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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21235 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
https://alpha-311.com/ Thanks for that. Note how that is a very swish website with lots of 'infrastructure'... Personally, I don't like the look of that idea at all!... A few of my immediate thoughts are:
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Up, up and away. Hydrogen-powered flights hitting California by 2024. Hydrogen-powered short-distance passenger flights could soon be coming to California — paving the way to a future of clean-energy air travel. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Why not break down several processes into 1? Can this MIT metallurgist clean up copper production? But will industry change their ways and take it up? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31013 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
But will industry change their ways and take it up?Does profit increase? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Does profit increase?It's the balance between profit and law-enforcement penalties that counts. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31013 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
When the business is big penalties don't even rise to pocket change.Does profit increase?It's the balance between profit and law-enforcement penalties that counts. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Then the politicians aren't setting the penalties high enough (perhaps for obvious "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" reasons). Some of the newer financial misdemeanours are seeing potential penalties set at a significant percentage of global turnover, rather than profit: that should be big enough to be noticed. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22535 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
It is worth noting that the penalty delivered by a court may not be the only one that hits a company. On occasion the public have delivered a much more painful one, product disloyalty, boycotts and so on all hit the bottom line. Then there's secondary and tertiary court cases that just keep rolling up at the door (as VAG are finding out years after the initial Dieselgate case). Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Now here's a practical idea, gravity batteries. Can gravity batteries solve our energy storage problems? There is a riddle at the heart of the renewable energy revolution. When the wind blows, the sun shines, and the waves roll, there is abundant green power to be generated. But when skies darken and conditions are calm, what do we do? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
METAL MINING in Sweden and Future *METAL NEEDS for the ENERGY TRANSITION* Youtube lecture by Prof Valentin Troll, Uppsala University, Sweden. (in English) 18 minutes Big Challenges ahead for producing the Metals required for the Energy Transition. Here a Discussion of the Swedish Situation with some wider implications for the Global Metal markets. This is from a *Lecture to the MSc class in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University*. Please watch and remember this before posting any solutions. They might just not be possible because the minerals are not available. |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Now I wonder where this pair came up with this idea? Recyclers see used glass bottles as key to easing worldwide sand shortage. The funny thing is that we had amassed massive piles of recycled glass creating a huge storage problems here several years back and we have been using the stuff in just these fashions ever since. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
After a 3 1/2-year-long test Japanese engineers reckon that it's now ready for commercial use. Japan’s Big Boy Deep-Sea Turbine Will Harness the Power of Ocean Currents. Japan is dropping a massive 330-ton turbine power generator onto the ocean floor just off the country’s coast in a bid to source theoretically limitless renewable energy. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
The great vegan diet ‘con’ Despite what the documentaries tell you, a plant-based lifestyle isn't better for your health and it certainly won't save the planet Canola oil, yeast, acidity regulator, methylcellulose, corn oil thickener, starch, gelling agent. “Hmm, I don’t like agents in my food,” says Jayne Buxton. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21235 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Isn't that more the 'con' of Marketing and Marketing food for the maximum profit?... Meanwhile, there is no denying that going vegetarian or vegan avoids a huge and expensively wasteful cost of farming animals... All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Isn't it called "value adding"? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Isn't that more the 'con' of Marketing and Marketing food for the maximum profit?... Depends where the animals are living. If it's the UK, animal farming has a very low emissions problem. A quote from the article previously linked. Lumping the UK in with global figures for countries with vastly different farming practices means that some of the good news gets lost. Beef cattle and sheep in the UK account for just 5.7 per cent of all UK emissions, but this is reduced to 3.7 per cent if carbon sequestration (storing of carbon in the soil) is taken into account. While she says it’s a cliché, “It really is the how, not the cow.” An ordinary, average British 4oz steak, Buxton worked out from numbers in an FAO report, is about 1.9kg of CO2e. And do you really want to be eating all those chemicals to replace the essential vitamins etc. that are not in vegetables but are in meats, fish and eggs. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Can we replicate what they do and take the worm out of the equation? Styrofoam-munching superworms could hold key to plastic upcycling. ...Scientists at Australia's University of Queensland have now discovered that superworms -- the larvae of Zophobas morio darkling beetles -- are eager to dine on the substance, and their gut enzymes could hold the key to higher recycling rates. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21235 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Yikes... That looks like Sci-Fi stuff... Bladerunner 2049?... What else do they eat? What happens when they escape the worm farms and take over our only planet?! All on our only one planet! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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