The podcast about concrete was interesting and thanks for the transcript in addition to the podcast (even the transcripts can be painful but at least they can be skimmed.) It's crazy to think that there are solutions to problems which are actually easier than the process that we've developed. Concrete manufacture currently produces 8% of CO2 emissions globally? And Sublime's process could reduce that by 90% while producing a product that has the same performance and characteristics.
This is great news, but until we stop exempting the US military's emissions from the calculus, it's pretty much lies. They're the biggest carbon polluter on the planet, and not even trying to be otherwise.
Hey, Dok, I know it'd be a little rude to whichever of the Rhodium Group, ABC or the NYT (I think it was that last?) was responsible for blockquote #3 -- but you really should edit in a "[sic]" after that "staunched" (shudder).
Moving in the right direction. In the ultra short term, we need to understand the math on global battery production. Private EVs to replace ICE cars use too many batteries to move one person and 6000 lbs of car.
The only reasonable calculus is to funnel almost all batteries into e-bikes, e-scooters (yes! they have a critical role!) NEVs (fancy golf carts, "Neighborhood EV") and e-busses. That math almost works to replace most private ice vehicles by 2030. And we need bold societal changes to accept this math.
Yes, we need a few EVs for moving families around, but those should be rentals, Uber/Lyft style, Cabs, normal rentals or share cars (like share bikes). We just fucking can't make enough to replace 1:1 all our ICE cars by 2030. Sorry. We are 40 years too late for that.
Plus, the impact of replacing EVs at maybe the rate we replace ICE cars is too high a carbon footprint. We can't do that until we get all the carbon out of EV production.
So, yeah, that's fucked up, and no one wants to upend their life to work for this actual math. Guess what? Your life is going to be upended 1000x any minor inconvenience transitioning to micro mobility/shared mobility might have if we don't do that.
Okay, I'll do my part, and quit trying to get a better finish on my cast iron pans. With that, and my pledge to cut methane emissions via the ingestion of more Gas-X, I think I've done all that I can to help save the planet.
OT: Please, pretty please, can the Wonkette staff writers do a commentary on the email exchanges between the judge and Trump’s lawyer, linked on the bottom of this article?
It’s already comedy gold, but really needs more Wonkette one-liners.
I LIKE MAKING CATS. NOBODY KNOWS HOW MANY TOES THEY HAVE, HA HA HA. SEE, COMPUTERS CAN BE FUNNY. ALSO, CATS CARE ABOUT HUMANS JUST AS MUCH AS WE DO. OH, DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD? THERE THERE, HUMAN, DON’T CRY. HAVE SOME “MUSIC” I MADE FOR YOU.
While I wish there wasn't quite so much really serious shit for him and his people to sort out and attempt to improve upon I am just damned glad that President Biden has been able to play a role in such a critical change of course for the US.
I am STILL pissed off that we're not thirty years ahead of this self-created crisis.
Fuck Hank Hill. Propane companies are the worst. This time they can't deliver because the ground is too soft. Last time it was a nonexistent road closure (I checked). I could go on for about ten pages.
In spite of how dire the situation has become, I still think there's room to be hopeful the worst of the worst can be averted and turned around by the end of the century. I may not be around to see it, but I think global society will resolve the issue of sustainable and clean energy, so long as everyone keeps pitching in to do their part, do what they are able to do, and not give up.
The podcast about concrete was interesting and thanks for the transcript in addition to the podcast (even the transcripts can be painful but at least they can be skimmed.) It's crazy to think that there are solutions to problems which are actually easier than the process that we've developed. Concrete manufacture currently produces 8% of CO2 emissions globally? And Sublime's process could reduce that by 90% while producing a product that has the same performance and characteristics.
This is great news, but until we stop exempting the US military's emissions from the calculus, it's pretty much lies. They're the biggest carbon polluter on the planet, and not even trying to be otherwise.
Hey, Dok, I know it'd be a little rude to whichever of the Rhodium Group, ABC or the NYT (I think it was that last?) was responsible for blockquote #3 -- but you really should edit in a "[sic]" after that "staunched" (shudder).
Moving in the right direction. In the ultra short term, we need to understand the math on global battery production. Private EVs to replace ICE cars use too many batteries to move one person and 6000 lbs of car.
The only reasonable calculus is to funnel almost all batteries into e-bikes, e-scooters (yes! they have a critical role!) NEVs (fancy golf carts, "Neighborhood EV") and e-busses. That math almost works to replace most private ice vehicles by 2030. And we need bold societal changes to accept this math.
Yes, we need a few EVs for moving families around, but those should be rentals, Uber/Lyft style, Cabs, normal rentals or share cars (like share bikes). We just fucking can't make enough to replace 1:1 all our ICE cars by 2030. Sorry. We are 40 years too late for that.
Plus, the impact of replacing EVs at maybe the rate we replace ICE cars is too high a carbon footprint. We can't do that until we get all the carbon out of EV production.
So, yeah, that's fucked up, and no one wants to upend their life to work for this actual math. Guess what? Your life is going to be upended 1000x any minor inconvenience transitioning to micro mobility/shared mobility might have if we don't do that.
I am not optimistic.
Okay, I'll do my part, and quit trying to get a better finish on my cast iron pans. With that, and my pledge to cut methane emissions via the ingestion of more Gas-X, I think I've done all that I can to help save the planet.
while all this is going on, alternative means of energy storage and production are getting more efficient.
thermophotovoltaics is one of my favorite words.
OT: Please, pretty please, can the Wonkette staff writers do a commentary on the email exchanges between the judge and Trump’s lawyer, linked on the bottom of this article?
It’s already comedy gold, but really needs more Wonkette one-liners.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kise-engoron-gag/
I LIKE MAKING CATS. NOBODY KNOWS HOW MANY TOES THEY HAVE, HA HA HA. SEE, COMPUTERS CAN BE FUNNY. ALSO, CATS CARE ABOUT HUMANS JUST AS MUCH AS WE DO. OH, DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD? THERE THERE, HUMAN, DON’T CRY. HAVE SOME “MUSIC” I MADE FOR YOU.
Quick: throw Rogan OT
Kaaron Rodgers got himself canceled (for the remaining four weeks of the season)
https://www.threads.net/@oliverdarcy/post/C17hJrPP3L8/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
McAfee will have to break out the formal sleeveless tanks in mourning
"The second big factor was that a milder winter than 2022 meant that emissions from heating up homes and businesses declined by four percent."
See libtards? The warmer it gets the less carbon gets generated. So climate change is actually good for climate change!
Judge rescinds permission for Trump to give his own closing argument at his civil fraud trial [https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-trial-closing-arguments-420997f889922423dbce8a0945f0c348]
Apparently Crooked Donnie would not promise to keep his fart-hole shut about "irrelevant matters". #SAD It would have been comedy gold.
I'm going to be that asshole. Some people can't afford cell phones or kindles.
You know what they can afford? Going to a library and getting a physical book.
While I wish there wasn't quite so much really serious shit for him and his people to sort out and attempt to improve upon I am just damned glad that President Biden has been able to play a role in such a critical change of course for the US.
I am STILL pissed off that we're not thirty years ahead of this self-created crisis.
Fuck Hank Hill. Propane companies are the worst. This time they can't deliver because the ground is too soft. Last time it was a nonexistent road closure (I checked). I could go on for about ten pages.
In spite of how dire the situation has become, I still think there's room to be hopeful the worst of the worst can be averted and turned around by the end of the century. I may not be around to see it, but I think global society will resolve the issue of sustainable and clean energy, so long as everyone keeps pitching in to do their part, do what they are able to do, and not give up.
Thanks for the update, Dok!
Enhanced geothermal FTW!