This is similar to smoking tobacco products and the second hand smoke from them. There are the same byproducts of burning tobacco when burning wood. Heterocyclic amines and benzopyrene are two. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/26/domestic-wood-burners-having-a-deadly-impact-in-outside-areas?utm_term=65bb88efb89deac9b015f82bd2680cc4&utm_campaign=DownToEarth&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=greenlight_email Information about benzopyrene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzopyrene
2024-02-01 Trump Truth-O-Meter 1000 Fact Checks: 76% Mostly False Or Worse
Quotes: “”American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump’s disregard for factual accuracy.”” “” “It’s been an astounding eight years in American politics,” said Jennifer Mercieca, a Texas A&M University communication professor and a historian of American political rhetoric. “He’s built his entire political identity on the fact that he doesn’t owe anyone
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2024-02-01 Extraction Of Raw Materials To Rise By 60% By 2060, Says UN Report
The article said that the growth in extraction of raw materials is 400% greater since 1970. It is responsible for 60% of global heating impacts, 40% of air pollution impacts, among other things. The world must cut back on demand, not just extract green raw materials. What they seem to be ignoring is that as
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2024-01-22 Largest US Solar-Storage Project Goes Online
It’s 875 MW solar and 3 GWh of energy storage. The 4600 acre site with nearly 2 million solar panels is not far from Edwards AFB, California. Largest US solar-storage project goes online
2024-01-10 SpaceX Satellite To Satellite Laser Links
SpaceX Reveals 8,000 satellite to satellite laser links. https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-video#:~:text=The%20’space%20laser’%20feature%2C,Gateway%20ground%20station%20on%20Earth.
2024-01-06 Renewables ASAP Could Save 10 Trillion Dollars – Oxford Researchers
Quote “”Transitioning to a decarbonised energy system by around 2050 is expected to save the world at least $12 trillion compared to continuing our current levels of fossil fuel use.“” Quote: “”Professor Farmer adds, “The world is facing a simultaneous inflation crisis, national security crisis, and climate crisis, all caused by our dependence on high
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2024-01-04 Wisconsin’s Largest Solar Farm Now Online
Badger Hollow Solar is 3500 acres, 830,000 bifacials on trackers and 300 MW, built in two phases. The second phase just came online. Wisconsin is expected to add 3.78 GW solar over the next 5 years. Wisconsin’s largest solar farm is now fully online
2023-12-29 Dispatchable Renewables: 540 MW PV Plus Storage In S. Africa
Quote: “”Dispatchable Renewables are the future.”” Scatec’s 540MW PV + 1,140MWh Battery Storage Project In South Africa Begins Supplying Electricity To National Grid
2023-12-26 Rejuvenating Old Solar Panels
This is new to me. But solar panels are getting so inexpensive that it may be cheaper to replace them. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/technology-rejuvenate-old-solar-panels?fbclid=IwAR30x1JpCMipqs7cAe2wfCy1EvAMAF2ut_iTMWBB4_cZkKtiNZg6CxJRn18




