The nasty PFA chemicals have gotten into everything. They’re believed to be carcinogens.
https://www.ewg.org/pfaschemicals/what-are-forever-chemicals.html
2021-12-13 Air Force Discharges 27 For Refusing Vaccination
There are 27 stupid Air Force people that refused to get vaccinated and were discharged. Not only did they risk their lives for not getting vaccinated but they ruined a chance for becoming an honorably discharged veteran.
https://news.yahoo.com/air-force-discharges-27-people-001659178.html
2021-12-13 Comparing ICE Engine To EV Motor
Meme showed an ICE (internal combustion engine) and an EV motor. I said it’s not a fair comparison. My reply:
Dima Bloom
I think the meme should say that there are more parts on the Tesla that should be shown besides the motor.
Another point is the most expensive thing on an ICEV is probably the engine; the most expensive part of the Tesla, by far, is the battery pack. I know some haters would say that adding batteries to the comparison would be like comparing the gas tank of the ICEV, but the battery pack is very complex and that’s really what this meme is being unfair about. We really are taking unfair advantage of the EV’s much less complex power train. If you look at a ICE from the first 50 years, it doesn’t have all those pipes and stuff; that was added to meet air pollution and fuel economy mandates. You could take all that off and the ICE would still run.
Even with the complex battery pack and electric cabling, the EV is still simpler than an ICE power train. No matter how you show them, it’s not a fair comparison. This meme was designed to be unfair.
Think about this: the EV has thousands of times more complexity, compared to the ICEV, if you look at the software.
This is not a fair comparison.
2021-12-12 60 Minutes: Afghanistan & Taliban
After the Taliban took over, the international humanitarian aid dried up.
At the end “So you want to make 38 million people suffer for a few thousand [Taliban]? That math doesn’t work for me.”
2021-12-12 Complicity Of Corporate Sustainability
Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Complicity Of Corporate Sustainability
Quote:
<< Hell—they don’t even need to cut their emissions to be labeled a leader. They just need to aspire to it. >>
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_complicity_of_corporate_sustainability
Other notable quotes:
<< Many awkward stances are difficult because they are also moral stances. As a theologian once explained to me: “Jesus wasn’t killed because he preached loving kindness. He was crucified because he preached justice.” In a sense, changing lightbulbs and cutting carbon footprints is loving kindness—there is nothing not to like. Tackling the systemic climate problem head-on, that’s ultimately about justice. And that will get you in trouble. >>
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<< The safest level of warming is 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Achieving that, according to the IPCC, requires the world to slash its carbon emissions by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030. Then it must reach net-zero around 2050. This is the only scenario at which the catastrophic health, economic, and ecological impacts of warming are reversible.
Meaningful climate policy is, in other words, a gargantuan task that must be accomplished very quickly. And it’s very unlikely the entire world will achieve it if the United States does not lead, because the United States has contributed more to climate change than any other country in the world. >>
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<< [Kelly] Loeffler (R-GA), according to InsideClimate News, is a “former energy executive” and “the richest member of the U.S. Senate.” Though she’s said little about climate change in general, she doesn’t have to; she’s positioned herself “as an ardent supporter of President Trump and his pro-fossil fuel agenda.” That agenda is not just to ignore climate change, but to make it worse by propping up fossil fuels and slowing down the clean energy transition. >>
2021-12-11 Gen Of Ammonia Using Solar – Symposium
A 24 min YouTube video:
Generation of ammonia using solar energy: GCEP symposium Jens Nørskov Oct 8,
Most fertilizer is made from ammonia.
Humanity is heavily dependent on fertilizer for growing food.
1% of the world energy is used in the Haber-Bosch process to make ammonia.
High energy: not as high as gasoline but higher than hydrogen.
Safely store in metal amine salts.
You can run auto and diesel engines on ammonia, ‘no problem.’
2021-12-10 Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry
quotes found in the Activism section:
<< Also in January 2009, Berry released a statement against the death penalty, which began, “As I am made deeply uncomfortable by the taking of a human life before birth, I am also made deeply uncomfortable by the taking of a human life after birth.”[18] And in November 2009, Berry and 38 other writers from Kentucky wrote to Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway asking them to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in that state.[19]
On March 2, 2009, Berry joined over 2,000 others in non-violently blocking the gates to a coal-fired power plant in Washington, D.C. No one was arrested.[20] >>
2021-12-08 Screwdriver Discharge Capacitor Test Question
This is one helluva test question.
I don’t even want to read the answer!
2021-12-07 Plasma Kinetics Solid Hydrogen
The solid hydrogen patent owned by Plasma Kinetics was restricted from 2008 to 2017 by the U.S. Government as being a disruptive technology.
In this youtube video he’s talking to Sandy Munro who tells him about Plasma Kinetics and solid hydrogen. He interviews the Plasma Kinetics boss.
2021-12-07 Cummins: Hydrogen For Fuel
