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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36608 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Another project to tackle that septic tank, but I hope that it doesn't interfere with with the other other. Scientists will unleash an army of crabs to help save Florida’s dying reef. With giant pincers and rough, spider-like legs, Caribbean king crabs don’t look like your typical heroes. Yet these crustaceans may be key to solving one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems: the decline of coral reefs. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36608 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Yep, cow farms can be carbon neutral and in this case quite negative. Queensland carbon-negative soil project issued record number of credit units. They look like any other cattle strolling through a grassy paddock in Queensland, but beneath their hooves the soil is doing more than producing feed. It is helping to fight climate change.So it can be done. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36608 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
1.5m doses of seaweed ready to go, but time is running out for the methane busting batch that could dose 1.5m burping cows. Sam Elsom's bold seaweed solution to tackle climate change, one cow at a time. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21129 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Will these two big public names have a positively influential effect to save us all? Climate change: Pope Francis warns world 'may be nearing breaking point' wrote: Pope Francis has warned the world is "collapsing" due to climate change and may be "nearing breaking point". Chris Packham to challenge Rishi Sunak over net zero policy delays wrote: ... Rishi Sunak said he intended to delay the phase-out of new gas boilers, along with petrol and diesel cars. Can we change for the better sooner? Will those with the power agree? 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: 36608 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
A good move forward is being made here as some of these test cars here (mainly in the ACT) are getting over 1000kms (if driven properly) per refill and the long distance trucking industry really needs it to happen. We know that we can make the green stuff (not that other coloured stuff). Toyota announces plan to expand hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. ..Australia’s favourite car brand is betting big on hydrogen power.We know that we can make the green stuff (not that other coloured stuff) with renewables alone here. The test stations are not much more than a wind turbine and/or solar bank with a shipping container and a battery. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21129 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
A better and more healthy way to go! And this will also help to save our planet from ourselves: Eat plants and go electric: how to break food TV’s bad climate habits wrote: From product placement for unnecessary gadgets to meat-centred cooking, TV can make us think unsustainable is normal... All on the only one planet that we have, 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: 21129 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Moving into a cleaner direction: British Steel set to cut up to 2,000 jobs in furnace closure plan wrote: British Steel has confirmed it plans to close down its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, putting up to 2,000 jobs at risk. World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says wrote: The world is on an "unstoppable" shift towards renewable energy but the phase down of fossil fuels is not happening quickly enough, a new report says. All 'just' a question of emphasis and urgency?... 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) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
China's Jingye GroupTalk about selling your soul to the devil. 100% that any reduction, real or imaginary, will be counted both by the UK and China. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21129 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Is this enough of a solution soon enough? China’s carbon emissions set for structural decline from next year wrote: Emissions by world’s most polluting country could peak this year after surge in clean energy investments... All by the economic might of the renewables now out-competing the dirty old fossils?... We still have a planet to save, sooner... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1136 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
Emissions by world’s most polluting country could peak this year after surge in clean energy investments......and the power density of nuclear energy, independent if we like it or not... There will be a day, in the not so distant future, that China will point fingers to other countries urging them to protect the climate. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21129 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
What a beautiful idea to interestingly and usefully move away from dull and cheapest brutalist? Can electricity pylons ever be beautiful? Just add a touch of Antony Gormley? One aesthetically good way to go! 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: 21129 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
For a very good healthy way to go! 280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles wrote: E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world. ... Or even better, walk! Except... The walking bit is a big 'dificulty' to be overcome in our slipshod incremental random city design... 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) |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1136 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
... Or even better, walk!Take your bicycle! And convince your local mayor to spend at least 10% of the money to build and maintain roads instead for separate bicycle lanes and pathways. Such a policy, pursued for decades, leads to an infrastructure like that in Copenhagen, Denmark or everywhere in the Netherlands. Cyclist's paradise. In Germany we have 'usable' cycle paths everywhere in the cities. But when I was in the Netherlands for the first time and saw their bike paths in a large provincial town in Friesland, I was completely overwhelmed. Even after hours, I couldn't believe what they had built there in decades. Bicycle highways, multi-lane, with fast lanes, safely separated from car traffic everywhere, separate roundabouts outside car roundabouts for cyclists only. Not just in Amsterdam... also everywhere in the province. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22504 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Take your bicycle! And convince your local mayor to spend at least 10% of the money to build and maintain roads instead for separate bicycle lanes and pathways. Such a policy, pursued for decades, leads to an infrastructure like that in Copenhagen, Denmark or everywhere in the Netherlands. Cyclist's paradise. A great idea, but many cities in the UK have streets that are very far from bike friendly for a whole basketful of reasons. Perhaps the most notable of which is the steepness of many of the roads, the city being built on the banks of a river, and not the gentle slopes we see in say Netherlands, but 25% grades with many bends around ancient buildings. It is such a shame that the "Boris Bikeway" was scrapped and not carried through to fruition as it would have provided a good cycle & walking route across a large part of the central area of London. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19369 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
... Or even better, walk!Take your bicycle! And convince your local mayor to spend at least 10% of the money to build and maintain roads instead for separate bicycle lanes and pathways. Such a policy, pursued for decades, leads to an infrastructure like that in Copenhagen, Denmark or everywhere in the Netherlands. Cyclist's paradise. But probably only possible because it is flat. Where I live we do have cyclists, but they are the wannabe hill climbers, using the same routes that Bradley Wiggins used during his professional career. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
I did cycle around Bradford - briefly - almost 50 years ago. But Bradford is built in a bowl in the hills, nearly 300 metres from top to bottom. Great fun on the way back, but no fun at all on the way out to the suburbs. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1136 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
Admittedly, bicycles cannot be a means of everyday transport in a hilly urban landscape. E-bikes (probably) can. In Germany, like Denmark or the Netherlands, most of the cities are in the lowlands. There are no steep climbs in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Munich... and most other of our larger cities. Since car-friendly expressways have hardly been built here since the 1960s, one can often travel faster by bike than by car over short to medium distances within cities. It's just not safe, due to the lack of good cycle paths like in NL, DK. The risk of accidents for cyclists is much higher. A dozen cyclists are killed each year e.g. in Berlin, often by turning trucks. A bicycle lobby then places an old white-painted "ghost" bicycle (de, en) near the scene of each deadly accident, an idea that came from the USA. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36608 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It's just a shame that this couldn't have happened 50yrs ago, but will they really come to the party or is it just another snow job? At COP28, an Oil CEO Persuades His Industry to Control Methane, a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. In an early climate win at the United Nations COP28 negotiations in Dubai, some of the world's largest oil and gas companies committed to controlling their emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that plays a major role in the planet's warming.Yes, they certainly can do more, but will they? |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1136 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
I don't believe Russians care about how much methane is escaping from their gas pipelines or natural gas fields, accelerating global warming. They don't care about people or nature. They still have far too much of both. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21129 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
A better way to go: Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone: Mayor rejects driver charges wrote: Investing in cleaner transport will help reduce air pollution in Greater Manchester quicker than charging drivers who enter a zone... Hopefully, that will not get gutted or abused as has happened with HS2...? 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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