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2024-04-29 Battery Recycling Shatters The Myth Of EV Battery Waste
Bloomberg is behind a paywall.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-24/battery-recycling-shatters-the-myth-of-ev-battery-waste
2024-04-28 US Plan To Upgrade 100k Miles Of Transmission Lines In 5 Years
Short article about deployment of enhancements such as high performance conductors.
Quote: “”…and up to $331 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for a new 285-mile transmission line that will carry more than 2 gigawatts (GW) of transmission capacity from Idaho to Nevada.””
The US just came up with a plan to upgrade 100k miles of transmission lines in 5 years
2024-04-27 Ocean Carbon Removal
A long article describing several methods and how far they have been researched. I like the enhanced rock weathering – it’s something that may be able to be done with very low use of fossil fuels. It’s not difficult to crush rock to dust. But there are pros and cons to each of the methods.
Will stashing more CO2 in the ocean help slow climate change?
2024-04-26 Nuclear Fusion Insanity
This is a 35 minute YouTube video on nuclear fusion. It’s a narration but the graphics don’t match up with the narration. I give it a grade of C minus.
Quote “”The ITER reactor is designed generate to 500 Megawatts of fusion power for at least 400 seconds, achieving a ten-fold gain in plasma heating power.””
“”With an estimated cost of around 20 billion dollars… is set for completion by 2025…”” Notice the two weasel words: estimated and around.
The problem is that they have been trying to get nuclear fusion experiments to produce more power than they consume, but they have not been successful, and this has been going on for a half century or more, with an incredibly large amount of money having been spent. This has been the ultimate demonstration of the definition of insanity – they keep repeating the same things again and again, expecting different results. Meanwhile the solar photovoltaic industry has dropped the costs of solar panels to where anyone can get a rooftop solar system installed and get electric power generated by thermonuclear fusion, from the sun.
More at the Wikipedia article.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
2024-04-25 New Rule Compels US Coal-fired Power Plants To Capture Emissions – Or Shut Down
The EPA
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/25/new-rule-compels-us-coal-fired-power-plants-to-capture-emissions-or-shut-down
An earlier article about coal power plants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/23/coal-power-plants-deaths-pollution
2024-04-24 Tesla 2024 Q1
Electrified’s Loomis goes over some of the Q1 figures, but it’s much more important what he says about Tesla the company.
2024-04-23 Shashibo Cube Wizardry
Wow! I have a few, they’re not intuitively easy, they’re so complex that most people would give up after a few minutes. But it’s nice to know that there are wizards out there.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/339157212322231?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-04-22 Heliotech Heliosol Flexible Solar PV Sheets Adhere To Surfaces
It comes in a roll. They said 85 Watts per square meter, which is not that much, but still adequate.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/963442381939420?mibextid=9drbnH
