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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Is this really a "clash"? Or just a change of ways? India's solar-powered future clashes with local life wrote: "Bhadla is almost unliveable," says Keshav Prasad, the chief executive Saurya Urja, a renewable energy company. How does that compare to the pollution and desolation from dirty old coal?... 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) |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22491 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Not only coal, but the dung, wet wood, "elephant grass", bodies (human and otherwise). By all accounts when the colder weather starts in the hill country views across valleys are obscured by smoke from all the open fires. 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: 36558 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
And the people want more of them and less of the greedy B.S.. Solar energy passed its hurricane test. Now come the lobbying fights. Solar power withstood the hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico and Florida last month — a fact that could aid the technology’s supporters in lobbying battles around the country. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
For the turn of a good breeze: Can floating turbines harvest the world's wind? wrote: Ten miles off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland, five turbines tower over the North Sea... Switching to renewable energy could save trillions... wrote: Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy could save the world as much as $12tn (£10.2tn) by 2050... Scotland generates record amount of renewable electricity wrote: Windier weather and new capacity has helped Scotland generate a record amount of renewable electricity... Way to go! Cleanly, clearly, profitably! 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) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Many years ahead of its time and still going strong. There are big advantages to being totally renewably off-grid: The Highland haven insulated from rising energy prices wrote: ... Knoydart is one of the most rugged and remote parts of the British Isles, accessible only by boat or via a two-day hike through glacier-sculpted glens and mountains... I've been there and it is a beautiful place with beautiful people. Way to go! Enjoy 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) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24909 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36558 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
We're coming along in leaps and bounds now here down under. Renewable energy records tumble around the country as rooftop solar power soars. In 5yrs time when my 13KW solar system is paid off it'll be time for me to get a battery setup added onto it. Cheers. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Good way to go! Note also: The rise of solar power is jeopardising the WA energy grid... wrote: ... Solar smashes power utility Synergy's finances... There are good practical technical solutions already long available. However, can the Market and regulations be modernized to the new landscape without the dirty old fossil fuels people blowing a fuse? 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: 36558 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Australia's largest gas and power company (and 1 of our largest polluters) gets told to "green up" as AGL shareholders overrule board to elect directors nominated by Mike Cannon-Brookes. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Is this our only hope for the Amazon? COP27: Brazil is back on the world stage, Lula tells climate summit wrote: "Brazil is back on the world stage," Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has told cheering crowds at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. ... 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) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
How to get rid of the pollution of plastic and the pollution of making ever more oil-fueled polluting plastic: Notpla: UK plastic-alternative developer among £1m Earthshot Prize winners wrote: ... UK firm that makes packaging from seaweed... Next is just the 'challenge' of divesting those profiteering from the world-wide plastic pollution... 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) |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19354 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
How quickly can they up their production level. 2018 study estimates there are 2025 million takeaway containers per year being used in the European Union (EU) alone |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
This is far from the best (or a good) way to go about things, but at least this is a push in a positive direction: Energy being expensive and trickier to source is good news ... for renewables wrote: The International Energy Agency is revising its predictions for renewable energy growth upward by 30 percent, and reckons renewables like wind and solar will overtake coal to become the largest energy source on the planet by 2025. Still some way to go yet... 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) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
I wonder what has prompted this positive snippet of news?... HSBC {Bank} to end funding for new oil and gas fields wrote: HSBC has announced it will stop financing new oil and gas fields, as part of its efforts to drive down global greenhouse gas emissions. Is that more a financial recognition of suffering an ever increasing danger of "stranded assets" in oil and gas, as opposed to any good sense to rescue our 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) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36558 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
They're certainly a bit slow in following many other financial institutions around the world. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36558 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
A Look At Air New Zealand’s Zero-Emissions Plans. As part of Air New Zealand's Mission NextGen Aircraft program, the airline has signaled four finalists for zero-emission aircraft, signing letters of intent with four manufacturers. The airline has signed a letter of intent for 23 aircraft from Eviation. This is the first national flag carrier to signal its intent for the Eviation Alice, along with BETA Technologies, VoltAero, and Cranfield Aerospace. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Alleluia to some good environmentally healthy good sense to face down the adversity from the dirty old fossil fuels lobbying: Brit MPs pour cold water on hydrogen as mass replacement for fossil fuels wrote: But gas likely to find a 'big niche' in rail, aviation, shipping, and industry The real big positive biggie there is to use hydrogen for steel making... 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) |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19354 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
The real big positive biggie there is to use hydrogen for steel making... When and at what cost? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14676 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
The real big positive biggie there is to use hydrogen for steel making...And where will they get the carbon from? Steel is an alloy made up of iron with added carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21089 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
The real big positive biggie there is to use hydrogen for steel making...And where will they get the carbon from? Note that we have: Steel production based on hydrogen launched in Sweden wrote: 30th August 2021: "Swedish steel maker SSAB has produced for the first time steel without fossil fuel hydrocarbons and has begun supplying it to a buyer" See: CO2 Free Steel becomes a reality at Volvo and Mercedes Benz wrote: Steelmaking is currently extremely carbon intensive, accounting for about 7% of total global greenhouse gas emissions... Details for the two leading hydrogen powered steel processes are given on: How hydrogen can decarbonize the steel industry — and what it will take Hydrogen in steel production: what is happening in Europe – part one Hydrogen in steel production: what is happening in Europe – part two Way to go much more cleanly! 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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