Researchers in “Japan built a device capable of photosynthesis 10 times better than nature, turning air directly into fuel.” https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0227unQ5qyxcuw3McDprzewb96vncHfcDfuNxtfcyUE5VggbAnorZeXzSW21WciGsCl&id=100064405640816&post_id=100064405640816_pfbid0227unQ5qyxcuw3McDprzewb96vncHfcDfuNxtfcyUE5VggbAnorZeXzSW21WciGsCl&mibextid=6yaNxA
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category:
2025-06-28 Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells About Water And Air Goes Through Your Body And The Rest Of The World
Some of the water and air molecules that passed through Jesus and Abraham Lincoln have passed through you, too.
2025-06-22 Fossil Fuel Subsidies – A Closer Look At Tax Breaks And Societal Costs
A quote from an article from EESI – Environmental and Energy Study Group. Such an enormous amount of money in only a single year! “”There are many kinds of costs associated with fossil fuel use in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution resulting from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. These
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2025-06-19 When Will Extreme Heat Become Unlivable?
This 12 minute PBS Weathered video explains wet bulb temperature and shows some good maps and graphs. She tells how humans (and other living things) cannot keep cool when the humidity rises and causes the wet bulb temperature to rise. The person’s core temperature rises and they have heat exhaustion or heat stroke. This can
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2025-06-17 China Turns Retired EV Batteries And Solar Cells Into $38 Billion Recycling Boom
China turns retired EV batteries and solar cells into $38 billion recycling boom. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02o228ieBf25hirnxtU9BsEyAjDGjgcF7fdiErKqHau4w117e3MjPFRSrDKwphr9grl&id=100064499750520&post_id=100064499750520_pfbid02o228ieBf25hirnxtU9BsEyAjDGjgcF7fdiErKqHau4w117e3MjPFRSrDKwphr9grl&mibextid=Nif5oz
2025-06-01 Dark Roof Lobby Making Your City Hotter
This is a Floodlight article about Dark Roof companies and lobbyists trying to eliminate the laws cities are passing to make roofs white. https://floodlightnews.org/this-little-known-dark-roof-lobby-may-be-making-your-city-hotter/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
2025-05-23 Groups Sue Over Louisiana’s Ban On Air Monitoring
This is so shameful. 🙁 How could the state legislature, in good faith that they were passing a law “for the good of the people”, ban those people from determining if they were being harmed by the chemicals in the air? https://floodlightnews.org/environmental-groups-sue-over-louisianas-ban-on-community-air-monitoring/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
2025-05-15 Redlining Shaped The Power Grid. Communities Of Color Are Still Paying The Price.
Good Floodlight article about electric grids in neighborhoods and how the poor are suffering – inequality. https://floodlightnews.org/redlining-shaped-the-power-grid-communities-of-color-are-still-paying-the-price/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
2025-05-03 How To Generate Nuclear Fuel
Quite complex. https://www.facebook.com/amazementshow/videos/1612762032713799/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2025-04-13 Cement Production Will Still Contribute CO2
Quote: “”Cement production is not carbon intensive solely due to energy use, but because heating limestone (CaCO₃) creates lime (CaO) and carbon dioxide (CO₂). Even completely carbon-free energy cement production would contribute about 5% of the total global CO₂ emitted annually, at current levels of cement production. Cement will not be decarbonized without addressing both
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