings can be attributed mostly to the AirLoom’s vastly smaller size and intuitive design that resembles a racetrack, with several 82-foot poles suspending the track in the air. A number of 33-foot blades, or wings, are placed evenly along the oval-shaped track, propelled by air currents to generate energy.
Standard “pinwheel” turbines reach staggering heights of 500 feet or more, with the average tower now more than 320 feet tall, holding up massive 210-plus-foot blades, per the U.S. Department of Energy.
Though the wings on the AirLoom are much smaller, they still could reportedly generate the same energy as HAWT blades in part due to generators connected to the system that spin at 5,000 RPM, compared to 12 RPM for traditional turbines, according to a video on the Airloom website.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/bill-gates-backed-startup-develops-07300069
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Jan 3, 2024 - VW's Solid State Cell Holds Up for 300K Miles
Solid-state batteries promise to significantly speed up EV charging and extend their range by hundreds of miles. Among the companies racing to bring them to market is Volkswagen, which says it found a solid-state formula with better longevity than traditional lithium-ion batteries.
Volkswagen did not create the new battery; it was developed by QuantumScape, a California-based battery technology company. QuantumScape provided a prototype to Volkswagen Group-owned PowerCo, which then tested its performance over several months.
The results far exceeded expectations. PowerCo says the cell retained 95% of its range capacity after 1,000 charging cycles, or the equivalent of roughly 300,000 miles. The current industry standard for EVs targets 20% capacity loss over 700 charging cycles . . .
https://www.pcmag.com/news/no-more-ev-battery-replacements-vws-solid-s
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Bet it doesn't hold up in the cold...
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65848
EVs are going the way of the dinosaur. And fast.
All the people who wanted one already bought one, and they got fucked on the deal.
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EPA proposes a fee aimed at reducing climate-warming methane emissions
January 12, 2024, 5:09 PM ET
Excess methane produced this year would result in a fee of $900 per ton, with fees rising to $1,500 per ton by 2026.
The fee will encourage early deployment of available technologies to reduce methane emissions. Methane is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. (At least 25% of today's global warming is driven by methane)
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/12/1224508796/methane-emissions-epa-fee
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How YouTube’s climate deniers turned into climate doomers
A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won't work.
By Kate Yoder | Jan 16, 2024
https://grist.org/accountability/youtube-climate-denial-solutions-misi
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Imagine if you could walk from your house to anywhere you needed to go in less than 15 minutes: the pharmacy, the bakery, the gym, and then back to the bakery. In certain corners of the internet, this urban planning concept of “15-minute cities” gets a shady, sinister gloss. Conspiracy theorists evoke COVID restrictions and tout efforts to create walkable cities as steps toward “climate lockdowns.” They warn of a plot by the World Economic Forum to restrict people’s movements, trapping and surveilling them in their neighborhoods.
“They want to take away your cars,” claims Clayton Morris, a former Fox News host, in a YouTube video that’s been viewed 1.7 million times.
YouTube is riddled with false claims like these, so it’s the place to document the evolution of arguments against taking action on climate change. A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit based in London and Washington, D.C., working to stop the spread of disinformation, analyzed 12,000 videos from channels that promoted lies about climate change on YouTube over the last six years. Over that time, the reality of climate change long predicted by scientists has become increasingly difficult to dismiss. The report, released on Tuesday, found a dramatic shift from “old denial” arguments — that global warming isn’t real and isn’t caused by humans — to new arguments bent on undermining trust in climate solutions.
“The success is that the science has won this debate on anthropogenic climate change,” said Imran Ahmed, the nonprofit’s founder and CEO. “The opponents of action have shifted their attention.”
The report suggests that, rather than doing a victory lap, climate advocates may want to focus on defending climate policies and renewable energy as necessary and effective. As the world was besieged by intense heat, expansive wildfires, and catastrophic floods in recent years, YouTubers promoting disinformation increasingly embraced “new denial” narratives, such as that solar panels will destroy the economy and the environment, or that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a “fraud.”
“What it is doing is creating a cohort of people who believe climate change is happening, but believe there’s no hope,” Ahmed said. People start watching YouTube at a young age — in 2020, more than half of parents in the U.S. with a child 11 years old or younger said their kid watched videos on the platform on a daily basis. New polling from the center, released alongside the study, found that a third of U.S. teens say that climate policies cause more harm than good.
Six years ago, these “new denial” claims made up 35 percent of denier’s arguments on YouTube; now, they make up 70 percent of the total. The fastest-growing assertions were that the climate movement is unreliable and that clean energy won’t work.
More at https://grist.org/accountability/youtube-climate-denial-solutions-misi
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Conservatives hate electric cars
By Kevin Drum | January 17, 2024 – 10:42 pm
Bob Somerby has been watching a lot of Fox News lately:
"We've been surprised by one persistent talking point as we've come to watch more and more of the nation's red tribe cable news:
We've been surprised by the persistence with which red tribe stars pound away at electric vehicles."
Funny thing: I've been meaning to mention that too. Over at National Review, they gleefully highlight anything that can be plausibly considered a knock on electric cars. Every malfunction, every missed sales target, every consumer complaint, every goal to increase EV adoption. Hardly a day goes by without some kind of slam on electric cars.
Why? If you don't want an electric car, don't get one. I'm A-OK with that. But what's the point of bad-mouthing those who do want one?
Now, I'm not an idiot. I know the answer perfectly well: EVs are favored by those who want to do something about climate change, and anything associated with climate change has to be relentlessly attacked. Solar power. Wind farms. LED light bulbs. Efficient houses. You name it.
It's all ridiculous. Even if you think climate change is a big hoax electrification is still good. "Clean" doesn't apply only to CO2, after all. Getting rid of smog and fine particulates is a big win all by itself.
But no matter. Anything that can be interpreted as caring about climate change has to be fought desperately. In no way can climate change ever be acknowledged as a problem, since that would imply the government doing something about it. And that can't be tolerated.
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Solid-State EV Batteries Now Face “Production Hell”
Producing battery packs that yield 800+ kilometers remains rough-going
By Charles J. Murray | Jan 26, 2024
https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-battery-production-challenges
Recent solid-state battery announcements by Volkswagen and QuantumScape are raising hopes in the electric-vehicle market, but automotive battery experts are warning that the road to widespread, solid-state success is still a long and arduous one. A single breakthrough, as if from above, is not likely to turn the whole industry on its nose anytime soon.
“Solid-state is a great technology,” noted Bob Galyen, owner of Galyen Energy and former chief technology officer for the Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL). “But it’s going to be just like lithium-ion was in terms of the length of time it will take to hit the market. And lithium-ion took a long time to get there.”
“I haven’t seen cost numbers that are even close to competing with liquid-state, lithium-ion batteries.“ —Bob Galyen, Galyen Energy
Galyen and other experts consulted by IEEESpectrum noted that recent announcements by Volkswagen, QuantumScape, Toyota, and NIO have resulted in impressive stock market performance. However, these same experts noted a pointed skepticism toward the technical merits of these announcements. None could isolate anything on the horizon indicating that solid-state technology can escape the engineering and “production hell” that lies ahead.
The remaining hurdles will involve validating existing solid-state battery technologies (currently in use for more limited, often medical, applications) for cars and trucks. The adoption curve, experts say, will depend on the product’s ability to be validated in terms of performance, life, and cost characteristics.
Solid-state cells, so-named for their use of a solid electrolyte, are seen as a key to the future of the electric car because they potentially offer greater safety and energy, as well as much faster recharge times. Solid-state cells differ from conventional lithium-ion batteries in their use of a glass or ceramic electrolyte, instead of a liquid composed of lithium salts. Automakers are keen on solid-state batteries’ future, because the technology offers greater thermal stability than liquid-based batteries, thus allowing for substantially faster recharge, among other advantages.
Solid-state has also been the subject of recent announcements from battery manufacturers and mainstream automakers alike. In early January, Volkswagen Group’s PowerCo SE battery company said it tested lithium-metal cells from QuantumScape, achieving 1,000 charging cycles with 95 percent of the cell’s capacity still intact. The company said in a statement that the cell’s life-performance was analogous to “an electric car that could drive more than 500,000 kilometers (300,000 miles) without any noticeable loss of range.”
“What happens when you’re driving down I-75 and you hit a big pit in the road? What kind of damage would be done to the solid-state matrix?” —Bob Galyen, Galyen Energy
Similarly, Toyota announced in October that it plans to incorporate solid-state batteries in an unnamed number of production vehicles by 2027. The automaker said it is targeting a 1,000-km (600-mile) range with 80 percent DC fast-charge in 10 minutes or less. In December, Chinese automaker NIO also got in the game, saying it is introducing a 150-kilowatt-hour “semi-solid-state battery” that would theoretically offer a 1,000-km range as soon as this summer.
Experts were quick to point out, however, that NIO’s battery, made by WeLion New Energy Technology Co., is not solid-state. “This is in fact a fairly conventional NMC (nickel manganese cobalt) cell with a gel electrolyte that has been in production for 15 years and is typically referred to as lithium-polymer,” noted Sam Abuelsamid, principal research analyst for Guidehouse Insights. “Technically the gel is considered a semi-solid because it has properties of both a solid and liquid. But in a cell,
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The Holdouts in the Quest for a Better Power Grid
Farmers in Missouri are opposing the Grain Belt Express, a transmission line that will connect wind farms in Kansas with cities in the East.
By Michael Holtz | Jan 26, 2024
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dept-of-energy/the-holdouts-in-the-ques
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The Sprouse family farm covers thousands of acres of fertile glacial till, ??remnants of the last ice age, in northwestern Missouri. Each day, billions of cubic feet of natural gas and hundreds of thousands of barrels’ worth of crude oil pass underneath its fields and cow pastures. The only visible signs of this subterranean activity are three posts—one metal and two plastic—spaced about thirty feet apart along a barbed-wire fence at the edge of a field. Each corresponds to a pipeline, and each has a warning label with a number to call in an emergency. “At least the pipelines are out of sight, even if they aren’t out of mind,” Loren Sprouse, the youngest of three Sprouse brothers, said one morning in May as we were driving around in a utility terrain vehicle. “We’d rather have them than the transmission line.”
The transmission line Sprouse was talking about is the Grain Belt Express, a planned eight-hundred-mile-long power line that will connect wind farms in southwestern Kansas to more densely populated areas farther East. The Grain Belt Express is designed to carry five thousand megawatts of electricity, enough to power approximately 3.2 million homes. The project has been in the works since 2010. It was taken over by Invenergy, a Chicago-based energy company, in 2020. After years of lawsuits and legislative wrangling, regulators in Missouri granted it final approval in October, 2023. If all goes as planned, construction will start in early 2025 and be completed in 2028.
One of the biggest obstacles that the United States faces in its fight against climate change is getting renewable energy to the places that need the most electricity. Many of the best locations for wind and solar farms are, by their very nature, remote. And moving that energy elsewhere requires navigating a byzantine permitting process for transmission lines and winning over landowners—or, if they can’t be won over, then deciding whether and when the need for a given project outweighs their concerns. “The scale of the undertaking and the speed at which it needs to occur are incredibly daunting,” Romany Webb, the deputy director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, at Columbia Law School, told me. “We’re talking about a massive build-out of new, large-scale infrastructure across the country, and we need to do it, like, yesterday.”
Sprouse and I headed south on a gravel road, past a tumbledown chicken coop and a white farmhouse that his grandparents had moved into in 1911. Across the way, his brother Weldon was servicing a tractor. The brothers had finished planting their corn crop a couple of weeks earlier; soybeans were next. We got out at the top of a hill above the farmhouse. To the east was a machine shed and several rows of hay bales, to the west a green pasture. “I was going to build my retirement home right here,” Sprouse said, leaning against a fence post. “Could you ask for a better view?” He told me that he abandoned his plans for the house after he learned that the Grain Belt Express would be built directly in front of it. As we spoke, a surveying team subcontracted by Invenergy pulled up in two white pickup trucks. They had come to search for archeological remains along the planned route, a step required by the National Historic Preservation Act. Sprouse asked them to come back another day.
Sprouse said that he wasn’t against renewable energy, but he couldn’t support something that would interfere with his family’s farming operations and, in his words, “be the dominant scar on the landscape.” The transmission towers that Invenergy plans to build are around a hundred and fifty feet tall. One of Sprouse’s main concerns is whether G.P.S.-guided equipment, like tractors and combines, would work near t
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It’s not just solar that’s getting cheaper
Kevin Drum / Feb 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
https://jabberwocking.com/its-not-just-solar-thats-getting-cheaper/
Dave Roberts recommends that I take a look at Nat Bullard's deck of climate-related charts.
https://www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
Here's a chart that should be familiar:
The price of solar has plummeted over the past decade. But as conservatives are constantly reminding us, the sun doesn't always shine. Then what? The price of battery storage has plummeted too.
All utility-scale solar plants now include battery storage so they can supply power 24 hours a day, and they can do this because the price of storage is a quarter what it was a decade ago.
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It’s not just solar that’s getting cheaper
Kevin Drum / Feb 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
https://jabberwocking.com/its-not-just-solar-thats-getting-cheaper/
Dave Roberts recommends that I take a look at Nat Bullard's deck of climate-related charts.
https://www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
Here's a chart that should be familiar:
The price of solar has plummeted over the past decade. But as conservatives are constantly reminding us, the sun doesn't always shine. Then what? The price of battery storage has plummeted too.
Wow! Only .12 cents per watt! What a deal!
What a fucking sucker I am for paying .13 cents per kWh!
Oh... That's right. You and obese, dying Kevin Drum went to public school in America
and you're both idiots. You don't understand the Metric system or the difference between
a single watt being generated vs. sustaining a watt of power for an hour.
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All utility-scale solar plants now include battery storage so they can supply power 24 hours a day, and they can do this because the price of storage is a quarter what it was a decade ago.
Nice! Only what, about $160 to $175 more to store a kWh? Score!
Let's just forget to mention that it all still costs this much even with all the Government subsidies in place.
FAIL
I don't hear you idiots pushing Coal Burning Cars much anymore. That didn't work out either, did it?
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Quote:In a five-year contract I am paying Shell Energy 9.3 cents per kilowatt/hour for 100% Green energy. At night, Shell does not turn off the lights because they have batteries. 6ix, you know less than nothing because most of what you know is wrong.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow! Only .12 cents per watt! What a deal!
What a fucking sucker I am for paying .13 cents per kWh!
Oh... That's right. You and obese, dying Kevin Drum went to public school in America
and you're both idiots. You don't understand the Metric system or the difference between
a single watt being generated vs. sustaining a watt of power for an hour.
Nice! Only what, about $160 to $175 more to store a kWh? Score!
Let's just forget to mention that it all still costs this much even with all the Government subsidies in place.
FAIL
I don't hear you idiots pushing Coal Burning Cars much anymore. That didn't work out either, did it?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:In a five-year contract I am paying Shell Energy 9.3 cents per kilowatt/hour for 100% Green energy. At night, Shell does not turn off the lights because they have batteries. 6ix, you know less than nothing because most of what you know is wrong.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow! Only .12 cents per watt! What a deal!
What a fucking sucker I am for paying .13 cents per kWh!
Oh... That's right. You and obese, dying Kevin Drum went to public school in America
and you're both idiots. You don't understand the Metric system or the difference between
a single watt being generated vs. sustaining a watt of power for an hour.
Nice! Only what, about $160 to $175 more to store a kWh? Score!
Let's just forget to mention that it all still costs this much even with all the Government subsidies in place.
FAIL
I don't hear you idiots pushing Coal Burning Cars much anymore. That didn't work out either, did it?
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Those contracts were all government subsidized and are all going away, dummy. Tell us what you're paying when you're forced to renew it.
I mean, just how fucking stupid are you? Look at the prices on those graphs for solar/battery energy and then explain to everyone how Shell can even afford to keep their doors open if they sell it at such a staggering loss for the long haul, and to the millions upon millions more customers that you incorrectly predicted would be driving coal burning cars in the future.
You were catfished. Your F150 Lightning is worthless and you'll get nothing for it when it comes time to sell so you'd better drive it into the ground. And don't bitch at me when the new contract makes it completely unaffordable to drive. Enjoy whatever is left of those 5 years while you can.
No sympathy for you.
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Quote:You know already that I am prejudiced against Trumptards because of my long experience with their half-baked ideas about how America works. 6ix, you should start hiding your nonsense and false facts from normal people, assuming you want to eventually expand your life beyond what $7,000 per year can buy.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Those contracts were all government subsidized and are all going away, dummy. Tell us what you're paying when you're forced to renew it.
I mean, just how fucking stupid are you? Look at the prices on those graphs for solar/battery energy and then explain to everyone how Shell can even afford to keep their doors open if they sell it at such a staggering loss for the long haul, and to the millions upon millions more customers that you incorrectly predicted would be driving coal burning cars in the future.
You were catfished. Your F150 Lightning is worthless and you'll get nothing for it when it comes time to sell so you'd better drive it into the ground. And don't bitch at me when the new contract makes it completely unaffordable to drive. Enjoy whatever is left of those 5 years while you can.
No sympathy for you.
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Trump Allies Plan to Gut Climate Research if He Is Reelected
Dozens of conservative organizations have banded together to provide Trump a road map — known as Project 2025 — to boost fossil fuels and limit government climate science
By Scott Waldman & E&E News | February 2, 2024
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-allies-plan-to-gut-cl
imate-research-if-he-is-reelected/
https://www.eenews.net/articles/reversed-and-scrubbed-how-a-second-tru
mp-term-could-gut-climate-research/
CLIMATEWIRE | Former President Donald Trump’s second term could begin with a clear direction on climate policy: Trash it.
Dozens of conservative organizations have banded together to provide Trump a road map — known as Project 2025 — if he prevails in November. It outlines a series of steps that the former president could take to reverse the climate actions taken by the Biden administration.
Trump has already said that boosting fossil fuels would be one of his top priorities. A proposed executive order in Project 2025 offers him a path for that goal, laying out a total restructuring of the U.S. Global Change Research Program to diminish its role across more than a dozen federal agencies.
Project 2025 also calls for replacing the White House climate adviser with an "energy/environment" adviser who would pivot to serving the needs of the fossil fuel industry.
“The Biden Administration’s climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding,” the plan states. “As with other federal departments and agencies, the Biden Administration’s leveraging of the federal government’s resources to further the woke agenda should be reversed and scrubbed from all policy manuals, guidance documents, and agendas.”
The Washington-based Heritage Foundation worked with conservative organizations to produce Project 2025, which offers 920 pages of policy prescriptions to ensure the chaos of Trump’s first term is not repeated if he gets a second. The think tank did not respond to a request for comment.
But Tom Pyle, a Project 2025 contributor and president of the American Energy Alliance, said Heritage is now recruiting Trump loyalists ready to implement the agenda on Day One. Installing personnel who can carry out such executive orders will be the key step in determining if they are followed, he said.
“Project 2025 has the potential to be an essential tool for President Trump should he be elected for a second term,” Pyle said. “But a plan is only as good as the people who implement it, so getting competent and committed conservative personnel into the administration will be more critical.”
The Trump campaign declined to provide comment to E&E News but has stated in the past that the former president will determine his own policy priorities, regardless of outside pressure.
Trump’s climate record suggests that the proposed executive order would be in line with his energy agenda.
In recent months, he has repeatedly promised to be a “dictator for a day” to ramp up oil and gas drilling. And allies expect that he will seek to unwind President Joe Biden’s climate policies much faster than he did the policies of President Barack Obama.
'Who knows what will happen'
Project 2025 calls for the president to use an executive order to “reshape the U.S. Global Change Research Program and related climate change research programs.”
The program was established by Congress in 1990 to coordinate federal research and spending to better understand how climate change affects the country. One of its key successes was to reveal how the depleted ozone layer was harming Americans, which led to regulations that successfully addressed the issue.
A top target of Project 2025 is the program’s National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report that is due again in late 2026 or early 2027. The proposed executive order would require a “critical analysis” of the assessment and a rejection of all related climate science work prepared by the Biden administration.
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Greenhouse Effect
https://xkcd.com/2889/
Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).
Arrhenius greenhouse effect
https://www.google.com/search?q=Arrhenius+greenhouse+effect
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Today, the state gets 47.13% of its electricity from wind and 0.33% from solar.
Yet now, 14 of the 105 counties in Kansas block wind turbines and 12 block solar farms.
These efforts mirror those in hundreds of counties and townships across the nation, where the merest hint of a potential project quickly brings forth a Facebook group, yard signs, organized protests and – increasingly – zoning rules and laws that make new renewable energy impossible to build.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/04/solar-po
wer-in-kansas/71920670007/
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Today, the state gets 47.13% of its electricity from wind and 0.33% from solar.
Yet now, 14 of the 105 counties in Kansas block wind turbines and 12 block solar farms.
These efforts mirror those in hundreds of counties and townships across the nation, where the merest hint of a potential project quickly brings forth a Facebook group, yard signs, organized protests and – increasingly – zoning rules and laws that make new renewable energy impossible to build.
Here's your "renewable" energy...
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack (September 23rd, 2023):
FUN FACT: Wind Turbine blades are 100% non-recyclable, consisting each of 35 tonnes of plastic and
fiberglass which are either thrown into a landfill to be somebody else's problem another day,
or are incinerated, which not only is bad news for future CO2 emissions, but as a bonus are
going to end up adding to the insane amount of microplastics that you already have coating the
inside of your lungs and are already found littering pretty much every cell in your body.
As of 2022, we have a recorded total of 70,800 wind turbines in the US alone, each consisting
of 3 blades.
So, not including all of the blades that have already been buried or burned, we have a combined total
of 14,868,000,000 lbs of non-recyclable future waste product that's mostly going to end up in your
lungs and contribute to global warming once they reach the end of their life cycle.
Oh... and don't forget that every single tonne of glass fibers produced in the first place results
in a carbon footprint of approximately 1.7-2.2 tonnes. So, not including the blades we've already
buried or burned, the blades on the existing 70,800 wind turbines currently active in America alone
required us to put 12,637,800 to 16,354,800 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere before they
even made their first rotation.
Clean energy indeed!
Well boys...
Smoke if you got 'em!
Sources:
https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/can-wind-turbine
-blades-be-recycled
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many-turbines-are-contained-us-wind-turb
ine-database
https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/30003WOK.TXT?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&
amp;Client=EPA&Index=1991+Thru+1994&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5Czyfiles%5CIndex%20Data%5C91thru94%5CTxt%5C00000009%5C30003WOK.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=x&ZyPURL
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-sustainable-sustainablemodern-const
ruction-materials-okpara
Get fucked, dummy.
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Quote:I'm guessing you have no idea how much non-recyclable waste there is from mining coal, drilling for oil and natural gas, and burning them. With 8 billion people on Earth, there are 14.868 billion pounds every hour, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Asphalt roads are the most obvious of the wastes. Hopefully, you understand driving on roads made of waste from refineries. Google does asphalt pollute to learn that Asphalt pollutes both the air and the water.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So, not including all of the blades that have already been buried or burned, we have a combined total of 14,868,000,000 lbs of non-recyclable future waste product that's mostly going to end up in your lungs and contribute to global warming once they reach the end of their life cycle.
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+asphalt+pollute
6ix, you have thousands of pounds of refinery waste in your driveway. The sealer you purchased to make your driveway look pretty? It, too, pollutes the water and air.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Look at those goalposts fly.
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Quote:Green energy is all about reducing Greenhouse gases. For some stupid reason, Trumptards think Green energy will fail if it produces waste. They act as if green energy failed because the batteries in electric vehicles have to be replaced. They act as if green energy fails if solar panels have to be replaced. Wind turbine blades get replaced and that, too, is a sign that green energy failed for Trumptards. Trumptards are retards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Look at those goalposts fly.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Green energy is all about reducing Greenhouse gases. For some stupid reason, Trumptards think Green energy will fail if it produces waste. They act as if green energy failed because the batteries in electric vehicles have to be replaced. They act as if green energy fails if solar panels have to be replaced. Wind turbine blades get replaced and that, too, is a sign that green energy failed for Trumptards. Trumptards are retards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Look at those goalposts fly.
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It's about the money, stupid.
When you add the fact that none of this "green" energy is actually green in the first place on top of the fact that none of it is even remotely affordable or practical is when it becomes an issue.
Your EV dream is dead. It won't be long until your windmill dream is dead too.
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Quote:6ix, you can be perfectly happy with no money but with Trump as your Chieftain:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's about the money, stupid.
When you add the fact that none of this "green" energy is actually green in the first place on top of the fact that none of it is even remotely affordable or practical is when it becomes an issue.
Your EV dream is dead. It won't be long until your windmill dream is dead too.
Study of Indigenous and local communities finds happiness doesn't cost much - February 5, 2024
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-indigenous-local-communities-happiness-d
oesnt.html
The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), consisted of a survey of 2,966 people from Indigenous and local communities in 19 globally distributed sites. Only 64% of surveyed households had any cash income. The results show that "surprisingly, many populations with very low monetary incomes report very high average levels of life satisfaction, with scores similar to those in wealthy countries," says Eric Galbraith, researcher at ICTA-UAB and McGill University and lead author of the study.
The average life satisfaction score across the studied small-scale societies was 6.8 on a scale of 0–10. Although not all societies reported being highly satisfied — averages were as low as 5.1 — four of the sites reported average scores higher than 8, typical of wealthy Scandinavian countries in other polls, "and this is so, despite many of these societies having suffered histories of marginalization and oppression."
The results are consistent with the notion that human societies can support very satisfactory lives for their members without necessarily requiring high degrees of material wealth, as measured in monetary terms.
"The strong correlation frequently observed between income and life satisfaction is not universal and proves that wealth — as generated by industrialized economies — is not fundamentally required for humans to lead happy lives," says Victoria Reyes-Garcia, ICREA researcher at ICTA-UAB and senior author of the study.
The findings are good news for sustainability and human happiness, as they provide strong evidence that resource-intensive economic growth is not required to achieve high levels of subjective well-being.
The researchers highlight that, although they now know that people in many Indigenous and local communities report high levels of life satisfaction, they do not know why.
Prior work would suggest that family and social support and relationships, spirituality, and connections to nature are among the important factors on which this happiness is based, "but it is possible that the important factors differ significantly between societies or, conversely, that a small subset of factors dominates everywhere. I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis," Galbraith concludes.
More information: High life satisfaction reported among small-scale societies with low incomes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311703121
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's about the money, stupid.
When you add the fact that none of this "green" energy is actually green in the first place on top of the fact that none of it is even remotely affordable or practical is when it becomes an issue.
Your EV dream is dead. It won't be long until your windmill dream is dead too.
I have more money than I need.
And if I ever decide I want to restock the reserves because Joe Biden*'s inflation sucks, I get to go out and do part time menial work for double what I made in the average of my last two jobs. I'd be hard pressed to find anything that wasn't $3 more per hour than my last job, and it would be impossible to find a job making the national minimum wage like my job before that.
I'm good dude. You worry about you.
ETA: This was actually a rare good article from you.
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The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), consisted of a survey of 2,966 people from Indigenous and local communities in 19 globally distributed sites. Only 64% of surveyed households had any cash income. The results show that "surprisingly, many populations with very low monetary incomes report very high average levels of life satisfaction, with scores similar to those in wealthy countries," says Eric Galbraith, researcher at ICTA-UAB and McGill University and lead author of the study.
The average life satisfaction score across the studied small-scale societies was 6.8 on a scale of 0–10. Although not all societies reported being highly satisfied — averages were as low as 5.1 — four of the sites reported average scores higher than 8, typical of wealthy Scandinavian countries in other polls, "and this is so, despite many of these societies having suffered histories of marginalization and oppression."
The results are consistent with the notion that human societies can support very satisfactory lives for their members without necessarily requiring high degrees of material wealth, as measured in monetary terms.
"The strong correlation frequently observed between income and life satisfaction is not universal and proves that wealth — as generated by industrialized economies — is not fundamentally required for humans to lead happy lives," says Victoria Reyes-Garcia, ICREA researcher at ICTA-UAB and senior author of the study.
The findings are good news for sustainability and human happiness, as they provide strong evidence that resource-intensive economic growth is not required to achieve high levels of subjective well-being.
The researchers highlight that, although they now know that people in many Indigenous and local communities report high levels of life satisfaction, they do not know why.
Prior work would suggest that family and social support and relationships, spirituality, and connections to nature are among the important factors on which this happiness is based, "but it is possible that the important factors differ significantly between societies or, conversely, that a small subset of factors dominates everywhere. I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis," Galbraith concludes.
Certainly puts a human spin on the phenomena rather than saying that I live like a squirrel or a raccoon.
Material things and keeping up with the joneses doesn't mean shit to me.
Would I like to have a brand new pickup truck? Sure! It sounds great on paper. But it's a huge sinkhole for wealth, as is any brand new vehicle. I will likely be buying a newer used car this year because I'm being forced to for emissions reasons, but really... it's time. It will be nice to be in a vehicle that I can be confid
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Major Auto Company Shuts Down Funding to EV Subsidiary, Immediately Sees Stock Price Boom
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/major-auto-company-shuts-dow
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Volvo’s stock surged 26% after announcing it would cease funding its electric vehicle subsidiary, Polestar Automotive.
This decision reflects a broader trend in the electric vehicle industry, with Renault canceling its electric-car unit IPO and Ford reducing production of its electric F-150 Lightning.
...
While Polestar’s CEO remains optimistic about the company’s future, its shares declined by 84% in 2023 due to the EV market slowdown.
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Texas' Lt. Gov. knows "Climate Change Is A Chinese Hoax" and will spend $10 billion of state government money based on that belief:
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Texas will build new natural gas power plants itself if private sector doesn't
By Claire Hao, Feb 6, 2024
Texas politicians and energy executives courted a ballroom of around 100 investors representing approximately $2 trillion of capital on Tuesday in Houston, seeking to inspire some of them to build more natural gas fueled power plants in the state.
If the effort fails to encourage the private sector to build these electricity generation plants, the state would seek to build them itself and contract private operators to run them, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a press conference following his opening remarks at the conference hosted by BlackRock, one of the world’s largest asset management firms.
“If we can’t get an incentive program to attract investors to build, then the state would have to build (more gas-fueled power infrastructure) ourselves and then subcontract out for someone else to run it,” Patrick said. “We can’t sit and do nothing.”
The goal is to attract 10 more gigawatts of natural gas power plants, Patrick said, producing enough electricity to power 2 million homes in Texas during times of peak demand. State officials believe the Texas Energy Fund, a $10 billion package mostly for low-interest loans to developers of natural gas power plants, will deliver the results they seek.
And if it doesn’t, state-built power plants could be on the table.
“There’ll be pushback on that. That’s the last card you want to play, because we are a free market. But in many ways, the current system isn’t a free market,” Patrick said.
That’s because federal policy offering incentives to developers of renewable energy has caused renewable development to outpace fossil fuel development in Texas, Patrick said. One such initiative, the Biden administration’s 2021 Inflation Reduction Act, has spurred a spate of new solar and battery projects in the state.
Market forces are also a part of renewable energy’s growth. Texas is an energy-only electricity market, which means power generators are paid only for the electricity that is delivered, rather than what they are capable of producing. Generators bid into the wholesale market to offer their power at the cheapest price.
Fossil fuel power plants still provide the majority of electricity to the grid managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. But in recent years, renewable energy has made massive gains in part because the cost of building and operating these resources have dropped, allowing them to regularly offer their electricity at low prices.
Texas Republicans are not opposed to the growth of renewable energy altogether, Patrick said. But he echoed the oft-repeated concern among state leaders that Texas needs more “dispatchable” fossil fuel power plants that can turn on at the flip of a switch when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining.
Texas blacklist
BlackRock was placed on a Texas “blacklist” of financial companies that supposedly boycott the fossil fuel industry in 2022, an accusation the firm has consistently denied. After it was limited from doing business in Texas, its CEO Larry Fink met twice with Patrick. The second meeting catalyzed Tuesday’s conference to attract fossil fuel investment in the state, Patrick said in his opening remarks.
“We had a conversation where we both thought there were many differences,” Fink said in his remarks. “Throughout the conversation … we saw that those differences can be minimized quite quickly, and that there was a lot of commonality and a lot of the same interests.”
Patrick refused to answer reporters' questions on whether BlackRock had been removed from Texas’s blacklist.
The summit featured speakers including ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, CenterPoint CEO Jason Wells, Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub and state Sen. Charles Schwertner, who authored the bill creating the Texas Energy Fund. Media was o
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How about nuclear?
Windmills and Solar Farms are snake oil.
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Quote:If you already have a nuclear power plant built, why not keep it running? But to build a new one? Those damn things produce the world's most expensive electricity:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
How about nuclear?
Windmills and Solar Farms are snake oil.
Estimated capital costs of energy generation in the United States in 2023, by energy source (in U.S. dollars per kilowatt)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/654401/estimated-capital-cost-of-e
nergy-generation-in-the-us-by-technology/
Nuclear energy has the highest estimated capital costs of any energy technology used in the United States. As of 2023, capital costs for nuclear power plants ranged between 8,475 and 13,925 U.S. dollars per kilowatt. As the radioactive materials used and the waste created require careful handling, nuclear stations are among the most expensive to build. The number of U.S. nuclear power plants fell to 92 in 2022, from 112 plants in 1990.
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An increasingly common argument for curtailing solar projects is to preserve farmland. Some counties now set limits on the amount of agricultural land that can be turned into a solar farm.
Opponents argue that too much farmland being turned into solar farms will affect the country’s ability to feed itself.
The answer: No, solar will not use up all the farmland we need.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that for the U.S. to move completely to carbon-neutral power, it will require about 10,000 square miles of land.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81644.pdf
The Department of Agriculture already pays farmers to take about 24.8 million acres of less productive and environmentally sensitive land out of production. That’s 38,750 square miles – more than the entire amount of land that would be needed for green energy.
And in 2023, about 40% of the U.S. corn crop was used to produce ethanol. By some measures, an acre of solar power can make 70 times as much energy as an acre’s worth of corn turned into ethanol.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/04/green-en
ergy-fact-checked/72390472007/
94,640,000 acres for 2023 were planted with corn in the USA.
40% of those acres are for corn to make ethanol to fuel cars.
40% is 37,856,000 acres or 59,150 square miles, which is huge compared to 10,000 square miles for solar projects.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_corn_acres_planted
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If you already have a nuclear power plant built, why not keep it running? But to build a new one? Those damn things produce the world's most expensive electricity:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
How about nuclear?
Windmills and Solar Farms are snake oil.
Untrue.
Solar power is the most expensive.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/05/what-does-nuclear-power-really-
cost/
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Among the three options shown, nuclear power is right in the middle, with total costs in 2012 of about $96 per megawatt hour (MWh), most of which involves capital construction costs.
On the high end is solar power at $130 per MWh, and gas at the low end at $64 per MWh.
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PACCAR (owner of Peterbilt, Kenworth, and other commercial truck brands) and Toyota are joint-developing a hydrogen fuel cell semi truck.
The two companies have already built and tested a concept vehicle by putting two Toyota Mirai powertrains into a Kenworth truck body. (Mirai is a Toyota Sports Car.)
Fuel cells are easier than internal combustion engines to link together.
Under the name Project Portal, Toyota and PACCAR have already made prototype trucks. Essentially, the diesel engine and all its accouterments were removed from a Kenworth T680 truck. Two Toyota Mirai powertrains were installed in its place. This resulted in a truck with 675 horsepower and 1,325 pound-feet of torque. The prototype version only had about 200 miles of driving range, but it should be understood that this was meant more as a proof-of-concept than a final design. As with diesel trucks, the range is determined by the size of the fuel tank (or tanks).
Honda and GM Have Also Proven The Modularity Of Fuel Cell Systems
Toyota is not the only company exploring the possibilities of parallel fuel cells. Honda and General Motors are joint-manufacturing fuel cell systems in a factory just outside of Detroit. Although the two companies' cells only put out a relatively paltry 77 kilowatts (103 horsepower), they can be linked together to get practically any power output desired. In a decisive move to prove the technology, Honda is using hydrogen fuel cells instead of the customary diesel to power the emergency backup generators at its data center in Torrance, California.
Fuel cells are more inherently modular than internal combustion engines. While some amount of design finesse is required to make multiple modular fuel cell systems work as one unit, this is a far easier task than linking internal combustion engines. Fuel cells have no crankshafts that must be mechanically synchronized. Like batteries, fuel cells only put out electricity and nothing else.
More at https://www.topspeed.com/toyota-hydrogen-fuel-cells-trucks-plans/
Mirai Fuel Cell System
2023 Toyota Mirai Overview | Toyota
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Quote:There is a huge difference between the price per kilowatt-hour of electricity and the price to build a kilowatt of electric power plant capacity, but that is for you to understand. Your statement: "Untrue" is nonsense, but you're too stupid to know what you did wrong. Don't go into engineering, 6ix. Stay with what you think you know: "Climate Change Is A Chinese Hoax." You and Trump beautifully work together to misunderstand every concept about Climate Change and electric generation. Don't stop being jackasses together.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Untrue.
Solar power is the most expensive.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/05/what-does-nuclear-power-really-
cost/
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New ironmaking method could slash carbon emissions
By extracting metallic iron without producing carbon dioxide, the new process could even be carbon negative
By Robert F. Service | 5 FEB 2024, 12:00 PM ET
https://www.science.org/content/article/electrifying-new-ironmaking-me
thod-could-slash-carbon-emissions
The world mines 2.5 billion tons of iron every year, and reducing it to iron emits as much CO2 as the tailpipes of all passenger vehicles combined. So, scientists are looking for economically viable ways to produce metallic iron that don’t generate greenhouse gases.
Making iron, the main ingredient of steel, takes a toll on Earth’s delicate atmosphere, producing 8% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. Now, a team of chemists has come up with a way to make the business much more eco-friendly. By using electricity to convert iron ore and salt water into metallic iron and other industrially useful chemicals, researchers report today in Joule that their approach is cost effective, works well with electricity provided by wind and solar farms, and could even be carbon negative, consuming more carbon dioxide (CO2) than it produces. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2024.01.001
“It’s a very clever approach,” says Karthish Manthiram, a chemical engineer at the California Institute of Technology who was not involved with the study. He notes that the process has other advantages, including working at a low temperature, and being amenable to working with intermittent renewable electricity. “It checks all the boxes.”
To that end, Paul Kempler, a chemical engineer at the University of Oregon, and colleagues wondered whether an industrial process for making chlorine from saltwater could be repurposed for ironmaking. In this “chlor-alkali” process, water containing sodium-chloride is placed in an electrochemical cell resembling a battery that contains two electrodes submerged in a liquid electrolyte. The positively charged electrode, the anode, pulls electrons from chloride ions, causing chlorine atoms to pair up into chlorine gas. At the same time, electrons flowing in from the cathode split water molecules into pieces that pair with the sodium ions and one another to make sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas.
To tweak the setup to purify iron, Kempler’s team added iron oxide particles to its cathode. Now, the electrons sent to it would also release the oxygen atoms from iron oxide and again form sodium hydroxide—as well as leave behind solid metallic iron. The process is highly efficient, the researchers claim. In fact, they estimate that selling the chlorine and some of the sodium hydroxide at current market prices should enable the overall process to produce iron at roughly the same price as making it in blast furnaces. And because sodium hydroxide can bind CO2 and convert it into carbon-based minerals, the process could be used to help capture CO2, making it carbon negative.
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Biden's climate policies are as bad as his foreign policies and should be ended. The whole focus on "zero carbon" instead of conservation and rehabilitation is just a big wet kiss to some companies, and a way to throw money at speculators.
Unfortunately, it sounds like Trump's policies ... drill more oil and gas... are also whacked. Eventually oil and gas will run out. We need to find a sustainable energy source, and a way of living on this planet without wrecking it.
Solar makes sense... for California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. But battery storage STILL costs $15,000, and that's just to limp along overnight to run a few lights, the frig and freezer, keep the modem going, and maybe run a couple of fans of the weather is really hot. I don't know where battery prices are coming down bc it's not reflected in household battery storage. It's far cheaper to get a trifuel generator and just crank it up when needed.
And I have nothing against fuel cells - they are remarkably efficient at extracting energy from fuel- but so far the idea of running mobile applications on hydrogen is impractical. Hydrogen has a lower BTU per CF content and it's ridiculously hard to trundle around enough hydrogen to get any kind of range.
"But because hydrogen is so much lighter, or less dense, you need approximately 3 times the volume of hydrogen as compared to natural gas to get the same amount of energy. So, to get the same “bang for your buck” out of hydrogen as compared to natural gas, you would either need to increase the pressure of the fuel supply or increase the volumetric flow"
All of the difficulties of hydrogen v methane.
https://www.powereng.com/library/6-things-to-remember-about-hydrogen-v
s-natural-gas
I guess I'll believe it when I see it.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:There is a huge difference between the price per kilowatt-hour of electricity and the price to build a kilowatt of electric power plant capacity, but that is for you to understand. Your statement: "Untrue" is nonsense, but you're too stupid to know what you did wrong.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Untrue.
Solar power is the most expensive.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/05/what-does-nuclear-power-really-
cost/
That's not what the WEF says.
Apparently you didn't read their article I linked, because you have the mind of a 5 year old.
But I don't believe shit the WEF says either, so who knows.
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Quote:6ix, you confirmed for the one trillionth time that the kind of people who vote for Trump are assholes, which I knew long before you were born. Have you wondered why you have difficulty thriving in America, 6ix? Since you can't accept that you are a stupid asshole, you immediately were attracted to Trump's explanation that your struggles are not your fault. For example, Trump tells you that your CO2 emissions are not changing the climate because "Climate Change Is A Chinese Hoax". Trump absolves you of all responsibility. Nothing is your fault, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's not what the WEF says.
Apparently you didn't read their article I linked, because you have the mind of a 5 year old.
But I don't believe shit the WEF says either, so who knows.
For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service.
World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts.
This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark "Paris agreement", but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.
Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists said.
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Newly completed solar and battery project, the largest of its kind in the U.S., comes online: 'This is a pretty big deal'
"This facility is a transformational project in the industry and is providing resiliency to the grid."
By Jeremiah Budin | February 10, 2024
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/largest-solar-and-battery-proje
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The largest solar and battery storage project in the United States has just come online.
The 4,660-acre project — named Edwards & Sanborn and developed, owned, and operated by Terra-Gen — is located in the Mojave desert in Kern County, California. It consists of 875 megawatts (MW) of solar and 3,320 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy storage, reports Electrek.
In total, the massive Edwards & Sanborn consists of 1.9 million First Solar PV panels, 120,720 LG Chem, Samsung, and BYD long-duration energy storage batteries, and 400 miles of wire.
In addition to being the United States’ new largest solar and battery project, it holds another title. The project’s contractor, Mortensen, says that it is the largest public-private partnership that the U.S. Air Force has ever taken part in, as a section of the land it is on belongs to the Air Force, per Electrek.
“Now fully operational, this facility is a transformational project in the industry and is providing resiliency to the grid,” Brian Gorda, vice president of engineering at Terra-Gen, said.
Now that it is online, Edwards & Sanborn is providing clean, renewable power to the City of San Jose, Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., and the Clean Power Alliance, among others.
Compared to other U.S. states, California has set aggressive goals for transitioning to clean energy. The state has an official goal of cutting planet-overheating pollution to 40% below 1990s levels by 2030 and relying on 100% renewable energy by 2045.
To that end, it also recently announced that it was closing loopholes for new developments that rely on natural gas. In addition, the state’s first offshore wind farm recently came online.
“This is a pretty big deal and should be big for SoCal. Keep it coming!” wrote one Electrek commenter.
“In aggregate, these projects are going to make a huge difference. I hope all the big power companies in the US have these systems in mind. Generating and storing energy is much more versatile than generating alone,” wrote another.
“Very impressive,” a third chimed in. “Apparently Tesla is not the only company that makes battery storage products. The competition is coming.”
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