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Archive for March, 2022:
2022-03-24 Oxy To Spend Up To 1B$ On DAC Plants
Occidental plans on building DAC – direct air capture CO2 plants in the Permian Basin. Capture a million tons a year; more than all 19 plants now capture. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/occidental-plans-275-million-2022-carbon-capture-projects-2022-03-23/
2022-03-24 Republicans Turn SCOTUS Hearing Into Circus
Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson Senate confirmation hearings into a circus. This was shameful. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/ketanji-brown-jackson-republicans-senate-confirmation-hearing
2022-03-24 Thermophotovoltaic Battery R & D @T.U. Madrid
This sounds promising. I’m puzzled by what is used for the photovoltaics and how it can handle such high temperatures – 1000 deg C. The glowing ferrosilicon generates a lot of infrared so in order to have 40% efficiency the photovoltaics must convert a lot of the IR to electricity. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/23/latent-heat-thermophotovoltaic-battery-for-renewables-storage/ I know a bit
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2022-03-24 Europe Wasting 10 kT Wheat On Ethanol
There is a food crisis in Europe – a huge amount of wheat is being diverted. Europe uses 10,000 tonnes of wheat to produce ethanol for fuel. The article claims that this is equivalent to 15 million loaves of bread at 750 grams per loaf. But that’s not correct! .75 kg per loaf should give
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2022-03-24 MYTH: EVs Make More Tire, Brake Pollution Than ICEVs
Another big F U D lie: EVs cause more particulate pollution from brakes and tires. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/24/uk-environment-secretary-proven-wrong-on-ev-tires-brake-pollution/ Quote: << Dr. McTurk not only addressed the claims made by the UK Environment Secretary but debunked them in his report. The report discussed brake particulate matter, noting that although all vehicles produce particulate matter dust in the process
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2022-03-23 Climeworks Pay To Remove CO2, Put It Underground
This is the most important thing you can do to reduce CO2 and save this planet! I found out about this today, and I had not known how easy it was to pay for the carbon dioxide that I (and all others) generate to be removed from the atmosphere and put permanently underground. This is
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2022-03-23 Thermobaric Weapons In Ukraine
This short YouTube video explains how these deadly “vacuum bombs” kill. He says they’re not illegal, but using them against civilians is considered a war crime. https://youtu.be/ZwScTlCf5IQ
2022-03-22 US Automakers Stifled Ni-MH Battery Use In BEVs
The US automakers stifled the use of Ni-MH battery technology in battery electric vehicles. These protracted battles dealt with patent rights, litigation, gag orders, and especially sales of companies to corporations. Wikipedia wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries
2022-03-22 UN Chief: 1.5 Deg C Limit ‘On Life Support’
2022-03-22 UN Secretary General says “The 1.5 Deg C Limit is On Life Support” Quote: << The most ambitious goal of the treaty was to keep further global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Surpassing that threshold, climate scientists say, would lead to irreversible damage to the planet and humanity with an array of disasters: sea-level
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