Climate in the 21st Century

[DIY-HP-LED]

If they are gonna use carbon capture then putting it in the power station, steel plant and cement factory smokestacks would be the logical place to put it, at the source. As for carbon capture in general, that is what plants and plankton do and if it's feasible to use tech it should be done. We must simply stop putting millions of years' worth of fossilized carbon into the atmosphere to fuel our civilization. There are cost effective ways of making cement and steel using different methods, we can also dramatically cut the carbon emitted by transportation and are beginning to.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/opinions/al-gore-climate-fossil-fuels-michaelson/index.html

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

 

[ttystikk]

If they are gonna use carbon capture then putting it in the power station, steel plant and cement factory smokestacks would be the logical place to put it, at the source. As for carbon capture in general, that is what plants and plankton do and if it's feasible to use tech it should be done. We must simply stop putting millions of years' worth of fossilized carbon into the atmosphere to fuel our civilization. There are cost effective ways of making cement and steel using different methods, we can also dramatically cut the carbon emitted by transportation and are beginning to.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/opinions/al-gore-climate-fossil-fuels-michaelson/index.html

Put the carbon from carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate. Living creatures do it; that's what most shells are made of. Other chemical processes can do it too.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America | TechCrunch

Battery factories are popping up across North America. Here's where they are and how the Inflation Reduction Act influenced the boom.

techcrunch.com

In 2019, just two battery factories were operating in the United States with another two under construction. Today, there are about 30 battery factories either planned, under construction or operational in the country.

Automakers and battery manufacturers have collectively invested and promised to invest close to $100 billion in building domestic cell and module manufacturing. Together, these companies promise to deliver an annual capacity of over 1,200 gigawatt-hours before 2030, if each factory reaches maximum capacity. That’s roughly enough batteries for 18 million EVs, based on previous Tesla predictions that say about 100 GWh capacity can power around 1.5 million EVs.

The investment into producing batteries in the U.S. and Canada changes weekly, so we’ve started tracking these promises.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Hydrogen is difficult to store and transport, it is best used close to where it is produced. Australia has vast quantities of high-quality iron ore and has abundant solar energy in the same area too and they are close to Asian markets where demand is high. Cheap green hydrogen can be used to produce green steel or iron "sponge", emitting just water vapor as a byproduct. Sponge can be exported or melted in arc furnaces and processed to make green steel using solar power. I figure Australia could become a major producer of steel or sponge in a decade or two, plenty of solar energy and plenty of iron ore close to markets should make it happen. Northern Australia is close to the equator and is mostly desert, so space and sunlight should not be an issue.

Cost-Effective Catalyst To Supercharge Green Hydrogen Production | OilPrice.com

Argonne National Laboratory developed an affordable, cobalt-based catalyst to efficiently produce hydrogen from water.

oilprice.com

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

There have been a few recent breakthroughs that increase the efficiency and especially the longevity of Perovskite solar cells. This should filter down to this kind of work and we could have dirt cheap long lived printed flexible solar panels operating at 15% or more in 5 or ten years. Buy it by the meter wide roll with a self-adhesive backing and lines where ya can cut it like an LED tape and it is light weight too.

Printed solar panels could generate power from existing infrastructure

A multi-disciplinary research team at Swansea University has invented a novel solar panel printing process.

interestingengineering.com

 

[cannabineer]

our Repug in a blue pelt weighs in on Biden’s “radical climate agenda”

Joe Manchin vows ‘unrelenting fight’ against US climate law he helped pass | Joe Manchin | The Guardian

Democratic West Virginia senator calls the Inflation Reduction Act, hailed as ‘biggest step on climate crisis’, a ‘radical agenda’

amp.theguardian.com

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

our Repug in a blue pelt weighs in on Biden’s “radical climate agenda”

Joe Manchin vows ‘unrelenting fight’ against US climate law he helped pass | Joe Manchin | The Guardian

Democratic West Virginia senator calls the Inflation Reduction Act, hailed as ‘biggest step on climate crisis’, a ‘radical agenda’

amp.theguardian.com

"Clean coal" Joe, hopefully a democratic victory in 24 will make him irrelevant and remove him from the bottleneck where he profits from gridlock along with Sinema. There are a few scumbags in the democratic party, and these are a couple of them, but the GOP is almost 100% scumbag.

 

[ttystikk]

our Repug in a blue pelt weighs in on Biden’s “radical climate agenda”

Joe Manchin vows ‘unrelenting fight’ against US climate law he helped pass | Joe Manchin | The Guardian

Democratic West Virginia senator calls the Inflation Reduction Act, hailed as ‘biggest step on climate crisis’, a ‘radical agenda’

amp.theguardian.com

Ah yes, the Senator from the Coal Mine Lobby.

At least he wears his sponsorship proudly on his uniform.

 

[injinji]

Yes, that's the general cycle but things have conspired to upset that cycle. That said, I was in South Florida 19 years ago.

I just remembered, are you still doing the daily weather thread?

So we are due for another bad few years.

I haven't posted on https://rollitup.org/t/current-climatic-conditions.1060257/page-17 for a while now. But maybe I should start it back up.

 

[injinji]

And it's been the wettest year in over a century in Colorado. And cool. Last night's low was 50F here in the Front Range.

My niece had another baby, and the nanny's visa ran out or some such. So Sister is in Castle Rock doing that job of work. She has been telling me about the cool nights.

 

[injinji]

Ah yes, the Senator from the Coal Mine Lobby.

At least he wears his sponsorship proudly on his uniform.

Not just the lobby. His family own a big privately owned coal company.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1692256382286799320

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Shocking waste and perhaps an opportunity for someone to buy them and upgrade the batteries to new ones that will give much better range. I'm surprised there wasn't a secondhand market for the ebikes, they would be easy to upgrade the batteries and it looks like you could get the cars and ebikes for more or less free. Maybe the ride sharing never worked out, but there are always people looking for cheap transportation and used cars.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1692351364100198888

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1692344309717008666

 

[compassionateExotic]

this shouldn’t ever be a party dominate view because global warming is here and no matter cost we need change..to do nothing and not admit wrong but also not want change for the better is a obvious u means and also shows how narcissistic views are accepted in the world. Sorry I don’t care if you call me a hippie but at least I see the logical reason years ago and agreed we need correct laws as a world to not be the little narcissistic killer of it. no country owns the world and as humans we live so short to be doing so much wrong and damage in such a small time. Shoot we have done more damage in last 30 years than millions of the past if all time.


like anything all we can do is change and also accept the issue, anything else is just wanting ur narcissistic crap and cheap ways. if force was there to be more effective but also not as damaging when scientists knew this and advised us we def would of progresssed above this and it would been if anything the best marvel to achieve alt resources for energy . Shoot didn’t we lose Tesla because he invented a way for free energy ?

 

[cannabineer]

this shouldn’t ever be a party dominate view because global warming is here and no matter cost we need change..to do nothing and not admit wrong but also not want change for the better is a obvious u means and also shows how narcissistic views are accepted in the world. Sorry I don’t care if you call me a hippie but at least I see the logical reason years ago and agreed we need correct laws as a world to not be the little narcissistic killer of it. no country owns the world and as humans we live so short to be doing so much wrong and damage in such a small time. Shoot we have done more damage in last 30 years than millions of the past if all time.


like anything all we can do is change and also accept the issue, anything else is just wanting ur narcissistic crap and cheap ways. if force was there to be more effective but also not as damaging when scientists knew this and advised us we def would of progresssed above this and it would been if anything the best marvel to achieve alt resources for energy . Shoot didn’t we lose Tesla because he invented a way for free energy ?

I agree, but look at the things disagreed upon. The road back to normal is long and gnar.

 

[CANON_Grow]

Not as sexy as all the new tech coming out but simple insulation would be really helpful. Increased comfort, savings on the cost of wasted energy, reducing emissions.

“According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, residential energy efficiency could be the largest source of reduced greenhouse gas emissions in the US, and a 2016 study showed that increasing insulation in all the single-family homes in the country would lead to annual reductions of 80 million tons of carbon dioxide from power plants. That amounts to about 4.7 percent of the annual carbon emissions from American power plants, or the equivalent of taking 15.6 million gas-powered cars off the road.”

There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls

Buildings waste a lot of energy. One low-tech solution could fix that.

www.vox.com

 

[injinji]

Not as sexy as all the new tech coming out but simple insulation would be really helpful. Increased comfort, savings on the cost of wasted energy, reducing emissions.

“According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, residential energy efficiency could be the largest source of reduced greenhouse gas emissions in the US, and a 2016 study showed that increasing insulation in all the single-family homes in the country would lead to annual reductions of 80 million tons of carbon dioxide from power plants. That amounts to about 4.7 percent of the annual carbon emissions from American power plants, or the equivalent of taking 15.6 million gas-powered cars off the road.”

There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls

Buildings waste a lot of energy. One low-tech solution could fix that.

www.vox.com

If I build another house, it's going to be underground. Every time I hear the AC kick on, I think that is money and carbon I didn't have to spend.

 

[ttystikk]

If I build another house, it's going to be underground. Every time I hear the AC kick on, I think that is money and carbon I didn't have to spend.

Also, solar panels.

Not everyone can build a house with a basement. Throughout the South, so many areas have high water tables that effectively preclude basements.

I have a basement and I love it; it's the reason I to this day do not have central AC installed.