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2023-11-15 HYDROGEN – You Wouldn’t Be Alive Without It!

I constantly see the armchair BEV (battery electric vehicle) ‘experts’ badmouth hydrogen FCEVs. The hydrogen is 3X less efficient than BEVs, they claim. But the ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles) they’re now driving are less efficient than the hydrogen FCEVs! So why are these hypocrites complaining? Hydrogen has been *safely* generated, stored and transported in

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2023-10-25 US Subsidies For Meat, Etc.

A quick Google search for “US meat subsidies” turned up this:$38B/year in meat and dairy subsidies, $17M/year for fruits and vegetables. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26872805:nIE https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F26872805%3AnIEsjCg05Ef7QCY7oVPiSJ1IQR4&cuid=469956 —————————- Direct corn ethanol subsidies are lower, around $100M. But indirectly, the renewable portfolio standard forces fuel companies to subsidize ethanol by mandating it. https://www.taxpayer.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TCS-Biofuels-Subsidies-Report.pdf Perennial grass ethanol has not advanced as

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2023-10-12 Haber Process – Making Ammonia Is Very Energy Intensive

Those who are concerned about the use of fossil fuels are typically concerned about transportation and fossil fuels use in homes and industries. But they tend to ignore the fact that humans use a large amount of fossil fuels to make fertilizer to grow food. Without fertilizer there would be global starvation. Along with other

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2023-10-11 EU’s CBAM Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, + Industry Changes

Barnard talks about very important changes to decarbonize industries. Only One Industry Can’t Survive Without Fossil Fuels

2023-08-05 Population Collapse V. Climate Change – Musk

Elon Musk says population collapse is a bigger threat than climate change. Is he right? This is a very good article on a number of different aspects of population change. It gives a lot of good statistics. Also makes aware that that the population isn’t as all important as the resource utilization. The Western world,

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2022-05-31 Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/30/stepping-stones-for-sustainable-food-systems/

2021-10-06 Agrivoltaics Benefit French Vineyards

The solar panels over the vineyards protect the grapes from hot and cold temperatures, and the power is fed into the grid, reducing fossil fuel use. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/solar-panels-help-french-winemaker-keep-climate-change-bay-2021-10-04/

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2021-09-21 Sugar, Coffee Yields Cut By Climate Change

Sugar and coffee yields were slashed by climate change, report warns. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/sugar-coffee-climate-crisis-agriculture-b1921993.html I’m glad I don’t drink coffee.

2021-08-20 Queen Of The Night Went Crazy Last Night

My beautiful Queen of the Night went crazy again last night. Tue night / Wednesday morning she went crazy with 5 flowers, one you can see shriveled and sagging in this photo — that’s the one in the second photo. About 10 to 12 bloomed in the last few days.

2021-07-01 Food Systems Responsible For 1/3 Of GHGs

Food systems are responsible for a third of global GHG emissions according to the paper shown in this episode of Just Have Another Think. The climate impact of the world’s top meat and dairy producers. << Animal agriculture just on its own accounts for nearly 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. >> https://youtu.be/URZEUx37VTc Paper

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