This chart shows the 9 Planetary Boundaries and how they have been breached. Some don’t look that alarming but *anything* past the green is bad. The Novel Entities is especially troubling. https://www.iasparliament.com/current-affairs/daily-news/breach-of-planetary-boundaries
Archive for the ‘recycling’ Category:
2023-09-12 Veolia Recycles Wind Turbine Blades
Veolia grinds up the blades and uses them as fuel to make cement.
2023-08-20 Demolition By Deconstruction
I thought about this a few years ago, as a way to recycle building materials. But I decided it was far too labor intensive than just imploding it with high explosives. Turned out they’re doing it now. 🤷🤷 https://youtube.com/shorts/J75MV6fZP8Q?feature=share
2023-08-05 Population Collapse V. Climate Change – Musk
Elon Musk says population collapse is a bigger threat than climate change. Is he right? This is a very good article on a number of different aspects of population change. It gives a lot of good statistics. Also makes aware that that the population isn’t as all important as the resource utilization. The Western world,
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2022-05-26 Upcycling Silicon Waste From Solar Panels Into Thermoelectrics
Article about upcycling silicon waste from end-of-life solar panels into thermoelectric cells. https://www.pv-magazine-india.com/2022/05/24/upcycling-silicon-waste-from-end-of-life-solar-panels-into-thermoelectrics/
2022-05-05 New Washing Machine Replaces Old
My decade old GE started leaking on the floor after the bearings went out – it howled like a banshee. I went to Lowe’s and bought a new Maytag and the salesdroid wanted me to pay $40 to have the old one hauled away. I said no thanks, I’ll get rid of it. But I
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2022-04-23 China To Add 90GW Solar
90 GW is a huge amount of solar – that’s like adding 30 full sized power plants! But China’s voracious appetite for an ever increasing amount of electricity is causing them to build more fossil fuel power plants. What the world needs is to end the horrible addiction to cheap throwaway goods from China and
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2021-11-05 Solar Panel Life Cycle Assessment
This 8 minute DW video talks about solar panel life cycle assessment. https://youtu.be/EWV4e453y8Y In the E.U. Recycling is compulsory. New processes to recycle panels.
2021-09-28 German Offshore Wind Farms; Recycling Blades
The narrator goes to the offshore wind turbine to show us a 6.2 MW wind turbine. The key takeaway is that these offshore wind turbines solve the wind turbine intermittency problem because it’s windy as hell out there 24 hours, 365 days a year. He said the transmission line to southern Germany was supposed to
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2021-09-12 Tesla Recycles All Of Battery Packs
New Tesla Battery Recycling Process Reportedly Produces No Waste https://insideevs.com/news/525965/tesla-battery-recycling-no-waste/
