The antivaxxers try to use VAERS as a death list. 😡😠😡😠
https://www.facebook.com/61308923432/posts/10159065576003433/
2021-04-05 Scorpion Venom – A Miracle Drug?
Scorpion venom can kill drug resistant bacteria, can find and label brain cancers, and treat pain. Very interesting!
https://www.facebook.com/693504594115135/posts/2374815132650731/?app=fbl
2021-04-05 Cut CO2 – Replace Concrete With LC3
She says LC3 can be made like cement but with 40% less CO2. Pilot plants are already operating, and make a material comparable to concrete.
Quote:
<< Look around your home. Refrigeration— along with other heating and cooling— makes up about 6% of total emissions. Agriculture, which produces our food, accounts for 18%. Electricity is responsible for 27%. Walk outside, and the cars zipping past, planes overhead, trains ferrying commuters to work— transportation, including shipping, contributes 16% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Even before we use any of these things, making them produces emissions— a lot of emissions. Making materials— concrete, steel, plastic, glass, aluminum and everything else— accounts for 31% of greenhouse gas emissions. Concrete alone is responsible for 8% of all carbon emissions worldwide. >>
I believe what the world needs to do is tax the difference in CO2 emitted by concrete to make it economically necessary for local cement plants to change to LC3.
https://www.ted.com/talks/karen_scrivener_a_concrete_idea_to_reduce_carbon_emissions/up-next
2021-04-04 Conventional Power Can’t Compete With Renewables Plus Storage
Comment from this YouTube video
When it comes to generating power, there is only one factor that counts: cost per kWh. Renewables plus storage cost less than any conventional power and the cost is still going down. Those fossil fuel and nuclear power plants are unable to lower their costs and are being (and will be) declared stranded assets and taken out of service and decommissioned. End of story.
BTW nuclear fusion is a dead end. There is an unlimited supply of deuterium, but there is only enough tritium in the whole world to run a single tokamak for a fraction of a year, and no way to generate enough tritium in the future. Dead end.
See this article:
2021-04-04 3D Autonomous Warehouse Robot
When I saw this, I thought that it was pretty cool. But the people working in warehouses might be getting laid off. Short 1 min. video
2021-04-04 Mercedes Car Factory
Mercedes used to advertise that their cars were hand crafted. Not anymore. 😥😞
https://www.facebook.com/100027125847014/posts/582749369305919/?app=fbl
2021-04-03 Disruption And Wright’s Law – Coal Collapse
Very good explanation of Wright’s Law, applied to wind, solar and storage. And what it will do.
We are not facing a slow energy transition. We are facing a rapid and total energy transformation, and it has already begun.
2021-04-03 Sand Battery To Store Heat
This is a novel idea. Heat up sand during the daytime with solar energy. After sunset circulate the hot sand through a steam generator to run a turbine and generator.
Short 2 min video.
2021-04-03 Getting To Net Zero Cost $50 Trillion
Will we ever get there? We must get the government to intervene.
Quote from Guardian article – link below
<< Under the current system the costs, says Fancy, are simply too high and the benefits of conducting business as usual are too great. A 2019 Morgan Stanley study found that getting to net zero by 2050 will cost $50tn.
“The reality is that their incentives are very short-term,” he said. “My concern is that when it comes to climate change, it’s actually expensive. It’s like saying when it comes for Covid-19 that’s a crisis and an opportunity. Well yeah, it’s an opportunity for Zoom, it’s not an opportunity for society.” >>
2021-04-02 Limits On Total Numbers Of EVs Made
From FB TSLA group
I’m not sure this chart is predicting realistic numbers. As a TSLA shareholder I hope it will be that way. But if we look at the amount of raw materials that will be needed for the hundreds of millions of batteries in the future, there is a point where obtaining enough of those raw materials will get more and more difficult.
Another factor is TaaS – transportation as a service. As autonomous ride hailing makes a car less and less a necessity, fewer people will buy a new EV and instead will use the Tesla app on their smartphone to get a ride, just like Lyft or Uber.
We already have TaaS with human drivers — Lyft, Uber, taxis. To get *autonomous* ride hailing we need the software, the vehicle can be any kind.
There will be recycling raw materials from scrapped ICEVs to EVs. But that doesn’t include batteries. The newer LFP batteries use no cobalt, saving a lot of money. And they’re good enough to give decent range – 400 km or more.
