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Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?

ExxonMobil Exploration/Mining Switching to Lithium



Typhoon Mawar (Betty) – Philippines braces for 175mph category 5 super cyclone


Dang, a bit early in the season for a cat 5. If any readers are out there I wish you guys luck!

EU Politicians hitting the Climate Brakes?



Cultured Meat’s Carbon Footprint Potentially Worse Than Retail Beef



Cultured Meat - An Emerging Industry

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If we want to know which meat is the most "environmentally friendly", then just look at the 3rd world.

It's goat.

Totally silly to think growing meat in a lab would be more efficient than that.
 
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They're taking pre-orders for their solid-state battery (datasheet), 25-year warranty, 11k cycles, a low operational temp of -40C, weighs 265 lbs, and supposedly they have small-scale units for commercial testing. The price includes recycling costs at the end of life. $$$ seem to be running around $1.67/Wh and could well be a scam (pay now, get it in a few years). They're out of Miami....
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It's Elon "open sourcing"

It's weird to think competition can actually help business but in some cases it does.

Driving your Ford up to the Tesla charger.
Standards do help business, but they will all insist that their standard should become the national standard so they can demand royalties for the patents.

Elon Musk, for all his social problems, is a brilliant engineer.
 

1,500 arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest in The Hague

Activists blocked a section of a motorway during the afternoon in protest against Dutch fossil fuel subsidies. Police said they had used water cannon to disperse activists blocking a major road in the city, and arrested “a total of 1,579 people … 40 of whom will be prosecuted”

Satellites reveal a widespread decline in global lake water storage​

In a study published in the journal Science last week, a team of international researchers reported that more than half of the world's large lakes and reservoirs had shrunk since the early 1990s due to climate change, unregulated water use and dam construction.

Approximately one-third of the total decline in all drying lakes is offset by lake storage increases elsewhere, largely in remote or sparsely populated areas such as the Inner Tibetan Plateau, Northern Great Plains, and Great Rift Valley

Nearly two-thirds (64 ± 4%) of all large reservoirs experienced significant storage declines, although reservoirs showed a net global increase at a rate of 4.87 ± 1.98 Gt year−1, owing to 183 (20%) recently filled reservoirs.
 

Supreme Court rules on EPA's jurisdiction of wetlands

Supreme Court majority has used the case to roll back longstanding rules adopted to carry out the 51-year-old Clean Water Act....divided 5-to-4 as to how far to go in limiting the EPA's authority...extends to only streams, oceans, rivers and lakes, and those wetlands with a "continuous surface connection to those bodies."

...since 1977 when the CWA was amended to include adjacent wetlands, eight consecutive presidential administrations, Republican and Democratic, have interpreted the law to cover wetlands that the court has now excluded. Kavanaugh said that by narrowing the act to cover only adjoining wetlands, the court's new test will have quote "significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States."
 

I'm a supporter of personal property rights. For those of us who own property, it kind of sucks to have the government dictate what we can or can't do with it.
The law that protected the wetlands has gotten out of control. Like any other law created by government, if it can be abused, it will be abused.

There have been stories of the EPA designating wetland areas on private property by using the type of vegetation that is growing. See a specific type of tree, "oh, that's a wetland and you can't touch it" ... which is BS.

Wetlands need protection, but it has gotten out of hand in the past couple decades.
 
I'm a supporter of personal property rights. For those of us who own property, it kind of sucks to have the government dictate what we can or can't do with it.
The law that protected the wetlands has gotten out of control. Like any other law created by government, if it can be abused, it will be abused.

There have been stories of the EPA designating wetland areas on private property by using the type of vegetation that is growing. See a specific type of tree, "oh, that's a wetland and you can't touch it" ... which is BS.

Wetlands need protection, but it has gotten out of hand in the past couple decades.
I always wondered how your EPA managed to change "navigable waters" to all wetlands. Developing wetlands can have serious problems, peat will oxidize when it is out the water, releasing greenhouse gasses and lowering the land. The water table will have to be reduced over and over. I can see why government could have an issue with that, but I can also see how government can go overboard as well. Finding a balance is not easy.

I think land should be owned by the state and people can have long term leases for land from the state, rather than pay property taxes. That way any restrictions to the land use can be clarified at the time of the lease which would alter the price people are willing to pay for the lease. As for laws, I wish they'd be simpler so that any one with an I.Q. over 90 would be able to understand and follow them.
 
I always wondered how your EPA managed to change "navigable waters" to all wetlands. Developing wetlands can have serious problems, peat will oxidize when it is out the water, releasing greenhouse gasses and lowering the land. The water table will have to be reduced over and over. I can see why government could have an issue with that, but I can also see how government can go overboard as well. Finding a balance is not easy.

I think land should be owned by the state and people can have long term leases for land from the state, rather than pay property taxes. That way any restrictions to the land use can be clarified at the time of the lease which would alter the price people are willing to pay for the lease. As for laws, I wish they'd be simpler so that any one with an I.Q. over 90 would be able to understand and follow them.

What they need to do is to moderate the wetland classification based on actual wetland characteristics (which they already do), but with a size attribute attached to it.

Technically, if someone owns 20 acres and 1 acre is wetland, they can't touch that 1 acre.. and that's BS.. There needs to be a minimum size exception to the rule.. Like the property must be 500 acres, or the wetland has to be more than 10 acres or something. I'm not an expert on the subject, but don't need to be to see it is kind of ridiculous.

There also needs to be something to address what happens when property A is developed and causes property B (next door) to become a wetland.
 
I think land should be owned by the state and people can have long term leases for land from the state, rather than pay property taxes. That way any restrictions to the land use can be clarified at the time of the lease which would alter the price people are willing to pay for the lease.
That's a terrible idea but I can understand why your mindset would think that way...
As for laws, I wish they'd be simpler so that any one with an I.Q. over 90 would be able to understand and follow them.
Agreed to an extent. Understanding them isn't that difficult, fully comprehending them in order to 'bend' them in order to get what you want is the hard part.
 
That's a terrible idea but I can understand why your mindset would think that way...
Why would that be terrible? It is already happening in different forms and rather than paying property taxes, the person leasing gets to decide how much they are willing to pay rather than the tax man. It would be cheaper than full ownership, which you don't really have anyway because of the restrictions..

Agreed to an extent. Understanding them isn't that difficult, fully comprehending them in order to 'bend' them in order to get what you want is the hard part.
I actually liked that part about Trump, he wanted to remove two laws for every new one. Don't know if that happened.
 

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They extinguished it, but then a small flare shot out of the bottom of the charred hulk. Firefighters quickly put out those flames. Not long after, the car reignited for a third time.
“What the heck? How do we make this stop?’” Buck asked his team. They quickly consulted Tesla’s first responder guide and realized that it would take far more personnel and water than they could have imagined. Eight firefighters ultimately spent seven hours putting out the fire. They also used up 28,000 gallons of water — an amount the department normally uses in a month. That same volume of water serves an average American home for nearly two years.

By comparison, a typical fire involving an internal combustion car can often be quickly put out with approximately 300 gallons of water, well within the capacity of a single fire engine.'
 

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Perhaps this is why, after 47 reports and 32 years, they have yet to convince a majority of the people on Earth, or in the United States, that manmade climate change is our most important and serious societal problem. Other problems are always considered more important and urgent. In a 2018 Pew Research poll climate change ranked 18th, of 19 issues in importance, in a similar 2014 poll, climate change ranked 14th in a list of priorities. A 2022 poll by the Pew Research Center also found climate change ranked 14th. In the UN My World 2015 Report, a poll of 10 million people around the world, climate change ranked dead last of 16 issues in importance. Minds are not being changed.

Are we at a fork in the road? Will the United Nations, the IPCC, and politicians finally realize that their 50-year-old hypothesis is out of date and incorporate the new natural warming forces discovered in the past thirty years into their work and projections? In the past the IPCC has fought off attempts to independently review their work. We hope our documentation of the problems in AR6 eventually leads to the necessary changes in their organization and procedures.
 

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Perhaps this is why, after 47 reports and 32 years, they have yet to convince a majority of the people on Earth, or in the United States, that manmade climate change is our most important and serious societal problem. Other problems are always considered more important and urgent. In a 2018 Pew Research poll climate change ranked 18th, of 19 issues in importance, in a similar 2014 poll, climate change ranked 14th in a list of priorities. A 2022 poll by the Pew Research Center also found climate change ranked 14th. In the UN My World 2015 Report, a poll of 10 million people around the world, climate change ranked dead last of 16 issues in importance. Minds are not being changed.

Are we at a fork in the road? Will the United Nations, the IPCC, and politicians finally realize that their 50-year-old hypothesis is out of date and incorporate the new natural warming forces discovered in the past thirty years into their work and projections? In the past the IPCC has fought off attempts to independently review their work. We hope our documentation of the problems in AR6 eventually leads to the necessary changes in their organization and procedures.

The definition of a moron:
One who listens to a fox giving advice on how to secure a hen house.

Or in other cases: One who listens to a petrophysicist about climate change. Hmm.. Perhaps I should recognize the intellect level I'm dealing with and speak in simpler terms. Let me try this again:

One who listens to an oil company employee about issues of something the oil is destroying.


Seriously, how much dumber can people in our society really get? Could Einstein have been right again? That human stupidity is limitless?
 
The definition of a moron:
One who listens to a fox giving advice on how to secure a hen house.

Or in other cases: One who listens to a petrophysicist about climate change. Hmm.. Perhaps I should recognize the intellect level I'm dealing with and speak in simpler terms. Let me try this again:

One who listens to an oil company employee about issues of something the oil is destroying.


Seriously, how much dumber can people in our society really get? Could Einstein have been right again? That human stupidity is limitless?

You attack the person instead of talking about the information and data.

100% toxic female behavior. It would be better to admit that you don't understand basic climate science.
 
You attack the person instead of talking about the information and data.

100% toxic female behavior. It would be better to admit that you don't understand basic climate science.
I stopped wasting my time trying to explain science to stupid people a long time ago.

Also, I don't talk about fraudulent information and data.. that kind of stuff is for the ignorant and gullible pawns.


Here, let me point you in the right direction genius...

The "critique" was "peer reviewed" at clintel dot org.. My bull$hit detector went off... hmm.. lets see.. who owns clintel.. its owned by a guy named Augustinus Johannes "Guus" Berkhout.. Who worked for the oil companies.

When I asked "how stupid can you be".. it wasn't a challenge.

Its like one of these idiots who walks into a church and asks the pastor if god is real... then you get upset with me that I attacked the source instead of the data? Damn are people utterly stupid.
 
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