This technical report from NREL dated 2003 discusses the water consumed by thermoelectric power plants. It’s a .PDF available online from the US government.
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category:
2023-12-23 Desalination System Solar Powered, Cheaper
Research has come up with a solar powered Desalination system that has several advantages. https://news.mit.edu/2023/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-0927
2023-12-07 Laser Weed Killer, Scarecrow, Bug Killer
These autonomous laser devices can be working in the fields around the clock. They could severely reduce the need for herbicides (weed killer chemicals), and insecticides which are also harmful to good insects and other animals and pollute the environment. It’s highly unlikely that a weed will become resistant to a Laser! They can be
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2023-11-24 No Oxygen, Just Nitrogen, You Die Asleep
Here’s a YouTube short from Hank’s Channel that explains why you don’t know you’re being asphyxiated by pure nitrogen. The reason I’m bringing this up is that a few years ago some guy poured a giant dewar flask of liquid nitrogen into the swimming pool at a party. So some people commented about this on
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2023-11-23 IEA: Large Amounts Of Carbon Capture As A Solution Is An Illusion
This article starts off with (quote) “”The oil and gas industry is banking on carbon capture as its “fix” for climate change. The IEA’s new report dispels that idea and offers real solutions.”” It’s much more than that. “The oil and gas industry is banking on carbon capture” as a magic wand that they can
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2023-11-20 Will HVDC Across Oceans Be The Future?
Engineering with Rosie Barnes explains HVDC and underground and undersea cables. Including the Xlink from Morocco to the UK, Basslink Tasmania to Australia, and the longest, Australia to Singapore. She believes that all the continents will be linked. Says there are plans for undersea HVDC cables between the UK and Newfoundland. It’s a 13.5 min
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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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2023-11-05 IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2023 – JHAT
Too little, too late? Are we headed toward 2.5 deg. C?? We need to do a lot more! Just Have A Think YouTube video 13.7 min More information regarding EVs: Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
2023-11-03 Elon Musk Funds a Prize For Carbon Capture
Cost is the big problem. https://youtube.com/shorts/Q5N4iITVyL8?si=xHghVgvZ9Z2YHeUS
2023-11-01 CO2 Must Be Delicately Balanced For Sea Shells To Form – Extremely Important!
This is an experiment where he puts dry ice, frozen CO2, carbon dioxide into water that has a lot of calcium ions in it. At first the dry ice causes the water to turn milky, as the CO2 combines to form calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate is the compound found in sea shells. The sea creatures
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