I saw a video of a girl at a protest
She told the interviewer she was literally shaking because of climate change…..but she wasn’t shaking at all….am I missing something? 🤣
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Thatsright · 61-69, M
Climate has always changed.
That’s the science.
No matter how much money we throw at it it will have little affect.
It is possible there is someone alive now that will find an alternative energy source that will stretch out our oil resources until that alternate energy will be modified into the primary source.
The two biggest things we have now that would be really give a more time and stretch out the oil resource are politically untouchable due to not properly educating the people on them. That is due to the total mistrust, rightfully so, of every corrupt to the core government. Which government? Which political party? Every one of them in the history of mankind.
Oh, nuclear power and H2 powered vehicles.
That’s the science.
No matter how much money we throw at it it will have little affect.
It is possible there is someone alive now that will find an alternative energy source that will stretch out our oil resources until that alternate energy will be modified into the primary source.
The two biggest things we have now that would be really give a more time and stretch out the oil resource are politically untouchable due to not properly educating the people on them. That is due to the total mistrust, rightfully so, of every corrupt to the core government. Which government? Which political party? Every one of them in the history of mankind.
Oh, nuclear power and H2 powered vehicles.
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Thatsright · 61-69, M
@Kypro They’re not sustainable without oil. I know the giant company windmills a 0 net gain or loss in carbon footprint. Lithium batteries are an ecological nightmare. All three of those are buying very little time. Someone, somewhere will figure out something that is sustainable. H2 vehicles are in experimental stage. Some over the road trucks have been built and are super powerful. These vehicles have a lot of promise. Fusion is a long way away from being ready for consumer use. A breakthrough was made a few years ago. Something world changing will be discovered.
ElwoodBlues · M
@Thatsright !!! ALL FALSE !!!
(1) Nobody is saying zero oil; they're saying less than 2 tons of CO2 per person. "No oil" is a straw man.
(2) Large wind turbines: the carbon footprint of a large offshore wind turbine is between 4 and 25 grams of CO2 equiv. per kWh with modern, large turbines reaching the lower end of this range. For comparison, natural gas is 437 to 758 grams of CO2-equiv per kWh depending on life cycle costs. In short, the windmill is roughly 20X to 50X cleaner over the life cycle.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-wind-turbine/
(3) Lithium batteries are very easily recycled; current processes recover 95% or more of the lithium, nickel, cobalt, and other metals.
https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/news/responding-recovering-and-recycling-lithium-ion-batteries-after-accidents-and-natural-disasters/
Redwood has contracts with General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Volvo, and BMW among other companies.
(4) Sodium ion batteries are coming into commercial use for non-vehicular applications such as utility scale peaking plants. Lower energy density but much cheaper, safer, and even easier to recycle.
(1) Nobody is saying zero oil; they're saying less than 2 tons of CO2 per person. "No oil" is a straw man.
(2) Large wind turbines: the carbon footprint of a large offshore wind turbine is between 4 and 25 grams of CO2 equiv. per kWh with modern, large turbines reaching the lower end of this range. For comparison, natural gas is 437 to 758 grams of CO2-equiv per kWh depending on life cycle costs. In short, the windmill is roughly 20X to 50X cleaner over the life cycle.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-wind-turbine/
(3) Lithium batteries are very easily recycled; current processes recover 95% or more of the lithium, nickel, cobalt, and other metals.
https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/news/responding-recovering-and-recycling-lithium-ion-batteries-after-accidents-and-natural-disasters/
Redwood has contracts with General Motors, Toyota, Ford, Volvo, and BMW among other companies.
(4) Sodium ion batteries are coming into commercial use for non-vehicular applications such as utility scale peaking plants. Lower energy density but much cheaper, safer, and even easier to recycle.
22Michelle · 70-79, T
@Perry1968 It was called Global Warming because that's what it is happening. However, the hard of thinking questioned why ig didn't seem to be getting hotter where they lived. The reality, and the science, has always stated that some parts of the world will get hotter and other parts could be colder. Thus it's now referred, more accurately, as Climate Change. Sadly the hard of thinking can't seem to understand that climate and weather are not the same thing.
joe438 · 61-69, M
Severe TDS can do that.