Climate in the 21st Century

Will Humankind see the 22nd Century?

  • Not a fucking chance

    Votes: 41 28.3%

  • Maybe. if we get our act together

    Votes: 35 24.1%

  • Yes, we will survive

    Votes: 69 47.6%
  • Total voters
    145
DIY-HP-LED

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Can Green Energy Make The Grid SAFER?

25,654 views Mar 28, 2023
The climate community has gotten pretty loud about telling us that we need to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, which is fast approaching. And in order to do this, we’re going to need to electrify pretty much everything and green the grid. But this raises some pretty big questions. What will this clean, green future look like? Can we pull off this massive transition in time before some seriously dire tipping points are reached? And will our power grid even be able to handle it, considering how much more extreme our weather is getting due to climate change?

In this episode of Weathered, we speak to four different experts about this topic and dig as deep as we can to answer the question posed by the title: is the clean energy transition even possible with all this weather?

Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
 
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Roger A. Shrubber said:
More winter tornadoes. :( I wonder what it's going to take for deniers to quit denying?...
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellite-imagery-tornado-tracks
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Their houses leveled and flooded while the insurance companies refuse to cover many properties, already happening in Florida. So, your meatball Ron voter who owns rentals on the coast can't get insurance and can't sell them either because no one can get a loan to buy them. He anxiously awaits each hurricane season, and the feds will give up after a spell too, then he has to pay to have the structures removed...

It is a good example of vote republican and fuck yourself, of other priorities than your own personal survival, they are fighting for their tribe and chief too, so sacrifices have to be made in any war and of course there is collateral damage and fucking over the innocent, as you have in any war, this one happens to be with reality.
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Cheap battery storage will be required to charge EVs as well as run them. Fast charging stations will have a limit on how many EVs they can charge at the same time. A restaurant that has 10 X F150 lightings with a 1000-mile range charging at 350kW each would suck down a lot of juice, so ya better have lots of batteries and solar panels or a big wind turbine out back, to increase profits as ya skin them alive with fast charging prices! :lol:

That's a lot of volts and amps in a small space, so charging should have some protection from the rain and a roof made of solar panels would be logical both for safety, comfort and profit. It would also mean dual use of the same space for sheltered parking and solar power generation. On site batteries would not only reduce the load on the grid, but they could also provide distributed storage and generation for the grid with wind or solar, so can plugged in EVs.


The Unsung Heroes of Electrification
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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DIY-HP-LED said:
Cheap battery storage will be required to charge EVs as well as run them. Fast charging stations will have a limit on how many EVs they can charge at the same time. A restaurant that has 10 X F150 lightings with a 1000-mile range charging at 350kW each would suck down a lot of juice, so ya better have lots of batteries and solar panels or a big wind turbine out back, to increase profits as ya skin them alive with fast charging prices! :lol:

That's a lot of volts and amps in a small space, so charging should have some protection from the rain and a roof made of solar panels would be logical both for safety, comfort and profit. It would also mean dual use of the same space for sheltered parking and solar power generation. On site batteries would not only reduce the load on the grid, but they could also provide distributed storage and generation for the grid with wind or solar, so can plugged in EVs.


The Unsung Heroes of Electrification
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tell me more about this Lightning with 1000 miles of range.
 
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cannabineer said:
tell me more about this Lightning with 1000 miles of range.
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In the future and ya gotta build for it today. They have a dodge ram that gets 500 miles now and it might be possible to have a 3000-mile range in a decade with a 5 or 6X increase in capacity with silicon-based chemistries. That's NY to LA on a single charge, not many will want it, but some will, it would be a bitch to charge from flat though.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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DIY-HP-LED said:
In the future and ya gotta build for it today. They have a dodge ram that gets 500 miles now and it might be possible to have a 3000-mile range in a decade with a 5 or 6X increase in capacity with silicon-based chemistries. That's NY to LA on a single charge, not many will want it, but some will, it would be a bitch to charge from flat though.
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These speculative bits don’t improve your essays. Jmo.
 
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cannabineer said:
These speculative bits don’t improve your essays. Jmo.
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It is backed up by developments and if you were building such a facility today you would plan for the future. I've been posting a lot of things here on developing battery technologies and the shift to a green economy, it is policy and therefore politics. Many of these technologies like 3D printing batteries for mass production, solid state, Li-on improvements and sodium batteries are already in production or nearing it. I tend to focus on the near term prospects a decade ahead and what will be implemented or about to by then. There have been several recent breakthroughs in silicon-based batteries that are significant and not difficult to implement, and they can have up to a 10x increase in power density over the Li-on batteries now in use, so 5 or 6 X increase is a reasonable assumption.

It would mean instead of 30 minutes of endurance, it would mean 3 hours for a Jetson personal aircraft, now we are talking motorcycle range and cross country too! Land in the back of the parking lot and wheel it to the charge station.

3 hours of aerial motorcycling on a charge, maybe 200 miles range or more, ya just need the batteries.

 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
DIY-HP-LED said:
It is backed up by developments and if you were building such a facility today you would plan for the future. I've been posting a lot of things here on developing battery technologies and the shift to a green economy, it is policy and therefore politics. Many of these technologies like 3D printing batteries for mass production, solid state, Li-on improvements and sodium batteries are already in production or nearing it. I tend to focus on the near term prospects a decade ahead and what will be implemented or about to by then. There have been several recent breakthroughs in silicon-based batteries that are significant and not difficult to implement, and they can have up to a 10x increase in power density over the Li-on batteries now in use, so 5 or 6 X increase is a reasonable assumption.

It would mean instead of 30 minutes of endurance, it would mean 3 hours for a Jetson personal aircraft, now we are talking motorcycle range and cross country too! Land in the back of the parking lot and wheel it to the charge station.

3 hours of aerial motorcycling on a charge, maybe 200 miles range or more, ya just need the batteries.

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I’ll spare you my diatribe about that set of flying blades.
 
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cannabineer said:
I’ll spare you my diatribe about that set of flying blades.
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Here is another one, his reaction probably mirrors yours in the opening moments... :lol:


Electricity from thin air & barely contained chaos? - It’s April ABN! | Everything Electric Show

17,516 views Apr 12, 2023
This week’s episode is your regular monthly Almost Breaking News update from Robert with some fascinating stories about massive iron ore extraction, sodium batteries, award winning heat pumps and Paris going car free!!
 
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How Silicon Anode Batteries Will Bring Better Range To EVs

88,027 views Apr 12, 2023 #CNBC
Lithium-ion battery performance has reached a plateau in recent years, but a breakthrough in battery technology is about to change that. Using silicon instead of graphite, the commonly used material in battery anodes today, enables significantly higher energy density and faster charging. The new tech has attracted the attention of big players such as GM, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and Airbus. CNBC spoke with three companies working on silicon anodes — Sila Nanotechnologies, Amprius Technologies and Group14 Technologies, to learn how the new batteries will transform electric vehicles, consumer electronics and more.
 
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DIY-HP-LED said:
In the future and ya gotta build for it today. They have a dodge ram that gets 500 miles now and it might be possible to have a 3000-mile range in a decade with a 5 or 6X increase in capacity with silicon-based chemistries. That's NY to LA on a single charge, not many will want it, but some will, it would be a bitch to charge from flat though.
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I’m all for innovation in electric car technologies.
For the immediate future though, natural gas, and hydrogen fuel cells, are better suited for long haul trucking.
They can fill up now and make those thousands, and thousands, of miles trips today.
That’s why UPS, Amazon, and other delivery companies switched their fleets over to natural gas years ago.

I was speaking with a colleague recently and he made a good analogy.
Hydrogen fuel cells are the future “Diesel”.
It’s probably not gonna be adopted by the mainstream consumer, but for trucking, and discerning individuals, it makes perfect sense.
 
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Bad Karma said:
I’m all for innovation in electric car technologies.
For the immediate future though, natural gas, and hydrogen fuel cells, are better suited for long haul trucking.
They can fill up now and make those thousands, and thousands, of miles trips today.
That’s why UPS, Amazon, and other delivery companies switched their fleets over to natural gas years ago.

I was speaking with a colleague recently and he made a good analogy.
Hydrogen fuel cells are the future “Diesel”.
It’s probably not gonna be adopted by the mainstream consumer, but for trucking, and discerning individuals, it makes perfect sense.
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Here is a European solution being tested in a couple of countries. Trucks can be charged on the move and only 30% of the main routes need be electrified. The truck owners even like the idea and if you can power a train, you can charge a truck from overhead wires like a trolly. Now improved batteries look like a better option.

 
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EPA proposes strict limits on tailpipe emissions to speed up electric vehicle transition

12,562 views Apr 12, 2023
The Biden administration rolled out its most aggressive effort yet to combat climate change with tougher emissions limits for cars and trucks. But several challenges remain, including the cost of electric cars, the batteries and how to charge them on the road. William Brangham reports on the proposed regulations.
 
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