Archive for February, 2021:

2021-02-22 Bill Gates On PBS Newshour

PBS Newshour’s Judy Woodruff interviews Bill Gates. I also saw Gates on Colbert’s late show. He’s promoting his book How To Avoid A Climate Disaster. https://youtu.be/BMbb4MR66Qk

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2021-02-22 Facebook Group Scientists Warning

I joined this Facebook group a few weeks ago and found the admins censor the posts. One such example is below (screenshot). I don’t know what they mean by a “but if text” but I didn’t do anything other than attempt to post two recommended books by Vaclav Smil. I searched for “but if text”

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2021-02-22 Tesla PowerWall, Megapack, StorEn Price Info Per kWh

This article gives an idea of how much a Tesla PowerWall will cost. This StorEn company has only a few employees. They are crowdfunding and have not yet sold a flow battery. They’re supposedly in the business of making vanadium redox flow batteries. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/05/tesla-megapack-powerpack-powerwall-battery-storage-prices/ https://www.startengine.com https://www.storen.com Update Feb 23 – TSLA was down to $632

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2021-02-21 Gates Says …

Jennifer Mary Tess This is an opinion article. Here is a paragraph: << Another issue is that wealth limits the perspectives of even the best-intentioned people. This week, Bill Gates argued in an interview with the Financial Times that divesting (ditching stocks) from fossil fuels is a waste of time. It would be better, he

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2021-02-21 U. Mich Climate Change Factsheets

Scroll down to see sections. http://css.umich.edu/factsheets

2021-02-21 Hydropower Life Cycle Assessments

This is something I didn’t know about. I knew that when they build a dam, they cut down the trees on the land that will be underwater. But there are still lots of carbon in the soil. p.69 << Hydropower has a lot going for it — it’s relatively cheap — but it also has

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2021-02-20 Gates Says This Will Be Hard

Ch. “This will be hard” p.51 << To sum up: We need to accomplish something gigantic we have never done before, much faster than we have ever done anything similar. To do it, we need lots of breakthroughs in science and engineering. We need to build a consensus that doesn’t exist and create public policies

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2021-02-20 Making The Tools To Combat Climate Change

I read a lot of criticisms from doom and gloom climate change deniers who say that the wind turbines and solar arrays are polluting the Earth and blah-blah-blah. They have a hypercritical viewpoint of what is needed to get to zero carbon energy. I think this concept never occurred to them. The craftsman needs to

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2021-02-20 Bill Gates Attacked By Self-righteous Hypocrites

From reply in FB group Scientists Warning AD Mitchell Said about Bill Gates “There’s some good info…” and “… a billionaire can buy the eyes and ears of millions of people, so it’s good to know what he is saying.” At least AD has a bit of common sense. Bill Gates is telling “How To

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2021-02-19 Global Carbon Project:: Information

Infographics etc. https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/

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