This 6 min. YouTube video talks about using sunlight to change CO2 into green fuel.
I still think it’s not doing anything to reduce the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere.
2021-10-12 Climate Change Deniers Want To Believe Disinformation
The climate change deniers want to believe there is no climate change, that everything will be just fine if we do nothing to combat climate change. Is it fear of uncertainty and upheaval that drives them to fail to deal with reality?
These CCDs (climate change deniers) actively seek to prove to themselves that climate change is false. They have found plenty of misinformation that confirms their unbelief.
A very common denialist claim is that climate changes are natural variability, and there is no reason why we should be concerned about the changes and we should continue on, with business as usual. This causes difficulty because climate is variable. Over recent decades researchers have refined the science behind climate and can differentiate between natural variability and human caused climate change. We know that human caused changes are predominating natural changes, and causing global warming. The CO2 is just one segment of the total picture, there are other human causes such as deforestation and ocean acidification.
Another denialist claim is that climate change is just a theory, that it’s based on unsound science. They are aided by fossil fuel interests who hire scientists to ‘cook the books’ and manipulate data to make charts to disprove the climate change theory. But climate change is much more than theory. The observations plus scientific research confirm climate change. And the research proves beyond doubt that this climate change is being caused by humans.
A common denialist ploy is to tell everyone how bad the climate change solutions are. One is to claim that the fossil fuel replacements are as bad or worse for greenhouse gases as the fossil fuels. The raw materials for the renewables have to come from somewhere and if those sources are generating greenhouse gases that’s not the fault of the renewables. We have to clean up all sources of GHGs (greenhouse gases) and that will happen but we have identified where the major sources of GHGs are and we are working on them first. One major source is transportation and the world is working on replacing fossil fuels with electric power.
2021-10-11 Calif Bans Small Off Road Engines 2024
Governor Newsom signed a bill that directs state to ban sale of small off-road engines like lawnmowers, leaf blowers, generators and edgers. They pollute a lot, and have no smog controls.
2021-10-11 Hydrogen House Project Tour Video
This guy runs everything off hydrogen. He makes his own, stores his own and powers everything from green hydrogen. He has six patents dealing with hydrogen. He made his own system.
GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MINI demonstrator. This is a similar setup. The solar array powers the electrolyzer. The green hydrogen is stored in metal hydride in tanks. The hydrogen is used in the evening to power a fuel cell which charges the EV.
2021-10-09 Meat Industry Climate Washing
Investigation: The meat industry is using the same techniques that the tobacco industry used to fool the consumer – climate washing.
https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/18/investigation-meat-industry-greenwash-climatewash/
2021-10-09 Climate Change Killing Coral Reefs
Report: Climate change is killing the global coral reefs. Most coral reefs are in the Pacific O.
2021-10-09 Skycool Passive Cooling Radiates IR
This Skycool radiates InfraRed in the ‘window’ of 8 to 13 micrometers. He also talks about special coatings and paints. This technology sounds promising. I would like to know if there are plants or better, trees that have foliage that radiates in the same window. These could be grown to do double duty: sequester CO2 and to radiate heat into space.
2021-10-08 Colossal 16 MW Offshore Wind Turbine
MingYang’s newest wind turbine
<< A single MySE 16.0-242 turbine will generate 80,000 MWh of electricity annually. It will produce 45% more energy than MingYang’s previous turbine model, the MySE 11.0-203.
One of these turbines will be able to eliminate more than 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the course of its life. >>
https://electrek.co/2021/10/08/a-chinese-company-is-building-a-colossal-16-mw-offshore-wind-turbine/
2021-10-08 Future Of Green Hydrogen
From FB group reply
Troy Slavant
Said, “hydrogen… Is more expensive than gasoline and always will be.”
You’re right about the first half, green hydrogen is more expensive at this time.
But it won’t be once the electrolysis plants are built. This is one example. Note the article mentions Japan, Korea, US, Germany. Note this is Australian government website. Australia must replace evil coal as an export commodity. Other countries which import natural gas will have to make the transition, too. Don’t have a panic attack when you’ve found out you don’t know what you are talking about.
https://www.trade.gov/market-intelligence/australia-hydrogen-energy-plans
<< The largest commercial green hydrogen project currently proposed for Australia is a 15 GW wind and solar project in the Pilbara in Western Australia. Up to 3 GW would be dedicated to large energy users in the region, such as mines and mineral processing facilities, while 12 GW would be used to produce green hydrogen for domestic and export markets. Construction is forecast to commence in 2023–24, with first generation in 2025–26. >>
Troy Slavant
Said, “[hydrogen] is an alternative to gasoline albeit a poor one.”
Gasoline was a poor alternative to vegetable oil, too. Diesel ran his engine on vegetable oil that could be bought, but you couldn’t buy diesel fuel or gasoline. From 1900 to 1913 the country went from horses to horseless carriages. Gasoline and diesel fuel became cheap and plentiful.
